For those of you attending the Popular Culture/American Culture Association conference (in Chicago from April 16-19), here is where you can find me. Hope to see you there!
Thursday, April 17
Time: 1:45 pm
Science Fiction and Fantasy Area Pizza Party
Location: Lincolnshire 2
Time: 5:00 pm
President’s Reception/Awards
Location: 7th Floor Salon 2
Friday, April 18
Time: 6:30 pm
Session #: 3726: Narrative
Location: Lincolnshire 1
I will be chairing this session and presenting my paper “Narratology of Franchises” along with three other scholars:
- Christopher Cerimele (Eastern Florida State College): Selling Superficiality: The Disneyfication of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Science Fiction Narratives
- Laura Osur (Syracuse University): Defiance: An Experiment in Transmedia Storytelling
- Courtney Neal (DePaul University): Expect the Unexpected: Inverting Character and Narrative in Once Upon a Time
Saturday, April 19
Time: 8:15 pm
Science Fiction and Fantasy Area Movie Night (Beginning of the End)
Location: Lincolnshire 2
And you will also find me wandering around the lobby and book room quite often at other times as well. I’ll have copies of the Memory in Popular Culture collection CFP to distribute as well.