PCA/ACA Conference: Day Three (Books and Panels)
Day three started in the publisher’s room, which is not unlike a dealer’s room at an Anime or science fiction convention, only there are academic books and journals for sale (or for free), rather than toys and movies (though sometimes there are movies up for grabs). I managed to snatch up a few fascinating titles, […]
PCA/ACA Conference: Day Two (It Begins)
The first day of the actual Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference proved to be one of the best of the entire event, not least because of my presentation at 2:30 PM. But we’ll get to that in a minute. The day began innocently enough. Luckily for me, I roomed with a particularly interesting […]
PCA/ACA Conference: Day One (Travel 101)
(A little overdue, but so be it.) Day one of my trip to the Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference in St. Louis, Missouri proved to be rather informative. First, I learned a few things about air travel: No matter what airport you go to, you will not get on the plane if you […]
Question: If you were going to teach a class on fantasy literature, what would you cover?
That’s a big question. I’ve always wanted to design an introductory course on science fiction or fantasy (doing both at the same time would be impossible). Selecting texts, however, is always a problem for any genre-specific course. Where do you start? Where do you end? Which movements do you represent or ignore? Do you risk […]
The SWTXPCA Conference: Day Three (Conference Day Four)
The final day of the SWTXPCA conference. Sad? Yes, indeed so. But all good things must come to an end, right? Right?! The final day of the conference proved to be slower than previous days. For one, the panels started later and ended sooner. Second, the conference folks apparently had planned some sort of trip […]
The Cyborg Returns: Regular Programming and a Musical
I have finally settled back in from my trip to the SWTXPCA conference. If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that I had a blast at the conference and expect I will attend it again in the future. There’s one more post about the SWTXPCA coming, by the way. Having returned, I will be resuming […]