MAPACA

Mid-Atlantic Popular &
American Culture Association

Presentations

• The Fetishized Sexual Cyborg Woman as Both Threat and Fantasy: A Feminist Evaluation of Women’s Place in Frank Herbert’s Dune
  Carrie Lynn Evans (Université Laval)
• Anita Blake as a Psychic Vampire: Applying the Psychology of Melanie Klein to Contemporary Vampire Novels
  Eva Maria Thury (Drexel University)
• Fear of Reproduction in Ustopian Fiction: Examining the Privilege of Motherhood in Never Let Me Go and The Giver
  Drew Dumaine (Marquette University)

  Mikayla Nicholle Zagoria-Moffet (Baruch College Academic Complex)
• “He May Hold No Lands and Sire No Children”: the Complicated Masculinity of Game of Thrones
  Keegan Lannon