Schedule for Thursday, April 18

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

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

Watching (and Reading) What We Eat II

Areas: Food in Popular Culture

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 1:15pm to 2:45pm (Park Tower STE 8206) Session chair: Roger Adams

	Presenters	Presentation type
Italian Cuisine and Culture	Sandra Pesoli	Paper
Notes from a Wine Underground: Rosé Mansions, Master Somms, and the Wine Subculture of the United States	Aaron McCullough	Paper
Sweet Industry: Cartoons, Confectionery, and the Great Depression	Sarah Elisabeth Adams	Paper
“Of course we’re hipsters”: Intersecting demographics, identities, and audiences in the resurgence of rum and whiskey production in the Midatlantic United States	Erica A. Farmer	Paper

Fashion Potpourri

Areas: Fashion, Style, Appearance, Consumption & Design

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 1:15pm to 2:45pm (Coolidge) Session chair: Anne Frances Peirson-Smith

	Presenters	Presentation type
It’s a t-shirt. What’s the big deal? America’s Obsession with the T-Shirt	Rudy H Lopez	Paper
Examining Cats: Cute versus Interesting	Thorsten Botz-Bornstein	Paper
Fashion Knowledge: How recombined fashion fields create a new fashion reality	Ellen Anders	Paper
Back to the Future: The critical role of fashion archives in preserving, curating and narrating fashion stories	Anne Frances Peirson-Smith Ben Oscar Peirson-Smith	Paper

Cultural Adaptation 1: Samurai & Detectives

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

	Presenters	Presentation type
A Black Sherlock Holmes: Race, Nation, and the History of an Icon	Ann McClellan	Paper
A Study in “Red,” or how the Soviets filmed the most British Sherlock Holmes of all time	Olga Silverman David S. Silverman	Paper
Adaptation as Cultural Reaping: Red Harvest through Space/Time/Genre	Glenn Jellenik	Paper

Children’s and YA Literature and Culture IV: Gendered Bodies

Areas: Children’s and YA Literature and Culture

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 1:15pm to 2:45pm (Hoover) Session chair: Alaine Martaus

	Presenters	Presentation type
(Not) Enjoying Being a Girl: Unpacking Humor and the Diary in Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging	Rachel Rickard Rebellino	Paper
“From the Inside”: The Dangerous Work of Female Sexuality in Orphan Island	Josh Williams	Paper
Becoming Anyone: Discursive and Material Constructions of the YA Body in Cinder	Tessa Swehla	Paper

Medievalism and Historicity

Areas: Medieval Popular Culture

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 1:15pm to 2:45pm (McKinley) Session chair: Christina Francis

	Presenters	Presentation type
Grasping at the Straw of History’s Thatch: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Medievalism	Liam O. Purdon	Paper
“Once More into the Breach!” – Brexit and England Against France (Again).	John C. Ford	Paper

IX. Historicizing Horror

Areas: Horror (Text, Media, Culture)

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 1:15pm to 2:45pm (Lincoln 2) Session chair: Shannon Blake Skelton

	Presenters	Presentation type
‘Extreme Violence Directed at Women’: Genre History, Meta-Genre, and the Constitution of the Slasher Film	Carl Swanson	Paper
Troubling Visions: Häxan and the Role of Genre in the Silent Era	Erica Tortolani	Paper
Marketing Fear: Press Kits and the American Horror Film	Shannon Blake Skelton	Paper

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