THURSDAY
 
FRIDAY
 
SATURDAY
   

Friday 8:00-9:15 Jefferson

Louise Erdrich

Chair: J. D. Stahl

 

Saturday 8:00-9:15 Jefferson

Medieval Children

Chair: Pat Hopkins

   

"Recovering Herstory: The Native American Feminine Tradition in Louise Erdrich's The Birchbark House and The Game of Silence"
Don Latham, Florida State University

  "Out of the Pilgrimage and Into the Picture Book: Illustrating the Wife of Bath's Tale for Children"
Laura Gall Meador, Illinois State University
    "Chimookomanag versus Anishanabeg:   Louise Erdrich's Ultimate Game of Silence"
Edward Huffstetler, Bridgewater College
  "Illusions of Grandeur: 'Girl Power' in Adolescent Historical Fiction"
Heidi Oldenburger, Illinois State University
    "Re-Reading Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Dialog Between Louise Erdrich and the Little House Books"
J. D. Stahl, Virginia Tech
  "Judging Past and Present in Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper and Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc"
Meghan Mercier, The George Washington University
         
         

Thursday 8:00-9:15 Madison

Psychology and Children's Literature

Chair: Anita Tarr

 

Friday 8:00-9:15 Washington

British Identity I

Chair: Sally Sims Stokes

 

Saturday 8:00-9:15 Madison

Maleness

Chair: James Matthews

"Sendak's Dream of the Wolves"
Kenneth Kidd, University of Florida

  "Girls, Boys, and the British Empire: How Picture Books Served to Sustain a Nation"
Jeanne LaHaie, Western Michigan University
  "Boat Stealing and the Appropriation of Male Childhood in Treasure Island"
James Matthews, Fairmont State University
"Lies and Young Adult Literature: A Necessary Truth"
Anita Tarr, Illinois State University
 

"From Barrie to Harry: Mapping, Play, and Imperialism in Children's Culture"
Megan A. Norcia, State University of New York, College at Brockport

 

"Old Boys: The School Story for Adults and the Adult Schoolboy"
Eric Tribunella, University of Southern Mississippi

"Empty Words and Pregnant Pauses: Voice and Identity in Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War and Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak"
Jessica Daggett, Christopher Newport University

  "'So Lucky the Vicarage is in the Old Village': Noel Streatfeild Critiques the British Post-War New Towns"
Sally Sims Stokes, White House Historical Association
  "Lonesome & Sad-Faced Boys: Black Male Identity in the Unpublished Fiction of Arna Bontemps"
Michelle H. Martin, Clemson University
         
         

Thursday 8:00-9:15 Conference Room 230

Wilderness

Chair: Roark Mulligan

 

Friday 8:00-9:15 Conference Room 230

De-Colonizing Childhood, Empowering Children: The Children's Studies Program at York University

Chair: Carole Carpenter

 

Saturday 8:00-9:15 Conference Room 230

Literature of the Commonwealth

Chair: Sarah Winters

"A Shift in Values: Wilderness and Civilization as Depicted in Traditional and Contemporary Fairy Tales"
Julia Pond, Georgia State University

  "A Treasure Trove for Childist Research"
Carole Carpenter, York University

 

"Aliens in the Landscape: Maori Space and European Time in Three Novels by Margaret Mahy"
Sarah Winters, Nipissing University

"Toadstool Tartlets in Pringle Wood: The Ambivalent Views of Wilderness and Civilization in The Fairy Caravan"
Jennifer Marchant, Middle Tennessee State University
  "The Student On-Line Mentoring Program (STOMP): Technology and the De-Colonization of Children's Literature"
Lisa Wood, Laurier Brantford
  "Give and Take: Changing Space and Self in Margaret Mahy's The Changeover and The Catalogue of the Universe"
Beth Pearce, Texas State University
"Journey into the Wilderness: An Object-Relations Perspective on William Steig's Children's Books"
Jonathan Mattanah, Towson University
  "Confronting Ideologies: Children's Literature, Children's Studies and Critical Thinking"
Jeffrey Canton, York University
 

"Recreating England: The Settler and His Homecoming in the Work of G.A. Henty (1832-1902)"
Rachel Johnson, University of Worcester


  "Reading Children Reading: Decolonizing Childhood Through the Voices of Child Experts"
Peter Cumming, York University
   
         

Thursday 8:00-9:15 Jefferson

Fantastic Time

Chair: Teya Rosenberg

 

Friday 8:00-9:15 Monroe

19th Century American Literature

Chair: Amy Lee Bennett

 

Saturday 8-9:15 Monroe

Phoenix Award

Chair: Priscilla A. Ord

"A Century-Spanning Tree: Mary Poppins, Magical Realism, and Literary History"
Teya Rosenberg, Texas State University at San Marcos

 

"Two Little Pilgrims' Progress: A Story of the City Beautiful, by Francis Hodgson Burnett, and The City of Wonders: A Souvenir of the World's Fair, by Mary Catherine Crowley: Images of the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Children's Literature"
Jill P. May, Purdue University

  "A Game of Snakes and Ladders: Sheila Gordon’s The Middle of Somewhere"
Donna R. White, Arkansas Tech University
"Born Again and Again: William Steator's Books of Changes"
Thomas Morrissey, Plattsburgh State University College
 

"Unspeakable Acts: Incestuous Tensions in Maria Cummins's The Lamplighter and Other 19th Century Sentimental Children's Novels" Amy Lee Bennett, Endicott College

  "'Falling into Place': Margaret Mahy’s Alchemy"
Marilynn S. Olson, Texas State University
"Traveling Back to England: The Dangers of Teenage Time-Slip in Susan Cooper's King of Shadows and Robert Westall's The Devil on the Road"
Alison Waller, Bath Spa University
 

"From 'Not Unreal' to Fantasy: Librarians' Changing Recommendations of Children's Books, 1876 to 1900"
Kate McDowell, University of Illinois

  "Blame for Not Knowing: Waiting for Moral Awakening in Sheila Gordon's Waiting for
the Rain
"
Claudia Mills, University of Colorado at Bolder
        "Memory and the Blurring of Genre"
Karen S. Coats, Illinois State University
         

Thursday 8:00-9:15 Washington

Joseph Bruchac

Chair: Sara Schwebel

 

Friday 8:00-9:15 Madison

Children's Literature Archives

Chair: Ellen Ruffin

 

Saturday 8:00-9:15 Washington

Roundtable: Fulbright Experiences in Children's Literature

Chair: Lisa Rowe Fraustino

"White Girls, Native 'Fathers': Indian Captivity Narratives in Children's Literature as seen in The Ransom of Mercy Carter and A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony"
Jaime Warburton, Sarah Lawrence College
  "Discoveries in the Rich Territory of the Archives: The Worlds of Children and Their Books"
Ellen Ruffin, Curator, de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
 

Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Eastern Connecticut State University

"Rewriting the Indian: New Challenges to the Stock Indian Figure"
Sara Schwebel, The Williams School

  "Jenny's List: Reflections on Books Read by Louisa Jane Trumbull"
Laura Wasowicz, The American Antiquarian Society
  Wajuppa Tossa, Mahasarakham University
"The 'Homing In' of Howard Camp: Hidden Roots in Joseph Bruchac's Hidden Roots"
Michelle Pagni Stewart, Mt. San Jacinto College
  "Claiming New Territory: Louise S. Bechtel and the Establishment of Juvenile Departments in American Publishing Houses"
Rita Smith, University of Florida
  Phanida Phunkrathok, University of Minnesota
         
         

Thursday 9:30-10:45 Jefferson

War and Children's Literature

Chair: Roark Mulligan

 

Friday 9:30-10:45 Jefferson

British Identity II

Chair: Nancy Barendse

 

Saturday 8:00-9:15 Boardroom

Author Chat: Sue Corbett

"'What does it matter to us?': War and Masculinity in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and L.M. Montgomery's Rilla of Ingleside"
Laura Robinson, Royal Military College
  "Harry Potter and the Postcolonial View"
Lana A. Whited, Ferrum College
   
"Representing Patriotism: Marketing Campaigns for Children's Books During the World War I Era"
Katy Southern, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  "England Before It Was English: Three Novels of Britain by Rosemary Sutcliff"
Nancy Barendse, Charleston Southern University
   
    "The Mummification vs. The Cremation of Folklore: The Rhetorical Difference between Joseph Jacobs's and Lewis Carroll's Colonization of Oral English Culture"
Ryan Kerr, Eastern Michigan University
   
         
         

Thursday 9:30-10:45 Monroe

Louisa May Alcott

Chair: Kathryn V. Graham

 

Friday 9:30-10:45 Madison

Series Fantasy

Chair: Jameela Lares

 

Saturday 9:30-10:45 Monroe

Place, Time, and Joan Aiken

Chair: Martha Hixon

"The Real War in Little Women"
Kathryn V. Graham, Virginia Tech
 

"Culture Clash: American Christians and the Fantasy of Harry Potter"
Jameela Lares, University of Southern Mississippi

 

"The Past as Carnival: Black Hearts in Battersea and the Historical Grotesque"
Claudia Nelson, Texas A&M University

"'My Heart is My Own, to Dispose of as I Please': Conflicting Ideologies in Alcott's Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom"
Melissa Smith, Illinois State University

 

"From Shadow-Lands to Elsewhere and Beyond: Religious Imagery and Adult Attempts to Colonize Children"
Fran Haley, East Carolina University

  "The Presence of the Past: Bridging Time in Twentieth-Century British Fantasy for Children"
Martha Hixon, Middle Tennessee State University

"Little Women and the Female Community: A Precursor to Sex and the City"
Kimberly Gottlieb, Missouri State University

  "The Manufactured Magics of Oz: Putting the Human into Technology"
Keith Dorwick, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
 

"Possessing the Present: The Intrusive Past in Joan Aiken's Poems"
Richard C. Burke, Lynchburg College

         
         

Thursday 9:30-10:45 Madison

Adolescent Identity Formation

Chair: Angelia M. Northrip-Rivera

 

Friday 9:30-10:45 Monroe

Problems with History

Chair: Paula T. Connolly

 

Saturday 9:30-10:45 Conference Room 230

American Girls

Chair: Ramona Anne Caponegro

"Tolerance of Diversity in Three Novels by Nancy Farmer"
Kimberly Kennelly, San Diego State University

  "Fortune's Bones: A Study in Synesthesia"
Frieda Bostian, Virginia Tech
 

"Becoming a 'Red-Blooded' American: White Tomboyism and American Indian Tribalism in Caddie Woodlawn"
Michelle Ann Abate, Hollins University

"Aspects of the Greenwitch in Children's and Young Adult Literature: Learning the Craft"
Angelia M. Northrip-Rivera, Missouri State University
  "Recreating Histories: White Power and Fear in Early Twentieth-Century Children's Literature"
Paula T. Connolly, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  "Don't Forget the "Bad" Girls: Female Juvenile Delinquency in the 1950s"
Ramona Anne Caponegro, University of Florida

"Female Circumcision: Historical and Cultural Misrepresentation within The Fattening Hut"
Lauren E. Rizzuto, Clemson University

  "Nostalgia, Childhood and Our Canadian Historical Consciousness"
Katherine Bell, York University
  "Mermaid as Immigrant/Other: Comparing Aquamarine as Novel and Film"
Katie Kapurch, Texas State University
         
         

Thursday 9:30-10:45 Conference Room 230

Domestic Spaces

Chair: Celestine Woo

 

Friday 9:30-10:45 Conference Room 230

Mexican Children's Literature

Chair: Mavis Reimer

 

Saturday 9:30-10:45 Madison

Theorizing Sexual Agencies

Chair: Caroline E. Jones

"Playing at House and Playing at Home: the Domestic Discourse of Games in Nesbit, Barrie, and Stevenson"
Michelle Beissel Heath, The George Washington University
  "Invitations to the Reader: Authorial Voices and Response-Inviting Structures in Contemporary Mexican Fiction for Children"
Evelyn Arizpe, University of Glasgow
  "Gay and Bisexual Teen Girls Negotiate Sexual Power"
Deborah Brothers, Lincoln Land Community College

"Elizabeth George Speare: Feminizing the Frontier Myth"
Celestine Woo, Empire State College

  "Entre voces…Mexican Histories from Indigenous Voices"
Sarah Corona, Universidad de Guadalajara
 
"Sisterhoods and Gossip Girls: Playing it Straight in Teen Fiction"
Caroline Jones, Texas State University at San Marcos
    "An Inquiring Mind in a Borderless Homeland: Richard Rubio in José Antonio Villarreal’s Pocho"
Craig Werner, Buffalo State College
   
         
         

Thursday 9:30-10:45 Washington

Generational/Cultural Differences

Chair: Lois Rauch Gibson

 

Friday 9:30-10:45 Washington

Ideology and Nationhood

Chair: Janelle Mathis

 

Saturday 9:30-10:45 Jefferson

British Imperialism

Chair: Karen Sands-O'Connor

"The Gulf Between Cultures, The Gulf Between Generations: Farewell to Manzanar and An Island Like You"
Lois Rauch Gibson, Coker College
  "Alternate Perspectives on Representations of the Past in Recent Children's/Adolescent Literature"
Janelle Mathis, University of North Texas
  "The Chota Sahib: Hegemonic Themes in the Children's Literature of the Raj"
Karyn Huenemann, Simon Fraser University
"The Kinship Continuum: Intergenerational Relationships and Reciprocity in African- American Children's Picture Books"
Bridgid Shannon, Hollins University
  "Colonial Korea According to Youth Literature: America's Absence and the Distancing of Distress 1935-1945"
Sarah Park, University of Illinois
  "Countering Conversion: Missionary Debates and Colonial Policy in Mary Sherwood's The History of Little Henry and His Bearer"
Supriya Goswami, California State University
"Taking Root in the Melting Pot: Assimilation, Ethnic Identity, and Holiday Celebrations in Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"
Regina Puleo, Hollins University
 

 

 

"'Clean Hands'? Britain and the Caribbean in Early 20th Century Children's Books"
Karen Sands-O'Connor, Buffalo State College

         
         

Thursday 11:00-12:15 Jefferson

On the Prairie

Chair: Margit Codispoti

 

Friday 11:00-12:15 Conference Room 230

The First Annual Diversity Panel, Sponsored by the Diversity Committee

Chair: Michelle Martin and Michelle Pagni Stewart

 

Saturday 9:30-10:45 Washington

Trauma

Chair: Katie Sciurba

"'If they were not genteel, then who is so?'  Class Anxiety in Early American Settler Narratives"
Jackie C. Horne, Simmons College

  "Stepping Outside Myself: Considering Multiculturalisms"
Susan Larkin, Central Michigan University
 

"'Just say no to pillaging': History and Choice in Nancy Farmer's Fiction"
Adrienne Kertzer, University of Calgary

"Freedoms and Boundaries: The Importance of Setting in the American Family Story"
Margit Codispoti, Hollins University

  "A Happier 'Crocoduck': the Politics and the Problematic Representation of Multiculturalism in Chih-Yuan Chen's Guji Guji"
Andrea Mei-Ying Wu, National Taitung University, Taiwan
  "Masking and Narrating Trauma in African-American Historical Narrative: The Example of Christopher Paul Curtis's Kenny Watson"
Karen Chandler, University of Louisville
"'The Fascination and the Terror': Reading the American Gothic in Wilder's Little House Books"
Dawn Sardella-Ayres, Hollins University
  "'Honey Hush': Black English Oral Traditions in Heaven and First Part Last"
Yvonne Atkinson, California State University at San Bernardino
 

"Deal With It, Sort Of: The Picture Book Treatment of 9/11"
Katie Sciurba, New York University

         
         

Thursday 11:00-12:15 Conference Room 230

Politics and Children's Literature

Chair: Ian Wojcik Andrews

 

Friday 11:00-12:15 Madison

Virginia Fiction and Folktales

Chair: Tina Hanlon

 

Saturday 9:30-10:45 Boardroom

Author Chat: Lisa Rowe Fraustino

"Queering the Disney Version: Progressive Politics in Disney's Lilo & Stitch"
Kerry Mockler, University of Pittsburgh
 

"Virginia Authors Illuminate Issues of Poverty Through Powerful Fiction"
Susan Virginia Mead, Ferrum College

   

"Vicky/Victoria: The Colonized/Colonizing Child on the Contemporary Stage"
Annette Wannamaker, Eastern Michigan University

 

"'When they find the old songs and the tales, they'll delight in them': Virginia Folktales in Children's Literature"
Tina Hanlon, Ferrum College

   

"Marriage and Divorce as Cultural Conflict in Children's Cinema and Film"
Ian Wojcik Andrews, Eastern Michigan University

       
         
         

Thursday 11:00-12:15 Monroe

Money, Property, Ownership, and Class

Chair: Lori Campbell

 

Friday 11:00-12:15 Monroe

The Field of Children's Literature

Chair: Judith Plotz

 

Saturday 11:00-12:15

Plenary Session: Joseph Bruchac

"The Past in Black, White, and Green: Race Relations and Economics in Mildred D. Taylor's Logan Family Saga"
Lori Campbell, University of Pittsburgh

  "Where Rose Goes Wrong"
Marah Gubar, University of Pittsburgh
 

"How Stories Remember: On the Use of History and Oral Tradition in Writing for the
Young Reader"

"Lost and Found: Property in Elizabeth Enright's Gone-Away Lake"
Lorinda B. Cohoon, University of Memphis

  "The Children's Lit Project; or The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing as Disciplinary Allegory"
Judith Plotz, George Washington University
   

"Childhood, Class, and Constructions of the 'Other': Nancy Drew as the Child of Modernity"
Genevieve Sawyer Baumann, Illinois State University

  "What Ever Happened to the Faculty in Teacher Preparation?"
Mary Burgan
   
         

 

 

 

   

Thursday 11:00-12:15 Madison

Learning About History

Chair: Joel Chaston

 

Friday 11:00-12:15 Washington

Prized Literature

Chair: Roberta Rosenberg

   

 

  "Listening to Whispers Sweet and Thunder Rolling: A Multicultural Feminist Approach to Newberys with Black Central Characters"
Roger Clark and Pamela J. Keller, Rhode Island College
   
"How We Learn about History, How We Forget: Imperial Japan's colonization of China (1931-1945) in Literature for American Young People"
Minjie Chen, University of Illinois
 

"Why An Award of Our Own? How Immigrant Images and Representations in Caldecott and Newbery Awards Lead to the Creation of Ethnic Book Awards "
Alice Crosetto and Mark Horan, University of Toledo

   

"Great War, Great Lies: Rilla of Ingleside and the Teaching of History"
Elaine Ostry, SUNY-Plattsburgh

  "Champions of Peace and Sticks In the Mud: Images of Social Justice in Mid-Twentieth Century U. S. Children's Literature"
Susan C. Griffith, Central Michigan University
   
         

 

 

 

   

Thursday 11:00-12:15 Washington

Metanarrative: Displacement and Metamorphoses

Chair: Katherine Capshaw Smith

 

Friday 11:00-12:15 Jefferson

Recovering a Radical Tradition of Children's Literature

Chair: Philip Nel

   

"Metta Narratives: Picture Book Koans"
Nathalie op de Beeck, Illinois State University

  "Inventing a Radical Tradition in Children's Literature"
Julia Mickenberg, University of Texas at Austin and Philip Nel, Kansas State University
   

"Picturebook as Personal Journey: Peter Sis's Tibet: Through the Red Box"
Aparna Gollapudi, Colorado State University

  "Sonia Sanchez and the Nation of Islam: Writing Radicalism for Children"
Katherine Capshaw Smith, University of Connecticut
   
"Complications of Metanarrative Play and Displacement in the Olivia Series"
Abbye Meyer, University of Connecticut
  "Nonsense Literature and Radical Utopianism"
Kevin Shortsleeve, University of Winnipeg
   
         
         

Thursday 2:00-3:15 Jefferson

Humans and Animals

Chair: Catherine L. Elick

 

Friday 2:00-3:15 Washington

Colonizing the Child

Chair: Chris McGee

 

 

Saturday 2:00-3:15 Jefferson

Roundtable: Children's Book Authors

Chair:

"In Our Sights: Africa and Adolescence Through the Lens of the Hunter in R.M. Ballantyne's The Gorilla Hunters (1860) and C. Falkenhorst's In Kamerun (1887)"
Kara Getrost, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  "Nineteenth-Century Children's Hymnody: Defining Childhood Amongst Chords and Verses"
Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Indiana University East
  Joseph Bruchac

"Were-animals: The Next Rung on the Hierarchical Ladder: Patrice Kindl's Owl in Love (1994) and Annette Curtis Klause's Blood and Chocolate (1997)"
Cat Yampell, Wayne State University

 

"Colonizing Childhood: Lewis Carroll and the Native Child Photographic Subject"
R. Nichole Rougeau-Vanderford, University of Texas of the Permian Basin

  Lisa Rowe Fraustino
"Ben and Me and Mr. Revere and I: Robert Lawson's Animal-Eye Narratives of Revolutionary America"
Catherine L. Elick, Bridgewater College
  "Civilizing the Girl's Wild(er)ness: The Colonizing Work of Nineteenth-Century Domestic Fiction"
Jani L. Barker, Southeastern Oklahoma State University
  Gretchen Laskas
        Sue Corbett
         

Thursday 2:00-3:15 Madison

Children's Periodicals

Chair: Pat Hopkins

 

Friday 2:00-3:15 Monroe

Editor's Roundtable

Chair: Richard Flynn

 

Saturday 2:00-3:15 Monroe

"Juvenile" Revisionings

Chair: Chris McGee

"'Dangers, Vicissitudes, Escapes, New Surroundings, Hopes and Fears':   Constructing Imperialist and Frontier Spaces in Nineteenth-Century Young Adult Fiction"
Janis Dawson, University of Victoria
  Richard Flynn, Editor, ChLAQ   "A Honeycombed History: Ned Kelly and the City of Bees"
Sarah Marxhausen, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Colonizing Youth in American Children's Periodicals"
Anna Redcay, University of Pittsburgh

  Mavis Reimer, Associate Editor, Canadian Children's Literature   "Adaptations of Don Quijote for Children: A Quixotic Enterprise?"
Louise Salstad, North Carolina State University

"Tiny Creatures Accomplishing Wonders: Coral Islands, Ships, and The Juvenile Missionary Magazine"
Michelle Elleray, University of Guelph

 

Michelle Abate, Assistant Editor, Children's Literature

  "Pushing Frontiers in the Juvenile Novels of Robert Heinlein"
Marie L. Coffey, San Antonio College
       

 

         

Thursday 2:00-3:15 Conference Room 230

Abjection, Horror, and Terror

Chair: Susan Louise Stewart

 

Friday 2:00-3:15 Madison

Building an Academic Career in Children's Literature

Chair: Anna Redcay

 

Saturday 2:00-3:15 Madison

There Was an Old Man of Cape Town, Bonn, and Bombay: Comparatives Studies of World Nonsense

Chair: Kevin Shortsleeve

"Abjection and Invisibility in Robert Cormier's Fade"
Susan Louise Stewart, Texas A&M University at Commerce

  "Getting Through Graduate School"
Marah Gubar, University of Pittsburgh
  "Christian Morgenstern and the Aesthetics of Nonsense Literature in German"
Kevin Shortsleeve, University of Winnipeg

"In and Out the Windows: Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror and Katherine Paterson's Jacob Have I Loved"
Martha Westwater, Massasoit Community College

  "Writing Publishable Articles"
Julie Pfeiffer, Hollins University
 

"Goggas, Tannies and Old Persons: A Comparative Investigation of
Edward Lear and Philip de Vos"
Kathleen Pendlebury, Rhodes University

"Abjection of Horror in Kadohata's The Floating World
Yoshida Junko, Kobe College
 

"Negotiating the Job Market"
Kenneth Kidd, University of Florida

  "The Tenth Rasa: Nonsense from India"
Michael Heyman, Berklee College of Music
    "Publishing a Book"
Claudia Nelson, Texas A&M University
   
         

Thursday 2:00-3:15 Monroe

West of the West

Chair: Kelly Herold

 

Friday 2:00-3:15 Conference Room 230

Pocahontas

Chair: A. Waller Hastings

 

Saturday 2:00-3:15 Washington

Fictional Depictions of Culture

Chair: Margaret Mackey

"Milagros -- Miracles and Wonders: Zorro, Juan Diego and the Deadly Romance of Old California"
Amanda Cockrell, Hollins University

  "Pocahontas in Children's Literature: A Colonization Tool"
Mary J. Couzelis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  "Readings of Resistance and Readings of Recognition in Britain's Oldest Colony" Margaret Mackey, University of Alberta

  "Iracema, the Brazilian Pocahontas: Colonization and Miscegenation in Brazil and the United States"
Lilian Feitosa, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  "Emerging Identities: Children's Literature for a New South Africa"
Jenna Williams, Rhodes University
"Baba Yaga Heads West"
Kelly Herold, Grinnell College
  "History, Fiction, and Myth in Children's Versions of Pocahontas"
A. Waller Hastings, Northern State University
 

"Negotiating Ethnic Identity in Gullah Children's Literature: Cultural Preservation and Assimilation"
Emily Atkins, Clemson University

         

 

 

 

   

Thursday 2:00-3:15 Washington

Super Hero(ine)s

Chair: Tere Stouffer

 

 

Friday 2:00-3:15 Jefferson

Children's Literature and Modernism

Chair: Karin E. Westman

 

Saturday 2:00-3:15 Conference Room 230

Control and Creativity

Chair: Joan Menefee

"A New Kind of Literary Hero: Drawing on Existing Hero's Models to Describe the Journey of the YA Hero"
Tere Stouffer, Hollins University
  "Children's Literature and Modernism: Past, Present, and Future"
Karin E. Westman, Kansas State University
 

"Controlling Creativity: The Role of Adults in Children's Drawing"
Michelle Hudgens, Ozarks Technical Community College

"Heroes in Drag, Not Damsels in Distress"
Mary Ann Cappiello, Lesley University
  "Children's Literature and the Pressures of Modernity"
Ann Martin, Dalhousie University
 

"'This is Brad. I drew him myself.' Visualizing Alice's Adventure's in Cyberland Through New Media"
Tammy Lee Mielke, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

"Examining Popular Faces of Girlhood in the 1940s: Disappearance or Guerilla Agency?" Anna L. Nielsen, University of Illinois   "Where the Wild Things Are: Sendak, Jameson, and the Periodization of Children's Literature"
Carl Miller, University of Florida
  "The Shape of a Hand: Children's Drawings in Early 20th-Century Psychology"
Joan Menefee, University of Wisconsin at Stout
   
   
         

Thursday 3:30-4:45 Madison

Contemporary Literature

Chair: June Cummins

     

Saturday 2:00-3:15 Boardroom

The Historical Progression of Metanarratives in Children's Fantasy

Chair: Karen Coats

"'You Are SO Not Sure of Your Jewish Identity: Contemporary Jewish Girls' Fiction and the Rise of the Kvetchfessional"
June Cummins, San Diego State University
     

"Behind the Dust and Magic: The Religious Heritage of Contemporary Children's and Adolescent Fantasy"
Melody Green, Illinois State University

"The Remnant Writes: Echoes of the Holocaust in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events"
Suzanne Michele LaFleur, New School
      "Re-vision and the Persistence of Patriarchy in the History of Feminist Fairytales"
Elizabeth Gillhouse, Illinois State University
"Don't Drink the Water: Colonialism and Pete Hautman's Godless"
Matthew B. Prickett, Longwood University
     

"Children's Gothic and the Christian Imagination"
Karen Coats, Illinois State University

         
         

Thursday 3:30-4:45 Washington

First Nations

Chair: Roberta Rosenberg

     

Saturday 3:30-4:45 Monroe

Changing Literacies

Chair: Mark I. West

"Current Ideologies and Past Attitudes: Can the Two Align in Historical Fiction for Young Adults?"
Renee Englot
     

 

"From Man Friday to Magical Realism: A Study of Native American Literature for Children and Young Adults in the English-Speaking Caribbean"
Cynthia James, The University of the West Indies

     

"Disneyland's Tom Sawyer Island at Fifty: Mark Twain, Walt Disney, and the Literary Playground"
Mark I. West, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

"Myth or Reality: Versions of Pocahontas for Children"
Kathleen Murphey, Community College of Philadelphia
      "Distraction and Destruction in Back to Baghdad: Images of Iraq in a Current Videogame"
Elizabeth Gargano, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
         
         

Thursday 3:30-4:45 Conference Room 230

Illustrations

Chair: Anne K. Phillips

     

Saturday 3:30-4:45 Madison

Teaching and Ideology in Children's Literature

Chair: Rhonda Brock-Servais

"'The Scene fitted Mrs. Wilder's description perfectly': Illustrating and Re-Illustrating the Little House Series"
Anne K. Phillips, Kansas State University

     

"When Teachers Attack: The Villain Teacher of the Contemporary Young Adult Novel"
Rhonda Brock-Servais, Longwood University

"A Post-Colonial Analysis of the Representation of 'Taiwanese Senior Artists' in Children's Story Picture Books"
Chien-hua Kuo, National Taitung University

     

"Pre-Emptive Education: Policy and Nostalgia in Lynne Cheney's America: A Patriotic Primer and A Time for Freedom"
Anastasia Ulanowicz, University of Florida

"Olive Beaupre Miller's My Book House: The Alien and the Native in Text and Image"
Rennie Custis Mapp, Dickinson College

      "To Be a Very Useful Engine: Thomas the Tank Engine and the Good Worker"
Laurie Ousley, Trocaire College
         
         

Thursday 3:30-4:45 Monroe

Virginia Authors: Writing Books for Children about Virginia History

Chair: Amanda Cockrell

     

Saturday 3:30-4:45 Washington

Slave Narratives

Chair: Leona Fisher

Candice Ransom       "Reclaimed History: The Slavery Stories of Julius Lester"
Tricia Grattan, University of Calgary
Karen Adams       "'If I Was My Own Master': Subjective Constructions of Self and the Slave Narrative Frame in Flake's The Skin I'm In"
Kelly Owen, College of Charleston
Rebecca Mushko      

"Paying for the Past: Rob Thomas's Slave Day"
Sara Day, Texas A&M University

        "A Bridge Text to History: Magic Realism and the Presentation of Slavery in Walter Mosley's 47"
Leona Fisher, Georgetown University
         

Thursday 3:30-4:45 Jefferson

"Inside the Barbed Wire": Japanese-American Internment in Contemporary Children's Literature

Chair: Gwen Athene Tarbox

     

Saturday 3:30-4:45 Jefferson

Wild Things

Chair: Anne Reef

"Shadow and Light: Cultural Memory and Erasure in Virginia Euwer Wolff's Bat 6"
Gabrielle Atwood Halko, West Chester University
      "Eyeing the Wild and the Civilized in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are"
Niki Wilson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

"'Small and Quiet and Inconspicuous': Self-Actualization in Yoshika Uchida's Journey to Topaz and Journey Home"
Gwen Athene Tarbox, Western Michigan University

      "Pinocchio among the 'Wild Things': Cherubini's Colonialist Fantasy"
Maria Truglio, Pennsylvania State University
"Illustrating Social Justice: Using Picture Books to Remember the Internment of Japanese and Japanese-Americans"
Jeanne LaHaie, Western Michigan University
     

"When You Can't See the Forest Because There are No Trees: Children, Ecocriticism, and Postcolonialism Dalene Matthee's Circles in a Forest and Ben Okri's The Famished Road"
Anne Reef, The University of Memphis

       

 

         
       

Saturday 3:30-4:45 Conference Room 230

Otherness

Chair: Jean Webb

        "Voracious Appetites: The Construction of 'Fatness' in Children's Literature"
Jean Webb, University of Worcester
       

"Perpetuating Inequality through Special
Education in Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key"
Carolyn Giles, University of Pittsburgh

       

"The Hegemony of Western Categorization and the Underdevelopment of Children's Literature in 'Other' Worlds"
Ming Cherng Duh, National Taitung University, Taiwan

         
         

Meeting Room/Technology Key:

Washington Room: Projector, Computer, DVD Player, Internet, Overhead Projector

     

Saturday 3:30-4:45 Boardroom

Syllabus Exchange: Assignments for the Historical Text

Chair: Alisa Clapp-Itnyre

Conference Room 230: Projector, Computer, DVD Player, Internet        
Jefferson Room: Projector, Overhead Projector        
Madison Room: Projector, Overhead Projector        

Monroe Room: Overhead Projector
Boardroom

A slide projector will be delivered as needed.