PCA/ACA
Schedule for Saturday, April 18
8:00am to 9:30am
Unholy litigants: Lucifer, Cyberbullying, and Secular Yoga
Law and Popular Culture
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Is Yoga Religious Under the First Amendment? | Sejal Singh | Paper | |
| The Devil in Recent American Law | L. Joe Dunman | Paper | |
| Death By Text | James Vines | Paper |
Japan: Anime, Manga
Asian Popular Culture
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| It’s Like You’re There: Experiencing Sounds, Giongo, and Gitaigo in Skull-Face Bookseller Honda-San | Kay Krystal Clopton | Paper | |
| Strange Romance: Female Desire for Gender-Crossing Men in Shojo Manga | Keiko Miyajima | Paper | |
| Japanese Graphic Medicine: Essay Manga, Mental Illness, and Disability | CJ Suzuki | Paper | |
| Boys and Their Robots: The Mechanized Boy in Anime | Wendy Goldberg | Paper |
Film XIV–Women in Film: Motherhood, Magic, Women at the Wheel, & Elvira
Film
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Male Gaze and Motherhood: How Film Language Values Women’s Bodies Before, During, and After Motherhood | Alexis Romero Walker | Paper | |
| Practical Magic: A Movie Made for the Female Audience | Megan Rutter | Paper | |
| Road Trips: Women at the Wheel in Coppola’s and Scorsese’s New Hollywood | James Osborne | Paper | |
| Elvira is Patriarchy’s Unpleasant Dream | Nicole Batchelor | Paper |
XXIII. Critical Race and Ethnicity Analyses in Horror
Horror (Text, Media, Culture)
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Peele’s Us Through the Lens of the Voodoo Zombie | Natalie Kate Wilson | Paper |
Crafting Dracula’s Future 1
Vampire Studies
Kristin L. Bone
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Crafting Dracula’s Future | Christine McDaniel | Creative work | |
| Crafting Dracula’s Future | Kristin L. Bone | Creative work |
Art & Leisure: Tattoos, Parkour, Disney, & Plus-Sized Pattern Making
Body and Culture
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Soldiers, Sailors, and Surgical Specimens: A History of Tattoo Collections in America | Karly Etz | Paper | |
| Parkour’s platforming: Productions of body and environment across media landscapes | Fidelia Lam | Paper | |
| IMPROVING SIZING & FIT: PLUS SIZE BASIC DRESS SLOPERS FOR THE “NEW” AVERAGE AMERICAN WOMAN | ChaCha N Hudson Kelly Cobb | Creative work |
IX: “A Better Person”: Pop Culture Pedagogy as Tool of Holistic Improvement
Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture
Thomas Albritton
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Winnie-The-Pooh as a Model of Growth Mindset | Thomas Albritton | Paper | |
| How to Be A Really Forking Good Person: Education and The Good (Place) | Jordan Corson Daniel Friedrich | Paper | |
| Reshaping the Intention of Teaching: Recognizing the Canonical History of Harm and Teaching Healing Writing. | James Crawford | Paper | |
| How the personal implementation of the principals found in Isaac Newton’s, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, leads to increased scholarly productivity for American undergraduate students | Zachary Tanner Reyna | Paper |
Music 14: Dub and Electronica
Music
Eric Abbey, Ph.D.
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fresh Sounds: Indie Electronica in 1980s Kansas | Fran Connor | Paper | |
| Lights, Cables, Noise: The Eurorack Synthesizer’s Rise to Fame | Gavin Fox | Paper | |
| Voice of the People: Jamaican Music Collection and the Digital Collective Archive | Heather Augustyn | Paper | |
| The New Sound: Dub in England and the spread of culture. | Eric Abbey, Ph.D. | Paper |
I. Examining the Stakes of Literary Representation
Memory & Representation
Terry Cochran
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Unwoke Edith Wharton: Reading The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence in the current times | Maxime Blanchard | Paper | |
| Mythological Figures of Care in Literary Aids Writings | Catherine Mavrikakis | Paper | |
| Literary Thinking about the Programmed Obsolescence of Memory | Terry Cochran | Paper | |
| Back to the (Gendered) Future: Nostalgia and the Feminist Impulse of Netflix’s Stranger Things and G.L.O.W. | Ann Ciasullo | Paper |
VII. Marginalized Perspectives in Mystery and Detective Fiction
Mystery & Detective Fiction
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Conventional Wisdom: The Power of Genre Formula in the Detective Novel | Phyllis Betz | Paper | |
| “I Figured, If I Worked Harder Than They Did …”: The Many Servant/Service Roles of Columbo’s Dogged Detective | Brennan McKinney Thomas | Paper | |
| Nancy Spain’s Crime Fiction: Queer Pop Culture in the Pre-Stonewall Era | Rosy Mack | Paper | |
| The case “Janet Evanovich”: what future lies ahead for the Stephanie Plum series? | Solange Garnier-Fox | Paper |