PCA/ACA
Schedule for Friday, April 17
8:00am to 9:30am
XV. Representations of Various Female Archetypes in Horror
Horror (Text, Media, Culture)
Colleen Karn
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| At the Intersection of Infanticide and Matricide: Becoming the Lack in Robert Eggers’ The Witch | Charles E. Hicks | Paper | |
| Sharp Women: The Psychological Horror of Violent Women in Sharp Objects | Lauren Nicole Kennedy | Paper | |
| Reclaiming the W-Word: Witch as Champion of Feminism in American Horror Story & The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | Colleen Karn | Paper |
Film VIII–Ari Aster’s Hereditary & Midsommar
Film
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dark and the Light: Explorations of Grief and Community in Ari Aster’s Hereditary and Midsommar | Rebecca L Willoughby | Paper | |
| Happy Midsommar: Imagined Spaces and Heterotopias of Ritual in Ari Aster’s Midsommar | Emily Diana Reese | Paper |
Objects, Sounds and Trajectories in Visual Culture
Visual Culture
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A Face Made For Money: Visual Representation, Ideological Inscription, and Monetary Design | Daniel Gilmore | Paper | |
| The Vernacular as Object: Pearl Jam’s “No Code” | Michael Sell | Paper | |
| Recovery: The Photography of the Opioid Epidemic, Part II | Kelly Elizabeth Klingensmith | Paper |
Who Are We? Contested Religious Identities
Religion and Culture
Amanda Bourne
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| “The Christian Rockumentary: Navigating Crossover Success and the Secular-Sacred Divide” | Zachary Ingle | Paper | |
| LGBTQ+ Allies: Struggles from within the United Methodist Church with Speaking Out and Silence | Kathy Brady | Paper | |
| Homiletic fiction and the aesthetics of mediocrity in evangelical culture | Kenneth Paradis | Paper |
COMEDIC VAMPIRES
Vampire Studies
Cecilia Abate
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| What is a Vampire?: Making Dracula Funny in Pop Culture | Loren Barbour | Paper | |
| The Relationship Between Vampire Self-Consciousness and Social Strata in Being Human (UK) & What We Do In The Shadows | Cecilia Abate | Paper |
Dime Novel and Series Book Authors
Children/Young Adult Series Books and Dime Novels
Marlena E Bremseth
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Potboilers: The Love Stories of Edward Stratemeyer | James D. Keeline | Paper | |
| Sensational Serials, Sunday School Stories, and Series Fiction: The Life and Career of Margaret Kerr Hosmer | Deidre Johnson | Paper | |
| Joseph B. Ames: Author of stories of the American West, the Boy Scouts and more | William Gowen | Paper | |
| Not Necessarily Lost but Certainly Found: Philip S. Warne’s A Goddess in Exile; or, the Spanish Plotters | Marlena E Bremseth | Paper |
Fanon and Paratexts
Fan Culture & Theory
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| From Barchester Towers to Pomfret Towers: The Trollopian Fanfiction of Angela Thirkell | Lorena O'English | Paper | |
| You know nothing, Dan & Dave: Producer commentary and ontological insecurity in Game of Thrones | Nicole Isabel Chavannes | Paper |
Gender and Media Studies XII: Rape Narratives in Popular Culture
Gender & Media Studies
Renee A. V. Dupree
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| #MeToo is for The Boys: Feminizing the raped geek male | Marissa Salas | Paper | |
| From Perpetrator to Victim: A Shift In Rape Narratives In Popular Television | Emma Lynn | Paper | |
| Campus Rape Seen: Law & Order SVU and Anti-Rape Performance | Elaine Michelle Cannell | Paper | |
| Does Rape Culture Really Exist? | Renee A. V. Dupree | Paper |
V: Not Another Brick in the Wall: Pop Culture Considerations in Teaching and Learning
Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture
Cathy Leogrande
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Girls Rule and Boys Drool: Adolescent Relationships in Stranger Things | Cathy Leogrande | Paper | |
| Rubí is my Professor: How I use the telenovela to teach Voice and Diction | Frank Cipriani | Paper | |
| Self Determination Theory, Participatory Culture, and Open Pedagogy: Creating Environments that Motivate Learners | Cathie LeBlanc | Paper | |
| Pop Culture Pedagogy: Musical Lyricism as Poetic Text, Thought Provocation, and Student Engagement | Justin Lerner | Paper |
Creative Fiction IV
Creative Fiction Writing
Lisa Muir
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Iphigenia Murphy | Sara Hosey | Creative work | |
| Climate Change: A Response in Fiction | Chris M Moylan | Paper | |
| Hard to Finds | Lindsay A Chudzik | Creative work | |
| Banana Republic (excerpt) | Eric Sean Rawson | Creative work |