NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION In Memoriam We honor those members who passed away this last year: Mortimer W. Gamble V Mary Elizabeth “Mery-et” Lescher Martin J. Manning Douglas A. Noverr NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION APRIL 15–18, 2020 Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Philadelphia, PA Lynn Bartholome Executive Director Gloria Pizaña Executive Assistant Robin Hershkowitz Graduate Assistant Bowling Green State University Sandhiya John Editor, Wiley © 2020 Popular Culture Association Additional information about the PCA available at pcaaca.org. Table of Contents President’s Welcome ........................................................................................ 8 Registration and Check-In ............................................................................11 Exhibitors ..........................................................................................................12 Special Meetings and Events .........................................................................13 Area Chairs ......................................................................................................23 Leadership.........................................................................................................36 PCA Endowment ............................................................................................39 Bartholome Award Honoree: Gary Hoppenstand...................................42 Ray and Pat Browne Award Honoree: Kevin Willmott ...........................43 Presidential Award Honoree: Terry Gross .................................................44 Special Guest: Mod Betty ..............................................................................45 Special Guest: Richard Greene .....................................................................46 Schedule Overview by Area ..........................................................................49 Daily Schedule by Time ................................................................................104 Index of Presenters ......................................................................................309 Floor Plans ......................................................................................................350 7 President’s Welcome The annual national conference is the Popular Culture Association’s signature event. Each year, thousands of scholars from many academic disciplines across the globe travel to meet in a major American city to share and discuss their research at the conference in a number of venues: panel presentations, roundtables, special sessions, film screenings, local tours, keynote speaker events, special awards ceremonies, and other gatherings. This year’s conference is in the City of Brotherly Love—Philadelphia— from April 15-18, 2020. Our site is the beautiful, centrally located Phila- delphia Marriott Downtown, located within steps of the Reading Termi- nal Market and Independence Hall. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, City Hall, Barnes Museum and Franklin Institute are also nearby. Founded in 1970, PCA turns fifty this year, and this conference launches our one- year semicentennial celebration. Much is planned, and while you will want to explore the city, don’t overlook the many amazing PCA offer- ings available at the hotel. The conference schedule is available on the website with full details on each day’s offerings. I am honored to present the PCA Presidential Award to Terry Gross, the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview-based radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed nationally by NPR. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Gross began her radio career in 1973 at public radio station WBFO in Buffalo, New York, where she hosted and produced several arts, women’s and public affairs pro- grams, including This Is Radio, a live, three-hour magazine program that aired daily. Two years later, she joined the staff of WHYY-FM in Philadel- phia as producer and host of Fresh Air, then a local, daily interview and music program. Since 1987, a daily, one-hour national edition of Fresh Air has been produced by WHYY-FM. The program is broadcast on nearly 600 stations and became the first non-drivetime show in pub- lic radio history to reach more than five million listeners a week. Fresh Air received the prestigious Peabody Award in 1994 for its “probing questions, revelatory interviews and unusual insight.” Fresh Air not only covers popular culture; it has become a familiar part of it. Its interviews 8 are in a category by themselves, distinguished by host and co-executive producer Terry Gross’ unique approach. The program and Gross have been name-checked on Saturday Night Live, Girls, HBO’s Eastbound and Down, and How I Met Your Mother. Gross played herself on an episode of The Simpsons and was a guest on The Colbert Report. Gross is also the author of All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians and Artists, published by Hyperion in 2004. You will want to see one of America’s most renowned and insightful interviewers, Terry Gross, at the PCA Grand Reception on Thursday, April 16, from 6:30-8:00 pm in Salons E and F. A second tribute not to be missed is the presentation of the Ray and Pat Browne Award for contributions to the Popular Arts to award-win- ning writer and director, Kevin Willmott, best known for work focusing on black issues, including writing and directing Ninth Street, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, and Bunker Hill. The Only Good Indian (2009) is Willmott’s feature film about Native American children at an Indian boarding school and the forced assimilation into White So- ciety that takes place there. In 2015, Willmott co-wrote Chi-Raq with Spike Lee, with whom he shares an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for BlacKKKlansman (2019). The film is a comedic biopic that chronicles the bizarre true story of an undercover black detective who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan. The Oscar win provoked the anger of Pres- ident Trump after Lee’s acceptance speech urged the audience to “be on the right side of history” when voting in the 2020 election. Willmott’s next project, Da 5 Bloods, another collaborative effort with Lee, began shooting in March 2019. Willmott is also working on a documentary about Langston Hughes. He will be speaking on Saturday, April 18, from 3:00-4:30 pm in Salons E and F. Another fun event, especially if you like things retro, is a talk by Beth Lennon, better known as Mod Betty®, the creative mind behind the Retro Roadmap® Roadbook series, based on her popular travel web- site RetroRoadmap.com / the online source for “Cool Vintage Places & Retro Fun!” A “Jane of All Trades,” she has written for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, crowd-funded and starred in the online Ret- ro Roadmap® video series, hostesses vintage weekends, and delivers presentations both serious and silly across multiple states. Mod Betty’s delightful presentation takes place on Wednesday, April 15, from 6:30- 8:00 in Salons E and F. 9 Finally, Gary Hoppenstand, this year’s recipient of the Lynn Bartholome Eminent Scholar Award, will deliver the Bartholome Lecture, “The Story of Popular Culture as Story,” on Friday, April 17, from 3:00-4:45 in Salon D. Professor of English at Michigan State University, Hoppenstand spe- cializes in genre and narrative studies in popular fiction, graphic novels, film. and television. He has published twenty-four books, including nine scholarly reprint editions of classics novels for Signet Classics and Pen- guin Classics, and over sixty scholarly articles on topics in popular culture studies, literary studies, and media studies. Hoppenstand is one of popu- lar culture’s brightest lights, and his talk promises to be a highlight of the conference. On a personal note, I have been a member of PCA since I joined as a graduate student in 1979, and the association and its many enthusias- tic members hold a special place in my heart. I feel humbled to be the president of this remarkable organization. Along with Executive Direc- tor Lynn Bartholome, Past President Phil Simpson, Vice President Sue Matheson, Board Chair Gary Edgerton, Editors Ann Larabee and Carl Sederholm, and all the members of the PCA Governing Board, I thank you for your support of PCA and the study of popular culture. All of us welcome you to Philadelphia, wish you a happy and productive confer- ence, and look forward to seeing you! Kathy Merlock Jackson, PCA President 10 Registration and Check-In Our registration area will be open: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 * 4PM – 7PM Wednesday, April 15, 2020 7AM – 5PM Thursday, April 16, 2020 7AM – 5PM Friday, April 17, 2020 7AM – 5PM Saturday, April 18, 2020 7AM – 12 Noon * Badge pick-up only; no transactions One-day guest badges at $50 (limited to two days) will be available each morning at the Registration Area; payment in cash or check with identifi- cation only. For security reasons, badges are required in all conference areas. 11 Exhibitors PCA/ACA Exhibitors We would like to welcome our exhibitors this year and hope that you will visit them in Salon G & H. Exhibit Hours Wednesday, April 15, 2020 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Thursday, April 16, 2020 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Friday, April 17, 2020 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Saturday, April 18, 2020 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Exhibitors Adam Matthews Digital Association of Canadian Publishers Bloomsbury Academic Ideas on Fire Intellect Lexington Books McFarland Palgrave McMillan Rutgers