MAPACA

Mid-Atlantic Popular &
American Culture Association

Presentations

• Wertham’s Counterpart? The Pro-Comic-Book Child Psychiatry of Dr. Lauretta Bender
  Helen Schubert Fields (Independent scholar)
• “Life Problems”: Youth, Sex Education, and Medical Advice of the 1910s
  Laura M. Ansley (College of William and Mary)
• Frank Merriwell Abroad: Dime Novel Cultural Imperialism and Simplifying Manly Boyhood
  Ryan Kristopher Anderson