MAPACA

Mid-Atlantic Popular &
American Culture Association

Presentations

• The Demonized Other: Analyzing the Supernatural in Season of Migration to the North
  Rita Mookerjee (Temple University)
• A World Built in Empathy: Touch as “Biological Conscience” in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Fledgling
  Elizabeth Pittman (Marymount University)
• Beauty and the Apocalyptic Future of Disability: Camille Alexa’s “All Them Pretty Babies.”
  Derek Newman-Stille (Trent University)
• Disabilities and Demigods: The Escape from Disability in Nalo Hopkinson’s Sister Mine
  Collier Cobb