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  Writing America’s Empire: John William De Forest’s Kate Beaumont and Northern Colonialist Discourse During Reconstruction -- William Tolbert, Emory University
  
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  “The Devil in the Details: Mid-Twentieth-Century Fantasy and Tourism in Cabell’s The Devil’s Own Dear Son” -- Bob Coleman, University of South Alabama
  
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  The Duke of Wales as Iconic Figure in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction -- Kim Moreland, George Washington University
  

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  “I’m Just a Crazy Mixed Up Kid”: Little Richard and the Psychologizing of American Youth Culture in the 1950s -- Robert Burnham, Middle Georgia State University
  
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  Native People and History in the Beach Boys' America -- Matthew Jennings, Middle Georgia State University
  
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  Charlie Surfs Straight to Hell: Southeast Asian Refugees and The Clash -- Pete McCluskey, Middle Tennessee State University
  

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  "That's a Lotta Faith We're Putting in a Word": Language and Story as Revolution in Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking Trilogy-- Haley Gambrell, North Greenville University
  
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  The Lure of Dystopian Fiction -- Cheryl Champagne, Old Dominion University
  
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  Rachel Carson and the Moral Imperatives of Wonder -- Warren Tormey, MTSU
  

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  Rhetoric, Composition, and Popular Culture in the Writing Classroom -- Jocelyn Irby, Tennessee State University
  
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  Why Read The Thousand and One Nights? -- Thomas A. Van, University of Louisville/Retired
  
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  Popular Culture, Pedagogy, and Interdisciplinarity in a Course on the Cold War and American Film -- Dan Cabaniss, University of North Georgia and Lance Bardsley, University of North Georgia
  

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  Not Your Mama’s Feminism: Emotion, Weakness, and Power -- Winter Elliott, Brenau University
  
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  Becoming-liminal to become-woman: Matrixial borderspaces in film as site of radical potential -- Bethany Morris, University of West Georgia
  
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  Barbies, Clairol, and Campbell’s Soup: The Ambivalent Thematics of Commodity Fetishism in the Work of Helena Maria Viramontes and Sandra Cisneros -- Michael K. Walonen, St Peter’s University
  
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  Toying with Ree Dolly: Debra Granik's Adaptation of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone -- Eloise Whisenhunt, Young Harris College
  

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  Panic in the Sheets: The Development of Homosexual Sexual Panic in The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Strangers on a Train (1951) -- Allison Adams, Western Kentucky University
  
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  Like a Nail through the Head: Exorcising Africa’s Witch Children in The Cursed Ones-- Hugh Davis, Piedmont College
  
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  "Who's the master?" Language, manhood, and seeking the glow in The Last Dragon.--Tikenya Foster-Singletary, Spelman College
  

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  Mycroft, Derrida, Brotherhood and the State: Deconstructing Democracy through BBC’s Sherlock -- Linda Jenscon, Appalachian State University
  
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  Sherlock Fan Culture Online: #Setlock and Sherlockology Negotiating Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Fan-based Media Presences -- Jennifer Wojton, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  
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  Elementary: An Analysis of the Relationship between Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson -- Teresa Collard and Lisa LeBleu, University of Tennessee at Martin
  

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  Funny Girl: Intertextual Musical or Biopic? -- Layla Talley, University of North Alabama
  
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  “Be My Baby”: Class and Gender Struggles in Dirty Dancing-- Katie Lindsay, University of North Alabama
  

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  Saints and sinners: The American teacher in popular media -- Ashley Christine Carr, Young Harris College
  
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  Female Protagonists in Television Dramas as Equipment for Living -- Megan Westhoff, Pittsburg State University and Regent University
  
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  Law Breaking, Vampire Blood, Pretty Witches and Backwoods Lovers: Southern Gothic Elements Dabbled and Drenched in Pop Culture TV -- Sandra Newsome, Southeast Missouri State University
  
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  Scooby-Delueze: Rhizomes, Refrains and Rut-Rohs -- Mike Hagan, University of Louisville
  

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  Virginia Feher, University of North Georgia
  
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  Shane Toepfer, University of North Georgia
  
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  Jonathan Barefield, University of North Georgia
  

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  The Representation of Black Female Athletic Experience in Cinematic Documentaries -- Dawn Heinecken, University of Louisville
  
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  Explaining The Wave: NBA Fashion And The Black Male Body -- Lequez Spearman, Midwestern State University
  
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  The Philosophy of the New York Yankees: The Thoughts of Billy Martin -- William Klink, College of Southern Maryland, Professor Emeritus
  

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  Yes Means Yes: Blogging the Rhetoric of Change for Young Readers -- Ellen Moore, Limestone College
  
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  Pepys and Boswell and The Bloggess: Social Media, Blogging, and Mental Health-- Shea Stuart, Gardner-Webb University
  
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  Parasols, Punks, and Re-purposing: The Philosophy of Steampunk -- Heather Hahn, Columbia College
  
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  ‘Dark Story on a Magical Girl Stage’: Visions of the Japanese Gothic in Puella Magi Madoka Magica -- Manda Sexton, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
  

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  Shiloh Carroll,, Tennessee State University
  
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  Annalisa Castaldo, Widener University
  
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  M. Wendy Hennequin, Tennessee State University
  
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  Rhonda Knight, Coker College
  

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  The Questioning and Revisiting of Hope: Black-ish on Social Justice and Family-- Judy Isaksen, High Point University
  
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  Ay Gloria: Modern Family and Representations of Latina Femininity -- Delia Poey, Florida State University
  
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  The World According to Peppa and Sarah: From the Earthy to the Sublime--Sara Lewis Dunne, Middle Tenn. SU retired
  

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  The Cultural Image Literacy Assessment: An update -- Richard Emanuel, Alabama State University, Siu Challons-Lipton, Queens University of Charlotte and Kim Baker, Alabama State University
  
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  Library Rebranding: Successes and Failures -- Amy Beatty, Warner University
  
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  Nazi Zombies, Fascism, and Germany’s Cultural (Un)Dead -- Noah Soltau, Carson-Newman University
  
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  Ethics in Undertale: A New Breed of Video Games -- Kimberly Sowell, Gordon State College
  

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  “This is beyond yuck”:  The Power and Peril of Graphic Representations of Rape in American Mass Media and Laura Gray-Rosendale’s College Girl"-- Kara Mollis, Lindsey Wilson College
  
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  “Elijah, Jim, Pappy . . . and Marianne: Gender, History and Bourbon Culture"-- Melinda Senters, Lindsey Wilson College
  
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  "(Side)Showing the Grotesque: Carnival and the Feminine Body on The Learning Channel"-- Allison Smith, Lindsey Wilson College
  

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  Two Men and a Baby: Threatened Masculinities and Power Dynamics in Gone Girl and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof -- Sadeem Elnahhas, Northwestern State University
  
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  Gone Girl’s Amazing, Hysterical Amy -- Abigail Sorensen, Florida State University
  
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  The Influence of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in The Killing and The Bridge -- Micki Nyman, Fayetteville State University
  

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  Laura Morris, Furman University
  
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  Erich Hintze, College of Southern Maryland
  
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  Laura Dearing, Jefferson Community and Technical College
  

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  How about I Kick Your Ass Like a Woman?\": Literacy, Information, and Gender in the CW’s Primetime Lineup -- Laura Detmering, Spalding University and Robert Detmering, University of Louisville
  
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  “I am invincible; I am a god": The Postmodern Shared Consciousness of Evil in CBS’s Supergirl-- Becky Lee Meadows, St. Catharine College
  
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  “A Real Nasty One:” Abject Femininity and the History of Psychical Research -- Claudie Massicotte, Young Harris College
  

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  Vietnam War Music and Cultural Metaphors-- Donna J. Barbie, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  
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  Cultural Heritage and the Responsibility of Edifying Black Sacred Music -- Henri Giles, The University of Tennessee at Martin
  

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  Eating with the Reagans of Blue Bloods -- Donna Waller Harper, Independent Scholar
  
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  From Modern to Normal to Real: Examining Sexuality and Religion on The Real O’Neals -- Danielle E. Williams, Georgia Gwinnett College and Rusty Hatchell, The University of Texas at Austin
  
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  "Whoa! Step Back! No One's That Gay!": Sexuality and Homophobic Dialogue in Gilmore Girls -- Marisa Stickel, University of North Carolina Wilmington
  

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  Automated Fitness and the Subversion of Wellness: A Thematic Analysis of Fitness Tracker Advertisements -- Beverly Graham, Georgia Southern University
  
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  Class Stratification, Power and Alienation in the Commodification of Physical Fitness in Popular Culture -- Chris B. Geyerman, Georgia Southern University
  
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  Walt Whitman's Manly Health and Training -- Bennett Kravitz, University of Haifa
  

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  “The best film on the worst Old West: Adapting bleakness in Tommy Lee Jones’ The Homesman” -- James D. Everett, Mississippi College
  
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  The Madness of Billy Pilgrim -- Ricky Finch, Lipscomb University
  
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  “One Can’t Help Growing Older”: Connecting Wonderland and Alice -- Traci Cruey, Middle Tennessee State University
  

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  NEED TTLE -- Sally F Paulson, Delta State University
  
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  NEED TTLE -- Arlene Sanders, Delta State University
  
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  NEED TTLE -- A. M. Paulson, Pro Se Publications
  

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  “I Wonder If It’s A Family Thing”: Examining the Intersections of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Heroic Legacy – Brandi Hodo, The University of Alabama
  
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  Banana for Scale: Examining Visual Discourses Within the Imgur Community -- Lacee Nisbett, The University of Alabama
  
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  Beyond the Wall: Space and Place in HBO’s Game of Thrones -- Amanda Stevens, The University of Alabama
  

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  The Crimes of the [19th] Century: Lizzie and Jack “Whack” 21st Century Popular Culture -- Linda Urschel, Huntington University
  
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  Out of Eden: Innocence, Shame, and the Abject in The Witch -- Jamie Steele, Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute
  
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  Do not presume, one of the thieves was damned”: Calvary and Catholicism’s Role in Contemporary Ireland -- Matthew Wysocki, Flagler College
  
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  Wade in the Water, Children: The Child Flâneur in Post-Katrina Ruins -- Kristin Teston, University of Mississippi
  

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  Total Access? The Role of Total Divas in the WWE’s Overall Branding Strategy -- Katharine P. Zakos, Oglethorpe University
  
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  Fighting Spirit: New Japan Pro Wrestling, Fan Resistance, and Cultural Imperialism -- Shane Toepfer, University of North Georgia
  
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  “We are NXT”: Wrestling Subculture Battles—or Accepts—Appropriation -- Bryce J. McNeil, Georgia State University
  

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  Teaching the Tribals: Connecting to Millenials in Intercultural Communication -- James T. Coon, Wingate University
  
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  Game On!: Using quest gamification in the first year writing classroom -- Colleen Thorndike, University of Mississippi
  
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  Something Rotten!: Using a Contemporary Musical Parody in a Shakespeare Course -- Lindsay Bryde, SUNY Suffolk County Community College
  

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  Intergenerational Obligations: Children and Conscience in Clint Eastwood Films -- Richard Vela, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
  
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  Empty Houses and Full Homes in Concussion-- Cody Lumpkin, Marshall University
  
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  Ahabs, Turtles, and Survivor Girls: Postmodernism in Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon -- Savanna Teague, Middle Tennessee State University
  

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  Stay Away: Understanding which type of media photograph will deter people from participating in a political rally -- Michael Friedman, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Katharine Gomez, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
  
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  Trump Talk: The Influence of Conspiracy Rhetoric on the 2016 Presidential Race -- Shelley Aley, James Madison University
  
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  The Countdown in the American Cold War Imagination -- Cristopher Hollingsworth, University of South Alabama
  

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  "Controlling Billie: Medicine and the Law in Lady Sings the Blues" -- Jessica McKee,
  Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  
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  "Shouting Back: Jazz Elegies for Billie" -- Taylor Mitchell, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  
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  "Performing Billie: What Not to Do" -- Michael Perez, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  

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  TV Sluts: Daddy Issues as Cause, Motherhood as “Cure”-- Libbie Searcy, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  
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  Love, Sex, and Violence: The Short Distance Between Heady Attraction and Predatory Threat in Young Adult Paranormal Romances -- Ananya Mukherjea, City of New York University
  
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  “One of us and one of them”: Social Identity Theory and Depictions of Violence in Heroes and Heroes Reborn -- Heather M. Porter, Independent Scholar
  

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  The Talisman of the Running Dog: A Collector’s Story -- David Fritts, Henderson Community College
  
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  "Isn't that the Gas Station on Harding Place?": "Nashville" and Cultural Tourism -- Patricia Gaitely, Middle Tennessee State University
  
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  Performing Nashville: Country Music Fandom and the Sonic Artifact -- Robert Fry, Vanderbilt University
  

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  The Horror Behind Sprinklers and Security Systems: Meanings of The Suburban Gothic in Contemporary Detective Fiction”-- Christine Jackson, Nova Southeastern University
  
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  “Each . . . Unique”: Family In Recent Crime Fiction -- John Teel, Emeritus, Marshall University
  
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  "Places and Spaces, Exteriors and Interiors: Functions of Setting in Louise Penny’s Armand Gamache series -- Sarah Fogle, Embry-Riddle University
  

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  R. Bruno, Independent Scholar
  
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  Suzi F. Garcia, University of Notre Dame
  
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  Bailey Pittenger, University of Notre Dame
  

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  Political Humor:  Laugh because It Hurts -- David Oates, WUGA Radio
  
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  Humpty Trump-ty Had a Great Fall:  Building a Wall as Anti-Latin American Policy -- John Murphy, InterAmerican Associates
  
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  Mr. or Mrs. President: Gender Politics in the Trump and Clinton Presidential Campaigns -- Chrys Egan, Salisbury University
  

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  Servant Leadership and Gladiator's Maximus -- Adam Brimer, The University of Tennessee at Martin
  
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  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Domestic Metaphors as Resistance to Slavery and Sexual Manipulation -- Jacqueline M. Smith, State College of Florida
  
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  The Monster at the End of the Story: Another Look at Stephen Crane’s The Monster -- John H. Davis, Chowan University
  
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  The Magician as Hero in Old-Time Radio -- Luke Powers, Tennessee State University
  

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  Don’t Look Under the Bed: A New Postmodern Discourse of Fear -- Mikki Tatum, Southern New Hampshire University
  

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  In the Wilderness ‘Chaos Reigns’: Antichrist, Cabin Horror, and the Puritan Perspective -- Brandyn Whitaker, Middle Tennessee State University
  
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  "A witch, a bitch, [or] a goddess": The Rise of the "Ugly" Woman-- Jennifer Cizl-Gorgeny, Texas State University
  
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  Modern Monstrosity: Pauline as Monstrous-Feminine in the Film Excision -- Emily Matheney, Middle Tennessee State University
  

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  Guitar Strings and Broken Jukeboxes: Applying Feminist Criticism to Classic Country -- Ethan Jordan, University of North Georgia
  
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  Forty Hour Week Worth of Trouble To Drown: An Adornian Study of the Role of Alcohol in Country Music -- Frank Easterlin, Young Harris College
  
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  “Too Black for Country Music": Nisha Jackson and Race, 1987-1989 -- Dana Wiggins, Georgia State University, Perimeter College
  

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  An Exploration of Two Major Plot Themes in Science Fiction Literature -- Darryl E. Haley, East Tennessee State University
  
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  The Long Grim Fight: Existentialism in the Works of Raymond Chandler -- Barrett McDonald, Warner University
  
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  Transnational Trains, American Origins and American Destinations: The United States as a Model in Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and Juan de Recacoechea’s Murder on the Andean Express -- Zoya Khan, University of South Alabama
  
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  Millennial Career Cozies: Woman's Quest for Cupcakes, Magical Cats, and Heart's Desire-- Mary Alice Money, Gordon State C, Professor Emerita
  

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  “This Flesh is Only Flesh”: Adapting Posthumanism, or a Post-muggle Approach to _Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban_ from Print to Film -- Amber Hodge, University of Mississippi
  
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  Stephen King and the Torrance Family's Postmodern Redemption -- Candace Grissom, Motlow State Community College
  
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  “Why We Crave Palahniuk: Chuck Palahniuk, Stephen King, and ‘Fight Club for Kids’” -- David McCracken, Coker College
  

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  Man on the Run: Ambivalence about Masculinity and Tensions between Individuation Versus Participation as Seen in the Male Protagonists of Selected Television Shows from the 1970’s and 1980’s -- Jonathan Bassett, Lander University
  
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  Are You My Mothership? Surrogate and Alternative Families in Science Fiction from Star Trek and Firefly to Dark Matter and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow -- Michael Bassett, Hilton Head Prep
  
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  “Sometimes the world needs a team”: From Singularity to Universality in The CW’s Legends of Tomorrow -- Lisa Perdigao, Florida Institute of Technology
  

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  The Palestinian Cause in Syrian Film and TV Dramas -- Faedah M. Totah, Virgninia Commonwealth University
  
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  Alternative Pop-Culture in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) -- Mayda Topoushian, Virginia Commonwealth University
  
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  Gender & Dramas in a Global Perspective -- Leslie Fadiga-Stewart, Delta State University
  

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  “Teaching Warfare In and With Shakespeare”-- Margaret Oakes, Furman University
  
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  “Shakespeare’s Self-Appropriations: A Teaching Tool”-- Lewis Walker, UNC--Wilmington
  
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  “Complex Contexts: Shakespeare’s Portrayal of Suicide”-- Emily Miller, Virginia Military Institute
  

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  Rose Unwatered -- Hakim Sharif Floyd, Perimeter College/Georgia State University
  
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  "Kanye Fresh" and The Black Aesthetic -- Rebecca S. Dixon, Tennessee State University
  
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  "Why be a king when you can be a God?": An analysis of Eminem's "Rap God" through John Milton's Paradise Lost -- Kathryn K. Mann, Texas Tech University
  

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  Remaking Disney Classics, or Disney Does Disney -- Martha Hixon, Middle Tennessee State University
  
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  The Disney Princess Sidekick: Men Are Still Necessary to the Disney Princess Narrative -- Jennifer Bethmann, Illinois State University
  
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  Exporting Big Bird: Crises of Modernity and Cultural Imperialism in Sesame Street Abroad -- Colin Ackerman, University of Colorado, Boulder
  

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  Final Girls: Pretty Little Liars as Slasher Teen Soap -- Cori Mathis, Middle Tennessee State University
  
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  "Transgenred: Supernatural's Transition from Horror/Fantasy to Soap Opera" -- Linda Howell, University of North Florida
  
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  The Dialogic Flow of Supernatural and Supernatural Fanfiction -- Megan Lewis, Georgia State University and Sandra Williams, Georgia State University
  

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  "Edutaining the Millennials, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Zombies,”-- Anissa
  Graham, University of North Alabama
  

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  “The Pedagogical Possibilities of Popular Culture,”-- Julie Garlen, Georgia Southern University
  
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  "Outside the Institutional Box: Homeschoolers of the 21st Century" -- Jennifer Garlen,
  Independent Scholar and Cate Sparks, North Alabama Friends School
  

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  “The Lizard King’s Command”-- Harley Palmer, Piedmont College
  
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  “Female Binaries and the Male Gaze in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver”-- Brittany Stancil, Piedmont College
  
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  “Brett Ashley: Master of Modernist Masculinity”-- Emma Stanley, Piedmont College
  

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  “You should just be yourself / Right now you’re someone else”: The Role of Social Media and the Male Gaze in Drake’s Conception of Women -- Katherine Schaller, Vanderbilt University and Krsna Santos, Michigan State University
  

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  "Love Can Be Frightening For Sure": Parasocial Interaction among One Direction Fans -- Ashley Hedrick, Clemson University/ University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  
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  “Sippin’ Lemonade, Tastin’ Tea, & Clappin’ Back: Social Media as Source & Space for Critical Scholarly Engagement” -- Helen Crump, Jackson State University
  

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  “Love Makes You Crazy: Transitions of Heroes and Villains” -- Samantha J. Watt, Georgia College and State University
  
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  Grimm Equivalence: The Shifting Meanings of Monstrosity-- Rhonda V. Wilcox, Gordon State College
  

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  A Transition Period: Literature to Games -- Will Kirkpatrick, University of Montevallo
  
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  When Media Collide: Transitioning from Analog Games to Digital. -- Sara Perry, University of Montevallo
  
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  Child’s Play: Representations of Games in Children’s and Young Adult Literature-- Cathlena Martin, University of Montevallo
  

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  Battling the Current at Downton Abbey -- Mary Paige Ouzts, Lander University
  
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  Downtown Abbey and the Modern Woman -- Lillian Craton, Lander University
  
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  Why Didn't Shakespeare Do This? Poetry's Elusive Polysyllabic Rhyme -- Eric Sandarg, Georgia State University
  
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  "I know thee not, old man": Falstaff in Adaptation -- Hugh H. Davis, CS Brown High School
  

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  The Mobile Phone as Agent and Evidence, Crime and Punishment: A Study of the Murder Case of State vs. White -- Lynn Koller, ERAU
  
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  Webs, Highways, and Streams: Exploring Piracy in Popular Media through Object-Oriented Ontology -- Chris Richardson, Young Harris College and Patrick Silcox, Young Harris College
  
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  Keeping pace with China’s progress towards intellectual property law compliance -- Jessica Gisclair, Elon University
  

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  Netflix & Chill with Marvel’s Jessica Jones: Interrogating Gendered Ideologies and Urban Revanchism-- Arun Jacob, Independent Scholar
  
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  Watch Party: Watching Jessica Jones watch others-- Eric Ross, University of South Florida
  
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  [Un]lightened Female Leads: Jessica Jones’ Participation in the Rejection of Modern Masculine Rationality, Fixity, and Gender Ideals.-- Michael McDowell, University of South Florida
  

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  The X-Men Films and Semiotics: Creating the Myth -- Meagan Standridge, Independent Scholar
  
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  She ain't anybody's but her own”: Gender/Genre in SyFy’s Wynonna Earp-- Robin Nicks, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
  
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  Red Sonja: From Robert E. Howard’s Stories to Marvel Comics, Part Two -- Jeff Thompson, Tennessee State University
  

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  From Hotrods to Heartbreak: The Deconstructed Nostalgia of Bruce Springsteen and Baby It's You -- Caroline Madden, Savannah College of Art and Design
  
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  Vicki Lawrence and Cher Toting Guns?! Southern Gothic in the 1970s Top 40 -- John Chappell, Webster University
  
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  "Purple Passion and the Press: An analysis of selected front page coverage of the death of Prince Rogers Nelson"--Ernest L. Wiggins, University of South Carolina
  

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  Mysticism in Absalom, Absalom-- Mary Willingham, Mercer University, Retired
  
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  American Indian Themes in Go Down, Moses-- Meredith James, Eastern Connecticut State Univeristy
  
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  A Reassessment of Temple in Sanctuary -- Carmen Burton, PBSC and USF, retired
  

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  “Something Like This Just Couldn’t Happen!”: Resolving Naturalistic Tensions in Superhero Comics Art -- Chris Gavaler, Washington & Lee University
  
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  Invisible Gateways: Semiotic Rhythms and Reader Experience in Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles -- Nathaniel Stickman, Mississippi College
  
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  Hello God, it’s me, Archie: Examining the Archie/Spire Christian Comics run, 1973-1980 -- Timothy E. Craig, Warner University
  

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  Bisexual Males in College Movies: Transitioning from Denial to Acceptance -- Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Texas Christian University
  
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  #WeExist: Young Women Fighting Biphobia and Bisexual Erasure on Instagram -- Tara M. Tuttle, St. Catharine College
  
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  Sexual Friendships: How Ought we to think about Friends With Benefits? -- Robert Scott Stewart, Cape Breton University
  
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  Science Fiction and Porn: Charles Platt and Samuel R. Delaney -- William Badley, MTSU /Retired
  

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  Netflix’s Daredevil— The Overlap between Superhero and Grassroots Environmental Activist. Matt Murdock Avenges Hell’s Kitchen -- B. Paige Wallace, Florida State University
  
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  Home video and the toxic nuclear family in Jessica Jones -- Brett Phillips, University of South Florida
  
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  Taking the Pulse of Contemporary Representations of Sexual Assault: Jessica Jones, Netflix, and the Battle for Autonomy -- Brianna Currie, Young Harris College and Chris Richardson, Young Harris College
  

Description: Back by popular demand! Grab your drink from the reception and join us at this creative writing performance as an audience member or reader. The event opens with registered authors performing their original plays, short stories, and poetry. Then anyone in the audience can share their own creative works. The emcee is David Oates, host of a WUGA Public Radio show and long-time poetry performer, publisher, and slam organizer. To register in advance as a featured artist, email David Oates at dvdoates@aol.com. Event is free and open to all conference attendees and their guests.

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  "Mutants, Mystics, and Medics in the Marvel Universe." -- Shep Shepard, Florida State College at Jacksonville
  
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  Superman\'s Right to Get High and Right to Die: Kryptonian Drug/Addiction Metaphors in the DC Universe -- Ranjan Chhibber, Florida State College at Jacksonville
  
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  "Coping as a Superhero Without Super Powers"-- Michael Fearheiley, Florida State College at Jacksonville
  

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  Executive Redemption and Labor’s Lavish Fruits: Undercover Boss as the Rationalization of Capitalistic Justice -- Christina Blankenship, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Roy Schwartzman, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  
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  "Me, Just Not Me:" Varieties of (and Motivations for) Passing on Catfish the TV Show -- A Kevin Currie-Knight, East Carolina University
  
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  “Making a Fan: Examining the Upswing of Real-Life Who-Dunnits" -- Beth Boswell, Middle Tennessee State University
  

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  "ʽTo Cure the Deadly Grief”: A Look at the Perils of Grief in Macbeth"-- Helen Companion, Jacksonville State University
  
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  "From Leir to Lear: How Kent's Development Achieves the Tragic Ending in Shakespeare's King Lear'"-- Michael R. Mitchell, Jacksonville State University
  
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  “Hamlet the Bad Quarto”: Scholarship Enlivens Class Study of the Contested First Quarto”-- Joanne E. Gates, Jacksonville State University
  

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  “But How You Gonna Git Yourself Free From It: The Black Aesthetic and The Cosby Show” -- Rebecca Dixon, Tennessee State University
  
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  “Challenging the Ideal: The Silencing of Denise Huxtable” -- Jennifer Hayes, Tennessee State University
  
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  “The Center Did Not Hold: Bill Cosby and the Moral Divide” -- Donnie McMahand, Tennessee State University
  
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  “The Cosby Show and the Black Folk Tradition”-- Jewel Parham, Tennessee State University
  
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  “Branding Cosby: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Beloved Father”-- Michelle Pinkard, Tennessee State University
  

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  “Harry Potter and the Half-Told Truth,” Christian Ignorance, Fear, and Missed Opportunity-- Lacye Harrison, Mississippi State University - Meridian 
  
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  PC versus Dixie: Southern Response to 1960s-1980s Diversity in Comic Books -- Trek Swancey, Mississippi State University - Meridian 
  
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  “‘Long Live The King!’ Memory, Manipulation, and Elvis Presley, 1977-1979”-- Toby Bates, Mississippi State University - Meridian 
  

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  “Sacrifice and the New Woman in Mildred Pierce and Imitation of Life” -- Kristi Branham, Western Kentucky University
  
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  The New Manic Pixie Dream Girl Trope in Independent Film: MPDG 2.0 -- Brenna Sherrill, Western Kentucky University
  
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  The Dangers of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl -- Eden Gasperetti, Western Kentucky University
  
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  “Girlhood in Indie film: Kelly Reichardt’s “At Risk” Girl in Wendy and Lucy--Dawn Hall, Western Kentucky University
  

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  Ghost Bros: The Style and Characters of Travel Channel's "Ghost Adventures" -- Rachel Gentry, UNC-Wilmington
  
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  Babes and Bitches II: More Sexism on Survivor -- Karen McDonnell, James Madison University
  
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  Is this Unreal? Examining Lifetime’s Feminism in its Scripted Critique of Reality TV -- Emily L. Newman, Texas A&M University-Commerce
  

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  The Plain Folks Appeal of Non-Powered Heroes in Marvel’s Avengers Cinematic Universe -- Jason Edwards, Georgia Gwinnett College and Danielle E. Williams, Georgia Gwinnett College
  
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  "SJWs Eat Their Own": The Strange Case of Joss Whedon’s Twitter Exit -- Jennifer Kickliter, Middle Tennessee State University
  
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  Assembled Families in Joss Whedon's /Avengers/ Films -- Melody Cook, Middle Tennessee State University
  

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  "You know, these characters don't have to be white": Diversity and Representation in Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples's Saga. -- Christopher B. Field, Tennessee State University
  
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  “I can’t see you but I can feel you judging me”: Feminism as Non-Compliance in Kelly Sue Deconnick’s and Valentine DeLandro’s Comic Book Series Bitch Planet -- Michelle Wise, Tennessee State University
  
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  Flanking Home: Personal Agency from John Lewis' March 1-3-- Heidi Williams, Tennessee State University
  
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  Imaginative Worlds of Meaning: Heroes as Deep Symbols.-- Charles Bowie, Tennessee State
  

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  The Uncanny Film Fatale: Ontology, Mimicry, and Resistance -- Nancy McGuire Roche, La Vanderbilt University
  
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  Hatchet Wounds: Women with Axes in Horror and Exploitation Cinema -- Lisa E. Williams, Middle Tennessee State University
  
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  Brian De Palma’s Recent Femme Fatales -- Linda Badley, Middle Tennessee State University
  
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  “You think I'd let him destroy me and end up happier than ever?”: The Inversion of the Femme Fatale in Gone Girl-- Stephanie Graves, University of North Alabama
  

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  How To Read Beyoncé: A Susceptible Hermeneutic -- Mari Ramler, Clemson University
  
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  The Spook Who Came through My Door: Ghosts and the Black Literary Tradition -- RaShell R. Smith-Spears, Jackson State University
  
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  Martin Luther King's Persuasive Strategy for Civil Rights -- James G. Shoopman, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
  
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  “A Word Chosen Not Simply Applied”: Revisiting Alice Walker’s Womanist Concept -- Dr. Cheryl R. Hopson, Western Kentucky University
  

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  Not in ____ Anymore: The Wizard of Oz as Cultural Referent -- Bill Powell, The University of Southern Mississippi
  
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  Feminists: The Wicked Witches of the West – A Look at the Not-So-Wonderful World of Patriarchy in Oz -- L. LeAnne Arnold, Northwestern State University of Louisiana
  

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  Charles Chesnutt: An Early Afro Futurist -- Kimberly Payne, Clark Atlanta University
  
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  Testify: Speaking Truths of Black Sheroes in Speculative Fiction -- Tamara White, Clark Atlanta University
  
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  Super Black: The Transformative Power of Black Fantasy -- Marcus Haynes, Clark Atlanta University
  

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  The Jane Austen of South Alabama -- Linda Null, Tenn. Tech UNIV
  
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  Radio Preaching in Southern Appalachia -- Rebecca Dean, Northampton Community College
  
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  “This kind of publication is long overdue”: Auntie Bellum and the Southern Feminist Perspective -- Meeghan Kane, Benedict College
  
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  Greenwood Cemetery, Atlanta -- John Bayne, AT&T Consulting
  

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  Social Media and the Syrian Refugees -- Hana S. Noor Al-Deen, UNC Wilmington
  
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  The unfolding of a new hybrid culture with the rise of social media in Indonesia -- Dina Septiani S Basuki, Clemson University
  
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  New Sincerity and Emergent Internet Culture: Emotional Sanctity as posted on Reddit, Twitch.tv, and YouTube -- Aaron Duplantier, University of Houston
  

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  Class and Contradiction: Defining 007-- Amelia Craze, University of Mississippi
  
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  The "Friendzone": A Man's Excuse to Entitlement"-- Lucas Bonner, University of Mississippi