{"id":3454,"date":"2023-03-03T09:59:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T15:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2023-03-03T09:59:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T15:59:21","slug":"ssc-professors-present-at-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/ssc-professors-present-at-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"SSC Professors Present at Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three Seminole State College language arts and humanities professors presented at the 2023 Southwest Popular and American Culture Conference during the week of Feb. 21-25. The mission of the SWPACA is to promote an innovative and nontraditional academic movement in humanities and social sciences celebrating America\u2019s cultural heritages. The annual conference provides an outlet for scholars, writers, and others interested in popular\/American culture to share ideas in a professional atmosphere and increase awareness and improve public perceptions of America\u2019s cultural traditions and diverse populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assistant Professor of English Paul Juhasz, author of \u201cRonin,\u201d which was nominated for the Oklahoma Book Award in 2022, read from his most recent prose poetry collection; \u201cInner Life of Comics.\u201d The collection was published by Turning Plow Press in the fall 2022. Associate Professor of English Yasminda Choate read her most recent non-fiction humor essay, \u201cPlease Don\u2019t Call Me Pretty,\u201d and Associate Professor of English Dr. Andrew Davis presented his academic research, \u201cTransnational Queer Cinema and Its Audiences: Analyzing Circumstance and Its Marketing and Reception.\u201d In addition to their representation of SSC with well-received presentations, the three attended sessions throughout the week, learning about recent scholarship in popular culture and pedagogy within the humanities. Their participation in the conference was generously funded through the faculty professional development fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Seminole State College language arts and humanities professors presented at the 2023 Southwest Popular and American Culture Conference during the week of Feb. 21-25. The mission of the SWPACA is to promote an innovative and nontraditional academic movement in humanities and social sciences celebrating America\u2019s cultural heritages. The annual conference provides an outlet for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/ssc-professors-present-at-conference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SSC Professors Present at Conference<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-3454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-march-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}