Lisa Alexander (member, Pop Culture Working Group)
Samuel Beale (member, Conference Planning Committee)
Jan Blaschak (member, Conference Planning Committee)
Shelby Cadwell (co-chair, Conference Planning Committee)
Shelby is a Ph.D Candidate at Wayne State University in English. Her research focus is in Film & Media, Comics Studies, and Science Fiction Studies. She is the co-chair of the annual Wayne State Popular Culture Conference and President of Kino Club 313, Wayne State’s Film & Media Studies student group. Her published work can be found in Science Fiction Film & Television. Her dissertation, titled “NeoAfrofuturist Ecologies,” deals with gender, race, and environment in Afrofuturist film, music videos, television, comics, and novels.
Contact Info: shelby.cadwell@wayne.edu
Beth Fowler (member, Conference Planning Committee)
Colleen Hart (member, Conference Planning Committee)
Chera Kee (faculty adviser, Conference Planning Committee)
Chera Kee is an Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies in the English Department, where she teaches courses on popular culture, identity, and horror. Her article on using zombies as stand-ins for bodies of color, “Good Girls Don’t Date Dead Boys: Toying with Miscegenation in Zombie Films,” appears in the December 2014 issue of the Journal of Popular Film and Television and her book, Not Your Average Zombie: Rehumanizing the Undead from Voodoo to Zombie Walks was published by the University of Texas Press in 2017.
Bernadette Kelly (member, Conference Planning Committee)
Amy Latawiec (member, Conference Planning Committee)
Matt Linton (co-chair, Conference Planning Committee)
Matt Linton is pursuing a PhD in Film and Media Studies at Wayne State University. His primary interests are constructions and depictions of race in comics and films, biopolitics, and visual narratives. He has previously presented at Narrative, the UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, and MPCA. He is also the President and co-founder of the Wayne State Comics Collective.
Contact Info: matt.linton@wayne.edu
Julianne Meiu (member, Conference Planning Committee)
Elsa Nilaj (member, Conference Planning Committee)
Elena Past (member, Pop Culture Working Group)
Cham Smadi (member, Conference Planning Committee)