Welcome to the 6th edition of Pippi to Ripley: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Culture.

For full titles and complete abstracts, please see the "Abstracts (Descriptions of Presentations)" link on the left.

Friday, April 21 — Ithaca College Campus Center

Time Session Panels and Workshops
 

Friday, Apr.21

8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Breakfast

Continental Breakfast in Klingenstein Lounge, Campus Center-Egbert Hall.  See location on this interactive map: https://map.ithaca.edu/
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Session 1

Ithaca Falls Room: Current Bans on LGBTQ+ Comics

Graphic Novel Advisory Board: Amulya Ravitej Bachala, Taylor Cliff, Piper Davis, Aidan Gardner,Caleb Grassi, Riley Rhoder, Anya Weinreib
10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. Session 2

Ithaca Falls: Lost Opportunities

  • Ed Catto (Thundra Comics)

  • Prachi Kambli (Unqueering Scream)

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

 Session 3

Ithaca Falls: Crafting Queer Space

  • Alayna Vander Veer (Digital Dolls)
  • Eliana Berger (Queer Makerspaces)
  • Alyssa Ryan (Buffy Fandoms)

Clarke: Non-Conforming Women in Many Media

  • Dustin Hannum (Autopsy of Jane Doe)
  • Junyi Zhou (Written on the Body/Last Words from . . )
  • Ekshita Arora (Haunting of Hill House/Everything . . .)
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lunch Klingenstein Lounge (Mexacali Buffet)
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Session 4

Ithaca Falls: Representing and Responding to Oppression

  • Rowan Keller-Smith (The Collected Schizophrenias)
  • Johnson Ocan (Ugandan Trans. Representation)
  • Douglas Anderson (Refugee Utopic Novels)

Clarke: Sapphic and Graphic

  • Zhiyue Ding (Tipping the Velvet)
  • Meaghan Burke (A New Lesbian Vampire)
3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Session 5

Ithaca Falls: Gender in Film

  • Andy Yzaguirre (Queer 12th Night Adaptations)
  • Connor Hibbard (MakingJudy Garland's Image)
  • Charlotte Kane (Don't Worry Darling)

Clarke: Pop Music

  • Tommy Zieger (Sad Girl Music)
  • Chenxuan Hu (Suede's Dog Star Man)
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Grad Panel

Publishing

 

Grad Student Panel -- Clarke Lounge: Current graduate students in programs in English, Communications and Library Sciences provide an inside look at grad school: What it’s really like; what I would do differently; things to think about as you make your decisions. . . .

Eliana Berger, Simmons University  MLS Libraries & Librarianship (public and academic libraries, and makerspace.  

Aubrey Simons, Iowa State University Masters Program in English Literature; HS English Teacher Des Moines Public Schools

Julie Still, Penn State Harrisburg PhD in American Studies

Betty Thompson, Simmons University;  Dual degree with a MLIS in Library Science and an MA in children's literature

Andy Yzaguirre,Simmons University    MLIS DYO' or Design Your Own.  “I designed my own course path so I could do a little bit of             everything.”

Joining us virtually:

Ekshita Arora, Lund University, Sweden,  Masters Degree in Media and Communication Studies

Prachi Kambli, University of Mumbai, India.;  Masters program in English Literature

Forging Your Own Path in Publishing--Ithaca Falls Room

The publishing industry is changing. Fast. What was once dominated by hand-picked, painstakingly edited literary fiction on the NYT Bestseller's List is now often overshadowed by a rotating Top 100 in Kindle Store and BookTok recommendations. Author, engineer, and audiobook narrator Cassandra Medcalf talks about how she's made her career in publishing by playing to her strengths and exploring independent publishing, and shares tips from her journey and those of her self- and hybrid-published colleagues.
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

family meal

Klingenstein Lounge

Catered Buffet with Italian Pastries for Dessert!
     

Saturday, April 22 — Textor Hall

Time Session Panels and Workshops

8:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Hot Breakfast

Klingenstein Lounge -- For registered participants only. To register please click here.

Campus Center-Egbert Hall.  See location on this interactive map: https://map.ithaca.edu/
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Session 6

Textor 101: Defying & Defining Gender in Children's Lit.

  • Marie O'Brien (Gender Fluid Peter Pan)
  • James Smith (Spanish Picture Books)
  • Diti Vyas (Tarzan Kishori)
10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Session 7

Textor 101: Queering Fairy Tales & Fantasy

  • Artemis Papailia (Babette Cole)
  • Betty Thompson (YA Adapting Fairy Tales)
  • V. Millen (LGBTQ+ YA Fantasy)

Textor 103: Old, Queer, and Strangely Effective

  • Hannah Goeselt (Missal Painting)
  • Julie Fromer (Gender Fluidity in The Beetle)
  • Chloe West (Teaching Carmilla in HS)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Session 8

Textor 101: Villains

  • Rachel Katz (Female Villains in Genre TV)
  • Kerri Stuart (Wanda Maximoff in film)
  • Piper Davis (Grant Ward in S.H.I.E.L.D)

Textor 103: Diversifying YA Lit.

  • Mary Lindroth (Elatsoe: Indigenous Fantasy)
  • Samantha Frieri (Tracy Deonn's Legendborn)
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lunch Pizza! For registered participants only. To register please click here.
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Keynote

Textor 102: Michelle Ann Abate, Ohio State University

Funny Girls: The Forgotten History of Feisty Young Female Characters in Classic American Comics
3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Session 9

Textor 101: Transgressive Men and Women

  • Taya-Reese Johnson (Hitchcock's Rope)
  • Joanna Madloch ("Veronica's Shrouds")
  • Ryan Smith (Scrubs to Ted Lasso)

Textor 103: Queer TV

  • Jill Riggio (Will&Grace-League of Their Own)
  • Kate Ellis (Netflix's Queer Autistic Girls)
  • Abel Fenwick (BBC's Historical Lesbians
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Session 10

Textor 101: Girl Power!

  • Vi Schuh (Howl's Moving Castle)
  • Kathryn Ksiazek (Sailor Moon; Kiki;'s Delivery)
  • Nora Marcus-Hecht (Fritzi, Veronica & Lucy)

Scifi Film and TV

  • Lynn Pifer (Octavia Butler's Kindred)
  • Aubrey Simons (Blade Runner)
  • Livia Mastrone (The Last of Us)
 

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