👩🏼 Devon Bradley (she/her/hers)
📍 McAllen / San Antonio, TX
📚 PhD in English @ University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)

❓ What are your research interests?
-Film history and adaptation studies (my favorite directors are Alfred Hitchcock and Roger Corman)
-Rhetorics and popular culture, paying particular attention to intersectionality and social justice movements
-Contemporary borderlands and Chicanx literatures

❓ What got you interested in pop/American culture studies?
My high school trivia team first got me interested in Pop/American studies. I ended up becoming the film/pop culture specialist on the team.

❓ What are your goals as a SWPACA Leadership Institute Fellow?
Acting as a co-area chair for the Alfred Hitchcock area for the upcoming conference, I have learned about what goes into organizing a CFP, reviewing proposals, and organizing/ moderating panels. I look forward to helping to chair one of our two panels and hearing all the fantastic research on Hitchcock!

My goals for myself as a Fellow are to soak it all up and enjoy the experience, keep networking and perhaps contribute to Dialogue or explore a different role for my second year of the Institute.

❓ What is your current pop culture passion/obsession?
My current pop culture obsession is anything spooky (I’m a big fan of all things Halloween)! I’ve been rewatching my favorite films to prepare for Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities and Netflix’s Wednesday coming out this fall.

📢 Join our next class of Schoenecke Fellows! Applications now being accepted through 12/1/22! https://southwestpca.org/leadership-institute/