SCMS 2026: “No Return, No Reason: Summoning the ’90s through Yellowjackets’ Unsafe Nostalgia”

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.