Pop Conference 2018

Amy Gentry is an Austin-based novelist and critic. Good as Gone, her debut psychological suspense novel dealing with themes of gendered trauma and abuse, was published in 2016 in more than 20 countries. Since obtaining a doctorate in English from the University of Chicago in 2011... Read More →

Tiffany Naiman received her Ph.D. from UCLA’s Department of Musicology in 2017 and is currently a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University. Her research investigates musical and cultural responses to illness, disability, and aging while contributing to our understanding of the... Read More →

Chris Nickell is a Ph.D. candidate in music at New York University. His dissertation draws on ethnographic fieldwork with participants in independent music scenes of Beirut, Lebanon to better understand how participants in these scenes negotiate sectarian capitalism through performances... Read More →

Danielle Stein is a PhD student in the Department of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her current research examines World War II propaganda music and the development of weaponized music and sonic environments over the 20th and 21st centuries. Also a soprano... Read More →