Thursday, March 25
12:30–1:45 Panel 1: Making Connections through Digital Platforms
Chair: Dr. J. D. Applen
Michael Monarrez Puckett, “TikTok #Tutorial and #Howto: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Instructional Microvideo as a Genre”
Dr. Emily Johnson, “Say ‘Apple’: The Technical Communication Roles of Sound in Portal 2’s Tutorial”
Dr. Anastasia Salter, “Isolation Jam: Bitsy as Pandemic Storytelling Platform”
2:00–3:15 Panel 2: Putting the ‘Cultural’ in the LCT Program I
Chair: Dr. Tony Grajeda
Sara Thames, “Jude the Obscure and the Intellectual Interregnum: Hardy’s Treatise on Education”
Amy Crawford, “Disenchanted, Aimless, and the Loss of Moral Bearing: Expatriation and Parisian Salon Culture in the Interwar Period”
Chloe Johnson, “’The Only Lasting Power is Change’: Examining Change and Community Through the Journal Narrative in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower”
3:30–4:45 Panel 3: Spaces of Belonging
Chair: Dr. Bill Fogarty
Tyler Dick, “‘Dietland is about making women small’: Hegemony, Media, and the Male Gaze in Dietland”
Ivy McKay, "Magic and Maternity: Gendered Spaces and Female Autonomy in Melusine"
Dr. Louise Kane, “‘I hear only your seasonal voice’: Social Isolation and Community in Black British Migrant Narratives”
6:00–7:15 Panel 4: Native Women Writers & Resistance
Chair: Amanda Cannon
Kieran Leeds, “The Women the World Ignores: Ecofeminism and Linda Hogan's Attempt at Feminist Unity in The Woman Who Watches Over the World”
Kirstie Kibbe, “Nature as a Representation of Trauma in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms”
Teddy Duncan, Jr., “The ‘Grievability’ of Two Indigenous Women: Emerging from the Frames of Criminal Narratives”
Chair: Dr. J. D. Applen
Michael Monarrez Puckett, “TikTok #Tutorial and #Howto: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Instructional Microvideo as a Genre”
Dr. Emily Johnson, “Say ‘Apple’: The Technical Communication Roles of Sound in Portal 2’s Tutorial”
Dr. Anastasia Salter, “Isolation Jam: Bitsy as Pandemic Storytelling Platform”
2:00–3:15 Panel 2: Putting the ‘Cultural’ in the LCT Program I
Chair: Dr. Tony Grajeda
Sara Thames, “Jude the Obscure and the Intellectual Interregnum: Hardy’s Treatise on Education”
Amy Crawford, “Disenchanted, Aimless, and the Loss of Moral Bearing: Expatriation and Parisian Salon Culture in the Interwar Period”
Chloe Johnson, “’The Only Lasting Power is Change’: Examining Change and Community Through the Journal Narrative in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower”
3:30–4:45 Panel 3: Spaces of Belonging
Chair: Dr. Bill Fogarty
Tyler Dick, “‘Dietland is about making women small’: Hegemony, Media, and the Male Gaze in Dietland”
Ivy McKay, "Magic and Maternity: Gendered Spaces and Female Autonomy in Melusine"
Dr. Louise Kane, “‘I hear only your seasonal voice’: Social Isolation and Community in Black British Migrant Narratives”
6:00–7:15 Panel 4: Native Women Writers & Resistance
Chair: Amanda Cannon
Kieran Leeds, “The Women the World Ignores: Ecofeminism and Linda Hogan's Attempt at Feminist Unity in The Woman Who Watches Over the World”
Kirstie Kibbe, “Nature as a Representation of Trauma in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms”
Teddy Duncan, Jr., “The ‘Grievability’ of Two Indigenous Women: Emerging from the Frames of Criminal Narratives”
Friday, March 26
10:00–11:15 Panel 5: Creative Work in Isolation & Community
Chair: Prof. Terry Thaxton
Nikki Fragala Barnes, "Poems in the Wild: How We Respond and Engage with Spaces of Unfamiliarity"
Natalie A. Madruga, “A Reflection on Individual and Collective Mourning”
Prof. Laurie Uttich, “I Know It’s a Pandemic and It Feels like the World Is Ending, but Can I Just Talk about My Dog for a Minute?” and Other Creative Works
12:30–1:45 Panel 6: Labor, Identity, & Fellowship
Chair: Dr. Anna Jones
Jeanice Vacarizas, “Unapologetically Asian: Cultural Appropriation and Asian-American Identity Crises in Hip Hop”
Abigail Moreshead & Beth Young, “Johnson’s Dictionary Online and the Management of Volunteers: A Case Study in Recognizing and Rewarding Digital Labor”
Dr. Christian Beck, “Fellowship in the ‘Grene Wode’: Robin Hood and the Spatial Organization of Community”
2:00–3:15 Panel 7: The Political Bubble
Chair: Dr. Christian Beck
John Lancaster, “Civil War Performance, the Confederate Flag, and Patriotic Ideology in the American South: A Cultural Studies Approach”
Dr. Mel Stanfill, “‘An angry mob of MAGA fans’: January 6th and Fandom Violence”
Dr. Barry Mauer, “Trump, Dismediation, and the Cognitive Immune System”
3:30–4:45 Panel 8: Putting the ‘Cultural’ in the LCT Program II
Chair: Dr. Tony Grajeda
Noah Volz, “‘Well, then...I must go’: Subtle Feminism and the Cinematic Role of Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight”
Anthony Garcia, “On the Success of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Batman and the Failures of the Contemporary Comic Book Industry”
Nick Colecio, “The Commodification, Degradation, and Surprising Resilience of Internet Subcultures: An Analysis of GeoCities, Tumblr, and other Internet Subcultures”
Chair: Prof. Terry Thaxton
Nikki Fragala Barnes, "Poems in the Wild: How We Respond and Engage with Spaces of Unfamiliarity"
Natalie A. Madruga, “A Reflection on Individual and Collective Mourning”
Prof. Laurie Uttich, “I Know It’s a Pandemic and It Feels like the World Is Ending, but Can I Just Talk about My Dog for a Minute?” and Other Creative Works
12:30–1:45 Panel 6: Labor, Identity, & Fellowship
Chair: Dr. Anna Jones
Jeanice Vacarizas, “Unapologetically Asian: Cultural Appropriation and Asian-American Identity Crises in Hip Hop”
Abigail Moreshead & Beth Young, “Johnson’s Dictionary Online and the Management of Volunteers: A Case Study in Recognizing and Rewarding Digital Labor”
Dr. Christian Beck, “Fellowship in the ‘Grene Wode’: Robin Hood and the Spatial Organization of Community”
2:00–3:15 Panel 7: The Political Bubble
Chair: Dr. Christian Beck
John Lancaster, “Civil War Performance, the Confederate Flag, and Patriotic Ideology in the American South: A Cultural Studies Approach”
Dr. Mel Stanfill, “‘An angry mob of MAGA fans’: January 6th and Fandom Violence”
Dr. Barry Mauer, “Trump, Dismediation, and the Cognitive Immune System”
3:30–4:45 Panel 8: Putting the ‘Cultural’ in the LCT Program II
Chair: Dr. Tony Grajeda
Noah Volz, “‘Well, then...I must go’: Subtle Feminism and the Cinematic Role of Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight”
Anthony Garcia, “On the Success of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Batman and the Failures of the Contemporary Comic Book Industry”
Nick Colecio, “The Commodification, Degradation, and Surprising Resilience of Internet Subcultures: An Analysis of GeoCities, Tumblr, and other Internet Subcultures”