Pop Conference 2016

RJ Smith is author of The One: The Life & Music of James Brown (Gotham Books, 2012); and The Great Black Way: LA in the 1940s and the Lost African-American Renaissance (Public Affairs, 2006). He has written for SPIN, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, and Yeti. An editor at Cincinnati... Read More →

Manan Desai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan. His research has been published in Comparative Literature and the Journal of Popular Culture. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the South Asian American Digital... Read More →

Meenasarani Linde Murugan received her PhD from Northwestern’s Screen Cultures program. Her dissertation, “Exotic Television: Technology, Empire, and Entertaining Globalism,” explores how U.S. Cold War variety television was central to visualizing and refashioning a global community... Read More →

Andrew Wenaus received his PhD in English at University of Western Ontario in 2013, where he currently teaches. His dissertation, “Metaphor and Metanoia: Linguistic Transfer and Cognitive Transformation in British and Irish Modernism,” examines the works of Oscar Wilde, Virginia... Read More →