Day Two

Console-ing Passions 2024

Bloomington, Indiana
June 20 – 22, 2024

Session C, 9:00 – 10:30 am

All panels will be held at the IU Media School
Franklin Hall, 601 E. Kirkwood Avenue

Panel C11: Women’s Work Between/Beyond Media Industries
Julie D’Acci Room (Franklin Hall, Room 312)
Chair: Peter Kunze (Tulane University)

• Mary Celeste Kearney (University of Notre Dame), “Pre-Hollywood: Sally Benson’s Mid-Career Transition and the Gender Politics of Early Transindustrial Entertainment”
• Tanya Goldman (Hunter College), “Whose Labor Counts? Media Research, Authorship, and the Erasure of Journeywoman Dorothy B. Jones”
• Peter Kunze (Tulane University), “Broadway and Hollywood before Disney: Claire Nichtern and Warner Theatre Productions”
• Cameron Brown (University of Iowa), “‘Hey, my lil tater tot’: Ophelia Nichols and the Emotional Labor of Affective Production”

Panel C12: LGBTQ+ Representation
Lynn Spigel Room (Franklin Hall, Room 114)
Chair: Andi Schwartz (St. Francis Xavier University)

• Nathan Workman (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “The Queer Cosmopolitan Subject: Branding Drag Queens as Streaming’s Global LGBTQ+ Representation”
• Matt Connolly (Minnesota State University, Mankato), “Film Writing in Lesbian Tide: Criticism, Community, and the Cultivation of Lesbian-Feminist Cinema Culture”
• Andi Schwartz (St. Francis Xavier University) and Chloe Brushwood-Rose (York University), “Still Brazen: Transmediality and Trans-Temporality in Queer Femme Podcasts”

Panel C13: Spirit and Place
Lauren Rabinowitz Room (Franklin Hall, Room 310)
Chair: Annie Sullivan (Oakland University)

• Sophia Abbey (University of Texas at Austin), “Southern Mirage: Reconstructing the Past on Fixer Upper”
• Annie Sullivan (Oakland University), “Re-Imagining City Spaces: The Detroit Narrative Agency and Local Media Activism”
• Kayti Lausch (Coe College), “Great American Family’s Merger with Pure Flix and the State of Christian Backlash Media”
• Jennifer Cintron (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), “Them That Fabricate:  Interpretations of Conservative Religions in Independent Films”

All panels will be held at the IU Media School
Franklin Hall, 601 E. Kirkwood Avenue

Panel D14: Harassment and Hostility in Audience and Fan Internet Behavior
Lynn Spigel Room (Franklin Hall, Room 114)
Chair: Mel Stanfill (University of Central Florida)

• Mel Stanfill (University of Central Florida), “The Intellectual Dark Web as Antifandom of Academic Feminism”
• Beatrys Fernandes Rodrigues (Cornell University), “‘You don’t look like a scientist!’ Authenticity and Fan Labor in Academic Harassment”
• Clare O’Gara (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Why We Eat the Internet: Media Pathology, Audience Behavior, and the Vocabulary of Diet Culture” 

Panel D15: Forging Disability: Representations, Deceptions, and Connections in Popular Media
Julie D’Acci Room (Franklin Hall, Room 312)
Chair: Elizabeth Ellcessor (University of Virginia)

• David Adelman (University of Michigan), “Disability as a Public Good: ABC’s Speechless, The Cerebral Palsy Foundation, and Technocultural Economies of Disability Discourse”
• Krystal Cleary (Tulane University), “Love Sick: Dis/Abilityand the Rehabilitation of Reality TV Romance”
• Olivia Johnston Riley (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Structural Ableism in Television’s Curative Narrative Time”
• Katelyn Friedline (University of Virginia) and Elizabeth Ellcessor (University of Virginia), “‘I see it everywhere now’: Disability Media Pedagogy”

Panel D16: Sitcoms Reimagine Identity
Lauren Rabinowitz Room (Franklin Hall, Room 310)
Chair: Sarah Erickson (Trinity University)

• Avery Page (Western University), “Producing TV Feminism and Jewish Women in American Sitcoms: The Nanny, Revisited”
• Marianne Nacanaynay (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and ‘Whitefiltering’: A Critical Cultural Analysis of Filipinx/Filipinx American Representation”
• Sarah Erickson (Trinity University), “Sitcoms Re-Imagine Gender:  Intentional Idealism in Brooklyn 99 and Schitt’s Creek”

Panel D17: Queering Reality TV
Jane Feuer Room (Franklin Hall, Room 210)
Chair: Lesley Stevenson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Lesley Stevenson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Man, Woman, or Leopard: Queering Gender Identity on Fox’s The Masked Singer”
• Soo-Hee Kang (University of Texas at Austin), “‘You’re LGBT?’: Queerness and Quality in South Korean Reality Television”
• Tingyu Chen (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), “The Observatory of Romance: Reality Dating Shows as a Cultural Technology for Self-governance in Neo-Liberal China”

Gayle Karch Center for Public Arts and Humanities
Maxwell Hall, 750 E. Kirkwood Avenue
By registration only. Registration for this lunch is now closed.

All panels will be held at the IU Media School
Franklin Hall, 601 E. Kirkwood Avenue

Panel E18: Mediating Menopause
Lynn Spigel Room (Franklin Hall, Room 114)
Chair: Brenda R. Weber (Indiana University)

• Deborah Jermyn (University of Roehampton), “‘Making the Menopause You Want’: Oprah’s Climacteric Curriculum”
• Kate Gilchrist (London School of Economics), Catherine Rottenberg (Goldsmiths, University of London), and Shani Orgad (London School of Economics), “Menopause in UK Media Discourse: Visibility, Feminism, and Neoliberalism”
• Brenda R. Weber (Indiana University), “Hot Flash or Power Surge?: Reframing Menopause and the Rise of Imperative Culture”

Panel E19: Feminist Media Studies Syllabus Showcase
Julie D'Acci Room (Franklin Hall, Room 312)
Chair: Suzanne Leonard (Simmons University)

In this syllabus showcase, participants will share a successful syllabus design, unit, activity, or assignment from a feminist media studies class. The rationale is to aid teachers and practitioners in expanding and improving their curriculum. 

Participants:

• Cara Dickason (Goucher College)
• Elizabeth Ellcessor (University of Virginia)
• Bridget Kies (Oakland University)
• Suzanne Leonard (Simmons University)
• Elizabeth Nathanson (Muhlenberg College)
• Alyxandra Vesey (University of Alabama)

Panel E20: Urban and Rural, Queer and Feminist: Media Interventions into Cultural Geographies of Space and Place
Lauren Rabinowitz Room (Franklin Hall, Room 310)
Chair:Sarah Sinwell (University of Utah)

• Sarah Sinwell (University of Utah), “‘Somewhere There’s a Place Where We Belong’: Queer Kinship and Rurality in Somebody Somewhere”
• Mark Hain (Independent Scholar), “What Would It Mean to Know? The Cultural Impact of Closeted and Out Country Stars, Then and Now”
• Jasmine Trice (University of California Los Angeles), “Itinerance and Intimacy: Los Otros and the Politics of Scale”
• Natasha Ritsma (Aurora University), “Fold Map: How An Art Exhibition Started a City-Wide Conversation”

Panel E21: Racialization in/through Media
Jane Feuer Room (Franklin Hall, Room 210)
Chair: Aviva Dove-Viebahn (Arizona State University)

• Corey Tatz (Indiana University), “CBS’s Big Brother: A Case Study of Black Women Archetypes in Reality TV (2009-2022)
• Adrian King (University of Michigan), “Black, Trans, Pregnant, and on TV: Myles Brady-Davis and Kayden X. Coleman’s Television Appearances”
• Aviva Dove-Viebahn (Arizona State University), “Maybe we need a new word for us’: Boundary Intersectionality and the ‘In Between’ in A League of Their Own (2022)”
• Noemi Nunez (University of Central Florida), “‘How far do these roots go down?’: An Analysis of TikTok Conversations of Disney’s Encanto”

All panels will be held at the IU Media School
Franklin Hall, 601 E. Kirkwood Avenue

Panel F22: Misogynoir and Representation
Julie D’Acci Room (Franklin Hall, Room 312)
Chair: Moya Bailey (Northwestern University)

• Lauren Wilks (Trinity University), “‘We are not called to do the same things’: Reflecting on Black Notes through Media Representation in a Post-2020 Socio-Cultural Landscape”
• Phil Colquitt (Washington University in St. Louis), “We Got You Megan Pete: Black Women’s Digital Space as a Counternarrative to Misogynoiristic Audio and Visual Representations of ‘Justice’ for Tory Lanez”
• Luke Hernandez (The University of Texas at Dallas) and Diamond Beverly-Porter (Washington State University), “Grand Theft Feminisms: Present and Future Racial Tensions and Affirmations in Video Games” 

Panel F23: Magazines as Mediated Guides to History
Jane Feuer Room (Franklin Hall, Room 210)
Chair: Megan Connor (Indiana University)

• Myrna Moretti (Northwestern University), “Here Comes the Future: Black Feminism and Computers in 1980s Essence”
• Elizabeth Groeneveld (Old Dominion University) “Reading a 1970’s Transfeminist Counterarchive”
• Tessa Maxwell (University of Otago), “‘Forum Fever’: The Struggle for the Ministry of Women’s Affairs in Aoteroa New Zealand”

Panel F24: Political Resilience through Media
Lynn Spigel Room (Franklin Hall, Room 114)
Chair: Beaudelaine Pierre (Indiana University)

• Jessica Martin (University of Leeds), “Voices from the Kitchen Table: Justine Roberts, Mumsnet, and the Mobilisation of Mothers”
• Amanda Zanco (University of Calgary), Visibility and Social Justice: A Case Study of Women from the Pakistani Diaspora through a Feminist Aesthetics Lens”
• Romana Mirza (Parsons School of Design), “Narrating Resilience through Digital Storytelling: Language and Identity Among Muslim Women in Canada”

Panel F25: Three Mothers and a Baby
Lauren Rabinowitz Room (Franklin Hall, Room 310)
Chair: Kim Akass (Rowan University)

• Kim Akass (Rowan University), “The Biggest Lie of All? Big Little Lies, Motherhood and Patriarchal Oppression”
• Jordan Adler (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), “‘A Crack in the Ice’: Mothers, Millennial Jewish Anxiety, and ‘Postmemory’ in Russian Doll”
• Jennifer E. Maher (Indiana University), “Look Who’s Coming to the End of the World: The Biracial Child as Dystopian Signifier in Film and Television”

6:00 – 7:30pm: Day Two Keynote by Radhika Parameswaran
“Assembling the Ingredients of Culinary Celebrity: Padma Lakshmi and the Multi-Platform Diasporic Imaginary”
IU Cinema, 1213 E. 7th Street

More about the keynote

Dinner on your own
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