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Douglas Ishii

Assistant Professor, Emerson College

Presenter on Asian/American Panel

Not About Race, Per Se: The Indie Asian American Indie Rock Film

Assistant Professor Ishii teaches classes on 20th- and 21st-century U.S. multiethnic literature, transnational Asian/American literature, and queer of color critique. His scholarship has been...

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Kathryn Frank

Assistant Professor, Whitman College

Presenter on Comic Culture Panel

To Adapt or Not to Adapt: Negotiating Commodification and Racialization from Comic Books to Live Action

Kathryn M. Frank completed her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Michigan and her B.A. in Chicana and Chicano Studies at Stanford University. Dr. Frank specializes in media industries...

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Scarlett Hester

Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee State University

Presenter on Resistance & Restoration Panel

“I’m not fuxxing with white people”: LeBron James, The Shop, and Black Counter Publics

My research interests include critical media studies, critical rhetoric, whiteness, race & gender, and intersectionality. I am especially interested in pursing intersectional feminist scholarship in...

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