SCMS 2019 Humor and Comedy Conference Panel Schedule
- Stephanie Brown
- Jan 23, 2019
- 8 min read
Here is your list of comedy and humor related panels and papers, SIG sponsored panels, and SIG meeting schedule!
See you all in Seattle!
SIG Meeting
Session Q | 3:45 Saturday, March 16 | Chelan Room
SIG Sponsored Panels
Session G: Thursday, March 14 (1:15-3:00)
G19 Who’s It Made For: Audiences and Authorship
Chair: Shekhar Deshpande, Arcadia University
Jane Greene, Denison University, “Government Girls and Sailors' Wives: World War II Romantic Comedy”
Sarah Panuska, Michigan State University, “Camping at the Margins: Camp, Curation, and Archival Practices in Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman”
Maxfield Fulton, Yale University, “Atomic Masculinities: The Comedic Function of Ken Adam’s Production Design in Dr. Strangelove”
Carl Burgchardt, Colorado State University, “‘Emotional Allegory’ in The Yearling (1946)”
Session N: Saturday, March 16 (9:45AM - 11:30AM)
N2 Roundtable: When Crazy Rich Asians Meets Global Hollywood: Debating the Diversity Discourse in An Asian American Romantic Comedy
Chair: Yiman Wang, University of California, Santa Cruz
Valerie Soe, San Francisco State University, “Complicating the Cultural Mix: The Goh Family”
Catherine Fung, Lick-Wilmerding High School, “On Cultural Appropriation and Soft Power”
Brian Bernards, University of Southern California , “Footnoting S.E.Asia in the Anglophone Transpacific”
See Kam Tan, University of Macau, “Can ‘Asians’ have it all?”
N7 Camp TV of the 1960s
Chair: Wyatt Phillips, Texas Tech University
Co-Chair: Isabel Pinedo, Hunter College, CUNY
Respondent: Aniko Bodroghkozy, University of Virginia
Andrea Comiskey, Franklin & Marshall College, and Jonah Horwitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Fractured Flickers, Camp Borrowing, and Hollywood's Ab/usable Past”
Walter Metz, Southern Illinois University, “My Mother the Car; or, My Television, Sub-Par?: Taking Seriously the 1960s Fantasy Television Sitcom”
Ken Feil, Emerson College, “From Love Machine to Laugh-In: Camp TV, Jacqueline Susann and the Sexual Revolution”
Session O: Saturday, March 16 (11:45AM - 1:30PM)
O1 Parody, Pastiche, and Play: Performing Queerness in Digital Media Cultures
Chair: Raffi Sarkissian, Christopher Newport University
Respondent: David Coon, University of Washington Tacoma
Raffi Sarkissian, Christopher Newport University, “Zapping Storms: Camp and Queer Satire in Digital Video Activism”
Steven Greenwood, McGill University, “‘She Really is a Basic Queen, this Belle:’ The Queer Disney Aesthetic of Todrick Hall”
Samantha Close, DePaul University, “Can You Fight Homophobia with Capitalism?”
Session P: Saturday, March 16 (1:45PM - 3:30PM)
P16 John Hughes: An Essential Reassessment
Chair: Timothy Shary, Eastern Florida State University
Alice Leppert, Ursinus College, “Fatherhood and the Failures of Paternal Authority in the Films of John Hughes”
Barbara Brickman, University of Alabama, “‘When Cameron Was in Egypt’s Land’: The Queer Child of Neglect in John Hughes’s Films”
Frances Smith, University of Sussex, “The Unbearable Whiteness of Being in a John Hughes Movie”
Timothy Shary, Eastern Florida State University, “John Hughes, Auteur of Adolescence”
Session T: Sunday, March 17 ( 11:30 -1:15)
T11 Comic Temporalities in East Asian Media
Chair: David Humphrey, Michigan State University
Xinyu Dong, McGill University, “A Cacophony of the Great Depression: Sound Gags in Metropolitan Scenes (1935)”
Evelyn Shih, University of Colorado Boulder, “Funny Noises: Cold War (A)synchronies in Taiwanese and South Korean Film”
Hannah Airriess, University of California, Berkeley, “Laughter Over Tears: White-Collar Labor and Japan’s Postwar Comedy Boom”
David Humphrey, Michigan State University, “Suspended Futures and Closed Out Possibles: Documenting Laughter at History's End”
Comedy and Humor Related Panels
Session A: Wednesday, March 13 (12:00PM - 1:45PM)
A3 Television Audiences and Fans in the Streaming Era
Chair: Kelly Kessler, DePaul University
Zachary A. Zahos, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Memed Hams: YouTube Appropriations of The Simpsons and the Vernacular Avant-Garde
Michael Rennett, The University of Texas at Austin, “Recreating Reality TV: The Fandom and Labor of YouTube's Survivor: Maryland”
Kelly Kessler, DePaul University, “Tweets, Gleeks, and racheldoesstuff: Hybridizing Broadway and TV Fandom in Online Promotion of 21st Century Musical Series”
Dan Hassoun, Indiana University, “‘Watching, But Not Too Much’: Managing the Attention and Distraction Boundary in Binge-Watching Practices”
A19 Negotiating Risk: Women in Media
Chair: Maya Sidhu
Dahlia Schweitzer, Art Center College of Design, “From Marlowe to Mars: Tracing the Evolution of the Private Eye”
Maya Sidhu, University of California, Berkeley, “Women and the Con in two films by Director Marguerite Viel”
Eric Forthun, The University of Texas at Austin, “Women on Late-Night: Representation, Experimentation, and Industrial Risk”
Lucia Soriano, Washington State University, “Negotiating Popular Feminism in Freeform's The Bold Type
Session C: Wednesday, March 13 (4:00PM - 5:45PM)
C3 In and Out of Contemporary Television
Chair: Arthur Knight, College of William & Mary
Emily Saidel, University of Michigan, Rehearsing Atypical Succession: Negotiating Democratic Anxieties Through Primetime Presidencies
Christine Wilkins, University of Winchester, “‘Serialising the psyche: adaptations of psychopaths on TV’”
Nick Marx, Colorado State University, “Brand X: MTV’s The State and Generation X in Television's Multi-Channel Transition”
Arthur Knight, College of William & Mary, “‘We’re Not a Genre’: Netflix, ‘Strong Black Lead,’ and the ‘Black-Film Vertical’”
Session D: Wednesday, March 13 (6:00PM - 7:45PM)
D3 Bodies and Genders on Television
Chair: Moon Charania, Spelman College
Ashlynn d'Harcourt, The University of Texas at Austin, “The New New Normal: How the Comedians of ‘Take My Wife’ Normalize Otherness”
Marisela Chavez, Northwestern University, “Time to Care About Gymnastics Again: Gender, Televisual Discontinuity, and the Olympic Athlete”
Daphne N. Gershon, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Maybe it is a Big Deal? Portrayals of Erectile Dysfunction in Television Comedy”
Moon Charania, Spelman College, “White Moms in the Age of In/Security: Visual Culture and the Space of (Maternal) Life”
Session H: Thursday, March 14 (3:15PM - 5:00PM)
H11 Contestation and Containment: Women’s Agency in the Media Industry
Chair: Amanda Cote, University of Oregon
Graham Eng-Wilmot, Goucher College, “‘We Don’t Need Another Hero?’: Film Fantasies of Black Female Stars in the Mid-1980s”
Vanessa Cambier, University Of Minnesota, “Feminism and Animation: The Underexamined Relationship Between Women's Animation and Feminist Aesthetics”
Helle Kannik Haastrup, University of Copenhagen, “‘Why I Wear Black’: Celebrity Activism and Cultural Critique at The Golden Globe Awards Show”
Megan Boyd, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “‘A Ripple of Mirth, Feminine in Sound’: Female Audiences and Lost Histories of Silent Comedy”
Session I: Thursday, March 14 (5:15PM - 7:00PM)
I7 Racial Engagements in 2010s Small-Screen Fictions
Chair: Karisa Butler-Wall, University of Washington Bothell
Kiah Bennett, Colorado State University, “Emb(Rae)cing Awkward: Comedy, Ambivalence, and Representation on YouTube”
Jacqueline Johnson, The University of Texas at Austin, “‘Cool Cool Cool’: The Multiracial Family and White Racism in Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
Celeste Reeb, University of Oregon, “[Baltimore] or [Bawlmer]?- Rhetorical choices in Captioning Language and Race”
Megan Reilly, University of Southern California, “The Horror of Racialized Space in Atlanta: Robbin’ Season”
I16 A Very Special Episode: How Revolutions Get Televised
Chair: Jonathan Cohn, University of Alberta
Co-Chair: Philip Scepanski, Marist College
Jonathan Cohn, University of Alberta, “Blackface on a White Christmas: Bewitched combats ‘Sneaky Racism’”
Philip Scepanski, Marist College , “‘What You Talkin’ ‘Bout Mrs. Reagan?’: VSEs, the War on Drugs, and TV's Moral Commitment to Deregulating in the 1980s”
Jennifer Porst, University of North Texas, “‘Thanksgiving Orphans’: A Very Special Thanksgiving Episode of Cheers, the TV Industry, and Sitcoms in the 1980s”
Christine Becker, University of Notre Dame, “Knife Crime and Passion: A Very Special Episode of the BBC Soap Opera EastEnders
Chair: Brenda Weber, Indiana University
Soumik Pal, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, “The Muslim Star and The Female Star in Fascist Hindutva: Construction of Authenticity in Bollywood Stardom”
Erin D. Pearson, University of East Anglia, “Situating Stars: Publicity, Place, and the Indie Stardom of Chloë Sevigny”
Kriszta Pozsonyi, Cornell University, “Where on Television Are You, Mrs. Maisel?”
Nicole Keating, Woodbury University, “Script Girl: A Cultural Analysis of the Marginalization of Script Supervisors and the Emerging Reel Equity Movement”
Session L: Friday, March 15 (1:00PM - 2:45PM)
L15 Affect, Feminism, History
Chair: Jennifer Bean, University of Washington
Respondent: Tami Williams, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Maggie Hennefeld, University of Minnesota, “Archiving Fake News: From Fatal Laughers to Feminist Killjoys”
Jennifer Bean, University of Washington, “Curiosity, Seriality and the Poetics of Wonder”
Patrice Petro, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Feminism and Boredom Revisited”
L20 Thinking, Feeling, Dissembling: Televisualizing History and Cultural Politics
Chair: Michael Kackman, University of Notre Dame
Jessica Hoover, University of North Texas, “Through the Screen: The Carol Burnett Show as Cultural Antecedent to Feminist Film Criticism”
Lisa Jacobson, University of California, Berkeley, “The Cold War, Rebooted”
Michael Kackman, University of Notre Dame, “Feeling the Past: Television, Historical Melodrama, and the Limits of Empathy”
Grace Jung, University of California, Los Angeles, “Queer Politics of Korean Variety TV: State, Industry and Genre”
Session M: Friday, March 15 (3:00PM - 4:45PM)
M4 Tapping Into and Creating a New Politics of Televisual Latinidad: Strategies, Aesthetics, and Activism
Chair: Yeidy Rivero, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Manuel Avilés-Santiago, Arizona State University, “This is it! Is it? One Day at Time and the Logics of Nostalgia on Netflix”
Mary Beltrán, University of Texas at Austin, “Tanya Saracho’s Vida and Queer Latinidad as Marker of Quality”
Yeidy Rivero, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, “Another Day, Another Time: Cuban-Americanness and the Remake of One Day at a Time”
Arcelia Gutiérrez, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, “#OscarsSoBlind: Latino Digital Media Activism, Visibility, and Belonging”
M7 Morning in America (on TV): Transformations in U.S. Television Culture in the 1980s
Chair: Taylor Miller, University of Georgia
Taylor Miller, University of Georgia, “Syndie’s Consequent Mutants of the 1980s”
Ethan Thompson, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, “Mad Magazine’s Parodic Satire of ‘Quality TV’ in the 1980s”
Bridget Kies, College of Wooster, “Subverting Television’s Jiggle Era: 1980s Action Series and Male Body Exploitation”
Kayti Lausch, University of Michigan, “Television You Can Trust: The Foreboding Failure of the American Christian Television System”
Session N: Saturday, March 16 (9:45AM - 11:30AM)
N15 Geopolitics of Perception: “Transnational” Frictions in Early 20th Century Visual Cultures
Chair: Hannah Goodwin, Mount Holyoke College
Co-Chair: Andre Kunigami, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hannah Goodwin, Mount Holyoke College, “Local Lenses on the Universe: Astronomical Photography and the Networks of Imperialism”
Carolina Sá Carvalho, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Visual Culture and Reformist Thought: The Transnational Circulation of Photographs of the Putumayo Abuses”
Andre Kunigami, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Geopolitics of Perception: Time and Body in Early Film Theory from Brazil”
Maria Corrigan, Emerson College, “Global Chaplin: Tramp, Icon, Transnational Port”
Session O: Saturday, March 16 (11:45AM - 1:30PM)
07 Horror and Motherhood
Chair: Daniel Sacco, Ryerson University
Victoria Sturtevant, University of Oklahoma, "Delivery Men: Male Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy."
Katherine Guerra, University of California, "I Never Wanted to be your Mother: The Resistant Mother in 'Millenial' horror films The Babadook and Hereditary.
Russel Meeuf, University of Idaho, "'The Final Mom': White, Maternal SUffering in 'The Creepy Kiddo' Film"
Daniel Sacco, Ryerson University, "Mother! May I?: The Perils of A-list Horror."
Session P: Saturday, March 16 (1:45PM - 3:30PM)
P19 The Podcast “Chitlin’ Circuit”: Black Podcasters and Cultural Specificity
Chair: Sarah Florini, Arizona State University
Briana Barner, The University of Texas at Austin, “What Is This ‘Black’ in Black Podcasting: Blackness, Identity, and Marginalization Within Podcasts”
Bambi Haggins, University of California, Irvine, “Black, Independent, and Funny AF: The Black Guy Who Tips, Comic Discourse and Pedagogical Lessons”
Katharine Cacace, The University of Texas at Austin, “Black True Crime Podcasts: Investigating the Racialized Norms of a Genre”
Sarah Florini, Arizona State University, “Support Ya Own: Independent Black Podcasting and Interstitial Modes of Production"
Session U: Sunday, March 17 (1:30PM - 3:15PM)
U7 Gender and Industry
Chair: Alicia Kozma, Washington College
Alicia Kozma, Washington College, “The Precarity of Independence: Women’s Labor in the Neo-Art House Industry”
Stephanie Brown, Saint Louis University, “Open Mic? Gender, Gatekeeping and Labor in Local Stand-Up Comedy Production”
Mel Stanfill, University of Central Florida, “Open to whom? A Feminist Production Studies Approach to Open Source”
Caroline Leader, Defiance College, “Princess Jedi: How Disney Teaches Families to Consume”
U13 Intersections of Race and Class in Contemporary Media
Chair: Benjamin Han, Tulane University
Co-Chair: Chera Kee, Wayne State University
Matt Linton, Wayne State University, “Cash Is Green: Examining the Intersection of Race and Class in Sorry to Bother You”
Matthew A. Cicci, Alma College, “Working Class Heroes? Examining the Racial Politics of Marvel’s Street-Level Supers”
Chera Kee, Wayne State University, “We’ll just take it like it comes: One Day at a Time and the ‘Real’ American Working Class”
Benjamin Han, Tulane University, “Millennials as Working Class: El Rey Network and pan-Latino Audience”
U19 New Thoughts on Old Genres
Chair: John Alberti, Northern Kentucky University
Gordon Sullivan, Independent Scholar, “‘The Ancient Ones See Everything’ Post-Surveillance Horror”
Megan Minarich, Vanderbilt University, “‘It’s not gonna be the worst Valentine’s Day I’ve ever had’: Aborting the Romcom and Recovering Choice in Obvious Child”
Genevieve M. Ruzicka, Independent Scholar, “From San Andreas to New Orleans: Hurricane Katrina and the Changing Racial Politics of Natural Disaster Films”
Farbod Honarpisheh, University of Pittsburgh, “Objects in Vitrines, Objects in Motion: On the ‘Museum Films’ of Ebrahim Golestan and Alain Resnais”