Table of Contents

Editorial

Reinterpretations of Popular Culture and Pedagogy
A. S. CohenMiller

Articles

Scarlett O’Hara, Solomon Northrup, and Ta-Nehisi Coates: Helping Students Grasp the Relationship between Popular Culture and Contemporary Racial Politics
Allison Rank

“Every Time I Write a Rhyme / These People Think It’s a Crime”: Persona Problems in Catullus and Eminem
Jesse Weiner

Making the Case for Teaching Character Change in Complex TV: The Closer and Major Crimes
Emily Hoffman

Human Sacrifice and Propaganda in Popular Discourse: More Than Morbid Curiosity
Jason Tatlock

Studying Silence in Popular Culture
Kathy Merlock Jackson and Terrance Lindvall

Online-Only Short Articles

Musing on Pedagogy

YouTube and Linguistic Variation Analysis
Bridget Goodman

Book Review

Engaging Interdisciplinary Conversations
Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed and Timothy D. Saeed

Film Review

Groupthink in the Cave: A New Perspective on The Matrix
Emily Petermann