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Thursday, May 25th Eagle
Exhibit Hall, EESAT, UNT Campus:
· Pop-Up
Art Exhibit and welcome drinks reception for conference participants. 5:30-7:30pm (come and go as you please). The exhibit will feature art from the comic Deer Woman produced by Native Realities Press. **Open to the public**
Friday, May 26th Willis
140, Willis Library, UNT Campus:
Coffee &
pastries for conference participants (9:00 am)
Welcome &
Conference Overview (9:15 am)
Panel One:
Monstrous Bodies (9:30 am)
Chair: Sam Langsdale
Stefanie Snider, “The Unremarkable
Fatness of Valiant’s Faith”
Charlotte Johanne Fabricius, “How to
Build a Bat-Girl: Post-crip Monstrosity in Gail Simone’s Batgirl"
Short break and
chance to browse creators’ tables/posters (10:30 am)
Panel Two: Woman/Monster (10:45 am)
Panel Two: Woman/Monster (10:45 am)
Chair:
Michael Thompson
Chera Kee, “Monsters of Class and
Monstrous Femininity: Gwen Dylan and the undead of iZombie”
Pauline Reynolds and Sara Durazo-DeMoss,
“Beauty and her b(r)easts: Monstrosity and college women in The Jaguar (1992)”
Joshua Plencner, “Queer Monstrosity,
Colonial Fantasy: Fantomah at the Dawn of the Superhero”
Lunch (12:00 pm)
Panel Three: Monstrous Maternity (1:30 pm)
Chair: Jacqueline
Vickery
Jeannie Ludlow, “Inappropriate/d
Generations: Artifactual Pregnancy and Diffracted Choice in Comic Narratives”
Marcela Murillo, “The Monstrous Maternal
Portrayal of the Bolivian Chola in Contemporary Comics”
Tomoko Kuribayashi, “Monstrous Women in
Moto Hagio’s Graphic Fiction: An Analysis of the Maternal/Monstrous in Marginal”
Panel Four: Daddy’s Lil Monster (2:45 pm)
Chair: Joshua
Plencner
Elizabeth Coody, “Rewriting to Control:
How the Origins of Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman and Mary Magdalene Matter to
Women’s Perceived Power”
Kodi Maier, “Joker’s Little Monster: the
Contentions and Complexities of Harley Quinn”
Short break and chance to browse
creators’ tables/posters (3:45 pm)
Panel
Five: Monstrosity, Transformation, and Power (4:00 pm)
Chair: Raina
Joines
Rick Stevens, “Exploring the Monstrous
Feminist Frame: Marvel’s She-Hulk as Male-centric Feminist Discourse”
An Sasala, “Non-Compliant: Foucauldian
Incarceration of the Monstrous Woman in Bitch Planet”
Savannah Molina, Title TBC
Keynote Speech by Dr. Carol Tilley: "A Regressive Formula of
Perversity: Fredric Wertham and the Monstrous Women of Comics." **Open to
the public** (5:30 pm)
Saturday, May 27th Environmental Sciences Building, Room 110, UNT Campus:
Coffee &
pastries (9:30 am)
Panel Six:
Monsters of Childhood/Monstrous Childhood (9:45 am)
Chair:
Elizabeth Coody
Daniel Yezbick, “SeDUCKtress!: Magica De
Spell, Scrooge McDuck, and the Antropo-patriarchal Sorcery of Carl Barks’
Midcentury Disney Comics”
Novia Shih-Shan Chen and Sho Ogawa, “On
the Edge of 1990s Japan: Kyoko Okazaki and the Horror of Adolescence”
Samantha Langsdale, “Between Lunella
Lafayette and Quvenzhané Wallis: Examining the Progress and Challenges in
Monstrous Black Girl Narratives”
Panel
Seven: Monstrosity, Women & Transgression (11:00 am)
Chair: Agatha
Beins
Justin Cook, “’The hope of every
creeping thing’: The Posthuman Female Monster, Ectopic Entomology, and Maternal
Necro-Rhetorics in Aftershock’s Insexts Comic”
Keri Crist Wagner, “Horrible Victorians:
Interrogating Power, Sex, and Gender within InSexts”
Michael Thompson, “No Ordinary Dick:
Transgression and Femininity in Jessica Jones”
Lunch (12:15 pm)
Panel
Eight: Historical Monsters (1:30 pm)
Chair: Samantha
Langsdale
Rikke Cortsen, “‘You hit him’–Caroline
Mathilde and Støvlet-Cathrine as Monstrous Women”
Justin Wigard, “Monochromatic Teeth,
Tongues, and Tentacles: Grendel’s Mother as a Monster Perpetuating Female
Gender Roles in Stephen L. Stern’s Beowulf: the Graphic Novel”
Jing Zhang, “Chinese Snake Woman
Resurfaces in Comics–A Case Study of ‘Calabash Brothers’”
Coffee break and chance to browse
creators’ tables/posters (2:45 pm)
Panel
Nine: Identity, Femininity & Monstrosity (3:00 pm)
Chair: Agatha
Beins
Ayanni Hanna, “‘There is More to Me than
Just Hunger’: Female Monsters and Liminal Spaces in Monstress and Pretty
Deadly”
Christina Knopf, “UFO (Unusual Female
Others) Sightings in Saucer Country: Metaphors of Identity and
Politics”
Loren Roberson, “Doucet’s Secret Desire and
the Subconscious Monstrosity of Femininity”
Conference End
(4:15 pm)
Poster Presentations:
Heather
Williams, “Poison Ivy: Woman as Beauty, Earth, and Poison”
