If you enjoyed #PCA2025 you might want to consider joining us at this year's FSNNA! The conference CFP is now open for both general submission and our new undergrad-specific showcase. The whole conference runs fully virtual. Details below, but do reach out with any Qs:
fsn-northamerica.org
Open Your Heart of Wild Honey: Occult Medievalism in Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet AKA my presentation at #PCA2025; what it lacks in audio fidelity it makes up for with dithering youtu.be/uvprjDi7oDA
It took 367 episodes, but live from #PCA2025, all five hosts are together for the first time to lead a conference discussion on “Unpacking Mainstream Sexuality” voxpopcast.com/wp/2025/04/2... listen and give us your thoughts!
As @nicklantz.bsky.social and I prepare for celebrating 20 years of marriage in Hawaii, we think our #PCA2025 and #PCA2024 tote bags are perfect for beach bags!
I've home from the #PCA2025 conference I’ve been at all week and now I'm doing a time honored academic tradition. Closing all the research browser tabs I've had open for like 6 months!
#PCA2025 is a wrap! Join PCASFF next year for the film screening and raffle!
There’s that feeling at the end of PCA, a few wayward souls lingering in the empty halls, charting out edited collections and panels for next year, running down the clock on one more dinner or evening flight. So delightful to be here, so gloomful to depart, yet Disney Studies will return. #PCA2025
Disney Studies XV ends our lovely time on a high note, re-examining the renewed significance and power of Gargoyles, the art and (faux) authenticity of animated stage combat, and the realistic depictions of nature in Fantasia. #PCA2025
I got one last panel in this morning before taking off!
What a great #PCA2025 and thanks again to @smittermeier.bsky.social , @pcbryan.bsky.social , and all the #DisneyStudies folks for a lovely conference.
Last day of #PCA2025 - started with “state of field” #romance roundtable, now a #fantasy panel - papers on Robert Aspirin & TJ Klune! #booksky #academicsky
(Next up: I shall be on the next fantasy & #scifi panel- talking about Ray Bradbury & Halloween! 🎃 )
Disney Studies XIV is bringing all the hits - the other forgotten women of Disney, a musical deconstruction of “It’s A Small World” around the many regional genres of music, and Disney-museum experience continuum. #PCA2025
The last day of #PCA2025. I've run three panels across two areas, going to be assembling an extended learning panel for #PCA2026.
Sadly, flight itineraries had to pull me away from the last day of #PCA2025. It was great to see everyone.
Disney Studies XIII
Disney Studies XIII discusses Disney Christmases and how the supported the global project, the imperfect nostalgias for Splash Mountain, and the many touchy-feels of a Disney park. #PCA2025
Disney Studies XI is diving into the Princess and the Frog: it’s use of voodoo kitsch but also real historic figures, the folkloresque authenticity of the swampscape, and the functions of friendship in Disney. #PCA2025
Okay, reading done! (I think it was good?) Time for a #scifi panel - franchises, the #MCU & #StarTrek 🚀 #academicsky #PCA2025
Pizza Dog, a normal dog, lies down enjoying a slice of old pizza from a box in front of a vague outline of a building. Various yellow bubbles featuring icons and faces of characters feature in the background, demonstrating a web of relationships garnered from sight, smell, and memory.
I’m talking Pizza Dog and animal reading of neurodivergence in visual culture through intersectional disability and animal studies. I am examining how sensory inputs can lead to emotional meltdowns, but also how we can reassess how neurosivegence informs our experience of the world. #PCA2025
Okay, time to do a reading! If you’re around at #PCA2025 and you like Regency #mmromance … come say hi! 🙂
John Lent: academics are like dogs and they mark their territories 😁 #PCA2025
One more #romance session at #PCA2025 this morning - on close reading & textual pleasures! After this I will be doing a reading on a creative panel - come listen! Support me! 🙂 (I’m more nervous about sharing the romance fiction than about presenting a paper - used to the latter! 😄) #academicsky
Overheard at #PCA2025: “it began to feel as if people were using their children as battering rams.” @pcaaca.bsky.social
We’re bright-eyed and bushy tailed at Disney Studies IX! We’ve got an exploration of transgressive play in parks, vernacular community-building by Disney Adults, queerbaiting vs. queer coding vs. clear queer in Duckburg, and Sweet Pete as a metaphor for the failed Disney Adult. #PCA2025
Next #PCA2025 #romance session - all about #romantasy ! Themes of community, pleasure, embodiment, reparative fantasy. #academicsky
Morning begins with Gramsci and Godzilla #PCA2025
Day 3 of #PCA2025 conference! Starting off with a #romance session - exploring dark romance! Today is busy - I’ll be reading & speaking on a creative writing panel this afternoon, plus the #scifi movie night tonight! #academicsky
A woman with bright red hair smiles at the camera while holding up a name badge for the 55th annual Popular Culture Association National Conference. The name badge is for Colleen Etman (she/her) with the University of South Carolina, and has a deep red tag that says "Area Chair" in bright gold letters hanging from the bottom.
We are here for it!! #PCA2025
If you're at #PCA2025 and feel like getting up really early, come hear me talk about SLACKER at 8AM on Friday!