PittComm Storms 2007 Annual Convention of the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association in Boston
Communication graduate students had an unprecedented presence at this ACA/PCA convention, with nine papers presented. These included:
Thomas R. Dunn, "The Greater Gay World? The Rhetoric of Gay Men’s Travel and Blindness of Western-Homocentrism"
Carleton S. Gholz, "Jeff Mills: Black Music Culture and 'The Bells'"
Octavia Graham, "Black Enough?: Blackface and Identity in Japanese Popular Culture"
Brent Heavner, "Training Terrorists in Georgia: Dramatistic Rhetoric in the Anti-School of the Americas Movement."
Gabriela Nunez, "Ugly Betty: Audience Reception and Latin American Identity in the United States."
Katie Kavanagh O’Neill, "Mediated Mourning: The Impact of Celebrity Death on Imaginary Social Worlds."
Brent Allen Saindon, "Cosmopolitan Exile: The Jewish Museum Berlin and Affective Memory."
David William Seitz, "Envisioning Audiences: American World War I Cemeteries in Europe/"
Joseph Sery, "Working Nine to Five--and My Family Hates Me for It: Film Representations of Women in Power."
Qian Zhang, "The Gold Rush (1925) on the Other Side of the Pacific."
Two faculty members also presented:
Ronald J. Zboray, Professor, and Mary Saracino Zboray, Visiting Scholar, "Women in the Streets: Parades, Popular Culture, and Mass Politics in New England."
