Schedule for Friday, April 17

Fanon and Paratexts

Areas: 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

Film VIII–Ari Aster’s Hereditary & Midsommar

Areas: 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

COMEDIC VAMPIRES

Areas: Vampire Studies

Session chair: Cecilia Abate

	Presenters	Presentation type
What is a Vampire?: Making Dracula Funny in Pop Culture	Lauren 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

Areas: Children/Young Adult Series Books and Dime Novels

Session chair: 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

XV. Representations of Various Female Archetypes in Horror

Areas: Horror (Text, Media, Culture)

Session chair: 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

Objects, Sounds and Trajectories in Visual Culture

Areas: 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

Areas: Religion and Culture

Session chair: 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

V: Not Another Brick in the Wall: Pop Culture Considerations in Teaching and Learning

Areas: Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture

Session chair: 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

Music 8: Politics

Areas: Music

Session chair: Garth Alper

	Presenters	Presentation type
The Hutchinson Family’s Temperance Songs: Popular Music with a Purpose	Christina L. Reitz	Paper
Music and Emotion in the Cold War East and West	Raymond Andrew Patton	Paper
“I Want to Break Free”: Queen in South Africa	Lacy Noel Molina	Paper
From Social Protest to Pop Confection: The Remarkable Range of Stevie Wonder’s Voice, Lyrics, and Music	Garth Alper	Paper

Gender and Media Studies XII: Rape Narratives in Popular Culture

Areas: Gender & Media Studies

Session chair: 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

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