PCA/ACA
Schedule for Thursday, April 18
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Aging and Senior Culture II: The Patina of Persistent Pursuits
Aging and Senior Culture
Frederick John Augustyn, Jr.
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Eleanor Roosevelt’s Val-Kill: House, Home, Laboratory and School for Democracy, 1945-1962 | Mary Jo Binker | Paper | |
| Beyond the Rocker: Grandparenting in Popular Culture | Laura Tropp | Paper | |
| The Neglected “ISM”: Empowering the Old. | Afshana Parveen Hoque | Paper |
From Killers to More Killers
Stephen King
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| “She Was Just Sitting There Being Not Alright”: Stephen King’s Misery and the Representation of the Unsympathetic Serial Killer and Bipolar Disorder | Eric Doyle Brown | Paper | |
| “Dear God, I Am Not a Son of a Bitch”: The Intentional Fallacy and The Mischaracterization of Stephen King’s Jack Torrance | Tracy Ann Stephens | Paper | |
| “Killing ‘one of his true miracles’: John Coffey as the Pagan Sin Eater in King’s The Green Mile” | Joanne L DeTore | Paper |
POETRY V. Questions of Genre: Prose & Found Poetry
Poetry Studies and Creative Poetry
Anne Harding Woodworth
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Need for Space: Open Possibilities of the Prose Poem | Julie Brooks Barbour | Creative work | |
| Poached: Poems that Play with Digital History, Science, and Journalism | Katherine Anderson Howell | Creative work | |
| Who Knew There’d Be Poetry in Cosmo? | Anne Harding Woodworth | Paper |
Love Makes the World Go ‘Round: Romance, Nation, and Globe
Romance
Jessica Matthews
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| An Articulation of Modern Indian Values in the Romance of Sandhya Sridhar | Kristen Rudisill | Paper | |
| The impact of Anglo-Chamorro romance on Guam’s neocolonial status, or the power of the intimate in discussions of the global | Carolina Fernández-Rodríguez | Paper | |
| Rainbow nation in love. South African popular romance in Afrikaans and the Politics of Representation | Martina Vitackova | Paper | |
| Mr Worldwide: How global is your alpha? | Amy Burge | Paper |
Children’s and YA Literature and Culture V: Chemistry, Metaphysics, and Mental Health
Children’s and YA Literature and Culture
Jamie L McDaniel
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Chemistry of Konigsburg: Portrayals of Science in the Works of the Chemist-Turned-Author | Jemima Ingle | Paper | |
| Soul-Splitting: What’s It Mean and Who’s It For? | Jasmine L Misner | Paper | |
| The Uglies Inside: Mental Health within Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies | Cassandra Grosh | Paper | |
| Beyond The Great Santini: Military Brats In Young Adult Fiction | Caren Jamie Town | Paper |
It’s Getting Reel: Catastrophes & Apocalypses on Film
Disasters, Apocalypses, and Catastrophes
Mary McCay
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| How It Ends, Or, The Absent Intelligibility of an Ending in How It Ends | Jeremy R. Grossman | Paper | |
| Refraction Anxiety in Alex Garland’s Annihilation | Daniel Pope | Paper | |
| Tsunamis: Fact and Film, Catastrophes and Climate Change | Mary McCay | Paper | |
| From Dawn to Shaun to Juan: Mutations of the Dead | Cinzia DiGiulio | Paper |
Shifting Perceptions of Empire
British Popular Culture
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| From Corrupt to Courageous: Shifting Depictions of the Nabob in Scotland, 1780-1800 | Jocelyn Ruth Zimmerman | Paper |
Cultural Adaptation 2: Shakespeare & Austen
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| To be Inside Hamlet: Politics and Materialisation in a Live Action Role Playing Adaptation | Sara Bjärstorp | Paper | |
| Anime’s Idea of Theater: Romeo X Juliet | Savannah Lynn Jensen | Paper | |
| Hamlet as Kashmir’s Tragedy | Robert Johnson | Paper | |
| Austen – revisited | Ingrid Pfandl-Buchegger | Paper |
Creative Fiction V
Creative Fiction Writing
Lisa Muir
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Not Chicago | Stanislav Rivkin | Creative work | |
| StarKid: Chapter One - “J&H Headquarters” | Josh Lopez | Creative work | |
| GSP Guide to a 30th Wedding Anniversary | Thomas Allbaugh | Creative work | |
| Two Silvers for a Song of Blood / The Curio Dealer | Jason Ray Carney | Creative work |
Music 10: Calypso and Reggae
Music
Eric Abbey, Ph.D.
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Dethroning the King’s English: The Patois Politics of West Indian Calypso | Kimo J. Reder | Paper | |
| The Reggae Sunsplash Preservation Society: Our Work So Far | Cameron Morris Weber | Paper | |
| “The Reggae Sunsplash Preservation Society: Our Work So Far - Part II” | DOUGLAS OLIVER GREEN | Paper | |
| Technological Changes of Culture: The influence of technology on Jamaican music and culture. | Eric Abbey, Ph.D. | Paper |