PCA/ACA
Schedule for Thursday, April 18
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Medicine and Mental Health
Television
Jillian S Merrifield
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Misdiagnosed: When popular culture television depicts fictionalized realities of the medical profession | Caroline D'Abate Maeve Foley Noa Binder Maltzman Jennifer A Cerutti Hadley Benneyan | Paper | |
| Seeing right, doing wrong: Representations of morality in the television medical drama The Resident | Angelique Nairn | Paper | |
| “Put Me in a Bottle, Slap a Label On”: Armchair Diagnosis and Medical Discourse in and around Crazy Ex-Girlfriend | Jillian S Merrifield | Paper |
Political, Cultural, and Entrepreneurial Discourse in Circus and Sideshow
Circus and Sideshow Culture
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Rhetoric in the Arena: Slinging Mud on the Circus Big Top and Sideshow Banners | Stacey Mascia-Susice | Creative work | |
| The Postmodern Sideshow, the Circus, and the Politics of Media: Talking Back | Toni-Lee Sangastiano | Paper | |
| This Business We Call Show: Comparing and Contrasting the Business Practices of Modern Side Show Companies With the Procedures of Similar Companies Throughout American History. | Thomas Nealeigh | Paper | |
| Forgotten Legacies for Present Day Audiences: Circus Jews Under National Socialism (hybrid talk / creation exploration) | Stav Meishar | Paper |
Characterizing Contemporary Digital Spaces
Internet Culture
Cathie LeBlanc
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium.com: What Is It? Discourse Community, Blogger’s Paradise, Self Help Sales Office, or Thousands of People Howling in the Wind? | Laura L Mohsene | Paper | |
| The cyberspace in the 21st-century-city | Pauliane Mesquita Santiago | Paper | |
| The IndieWeb: An Alternative to Corporate Social Media Platforms | Cathie LeBlanc | Paper |
Gay, Lesbian & Queer Studies V: Queer Politics
Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Studies
Don C Govang
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Monastery: Using A Gay Disco/Church as a Supplement to Gay Seattle | Michael Diambri | Paper | |
| “Visualizing Transphobia: Exposing the Absurdity of the Transgender Military Ban” | Elouise Epstein | Paper | |
| A Queer Deconstruction of the Rhetoric and Reality of the Sexual Politics of the Trump Administration: Parking the Mayflower at the Frat House | Don C Govang | Paper |
VI. From Hill House to Hell House to Rose Red: A Roundtable on Jackson, Matheson, King, and Haunted House Tales
Horror (Text, Media, Culture)
Round table
Ralph Beliveau, Carl Sederholm, Michelle Kay Hansen, Rebecca Stone Gordon, Stephanie M Flint
Women, Gender, and the Hard-Boiled PI
Mystery & Detective Fiction
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Murder Still Lives in Los Angeles: DTLA, Art, and Gender | Susan Ingram | Paper | |
| “Laughter in crime: The mechanics of laughter in Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series” | Solange Garnier-Fox | Paper | |
| Subverting the Femme Fatale: Gillian Flynn and Petra Hammesfahr challenge and complicate female criminality | John Copenhaver | Paper | |
| The Millhone Brief Cases: Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone Short Stories | Phyllis Betz | Paper |
Fashion & Social Media
Fashion, Style, Appearance, Consumption & Design
Maureen Brewster
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Faceoff: Makeup and social media’s formation of beauty standards. | Ejiro Favour Uwode | Paper | |
| Proper Mental: The History and Impact of i-D Magazine | Rachel Hart | Paper | |
| “Insta Yeezy Season: Kanye West and the Convergence of Fashion and Hip-Hop on Instagram” | Justin Russell Greene | Paper | |
| Sustainable Fashion on Instagram: Influencing Fashion Activism? | Maureen Brewster | Paper |
WHO says the Doctor ever had a Penis? - Round table discussion on the casting of a female Doctor in Doctor Who
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Round table
Gillian Leitch, Caroline-Isabelle Caron
Teaching with Sound
Rhetoric, Composition, and Popular Culture
Scott Lunsford
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| TreadRhet: Writing Along the Roadscape | Scott Lunsford | Paper | |
| Fostering Change Through a Podcast | Sarah O'Connor | Paper | |
| Revisiting Accessibility through Podcasts in FYC | Susan Renee Ghiaciuc | Paper |
Gender and Media Studies XII: Gender, Science Fiction, and Shakespeare in Films
Gender & Media Studies
Sara Hosey
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Cinderella and the Manchild: Gendered Notions about Retail Work on Film | Brittany Clark | Paper | |
| The Dichotomy Between the Media’s Sexualization of Female Adolescents and Female Adolescents’ Body-Acceptance | Nikki Lopez | Paper | |
| To Be or Not to Be: A Critical Analysis of the Modernization of Shakespearean Plays | Virginia Ruth Gregg Abigail Reed | Paper | |
| The Alien Within: The Colonization of the Body in Science Fiction Film and Television | Sara Hosey | Paper |