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Friday 8:00-9:15 Jefferson Louise Erdrich Chair: J. D. Stahl |
Saturday 8:00-9:15 Jefferson Medieval Children Chair: Pat Hopkins |
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"Recovering Herstory: The Native American Feminine Tradition in Louise Erdrich's The Birchbark House and The Game of Silence" |
"Out of the Pilgrimage and Into the Picture Book: Illustrating the Wife of Bath's Tale for Children" Laura Gall Meador, Illinois State University |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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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 |
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"Sendak's Dream of the Wolves" |
"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 |
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| "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" |
"Old Boys: The School Story for Adults and the Adult Schoolboy" |
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| "Empty Words and Pregnant Pauses: Voice and Identity in Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War and Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak" |
"'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"Lonesome & Sad-Faced Boys: Black Male Identity in the Unpublished Fiction of Arna Bontemps" Michelle H. Martin, Clemson University |
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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 |
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"A Shift in Values: Wilderness and Civilization as Depicted in Traditional and Contemporary Fairy Tales" |
"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" |
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| "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 |
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| "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)" |
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"Reading Children Reading: Decolonizing Childhood Through the Voices of Child Experts" Peter Cumming, York University |
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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 |
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"A Century-Spanning Tree: Mary Poppins, Magical Realism, and Literary History" |
"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" |
"A Game of Snakes and Ladders: Sheila Gordon’s The Middle of Somewhere" Donna R. White, Arkansas Tech University |
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| "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 |
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| "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" |
"Blame for Not Knowing: Waiting for Moral Awakening in Sheila Gordon's Waiting for the Rain" Claudia Mills, University of Colorado at Bolder |
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| "Memory and the Blurring of Genre" Karen S. Coats, Illinois State University |
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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 |
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| "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 |
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"Rewriting the Indian: New Challenges to the Stock Indian Figure" |
"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 |
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| "'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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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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 |
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| "The Real War in Little Women" Kathryn V. Graham, Virginia Tech |
"Culture Clash: American Christians and the Fantasy of Harry Potter" |
"The Past as Carnival: Black Hearts in Battersea and the Historical Grotesque" |
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"'My Heart is My Own, to Dispose of as I Please': Conflicting Ideologies in Alcott's Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom" |
"From Shadow-Lands to Elsewhere and Beyond: Religious Imagery and Adult Attempts to Colonize Children" |
"The Presence of the Past: Bridging Time in Twentieth-Century British Fantasy for Children" Martha Hixon, Middle Tennessee State University |
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"Little Women and the Female Community: A Precursor to Sex and the City" |
"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" |
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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 |
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"Tolerance of Diversity in Three Novels by Nancy Farmer" |
"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" |
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| "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 |
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| "Female Circumcision: Historical and Cultural Misrepresentation within The Fattening Hut" |
"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 |
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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 |
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| "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 |
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"Elizabeth George Speare: Feminizing the Frontier Myth" |
"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 |
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| "An Inquiring Mind in a Borderless Homeland: Richard Rubio in José Antonio Villarreal’s Pocho" Craig Werner, Buffalo State College |
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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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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"'Clean Hands'? Britain and the Caribbean in Early 20th Century Children's Books" |
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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 |
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"'If they were not genteel, then who is so?' Class Anxiety in Early American Settler Narratives" |
"Stepping Outside Myself: Considering Multiculturalisms" Susan Larkin, Central Michigan University |
"'Just say no to pillaging': History and Choice in Nancy Farmer's Fiction" |
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| "Freedoms and Boundaries: The Importance of Setting in the American Family Story" |
"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 |
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| "'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" |
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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 |
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| "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" |
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"Vicky/Victoria: The Colonized/Colonizing Child on the Contemporary Stage" |
"'When they find the old songs and the tales, they'll delight in them': Virginia Folktales in Children's Literature" |
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"Marriage and Divorce as Cultural Conflict in Children's Cinema and Film" |
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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 |
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| "The Past in Black, White, and Green: Race Relations and Economics in Mildred D. Taylor's Logan Family Saga" |
"Where Rose Goes Wrong" Marah Gubar, University of Pittsburgh |
"How Stories Remember: On the Use of History and Oral Tradition in Writing for the |
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| "Lost and Found: Property in Elizabeth Enright's Gone-Away Lake" |
"The Children's Lit Project; or The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing as Disciplinary Allegory" Judith Plotz, George Washington University |
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| "Childhood, Class, and Constructions of the 'Other': Nancy Drew as the Child of Modernity" |
"What Ever Happened to the Faculty in Teacher Preparation?" Mary Burgan |
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Thursday 11:00-12:15 Madison Learning About History Chair: Joel Chaston |
Friday 11:00-12:15 Washington Prized Literature Chair: Roberta Rosenberg |
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"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 |
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| "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 " |
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"Great War, Great Lies: Rilla of Ingleside and the Teaching of History" |
"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 |
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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 |
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| "Metta Narratives: Picture Book Koans" |
"Inventing a Radical Tradition in Children's Literature" Julia Mickenberg, University of Texas at Austin and Philip Nel, Kansas State University |
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"Picturebook as Personal Journey: Peter Sis's Tibet: Through the Red Box" |
"Sonia Sanchez and the Nation of Islam: Writing Radicalism for Children" Katherine Capshaw Smith, University of Connecticut |
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| "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 |
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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
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Saturday 2:00-3:15 Jefferson Roundtable: Children's Book Authors Chair: |
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"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)" |
"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)" |
"Colonizing Childhood: Lewis Carroll and the Native Child Photographic Subject" |
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 | ||
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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 |
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| "'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 |
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| "Colonizing Youth in American Children's Periodicals" |
Mavis Reimer, Associate Editor, Canadian Children's Literature | "Adaptations of Don Quijote for Children: A Quixotic Enterprise?" Louise Salstad, North Carolina State University |
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| "Tiny Creatures Accomplishing Wonders: Coral Islands, Ships, and The Juvenile Missionary Magazine" |
Michelle Abate, Assistant Editor, Children's Literature |
"Pushing Frontiers in the Juvenile Novels of Robert Heinlein" Marie L. Coffey, San Antonio College |
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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 |
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| "Abjection and Invisibility in Robert Cormier's Fade" |
"Getting Through Graduate School" Marah Gubar, University of Pittsburgh |
"Christian Morgenstern and the Aesthetics of Nonsense Literature in German" Kevin Shortsleeve, University of Winnipeg |
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"In and Out the Windows: Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror and Katherine Paterson's Jacob Have I Loved" |
"Writing Publishable Articles" Julie Pfeiffer, Hollins University |
"Goggas, Tannies and Old Persons: A Comparative Investigation of |
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| "Abjection of Horror in Kadohata's The Floating World" Yoshida Junko, Kobe College |
"Negotiating the Job Market" |
"The Tenth Rasa: Nonsense from India" Michael Heyman, Berklee College of Music |
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| "Publishing a Book" Claudia Nelson, Texas A&M University |
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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 |
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"Milagros -- Miracles and Wonders: Zorro, Juan Diego and the Deadly Romance of Old California" |
"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 | ||
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"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 |
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| "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" |
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Thursday 2:00-3:15 Washington Super Hero(ine)s Chair: Tere Stouffer
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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 |
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| "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" |
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| "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" |
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| "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 |
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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 |
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| "'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" |
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| "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 |
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| "Don't Drink the Water: Colonialism and Pete Hautman's Godless" Matthew B. Prickett, Longwood University |
"Children's Gothic and the Christian Imagination" |
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Thursday 3:30-4:45 Washington First Nations Chair: Roberta Rosenberg |
Saturday 3:30-4:45 Monroe Changing Literacies Chair: Mark I. West |
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| "Current Ideologies and Past Attitudes: Can the Two Align in Historical Fiction for Young Adults?" Renee Englot |
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| "From Man Friday to Magical Realism: A Study of Native American Literature for Children and Young Adults in the English-Speaking Caribbean" |
"Disneyland's Tom Sawyer Island at Fifty: Mark Twain, Walt Disney, and the Literary Playground" |
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| "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 |
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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 |
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"'The Scene fitted Mrs. Wilder's description perfectly': Illustrating and Re-Illustrating the Little House Series" |
"When Teachers Attack: The Villain Teacher of the Contemporary Young Adult Novel" |
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"A Post-Colonial Analysis of the Representation of 'Taiwanese Senior Artists' in Children's Story Picture Books" |
"Pre-Emptive Education: Policy and Nostalgia in Lynne Cheney's America: A Patriotic Primer and A Time for Freedom" |
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| "Olive Beaupre Miller's My Book House: The Alien and the Native in Text and Image" |
"To Be a Very Useful Engine: Thomas the Tank Engine and the Good Worker" Laurie Ousley, Trocaire College |
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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 |
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| Candice Ransom | "Reclaimed History: The Slavery Stories of Julius Lester" Tricia Grattan, University of Calgary |
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| 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 |
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| Rebecca Mushko |
"Paying for the Past: Rob Thomas's Slave Day" |
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| "A Bridge Text to History: Magic Realism and the Presentation of Slavery in Walter Mosley's 47" Leona Fisher, Georgetown University |
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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 |
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| "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 |
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"'Small and Quiet and Inconspicuous': Self-Actualization in Yoshika Uchida's Journey to Topaz and Journey Home" |
"Pinocchio among the 'Wild Things': Cherubini's Colonialist Fantasy" Maria Truglio, Pennsylvania State University |
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| "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" |
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Saturday 3:30-4:45 Conference Room 230 Otherness Chair: Jean Webb |
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| "Voracious Appetites: The Construction of 'Fatness' in Children's Literature" Jean Webb, University of Worcester |
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"Perpetuating Inequality through Special |
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"The Hegemony of Western Categorization and the Underdevelopment of Children's Literature in 'Other' Worlds" |
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Saturday 3:30-4:45 Boardroom Syllabus Exchange: Assignments for the Historical Text Chair: Alisa Clapp-Itnyre |
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| Conference Room 230: Projector, Computer, DVD Player, Internet | ||||
| Jefferson Room: Projector, Overhead Projector | ||||
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Monroe Room: Overhead Projector A slide projector will be delivered as needed. |