Pop Conference 2018

Charles Aaron is a writer and editor who lives in Durham, N.C. with his wife Tristin, son Oscar, dog Bessie, and cat Milo. His favorite kinds of pie, in order, are Key Lime, Apple, and Cherry. Donations are appreciated."Nippy’s Got the Range: How Whitney Houston Snatched Back the... Read More →

Justin aDams Burton is Assistant Professor of Music at Rider University. He is the author of Posthuman Rap (Oxford 2017), co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Music Studies (2018), and a regular contributor to Sounding Out!“Now She Wanna Lick My Plum”: Producing... Read More →

Christine Capetola is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and holds a M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University. Her doctoral research investigates how black pop stars in the mid-1980s (and some of their contemporaries) used digital... Read More →

William Mosley is a PhD Candidate in African and African Diaspora Studies and Portfolio student in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned an MA in English. He also holds a bachelor's degree from Amherst College. William's research examines... Read More →