2018 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular
Culture/American Culture Association
Worcester State University (Worcester, Massachusetts)
19-20 October 2018
Friday, 19 October
Session I: 2-3:15
Women Warriors and
Popular Culture: Representations across Time and Space I
Sponsored by the
Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in
Popular Culture
Chair: June-Ann
Greeley (Sacred Heart University)
From Eastern Legends to Western Popular Cultural Symbols:
Japanese and Chinese Female Warriors
Mayra Bonet (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Joan of Arc’s Cinematic Siege Arsenal in Cecil B.
DeMille’s Joan the Woman (1916)
Scott Manning (American Military University)
Stranger Weeping: Considering Margery Kempe through
Eleven in Stranger Things
Anna McGill (Louisiana State University)
Red Widows and Nihilist Queens: Russian Women in the
American Imagination
Chelsea Gibson (Binghamton University)
Friday, 19 October
Session II: 3:30-4:45
Women Warriors and
Popular Culture: Representations across Time and Space II
Sponsored by the
Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in
Popular Culture
Chair: Cheryl Hunter
(UMASS Lowell and SNHU)
Cyborgian Versus Cosmic Skin: The Fires of Joan of Arc in
C. L. Moore's “No Woman Born” (1944) and Lidia Yuknavitch's The Book of
Joan: A Novel (2017)
Jennifer Jodell (Univ. Minnesota-Twin Cities
The Song of the Valkyries: Warrior Women in Recent Film
Dor Yaccobi (Tel Aviv University)
“If I Am to Die Tonight, Let Me Die a Fighter”: Gail
Simone’s Reconstructing of Red Sonja
Peter Cullen Bryan (Penn State University)
Correcting Wonder Woman: The Power of Patty Jenkins
Erin Lafond (Boston College)
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