Presentations

Panel 1 | Imagining and Expressing Identity

The Imagined Identity: Factors Impacting an Artist's Brand Identity and Interaction with Their Fandom

Anahad Kaur, Duke University 

Defamiliarizing the Familiar: Queer Eco-Phenomenology in Aux/Arc  by Cody-Rose Clevidence

Brian Eckert, Johns Hopkins University

Better You Didn't Know: Epistemic Ignorance & White Male Supremacy

RL Holmes, Southern Methodist University

Exploring Informal Public Art: Fostering Community Building through Co-Creation, Conflict, and Resolution

Ying (Sophie) Chen, University of Wisconsin - Stout

Panel 2 | Visions of the Good Life

Beyond the Meritocracy Trap: Asian American's Insight about the Future Education in the United States

Yunmeng Zhang, Indiana University South Bend

Narratives of Preservation and Progress: Almost 100 Years of Hoover Dam and Bryce Canyon National Park

Cynthia McMillian Newberry, Stanford University

Understanding and Addressing America's Future Wealth Gap

Stephanie Chretien, Rice University

Panel 3 | Encountering the Past

Looking Backwards: A 700-Year Exploration of People and Events that Led to Me

Roberto Argentina, Rice University

Going Home to Nagasaki: A Transformative Journey Through Time and Space 

Patricia Delnore Magee, University of Delaware

Our Need of Metaphysics 

Chase Pikarsky, Duke University

Panel 1 | Inner, Outer, Other Worlds

Exploring the Rhetoric of Sensation in Narratives about Imaginary Worlds

Elizabeth Rose, Southern Methodist University

The Fifth Incident

Hana S. Elysia, San Diego State University

Graphic Bodies, Graphic Narratives: Reading Hybrid Monstrosity as Embodiment of Mestiza Consciousness in Emil Ferris' My Favorite Thing Is Monsters 

Rose Padilla, San Diego State University

Panel 2 | Tapestry of the Americas

The Future of American Dream: Promises and Problems for an Indian Immigrant

Shashwat Vidhu Sher, Stanford University

A Home Team In Another Land: Where Transborder Studies, Sports Fandom Theory, and Diasporas Collide

Ivan Fernandez, San Diego State University

Oasis:  The Cultural Evolution of New York's Central Park

David Griffin Knight, University of Oklahoma

Panel 3 | Myth, Wonder, and Awe

Stories of Makokoba

Gina Haney, Stanford University

Comparative Hagiology

Mohammed Forero Bucheli, Rollins College

Hola Testimonio! Creating Connections between Amazing Latina Narratives and Qualitative Research

Mary Margaret Carrillo, Southern Methodist University