Pop Conference 2018

Maria Elena Buszek is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Colorado, Denver, where she teaches courses on modern and contemporary art. Her recent publications include the books Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture and Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary... Read More →

Evelyn McDonnell has written or coedited six books, from Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop and Rap to Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways. She edited the forthcoming collection Women Who Rock (Black Dog & Leventhal) and is series editor for the ForeEdge/UPNE... Read More →

Chris O’Leary is a freelance writer and editor based in western Massachusetts. He has written for Pitchfork, Slate, New York, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and is the author of two books on the songs of David Bowie: Rebel Rebel (Zero, 2015), and the upcoming Ashes to Ashes (Repeater... Read More →

Judith A. Peraino is a Professor of Music and the Director of the LGBT Studies Program at Cornell University. Her publications include articles on Blondie, David Bowie, PJ Harvey, early snythpop, and Mick Jagger; and the book Listening to the Sirens: Musical Technologies of Queer... Read More →

S. Alexander Reed is author of Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, and co-author of a 33 1/3 book on They Might Be Giants’ Flood.  Current writing topics include genre theory, punk zines, and Laurie Anderson.  Reed’s band Seeming has several albums out on Artoffact... Read More →