Letter From the Editor
Felicia Campbell
Side 3, Side 2: The Beatles in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
Steven Hamelman
Space at the Con: Conversations About Representation in Popular Culture at Comic Conventions
Debra E. Jenson
What’s lit got to do with it? Deconstructing the Carl Sandburg Home Historic Site
Alana N. Seaman
Dating in the Digital Age: A Research Experiment
Marci Mazzarotto
Fake News and Failed Friendships: An Analysis of Trump, Pecker, and the National Enquirer
William M. & Patricia Kirtley
“We Know the Way”: Culture-Nature Relationship in Moana
Colby Y. Miyose
Dante, the Gothic, the Abject, and the Grotesque in Mathieu Missoffe’s Thriller-Crime Drama Black Spot
Richard Logsdon
I am Trying Hard to Follow the Sound: Meditations on Accepting Typhoon’s Offerings
H. Peter Steeves
REVIEWS
Religions Across Television Genres: Community, Orange Is the New Black, The Walking Dead, and Supernatural
Jarret Keene
Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race
Erika Abad
Television Comedy and Femininity: Queering Gender
Clayton N. Cobb
Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing
Heather Lusty
Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific
Julianna Crame
The Paris Husband
Carl Rollyson