After presenting the only talk about Yellowjackets at SCMS 2023 — one of only two at the conference focused on the show until this year — it was a thrill to join a panel of scholars all discussing different aspects of the show. My talk, "No Return, No Reason," addressed Yellowjackets' complicated and trauma-influenced relationship to nostalgia.
Tag: SCMS
This year I finally made it to Denver for SCMS, where I would have been in March of 2020 were it not for the whole global pandemic. I presented on '90s nostalgia, xennial/elder millennial memory and Yellowjackets and Paper Girls, among other shows about women from the same generation that use catastrophe, horror tropes, and fractured, recursive timelines to trouble of the question of who gets to look back fondly.
As the world shut down last year, I was anxiously refreshing Twitter for news that SCMS 2020 — due to be held in late March, in person — would be canceled [Narrator: it was]. After a year's delay I'll finally get to present my accepted talk: "The Core Cannot Hold: HBO’s 'Chernobyl' as a Disaster Parable and the Limits of the Dystopian Imaginary."
Kristin M. Miller 
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