RESEARCHING YOUNG READERS
THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL APPROACHES
THE 2ND ANNUAL SEMINAR
OF THE CENTER
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Anna Maria Czernow (Warsaw University, Poland), In Search of “Why”:
Ethnographic Interview in Reading Research
Skans Kersti Nilsson (University of Borås, Sweden), “What’s so special
about reading fiction?” Young Adults’ Attitudes and Ideas in Personal
Interviews
Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad (Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied
Sciences and The Norwegian College of Dance, Norway), Excitement,
Voice and Relevance – Sketching a Model for the Assessment of Fiction
Magdalena Rembowska-Płuciennik (Polish Academy of Sciences and the
Humanities, Warszawa, Poland) and Aleksandra Jerzmanowska (University
of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warszawa, Poland), Psychological and
Literary Perspective on Reader Response: A Joint Research Programme
11.05-11.30 Coffee break
7th June, 2015
Department of English Studies, Wrocław University
Room 308b
8.30-8.50 REGISTRATION
11.35-12.25 SESSION TWO: READERS AS WRITERS
Chair: Magdalena Rembowska-Płuciennik
Angelika Szopa (Wrocław University, Poland), When the Reader Becomes
the Writer: Fanfiction as the Cultural Legacy of Contemporary YA
Literature
Magdalena Sikorska (Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland),
Childhood Reading Memories: Brief Case Studies
8.50-9.00 OPENING
12.25-13.25 Lunch
9.00-11.05 SESSION ONE: METHODOLOGIES, APPROACHES,
RESULTS
Chair: Junko Yokota
Zofia Zasacka (National Library, Warszawa, Poland), Trends in Young
Adults’ Reading Preferences
13.25-15.05 SESSION THREE: PEDAGOGIES
Chair: Krystyna Zabawa
Karolina Jędrych (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland), In Search of a
Perfect Book Set
Dorota Michułka (Wrocław University, Poland), Katarzyna LeszczyńskaNiedrygoś (Elementary School in Żytniów and Junior High School in
Rudniki Wieluńskie, Poland), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as School
Reading
Alicja Ungeheuer-Gołąb (University of Rzeszów, Poland), On Difficult –
Not Difficult Children’s Poetry on the Example of Selected Polish
Children’s Poems
Junko Yokota (National Louis University, Chicago, USA), Literature of
Cultural Diversity: Reader Response to Mirrors and Windows
15.05-15.25 Coffee break
15.25-16.30 SESSION FOUR: YOUNG READERS AND NEW MEDIA
Chair: Skans Kersti Nilsson
Krystyna Zabawa (Jesuit University Ignatianum in Kraków, Poland),
Researching Young Readers in Digital Reality: New Challenges and New
Possibilities. A Case Study
Jakub Krogulec (Wrocław University, Poland), This War of Mine and
Papers, Please: Video Games in Service of Anti-war Sentiment
Aleksandra Mochocka (Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland),
Adaptation as Guidance and Testimony: You Tube Book Trailers of Young
Adult Fiction
16.30-16.50 Coffee Break
16.50-18.05 SESSION FIVE: YOUNG READERS AND THE VISUAL
Chair: Magdalena Sikorska
William H. Teale (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) and William
Boerman-Cornell (Trinity Christian College, USA), Graphic Novels and
Youth in the US: Trends in Publishing and School Instruction
Janice Bland (University of Münster, Germany), Multimodal Storying:
Puzzles, Secrets and Joining Dots Exemplified by Selznick’s The Invention
of Hugo Cabret
Janet Evans (independent scholar, UK), Who am I? Why am I here? and
Where do I come from? Philosophy, Picturebooks and Children
18.05 CLOSING REMARKS
19.00 DINNER