Communication and Marketing junior Katlyn “Kat” Davis, McPherson, KS, presented her paper, “The Disney Model: How the House of Mouse Shapes Gender Roles,鈥澛爄n the Gender Studies division of the national conference for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) in San Diego on Thursday, April 13. She was sponsored by the Communication Studies department, and she聽was mentored and chaperoned to the event聽by David Silverman, Ph.D.
Dr. Silverman also presented his upcoming book chapter, entitled聽鈥�(Re-)Visionist History in Sergio Leone鈥檚 (De-)Mythologized Old West: The Civil War, Vietnam, and 鈥楾he Good, The Bad, and The Ugly,鈥� 鈥� at the conference. Dr. Silverman is completing his sixth year as chair of the conference’s Animation Division and has presented at the conference over the past eight years.
Olga Silverman ’13 presented her聽sixth paper at the PCA/ACA conference. This year, she presented her paper entitled 鈥淚s Elliot Alderson the New Hamlet? Shakespearean Motives in 鈥楳r. Robot, Season One.鈥� 鈥� Last year’s paper on Mary Poppins, which she co-authored with her聽husband, was published in Douglas Brodes’ “It’s the Disney Version! Popular Cinema and Literary Classics” (2016, Rowman and Littlefield). Mrs. Silverman is currently in her fourth year as an ELA instructor at Solomon High School.
The individuals who comprise the PCA/ACA are a group of scholars and enthusiasts who study popular culture. The PCA/ACA offers a venue to come together and share ideas and interests about the field or about a particular subject within the field. The聽PCA/ACA has well over 5,000 academic oral presentations given internationally, two top-tier journals (The Journal of American Culture听补苍诲听Journal of Popular Culture), and more than 3,000 members.聽
