{"id":1349,"date":"2026-03-10T18:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2026-03-10T18:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:48:31","slug":"mike-piero-presents-academic-scholarship-and-fiction-at-2026-nemla-conference-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/mike-piero-presents-academic-scholarship-and-fiction-at-2026-nemla-conference-in-pittsburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Piero Presents Academic Scholarship and Fiction at 2026 NeMLA Conference in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ProgramSpeakerImage_aconm_202610_5169305_21241031.png?fit=1024%2C538&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ProgramSpeakerImage_aconm_202610_5169305_21241031.png?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ProgramSpeakerImage_aconm_202610_5169305_21241031.png?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ProgramSpeakerImage_aconm_202610_5169305_21241031.png?resize=1024%2C538&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ProgramSpeakerImage_aconm_202610_5169305_21241031.png?resize=768%2C403&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Mike Piero presented an academic paper, &#8220;&#8216;No Longer a Servant, No Less than a God&#8217;: Elegiac Praise in Cult of the Lamb,&#8221; and an award winning short story, &#8220;Rituals,&#8221; (forthcoming at <em>Soundings East<\/em> Spring 2026) at the 2026 Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in Pittsburgh, PA March 5-8. He enjoyed meeting new colleagues at these sessions, reconnecting with old friends, and sharing meaningful dialogue about video games, writing, craft, and theory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mike Piero presented an academic paper, &#8220;&#8216;No Longer a Servant, No Less than a God&#8217;: Elegiac Praise in Cult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48,29,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conferences","category-game-studies","category-speaking-engagement"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ProgramSpeakerImage_aconm_202610_5169305_21241031.png?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}