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Johnston and Bartholome present papers at Popular Culture Conference in Las Vegas


On February 25, Professors Elizabeth Johnston and Lynn Bartholome presented papers at the Far West Popular Culture Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Professor Johnston's paper, "Teaching Female Icons in Popular Culture," provided an overview of the Humanities 295 course she designed for MCC's Honors Program and which she has been teaching since 2007.  A version of the paper will also appear in a forthcoming book collection, Mythology and Modern Women Poets (McFarland Press).  Professor Bartholome, who also moderated the panel, presented her paper, "Vinegar Tom and Female Chauvinist Pigs: Have We Really Come A Long Way, Baby?," an analysis of "raunch" feminism in popular culture.  This paper also drew connections to the Honors course Bartholome teaches at MCC, HMN 295: The Literature and Culture of Witchcraft. 

Tina Morrill
English Philosophy
02/29/2012