Schedule for Thursday, April 18

Fifty Plus Years of Influence: Star Trek #2

Areas: Science Fiction and Fantasy

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 1:15pm to 2:45pm (Lincoln 6) Session chair: Margaret Mendenhall

	Presenters	Presentation type
History, Mystery, or Gift? The verisimilitude of time travel with Star Trek and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Part 1.	Rabecca L Connors	Paper
History, Mystery, or Gift? The verisimilitude of time travel with Star Trek and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Part 2.	Luke Leonard	Paper
Has Winter come to Star Trek?	Margaret Mendenhall	Paper

Aging and Senior Culture I: Depictions in the Media and Print

Areas: Aging and Senior Culture

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 1:15pm to 2:45pm (Tyler) Session chair: Frederick John Augustyn, Jr.

	Presenters	Presentation type
From Golden Girls to the Cool Kids: Television’s Success and Failures in Representing Older Adults	Ellyn Lem	Paper
‘Ageing in the Raw: The ‘Make-up Free’ Women Stars of the 2017 Pirelli Calendar’	Deborah Jermyn	Paper
When I’m 64: Portrayals of the Elderly in Picture Books for Children	Maureen Donohue-Smith	Paper

Fear and the Female

Areas: Stephen King

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 1:15pm to 2:45pm (Lincoln 3) Session chair: Mary Findley

	Presenters	Presentation type
Short and Sweet: “Here There Be Tygers” and the Complexities of Childhood Fears	Kimberly Beal	Paper
The Stages of Fear in the Works of Stephen King	Paco José Madden	Paper
Turbulent Times for Traditional Values: Some of King’s Female Characters Speak Up	Alexandra M Reuber	Paper
“The Bazaar of Bad Choices”: Stephen King’s Contemporary Representation of Women	Mary Findley	Paper

Gay, Lesbian & Queer Studies IV: Coming Out and Friends With Benefits

Areas: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 1:15pm to 2:45pm (Harding)

	Presenters	Presentation type
‘I don’t fit there either’: Monogamous bisexual women’s experience of the UK bisexual community.	Dr Sarah Jane Daly	Paper
Friends with Benefits	Edward Joseph Ingebretsen	Paper
Renegotiating Coming Out Through Humor: Tumblr Coming Out Narratives	Misha Grifka	Paper

POETRY IV. Yaris, Thriller, & Lana Del Rey: Poetry of Tech & Pop Culture

Areas: Poetry Studies and Creative Poetry

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 1:15pm to 2:45pm (Washington Room 6) Session chair: Anna Sandy Elrod

	Presenters	Presentation type
“Yaris”	Nick B. Nusbaumer	Creative work
Love Songs for Generation X: Poems on Popular Culture	Gwen Hart	Creative work
I Heard It In A Lana Del Rey Song: The Accessibility Of Poetry	Anna Sandy Elrod	Paper

Hate the Game? Romance, Cultural Ideals, and Social Media

Areas: Internet Culture

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 1:15pm to 2:45pm (Marriott Balcony A) Session chair: Mary Beth Ray

	Presenters	Presentation type
Being Told What to Like: Socially Constructed Desire on Instagram	Christian Rush	Paper
“No Fat, No Fem, No Asians”: Racism against Gay Asian Men in the Cyberspace	Larry Tung	Paper
Tinder and the Gamification of Dating	Elizabeth Kurtzman	Paper

Circus City, USA

Areas: Circus and Sideshow Culture

Film screening

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 1:15pm to 2:45pm (Johnson) Session chair: Stacey Mascia-Susice, Adam Michael Wright

Dance and Dance Culture Lunch at Open City

Areas: Dance & Dance Culture

Get-together

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 1:15pm to 2:45pm (Off-Site Tour) Session chair: Celeste Landeros

Healing the Hurt: How We Respond to Disasters

Areas: Disasters, Apocalypses, and Catastrophes

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 1:15pm to 2:45pm (Madison A) Session chair: Jacquelyn Southern

	Presenters	Presentation type
Visual Symbology in the Process of Healing from Hate	Ferris Werbin Crane	Creative work
“What Have They Done to the Rain?”: Nature and the Atom In Cold War Protest Songs	Jacquelyn Southern	Paper
The Centenary of the Great Molasses Flood	Ian Roberts	Paper
No Rooom on the Boat? Pets vs. People in Disaster Relief Efforts	Amy Lantinga	Paper

Popular Culture in Composition Courses

Areas: Rhetoric, Composition, and Popular Culture

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 1:15pm to 2:45pm (Marriot Balcony B) Session chair: Beth Sara Swanson

	Presenters	Presentation type
You’ll Float [and Write], Too: Bridging Literacies with Horror Films in First-Year Composition	Beth Sara Swanson	Paper
From Webtexts to the Workplace: Pop Culture, Multimodal Writing, and Workplace Preparedness	Mary F. McGinnis	Paper
Writing Tutoring Begins with Breath	Nicole Emmelhainz	Paper
What Dungeon Masters Can Teach Us About College Writing: An Analysis of Composing Processes	Aubrey Crosby	Paper

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