Keynote Speakers
Abigail De Kosnik, UC Berkeley
Kristen J. Warner, University of Alabama
Ineloquent Truths about Representation From the Represented
With this keynote I wish to explore both the textually mediated moments Black audiences locked ourselves into a sort of immutable visible representation as progress, with all the consequences that followed, as well as the moments where identificatory play and recognitions find their way despite and in spite of our good intentioned folly. Unpacking the truth concerning the potency of feeling represented is for Black audiences, and Black women audiences in particular, can maybe offer insights into developing more resonant kinds of visibility.
10-11:30
Death and Rebirth in Queer Fandoms (In Person)
Kristy Sun, Mallory Rising: Fannish Identification and Rereading Queer Potential in The Baby-Sitters Club
Megan Connor, Indiana University – Bloomington
From Sla/sh to #Ship: An Archive of Our Own and the Restructuring of Fan Networks
Katherine E. Morrissey, Arizona State University
Canceling Queerness: Historical Media and the Problem with Progress
Bridget Kies, Oakland University
Hierarchies of Queer Representation in The Untamed’s Transcultural Fandom
Laurel P. Rogers, University of Texas at Austin
The Politics of Instagram: Intersectional Feminist Analyses of Labor, Representations, and Tags (In Person)
#zerowaste: the feminised labour of sustainable influencers on Instagram
Rachel Wood, Keele University
“How I edit my Instagram images”: investigating skilled vision in the work of YouTube’s “girlbosses”
Ida Roivainen, University of Tampere
Don’t Use This Hashtag: Fat Acceptance Activism and Boundary-Work as Unofficial Content Moderation on Instagram
Melissa Zimdars, Merrimack College
Leopard Print is a Neutral: Disappearing White Bodies in Instagram’s Design World
Inna Arzumanova, University of San Francisco
TV Limited Series and Strategies of Reinvention (In Person)
“Burning the House Down: Limited Series and Rhetorical Strategies of the Reboot”
Molly A. Schneider, Columbia College Chicago
“American Horror Story as Repertory Company & Sarah Paulson as Company Star”
R. Colin Tait
“The Trouble with (non) Normal: Limits of Queerness Across American Horror Story’s Limited Formats”
Andrew J. Owens, University of Iowa
“Limited Reinventions: Dystopic Wellness and Nine Perfect Strangers”
Jennifer Lynn Jones, University of Tulsa
Mediated Embodiment: Exploring Spaces, Communities, and Representation (In Person)
“Empowering Dance and Dance-Artist Everywhere”: Dance Church and the Strategic Creativity of Exercise Platform Branding
Paxton Haven, University of Texas at Austin
Credibility Bookcases and “Bookiness”: The Gendering of Embodied Texts
Abigail Moreshead, University of Central Florida and Anastasia Salter, University of Central Florida
The Bloody Tampon and Other Menstrual Moments in Popularized Media
Amanda J. Campbell, Winthrop University
The Neuroconvergent Audience: Assimilating Disability Aids through ASMR and Body Media
Leah Steuer
Don’t Look Too Closely: Appropriation, Incorporation and Repatriation in Popular Media (Virtual)
Repurposing Inclusion: The Conscription of Black Women Protagonists in Contemporary Cop-Shows in Sustaining Police-Based Anti-Blackness
Christina Aushana, University of California San Diego
The Memes of Production: The Appropriation of User-Produced Media in Covid-Era Films and Television
Lauren S. Berliner, University of Washington Bothell
Visualizing Repatriation: Diasporic Appropriation and Appreciation in Beyoncé and Shatta Wale’s ‘Already’ Music Video
Caroline Collins, UC San Diego
Paddington Goes to Work Reconstructing the Empire
Susan Harewood, University of Washington Bothell
Politics of Gender/Politics of Nostalgia: Exploring TV and Film Reboots and Reinventions (Virtual)
Reality TV Reunion Seasons and Entrepreneurial Selves: Marketing MTV Nostalgia
Leigh H. Edwards, Florida State University
Reinventing Franchises: Gender Swapping and (In)Equity
Chelsea G. McCracken, SUNY Oneonta
Reinventing the Disney Princess
Robyn Muir, University of Surrey
Womb for Rent: The Politics of Surrogacy Storylines on Sitcom Reboots
Reut Odinak, Boston University
Reimagining the Present and Future through Queer Representations Across Media (Virtual)
Calibrating My Compass: The Quest for Lesbian Futurity
Sarah Cooper, Clemson University
Queer time, queer feeling and queer sex in The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Samantha Colling, Manchester Metropolitan University
Reinventing Digital Materialism: Queer Art Towards Revolutionary Politics
Sam Hunter, University of California, Los Angeles
Rising From The Ashes: Queer Games as a Model for Reinventing Academia and Industry
Ryan Rose Aceae, University of California, Irvine and Kat Brewster, University of California, Irvine
1-2:30
Feminist and Queer Approaches to the Embodied Experience of Gaming (In Person)
“Sean? Am I a Monster?”: Examining Feminist and Queer Procedures and Mechanics as Calls to Action
Ashley P. Jones, Georgia Southwestern State University
Be gay, do code: Challenges for teaching game design and the need for queer code pedagogy
Daniel Cox, University of Central Florida and Kenton Taylor Howard, University of Central Florida
Post-Digital Gaymes: The Presence of Print in Queering Digital Play
Chloe A. Milligan, Pennsylvania State University – Berks
Trickle Down Streaming: Pressures Felt by Feminine and Women Live Streamers
Amanda Cullen, University of California, Irvine
Masculinity across Media: Examining Toxic Masculinity and (Failures of) Intersectionality (In Person)
“!pls deletethis”: How Discord bots perform and center white cismasculinity
PS Berge, University of Central Florida and Daniel G. Heslep, University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa
“Even stronger or just faker than last time?”: Men, authenticity, and toxic masculinity in YouTube’s fitness influencer community
Jessica Maddox, University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa
Out of the Backyard and Onto the Couch: Televised Treatments of Masculinity and Femininity in Barbeque Competition Programs
Diana Willis, University at Albany, State University of New York
Re-masculinizing Roman Reigns: Modern Professional Wrestling Audiences and Evolving Notions of Masculinity
Joshua R. Coonrod, Bellarmine University
Cradle to the Classroom: Media Scholars Raising Media Saturated Kids During the Pandemic (In Person)
Kelly Kessler, DePaul University
Sharon M. Ross, Columbia College Chicago
Avi Santo, Old Dominion University
Kyra Hunting, University of Kentucky
Jonathan Nichols-Pethick, DePauw University
Kathleen A. Paciga, Columbia College Chicago
Elizabeth Davis Berg, Columbia College Chicago
Perspectives on Navigating Academic Careers (In Person)
Erin A. Meyers, Oakland University
Courtney Brannon Donoghue, University of North Texas
Erika Johnson-Lewis, St. Petersburg College
Jennifer Lynn Jones, University of Tulsa
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, University of Texas at Dallas
Brandy Monk-Payton, Fordham University
Karen Petruska, Gonzaga University
Let’s Get Physical: Fitness, Bodies, and the Politics of Reinvention (In Person)
Together We Go Far: Peloton’s Family Values’
Elizabeth Affuso, Pitzer College
Girl bosses who LTB (Lift, Tone, Burn): Pure Barre’s Fitness Feminism
Kate Fortmueller, University of Georgia
How to get Halle Berry’s abs: the appeal of the celebrity fitness app
Kristen Fuhs, Woodbury University
Working out and/as Working on Autoethnographic Methods in Fan Studies
Suzanne Scott, University of Texas at Austin
Fan Negotiations of Agency On and Through Social/Digital Media (Virtual)
Fan-Powered Digital Activism in the #FreeBritney Movement
Akhil R. Vaidya, University of Pennsylvania – Annenberg School for Communication
Recovering Racial and Queer Subtexts in Black Sails Fanfiction with Digital Methods
Suzanne Black, Independent Scholar
Remediating Heteroromance with K-pop: the Transnational Female Spectator in TWICE’s What Is Love?
Rongyi Lin, Northwestern University
Intersectionality and Gender in Contemporary Comedy (Virtual)
“Why Do Men Look So Mediocre, Yet Manage to Be So Confident?”: The Rise of Female Stand-up Comedian and Feminist Humor in Contemporary China
Liao Zhang, University of Nottingham
From Bodega Boys to Bodega Men: Coming-of-Age Rites and Black-Jewish Intersections in Contemporary Television
Jordan Z. Adler
Reimagining Sitcom’s Unruly Woman: WandaVision and Kevin Can F**k Himself
Lisa W. Kelly Dr, University of Glasgow
Gendered Play: Artist’s Talks (Virtual)
Cozy Masculinity
Chelsea L. Brtis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Empower Through Play
Amy Schwinge, University of Central Florida
Lace Up Their Boots: An Interactive Wrestling Experience
Tate N. Oquendo, Full Sail Real World Education
i-PALettes: A Triple-Blind Peer-Reviewed Beauty Tutorial
Christine H. Tran, University of Toronto, Faculty of Information; Nelanthi Hewa, University of Toronto, Faculty of Information; and Elisha Lim, University of Toronto, Faculty of Information
3-4:30
Examining Feminist and Fan Communities on TikTok (In Person)
#SelfLoveChallenge: Remixing Feminisms in the Body Positivity Movement on TikTok
Laura Schumacher, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“I just came back from 7 months at hogwarts…”: #Shifttok and contemporary fan labour
Claire Whitley Ms, Flinders University and Katharine Perrotta Ms, Flinders University
Reinventing the Sea Shanty and Other Memetic Video as Collective Chorus
Tanya D. Zuk, Georgia State University
What Does it Mean? Berries and Cream!: Towards a Feminist Praxis in TikTok’s Memetic Cultures
Sarah Whitcomb Laiola, Coastal Carolina University
Deconstructing Comedic Power Structures Across Media (In Person)
“What Does Karen Chee Know?”: Examining the Limitations and Progressive Potential of Asian American Women’s Representation on Late Night with Seth Meyers
Madison Barnes-Nelson, Colorado State University – Fort Collins
Laughter is the Best Poison: Antagonistic Humor as the Handmaiden of Hate Speech
Pratiksha Menon, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Quarantine Comedy: Podcasts of the Pandemic
Kriszta Pozsonyi, Cornell University
The Racial Politics of Comedy in Shame TV
Sarah Hagelin, University of Colorado, Denver and Gillian Silverman, University of Colorado, Denver
Exploring Latinx Identity and Experience through Social Media and TV (In Person)
Race, Beauty, and Language: Exploring Latinx Panethnicity and Generational Differences through Social Media Entertainment
Arcelia Gutierrez, University of California, Irvine
Young Jane as Citizen-In-Transition: Analyzing Girlhood and Citizenship in Jane The Virgin
Litzy Galarza, University of Pittsburgh and Diana Leon-Boys, University of South Florida
Home in Vida and Gentefied: The Politics of Representation in Gente-fication Narratives
Carlos Jimenez, University of Denver and Alfredo Huante, University of California, Los Angeles
Universal Latinity
Erika Maribel Heredia, University of Central Florida
Black Women Across Media: Embodiment and Agency (In Person)
“Pynk” Aesthetics, Black Femininity, and Queer Afrofuturism in Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer
Aviva Dove- Viebahn, Arizona State University
Issa Rae’s Journey From “Awkward” to “Insecure”: Becoming As Indie As She Wanted To Be
Bambi L. Haggins, University of California, Irvine and Ella Turenne, University of California, Irvine
The Black Superwoman and Neoliberal ‘Justice’: De-Radicalizing Black Feminist Politics on the CBS Television Reboot of The Equalizer
Melissa Clairjeune, Florida State University
Feminist Media Cultures (In Person)
Black Girl Sanctuary: Tending to Black Girls’ Gardens of Living Creativity
Amoni Thompson-Jones, UC Santa Barbara
Candyman’s Haunting: The Violence of Gentrification, Criminalization and Policing
Kimberly Soriano, UC Santa Barbara
Title: #WorkLife: TikTok, Labor, and Digital Counterpublics
AP Pierce, UC Santa Barbara
“Woke-washing” and Millennial Nostalgic Rebooting
Anna Wald, UC Santa Barbara
Celebrity, Media Industries & Fandom: Reinventing Cultural & Political Meanings (Virtual)
The politics and limits of representation: Awkwafina and the star persona
Bertha Chin, Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak and Agata Frymus, Monash University, Malaysia
“He got stopped for being black. Get woke, Scully.” Fan reactions to Brooklyn 99 as a result of #BlacksLiveMatter
Bethan Jones, Independent Researcher, UK
Spatial Poaching in the Wizarding Worlds: Reinventing and Reimagining Fan-Tourist Spaces
Rebecca Williams, University of South Wales, UK
Breaking the wheel? Globalisation and Access in Game of Thrones Transnational Fans’ Experience
Julie Escurignan, Roehampton University
Explorations of Selfhood in/through Games (Virtual)
“So be yourself and try to have a good time:” Reinventing the Gendered Urban Gamer in the “First Look at Nintendo Switch”
David Kocik, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Dying and Reviving: Exploring Failure as Growth in Rogue-likes and Souls-likes
Rachelle AC Joplin, University of Houston – Main
Misogyny Killed the Infocom Star
Lyle Skains, Bournemouth University
Recovering Women’s Television Histories
Bringing up the picture: Women and technical work in early Australian television
Victoria Ball, De Montfort University
‘My God! This is male’: Women’s experiences of writing British television drama in the 1970s and 1980s
Jeannine Baker Dr, Macquarie University, Australia
Reinventing the television talk show on YouTube: The case of Phool Khile Hain (1972-93) and Tabassum Talkies (2016-present)
Ipsita Sahu, Jawaharlal Nehru University
5-6:30
Keynote: The ‘General Library,’ or, Access, Survival, and Relation for Black, Brown, Asian, Queer, Poor, and Disabled Pirates
Abigail De Kosnik, UC Berkeley
10-11:30
Studying and Speaking to Industries: A Game Studies Roundtable (In Person)
Amanda Cote, University of Oregon
Kishonna Gray, University of Kentucky
Christopher A. Paul, Seattle University
Kelly Bergstrom, York University
Alison Harvey, York University
Christine H. Tran, University of Toronto
Akil Fletcher, University of California, Irvine
Investigating Music, Celebrity, and Intersectional Identity (In Person)
“There is no such thing as a slut”: Creating and destroying the “good girl” in Taylor Swift’s musical persona
Adriane J. Brown, Augsburg University
De-racialization Through Queerness: Reggaeton Artists Under the Global Lens
Mia Lawrie, University of Washington – Seattle Campus
Who Took the Bomp? Licensing Kathleen Hanna
Alyxandra Vesey, University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa
Negotiations of Power in the Legacy of the #MeToo Movement (In Person)
Me Too Documentaries: How Prolific of a Predator Do You Have to be to Get One?
Vanessa Nyarko, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Reinventing the Sitcom for the Me Too Era: Disempowering the Patriarchy by Joking About It in HBO Max’s Hacks (2021-)
Stephanie R. Oliver, University of Texas at Dallas
Time’s Up: Celebrity Feminism After #MeToo
Caitlin Lawson, Emmanuel College – Boston
Representations of Aging in Contemporary Media (In Person)
‘And Just Like That’: Aging, Diversity, and Desire in the Sex and the City Reboot
Katherine Lehman, Albright College
“Jean Smart Never Went Away”: Prestige TV and the Reinvention of the Aging Female Star
Sara Bakerman
“With Gray Hair, I Actually Feel More Powerful”: Age, Embodiment, and the Semiotic Power of Celebrity
Brenda R. Weber, Indiana University – Bloomington
Reinventing the Hardbody: Deepfakes, De-aging, and the Plasticity of White Masculinity
Drew Ayers, Eastern Washington University
Analyzing Gender in Horror and True Crime Media (In Person)
Adapting to the Dark- Managing Fear Through True Crime
Jessica Hoover, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Consumption horror: female re-presentation and the abstract disease in Hideo Nakata’s Ring
Lexi CMK Turner, Cornell University
From Devour to Abhor: True Crime Television Viewers and Nonviewers
Amanda R. Keeler, Marquette University
Negotiating Identity in Digital Spaces (Virtual)
‘HI SISTERS’: Beauty Boys and Postfeminism
Kylie Musolf, George Mason University
Consumer Citizens, Instagram Nations: Travel Influencers, Branding Strategies, and Gender in Representations of the “Global” Nation
Sarah Edwards, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Digital dating dangers: Examining dating and hook-up apps’ constructions of safety
Stefanie Duguay, Concordia University – Montreal and Ben Lapierre, Concordia University – Montreal
Watching shame: Viral videos and audience emotion
Melissa Click, Gonzaga University
Exploring Spectatorship, Neoliberalism, and Colonial Legacies in Romance Media (Virtual)
“If This Is to Work, We Must Appear Madly in Love”: Imperial Erasure and Bridgerton’s (Post)Racial Fantasy
Jacqueline E. Johnson, University of Southern California
Reinventing Romance: Women’s Spectatorship in Transition from Lifetime to Streaming
Cara N. Dickason, Northwestern University
Reinventing Romcom: Escaping Partners(hip) en Route to Emancipation from Neoliberal Subjectivity
Maria San Filippo, Emerson College
Portrait of a Lady on Fire: Haunted by Marriage
Brecken Hunter Wellborn, University of Texas at Dallas
The Female Teacher on TV: From Reification to Reinventions (Virtual)
“Education is the Sleeping Pill that Makes Dreams Happen”: Peggy Hill, Patriarchal Shill
Elizabeth Currin, University of South Carolina
Rita: ‘The Good Teacher’ Gets Real
Mary M. Dalton, Wake Forest University
He Doesn’t Belong Here: An Arendtian Consideration of Young Sheldon
Stephanie O’Brien, University of North Carolina at Asheville
1-2:30
TikTok as a Site of Identity Exploration (In Person)
“I Feel Attacked”: Cringe, Cool, and Collective Identity on TikTok
Margaret Rossman, Bellarmine University
Cheugy Millennials vs. Gen Z Drip Checks: Unpacking TikTok’s Generational Wars
Jacqueline R. Vickery, University of North Texas
Cripping Girlhood on TikTok
Anastasia Todd, University of Kentucky
Imitation publics, imitation pop: A feminist platform analysis of Olivia Rodrigo’s self-branding on TikTok
Jessica Sage Rauchberg, McMaster University
Mediated Sexuality: Challenging Norms and Claiming Agency (In Person)
Porn Literacy as Brand Culture
Rachael A. Liberman, University of Denver
The Good, the Bad and the Awkward: the affective politics of the awkward Hollywood sex scene
Daphne Gershon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Reinvention of Revenge/Porn
Caroline West Dr, National University of Ireland, Galway
What’s a Buddy for, Anyway?: Vitalism, Eroticism, and Activism in Arthur Bressan Jr.’s AIDS Melodrama Buddies
John P. Stadler, North Carolina State University
Historicizing Media Power Structures (In Person)
‘Unmade’ Television in Germaine Greer’s Archive
Anthea Taylor Dr, University of Sydney, Australia
A Nation of Girls Stuck in the Valley: The Transmedia Proliferation of the Valley Girl
Alice Leppert, Ursinus College
Behind Every “Great Man” Narrative: Linda Woolverton and the Disney Renaissance
Peter C. Kunze, Tulane University
Matchmaker: Emerging Technology and 1980s Narrative Television
Myrna Moretti, Northwestern University
Understanding Gender and Trauma in Media (In Person)
“She never called it rape”: Gender, power, and credibility in Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why
Sarah Erickson, Trinity University and Kailey Lopez, Texas A & M University – College Station
All work, low pay in a lockdown economy: How the pandemic reveals invisible gendered labor and how information technologies obscure it
Micky Lee, Suffolk University
Tracing Government and Media Discourses on Title IX and Sexual Violence: 2016-2020
Sarah Projansky, University of Utah
Investigating Affect and Access Across Media Objects (In Person)
Emotional Voices: Intimacy and Gendered Discourse in Podcast Production Culture
Andrew J. Bottomley, SUNY Oneonta
tenuous temporal attachments: music videos and queer imaginings
Katherine Elizabeth Hinders, University of Kansas
Feminist Materiality: Artist’s Talks (In Person)
Three-ness and the Power of the Afrophantasm
D’Arcee C. Neal, The Ohio State University
triptych pinwork // precision
Nikki Fragala Barnes, University of Central Florida
Ula Stöckl: German Feminist Filmmaker
Rachel Braaten, University of Central Florida
Sex, Consent and Intimacy in Contemporary Media Cultures (Virtual)
Is Consent a Retroactive Formation? Temporalising Consent in Contemporary Feminist Culture
Sarah Cefai, Goldsmiths University, UK
Intimacy Coordination: Staging Sex and Consent in UK Television Drama
Tanya Horeck, Anglia Ruskin University & Susan Berridge, University of Stirling, UK
Consenting to and Co-ordinating Intimacy in Normal People (2020)
Catherine Fowler, University of Otago
Silence Implies Consent: Giving Voice to Sexual Assault in I May Destroy You
Donna Peberdy, Solent University, Southampton UK
Approaches to Teaching Transgender Medias (Virtual)
Lauren Herold, Beloit College
Nicole Morse, Florida Atlantic University
Nick Davis, Northwestern University
Cael Keegan, Grand Valley State University
Dan Vena, Queen’s University
Nael Bhanji, Trent University
Laura Horak, Carleton University
Haley Hvdson, University of Southern California
Interrogating Platforms: Algorithms, Users, and Discriminatory Constructs (Virtual)
No Genre, Just Vibes: on #vibes & the “post-demographic ideology of algorithmic recommendation”
Robin M. James, UNC Charlotte
Refacing Gender in Digital Assistant Technologies
Miriam E. Sweeney, University of Alabama
Reinventing the “iPhone fingernail problem”: Feminist Assertions of Raised Arms and Fingernails
Michele White, Tulane University
The Mallrat Race: Digital Platforms, Discriminatory Design, & the New Mall
Lesley Willard, University of Texas at Austin
3-4:30
Fan Spaces Navigate Contested and Marginalized Identities (In Person)
Bachelor Nation’s Online Discourses Around Issues of Diversity, Representation, and Identity
Kellie Veltri, University of Texas at Austin
Cosplay, Jiangnan Style: Chinese Costume Dramas’ Phallacy of Male Impersonator-cum-Swordswoman
Sheng-mei Ma, Michigan State University
Romance, Race, and Rhetoric: Online Fans and Media Companies Negotiate the Interracial Dynamics of Bridgerton and The Bachelor
Sharon M. Ross, Columbia College Chicago and Jennifer Sadler, Columbia College Chicago
Still Up On the Mountain: Chinese Celebrity Blacklisting and the Queer Digital Semiosphere
JSA Lowe, University of Houston – Main
Interrogating Legacies of Racism and Resistance in America through Media and Place (In Person)
And the Award Goes to…. BLACK LIVES MATTER: Manifestation of uplift and racial reckoning at the 2020 BET Awards
Lily Kunda, University of Texas at Austin
Intersectional Morphs: From Michael Jackson to the “New Face of America”
Tanine Allison, Emory University
Parallel Reckonings: Revisiting Racist Legacies in Comic Book Television Series and Atlanta Filming Locations
Ethan D. Tussey, Georgia State University
Si(gh)tation: Targeting Race in Advertisements after the George Floyd Protests
Kai T. Prins, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hidden Feminist Histories of American Network Television (In Person)
Thinking Through The Hidden Histories of Feminist Television
Amanda A. Klein, East Carolina University and Suzanne Leonard, Simmons University
Disability Dates and Disasters: Romance, Stereotypes, and Special Episodes in 1980s and 1990s Television
Elizabeth Ellcessor, University of Virginia – Main Campus
Radical Ambiguity: Black Women and Embodiment in Sanford and Son
Adrien Sebro, The University of Texas, Austin
From Punky Brewster to Pepper Ann: Feminism in the Everyday in Children’s Sitcoms of the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Kyra Hunting, University of Kentucky Respondent: Jane Shattuc, Emerson College
The Past and Present of Blogging as an Intersectional Feminist Space-maker (In Person)
“Like to Charge, Reblog to Cast”: ‘Digital Witchcraft’ as Affective Rhetorical Strategy for Feminist Protest
Andrea Jacoby, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Asian-Inspired: Postfeminism, postrace and politics in the Food Blogosphere
Tisha Dejmanee, University of Technology, Sydney
Beyond Becky: Early Feminist Blogging as Intersectional Praxis
Jessalynn Keller, University of Calgary
From Community Blogs to Queer Counter-spaces: The formation of blog-publics and Mondro’s tactical resistance in Bangladesh
Mohammed Mizanur Rashid, The University of Texas at Dallas
Interrogating Digital Media as a Site of Resistance and Problematic Constructions (In Person)
“Stick Around to Support the Channel”: Comparing Intimacy and Live-Streaming Across Platforms
Kelsey Cummings, Tulane University
Mommy Juice Memes: Disrupting Media Representations of Alcohol Use by Women during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Leandra Preston, University of Central Florida
Of Bells and Barkers: Historical antecedents to cell phone notifications and reimagining the future
Andy F. Wright, University of Texas at Austin
Playing against the System: Affective and Networked Reclamation of ‘Rater-Rani’ by Bangladeshi Feminist Networks in Facebook
Nusrat Zahan Chowdhury, The University of Texas at Dallas
Not Just a Game: Disenchanting, Blurring, and Breaking the Magic Circles (Virtual)
Disenchanting the Magic Circle
Jack Murray, University of Central Florida
BLURRING FRAMES IN THE BOUNDARY SPACE OF SAFE ROOMS
Cameron Irby, University of Texas at Dallas
We Don’t Need no Stinking Magic Cricle: Reframing Huizinga’s play spirit as affective orientation through queer phenomenology
Atanur Andic, University of Texas at Dallas
Gender, Sexuality, and Television, Past and Presents (Virtual)
Alternative News and Views on the Canadian Cable Airwaves: Queer and Feminist Reimaginings of Television in the 1970s-1980s
Axelle Demus, York University
Therapy as Entertainment: Historically Tracing the Gendered Televisual of Reality Television Therapy
Krysten N. Stein, University of Illinois at Chicago
Women of Many Colors: Gender Roles and Feminist Utopias in El tiempo entre costuras and Como agua para chocolate
Ankit Raj, Government College Gharaunda, Karnal, India
“What’s Important Is Being in the Room” – Reinventing Queer History in Ryan Murphy‘s Hollywood
Sabrina Mittermeier
Deconstructing Media as Knowledge Creations (Virtual)
‘Hijab culture’: Branding of faith and sexuality in a capitalist society
Shafinur Nahar, Chittagong Independent University and Taniah Mahmuda Tinni, Premier University
Reinventing ‘Fieldwork’: The Screen as Site
Nithila Kanagasabai Ms., Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Visibility, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Work Experiences of Immigrant Women Journalists: Three Generations of Russian-Israeli Women Journalists
Einat Lachover, Sapir Academic College
Gaining and Retaining Research Library Access for Precarious Workers
Rebecca M. Gordon, Ryerson University
5-6:30
Keynote: Ineloquent Truths about Representation From the Represented
Kristen J. Warner, University of Alabama
10-11:30
Identity and Embodiment in Gaming Content of the Past and Present (In Person)
Privileging the Past: Problematic and Gendered Rhetoric in Retro Gaming Content
Ian R. Larson, University of California, Irvine
WARNING RISK OF SEIZURE: An Analysis of Cyberpunk 2077’s Accessibility Campaign and Practices
Matthew R. Stapleton, University of Central Florida and Lauren Rouse, University of Central Florida
“Hey, I’ve Seen This One!”: Replaying Gamer Identity on Twitch
Victoria Braegger, Purdue University
Navigating Intersectional Identities in Sports Media (In Person)
Free, Multilingual, and Employing Experts: DAZN’s YouTube Distribution of UEFA Women’s Champions League to Meet Women’s Soccer Fanbase Expectations
Charlotte E. Howell, Boston University
Athlete Activism in the WNBA through #SayHerName
Kendra Gilbertson, University of Central Florida
Naomi Osaka and the Athlete Mental Health Moment
Jennifer McClearen, University of Texas at Austin
Streaming TV, Streaming Identities (In Person)
To Be Continued? Sync, Self-Referentiality, and Looking for Alaska
Morgan Bimm, York University
Nepantla Meets Penumbra: Resistance to White Neoliberal Feminism in “What the Constitution Means to Me”
Lesley Stevenson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Soleil Moon Frye Reprising: The Punky Power of 80s and 90s Nostalgia
Kristen Galvin, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Exploring Agency in Representations of Girlhood (In Person)
Monstrous Girlhood to Empowered Adulthood: the Wednesday Addams metamorphosis
Lucy I. Baker, Griffith University – Australia and Amanda Howell, Griffith University – Australia
#WhatAnInventorLooksLike: Reinventing the Inventor Stereotype in the Disney+ Universe
Emily Brooks, Coastal Carolina University
From the Father to the Future Husband: Fairy Tale Retellings as “Faux Feminism”
Nichol Brown, Illinois State University
Don’t Panic! Representations of Girls and Social Media Addiction in Popular Culture
Rachael Sullivan, Saint Joseph’s University
Representations of Queerness and Femininity in Film and TV (In Person)
“Accelerating Acceptance”: Interrogating the Peabodys’ and GLAAD’s Post-1990s Queer Inclusivity Awards Initiatives
Benjamin Kruger-Robbins, Emory University
Us Weirdos Have to Stick Together: Queer Bodies in Disney’s The Owl House
Chera Kee, Wayne State University
The Undermined Legitimacy of Female American Presidents on Primetime Television
Emily Saidel, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
Exploring Masculinity in Film and TV: Past and Present (Virtual)
Homonormativity and Masculinity: The Cinematic Imaginary of Mark Bingham
Travers Scott, Clemson University
Ted Lasso and the Politics of Ethical Manhood
David E. Magill, Longwood University
“It was dark and confusing … that’s it:” A Close Reading of Male Virginity Loss in The Wonder Years
Blue Profitt, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Reinventing mental health discourses through feminist methods of care (Virtual)
Using Feminist Methods to Navigate the Ethics of Closed Social Media Spaces
Fredrika Thelandersson
Feminist Methods towards an Ethic of Self Care through Social Media
Katie McCollough
Using Feminist Social Media Research Methods to Inform Public Health Decisions: A Study of Mental Health Conversations on Instagram
Fanny Gravel-Patry
1-2:30
Reimagining Fan Experiences, Spaces, and Objects (In Person)
“It’s Like Having Matching Tattoos—On the Inside”: (Re-)imagining a Feminist One Tree Hill Set
Kristina Bruening, University of Texas at Austin
“We Converted You to Mickey!”: The Gendered Expectations of Couples’ Fandom in Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings
Andrew Zolides, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
G-Forcing the Issue: Intersectional Struggles in Online Theme Park and Coaster Fandoms
Myles McNutt, Old Dominion University
Examining Trans Experience across Media (In Person)
Non-Binary Binaries and Unreal MetaHumans
Eric Freedman, Columbia College Chicago
“It never gets easier for girls like us:” Transgender Representation and Romance in Contemporary Television
Melissa Monier, The University Of Michigan
“I’m just trying to be me”: Exploring the representation of transgender men in digital video games
Jackson McLaren, Temple University
Reality TV: Investigating Representations of Gender and Selfhood (In Person)
Televisual Rewilding: Alone and (Re)Imaginations of the Future
Katie Lambright, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Reinventing the Self: Self-Representation on Reality TV
Yael Levy, Tel Aviv University
“With Six Cameras Watching”: Respectability and the Precarious Labor of “The Real Housewives of Potomac”
Ryan David Briggs, University of Texas at Austin
Gender, Aesthetics and UFO Documentary as Genre
Stacy Wood, UCLA and Yvonne Eadon, UCLA
Ryan Murphy’s Queer America (In Person)
Co-Chairs: Brenda R. Weber, Indiana University – Bloomington and Lee Weeks
The Politician and Twenty-First Century Queerness
Julia Himberg, Arizona State University
Showrunning Activism: Embodying Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Work of Ryan Murphy
Sarah E.S. Sinwell, University of Utah
Fused Muse: Sarah Paulson as Ryan Murphy’s Partner in (American) Crime
Lauren Savit, Indiana University – Bloomington
Rescuing Paternity: Masculinity, The Child, and Queer Futurity in 9-1-1
Jennifer E. Maher, Indiana University – Bloomington
Gendered Bodies: Representation, Labor, and Capital (In Person)
Confined spaces,the revolutionary training, and redemption of the male, black body in Pavel Giroud’s film El Acompañante (2016)
Lauren Pena, University of Texas at Austin
“Get Ready With Me”: Makeup Tutorials and the Aesthetics of Self-Care
Marissa F. Spada, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Think Pink: Cosmetic Capital from Mary Kay to Glossier
Caroline Bayne, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities and Zosha Winegar-Schultz, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Are They Even Real or Do The Real Housewives Just Pretend? Examining Presentations of Body Work, Beauty and Authenticity on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (RHOBH)
Suri M. Pourmodheji, Indiana University – Bloomington
Interrogating Mediated Celebrity as a Site of Intersectionality (Virtual)
Changing the change?: The ‘menopausal turn’ and contemporary celebrity
Deborah Jermyn Dr, University of Roehampton
‘Megxit’ and that Oprah interview: Meghan Markle, (post)colonialism and ‘misogynoir’
Laura Clancy Dr, Lancaster University
REINVENTING PUBLIC PERSONAS INTO ICONS AT THE INTERSECTION OF LEGACY MEDIA AND DIGITAL CULTURE: A STUDY OF ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ AND RUTH BADER GINSBURG
Aidan Moir, University of Toronto Mississauga
Gendered and raced representation of Paralympic athletes
Laura Mora, Loughborough University; Emma Pullen, Loughborough University, UK; and Michael Silk
Women’s Embodied Experience as Subjects and Participants in Film and TV (Virtual)
Consumption as Agency: An Exploration of the Feminine Grotesque
Carina Stopenski, Carnegie Mellon University; Emma Johnson, Carnegie Mellon University; and Stephanie Ramser
The Way You Look is Impossible: Body Maintenance and Scheduling Discrimination in Film Production
Laura E. Felschow, SUNY Oneonta
Home is Where the Danger Lies: How Haunted Home Narratives Personify Violence Against Women
Dahlia Schweitzer, SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology
“It’s Not A Switch You Can Just Turn Off”: “Quality” Television, Feminism and Violence Against Women in Contemporary U.S Programming
Daisy Richards, Nottingham Trent University
Reconceptualizing race, sexual assault, and parenting through media (Virtual)
Re-Conceptualizing Racism and Redemption
Gabriel A. Cruz, PhD, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
How the COVID-19 pandemic reconceptualized parenting and play
Kristina Bell, PhD, High Point University
Reimagining how sexual harassment is perceived in Egypt with women’s amplified cyberactivism
Nahed Eltantawy, PhD., High Point University
3-4:30
Audiences: Imagined and Re-imagined (In Person)
Re-imaging the original text
Ayanni C. H. Cooper, University of Florida
Digital Advertising Systems and Queer Media Brands: Queer Audiences vs. Queer Audience-ing
Austin Morris, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gay Korean American Reception of the Korean TV Drama Record of Youth
Grace Jung
Representing Queerness through Digital Tools and Media (In Person)
When Queerness and Religion Intersect in the Digital Space
Yayu Zheng, University of Southern California
Bisexuality, Coming Out, and the Politics of Queer in Casey McQuiston’s Red, White and Royal Blue
Rachel Marks, University of Central Florida
Bodily Transgression in Gothic TV (In Person)
Border Crossing and the Body Gothic in Queen of the South (2016-2021)
Lucia M. Palmer, Middle Georgia State University
The Racial/Body Gothic: Bodily Transformation, Passing, and Transgression in Lovecraft Country (2020)
Jacqueline Pinkowitz, Mercer University
Gothic Latex: BDSM Inversion and the Rubber Man
Alexx Apicella, UCLA
Creative Destruction and the Body in Hannibal
Jamie MacGregor, University of Glasgow
Welcome (Back) to the 80s: (Re)Viewing Intersectional 1980s Media Culture (In Person)
Latchkey TV: The Small Queer Wonders of 1980s Television Syndication
Taylor Cole Miller, University of Wisconsin – LaCrosse
Miami Vice and Transnational Feminized Distributive Labor in the 1980s
Eleanor Patterson, Auburn University
Where My Girls At?: Comfort and Black Golden Girls Fandom
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., University of Iowa
Fungible Femininity: Physical, Self-Determination, and Home Video
Elizabeth Nathanson, Muhlenberg College and Hollis Griffin, University of Michigan
Investigating Intersectional Identities and Women in Power in Television (In Person)
The Beleaguered Television Housewife: Sitcom Trope or Harmful Stereotype?
Nettie Brock, Morehead State University
“I took a dump on the glass ceiling”: Veep, (the Absence of) Competence and Populist Political Culture
Nathalie Weidhase, University of Surrey
Reinventing First Nations Feminist Thought through Television: Mohawk Girls and Settler Colonialism in Canada
Elizabeth Rule, American University
Talking To Your Children About Race: TBN’s Daytime Talk Show “Better Together” and Evangelical Womanhood
Kayti Lausch, Coe College
Interrogating Gender and Class in and through Film (Virtual)
Livestreaming the American Dream: LuLaRich (2021), Momtrepreneurs, and Neoliberal Technologies of the Nation
Michael M. Reinhard, University of California, Los Angeles
Expanded Spaces: Streaming Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow During the Pandemic
Alicia Byrnes, University of Melbourne
“1929, Still”: Race, Class and the “Gatsby Figure” in 2013 and Today
Anna Louise Wiegenstein, Oklahoma State University – Main Campus
“No fate but what we make for ourselves”: agency and the action heroine in the Terminator films
Christa van Raalte, Bournemouth University
Digital Media as an Activist Tool (Virtual)
Social Media as an Apparatus for Accelerating Iranian women Empowerment
Niloofar Hooman, McMaster University
@everyone’sinvited – #MeToo in British Schools: Young people’s changing understandings of sexual harassment at school and online
Jessica Ringrose Prof, University College London and Kaitlynn Mendes, Western University
Memory and Publicity in Ephemeral Social Media: A Case study of #NotAgainSU
Leah Corinne Jones, University of Central Florida
Platform Transing as Reinvention: Trans Latinx Micro-Celebrity Media Activism
Dani Bustillo, University of California, Irvine
Women of Color and Intersectional Identities Across Media (Virtual)
Making Space in the Age of Cathartic Art: Shut Up White Boy and the DragOn Ladies
Runchao Liu
Emotion Pictures: Affect, Return, and Futurity in The Sonic and Visual Life of Black Feminist Performance
Daelena Tinnin, University of Texas at Austin
Working the Cracks: Becoming a Multi-Hyphenate Boss
Lauren Wilks, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Indian Americans on TV: Mindy Kaling, Never Have I Ever and Emergent Discourses of ‘Diversity’ in US Media
Madhavi Mallapragada, University of Texas at Austin