Spring 2015
MELISSA AMES
PUBLICATIONS:
“Analyzing Rhetorics of 9/11: An Approach for Studying the Role that Affect & Emotion Play in Constructing Historical Events.” Pedagogy 17.0 (2017). [forthcoming]
How Pop Culture Portrays the (St)ages of a Woman's Life: From Toddlers- in-Tiaras to Cougars-on-the Prowl. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. [forthcoming].
“How to Save a… Nation: Televisual Fiction Post-9/11.” Manufacturing Phobias. Eds. Hisham Ramadan and Jeffrey Schantz. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. [forthcoming]
“A Country (Still) Divided: How The Vampire Diaries & Other Recent Vampire Series Utilize Civil War Backdrops to Critique Contemporary Cultural Concerns & Express Nostalgia for the Past." The Vampire Diaries Collection. New York: Scarecrow Press, 2015. [forthcoming]
PRESENTATIONS/WORKSHOPS:
“Sex Undoes Her: How Strong Female Characters in Contemporary Television Programs (Scandal, Homeland, How to Get Away with Murder) are Undermined through Romantic & Sexual Storylines.” The National Popular Culture Conference (PCA). New Orleans, LO, April 2015.
“Negotiating Authorship Across Media.” The International Narrative Conference. Chicago, IL, March, 2015. [panel moderator]
“Trends in Contemporary Horror.” Lions in the Winter Conference (EIU). Charleston, IL, January, 2015. [roundtable participant]
