PCA/ACA
Schedule for Saturday, April 20
4:45pm to 6:15pm
Transvaluation of Philosophy and Popular Culture
Philosophy and Culture
Christopher M. Innes
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| What’s So Funny? How Comedy Reveals Boundaries by Crossing Them. | Gwendolyn Dolske | Paper | |
| The Secret History of the Birth of Tragedy. | Shayna Elizabeth Boisvert | Paper | |
| Mattie Ross’s Homeric Will to Power in True Grit | Jacky Dumas | Paper | |
| The Tricky Metaphysics of Spoilers | Richard Greene | Paper |
Vampires on Television
Vampire Studies
Bertena Varney
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Angel 20 Years Later: Convergence Culture and the Return of the Undead | Jenna Guitar | Paper | |
| The Ecohorror of The Strain: Plant Vampires and Climate Change as a Holocaust | Tatiana Konrad | Paper | |
| “I don’t kill children, but I could make him a blood relative”: Vampires and Anti-Vaxxers in American Horror Story: Hotel | Leah Richards | Paper |
Race, Class and Gender in Popular Culture.
Psychology and Popular Culture
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| CULTURAL HEGEMONIES OF FORMS AND REPRESENTATIONS IN SLAVIC FAIRY TALES: LIMINALITY ON SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET SCREEN | Nadezda Fadina | Paper | |
| Dobby is Free: An Exploration of the Effects of Abusive Practices from Management Towards Those Who Report to Them | Shana Tables | Paper | |
| Wakanda’s Wisdom: Agreement, Disagreement, and the Complexities of Social Life | Justin Martin | Paper | |
| Crazy Rich Folks: Representations of Race and Class in the Marketing of Antidepressants and Antipsychotics | Michael Kimball | Paper |
XVI: Depictions and Embodiments of Girls and Women in Education
Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture
Andrew Grunzke
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Post-human Schoolteacher: Education and Power in The Bionic Woman | Andrew Grunzke | Paper | |
| Media, Violence Against Women, and the Young Mind: A Content Analysis of Current Violence Prevention Curriculum | Halei Story | Paper | |
| Lights, Camera, and a Call to Action: Woman in Media Help Promote Science Identity in Females | Uchenna Emenaha | Creative work |
XXIV. Teaching Horror II & Monstrous Music
Horror (Text, Media, Culture)
Geneveive Newman
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Monsters and Superheroes: Examining Blended Genres in a Freshman Writing and Literature Course | Christopher Weaver | Paper | |
| Boogie Men: Jazz and the Monstrous in American Culture | Adam Golub | Paper | |
| Metaphorical Haunting and Reclamation in I Spit on Your Grave | Geneveive Newman | Paper |
GAME STUDIES 24: Can You Play With Morality?
Game Studies
Theo Plothe
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| You Object?: The Witcher 3, Questions of Care and Object Relations | Elizabeth Rossbach | Paper | |
| (Video)Games: A Need to Cheat | Jennifer N Rickert | Paper | |
| “Finish him!”: The fatality as reward and acknowledgement of success in digital games | Theo Plothe | Paper | |
| Insert Token: An Analysis of the Evolution of Microtransactions in Gaming and a Prediction of Their Future | Thomas James Hugenroth | Paper |
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, with Feeling
Vampire Studies
Film screening
Lisa Nevarez, U Melissa Anyiwo
Morality and Happiness in Dystopia
Philosophy and Culture
George A. Dunn
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| I’d Rather be Lucky Than Good: Thomas Nagel and Match Point on Moral Luck | William Lindenmuth | Paper | |
| Moral Development and Friendship in “The Handmaid’s Tale” | Darci Doll | Paper | |
| Two Faces of Dystopia: Chaos and Order in Westworld and Person of Interest | George A. Dunn | Paper | |
| My Three Sons and the Pursuit of Happiness: Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy, Plato’s Cave, and Aristotle’s Ethics | Leigh E Rich | Paper |
XVII: Images of the Teacher in Popular Culture
Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture
James Trier
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Subverting the Teacher Savior Myth though Documentaries about Education | James Trier | Paper | |
| Modern Representations of Teachers and Students in Popular Film: Molding the Minds of the Audience | Amanda Rudolph | Paper | |
| Reel Big Bullies: Teaching to the Problem | James Vines | Paper |
XXV. Atmospheric Horror
Horror (Text, Media, Culture)
Darlene Hall
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Redefining Contemporary Horror Genre as Presented within Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House | Yarisel Andrea Ramirez | Paper | |
| It’s a Real Shit Show: The Bathroom in American Horror | Katherine A Troyer | Paper | |
| “This Place Wants Us Dead:” an analysis of The Terror, and the role of the sea | Darlene Hall | Paper |