Thursday, March 29, 2007
Registration: 8:00-9:00 a.m. – Williamson Foyer
Session 1: 9:00-10:30 a.m.
1.1 HIV/AIDS in Young Adult Novels Project – Brentwood
Moderator: Melissa Gross
“HIV/AIDS in Young Adult Novels”
Melissa Gross, Florida State University
“HIV/AIDS: The Cover Story”
Annette Goldsmith, Florida State University
“HIV/AIDS: Covering it Up”
Debi Carruth, Florida State University
1.2 Alternative Alices – Franklin
Moderator: Kara Keeling
“Sustaining Order in the Midst of Nonsense: Carroll’s ‘Other’ Voices, Alice, and the Frame
Tales”
Antoinette Tadolini, Kansas State University
“Changing Images of Alice: From Wonderland to The Matrix”
J. Edgar Mihelic, Kansas State University
“From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to [insert Arabic here]: Cultural and Linguistic
Difficulties in Translating to the Arabic Text”
Abeer A. Al-Sarrani, Kansas State University
1.3 The Lion, the Son of Adam, and the Question of Time – Davidson
Moderator: Melissa McCrory Hatcher
“Aslan’s Muscular Christianity”
Melissa McCrory Hatcher, The University of Memphis
“Aslan, Edmund, and the Structure of a Fantastic Theology: The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe as C. S. Lewis’ Presentation of the ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’”
Corey Latta, The University of Memphis
“The Function of Time in C.S. Lewis' The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe”
Sarah Cheon, The University of Memphis
10:30 a.m., Complimentary Refreshments
Session 2: 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
2.1 Religion and Spirituality in Children’s Fantasy – Brentwood
Moderator: Naomi Wood
“The Pan-Religious Possibilities of Mary Poppins”
Teya Rosenberg, Texas State University-San Marcos
“Terry Pratchett and Religions of the Book: A Deconstruction”
Naomi Wood, Kansas State University
“Finding the Truth in the Tale: Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials”
Elisabeth Rose Gruner, University of Richmond
2.2 Good and Evil Mothers – Franklin
Moderator: Susan Stan
“The Disney Mystique: Reproduction of Mothering in Film Adaptations of Children’s Literary
Classics”
Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Eastern Connecticut State University
“Non-sacrificial Female Identity in Dorothy Wordsworth’s ‘Mary Jones and her Pet-lamb’”
Elizabeth Reimer, Thompson Rivers University
“The Emergence of the Feminine in Contemporary Schoolboy Novels: An Examination of The
Chocolate War and Holes”
Laura King, University of Chicago
2.3 On the Outside Looking In: The Defamiliarization of Traditional Children’s and Adolescent
Texts - Davidson
Moderator: Melody Green
“Gathering the Women: Gender Construction in Contemporary Collections of Biblical Stories”
Elizabeth Gillhouse, Illinois State University
“From Modernism to Postmodernism: The Female Hero Quest in The Tombs of Atuan and I Am
Morgan La Fay”
Melody Green, Illinois State University
“‘Defamiliarizing’ the Familiar: Re-visioning History in Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic
and Briar Rose”
Genevieve Sawyer Baumann, Illinois State University
12:30-2:00 p.m., Lunch Break
Session 3: 2:00-3:30 p.m.
3.1 Playful Texts - Brentwood
Moderator: Megan Cook
“Deconstructing Everything (and Nothing) in Maurice Sendak’s Higglety Pigglety Pop!”
Katie E. Strode, Pasadena City College
“Playroom Invasion: Fiction as Childhood Agency in E. Nesbit’s The Phoenix and the Carpet”
Carla Schuster, Kansas State University
“Playful Little Women: Louisa May Alcott and Game Theory”
Kathryn V. Graham, Virginia Tech University
3.2 Horror, Terror and the Uncanny – Franklin
Moderator: Jill P. May
“Personifying Place: Francesca Lia Block's Exploitation of Nostalgia and the Uncanny in I Was
a Teenage Fairy”
Lee M. Talley, Rowan University
“The Sybil and the Slasher: The Fairy Tale, The Storyteller, and the Contemporary American
Horror Film”
Leslie Ashby, Illinois State University
“The Half-Blood Genre: Harry Potter and the Battle with Gothic Fiction”
Amy Billone, University of Tennessee
3.3 Resonating Across Cultural Boundaries - Davidson
Moderator: Margaret R. Higonnet
“The Sanctuary of Silence: Language, Loss, and Liminality in Marilou Awiakta's Rising Fawn
and the Fire Mystery”
Carole Brown Knuth, Buffalo State College
“Revising and Reclaiming the Cultural Borders: Third Generation Latina Children’s Literature”
Michelle Pagni Stewart, Mt. San Jacinto College
“Historicizing Representations of Native American Ideology in Picture Books for Children”
Edwina Helton, Indiana University East
3:30 p.m., Complimentary Refreshments
Session 4: 4:00-5:30 p.m.
4.1 Consumption and Identity - Brentwood
Moderator: Lisa Rowe Fraustino
“Here and Now Fairy Tales: Carl Sandburg, Wanda Gág, and Modernist Nostalgia”
Nathalie op de Beeck, Illinois State University
“The Child Body in High Capitalism: Consumption, Production, and Resistance in 20th Century
Children's Literature”
Abbie E. Ventura, Illinois State University
“Commodities, Self, and Security in an Insecure World”
Joy Dangora, Happy Hollow School
4.2 The Child and Ideology – Franklin
Moderator: Elisabeth Rose Gruner
“Sifting Messages in Shifting Times: Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and The
Land”
Pam Manley Davis, Middle Tennessee State University
“Colonizing the Child Reader of Imperialistic Victorian Children’s Literature: An Exploration of
the Thresholds of Kipling's Jungle Books”
Melissa Mullins, University of Connecticut
4.3 Adolescent Anxiety - Davidson
Moderator: Sara Poe
“(I)dentity, Adol(essence), and the (You)th Movement: Ambiguity in Philip K. Dick’s The Three
Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch”
Ben Smallwood, Illinois State University
“‘I Watch Myself Disappear in Their Eyes’: Theorizing the Invisible Adolescent”
Susan Stewart, Texas A&M-Commerce
“Rejecting the Self, Embracing the Self: Ideology and Anxiety in Adult and Adolescent
Dystopias”
Melissa Sara Smith, Illinois State University
Cocktail Reception: 6:00-7:00 p.m., Johnson/Jackson Room, First Floor
Friday, March 30, 2007
Session 5: 9:00-10:30 a.m.
5.1 The End of Children’s Literature, Part I – Brentwood
Moderator: Michael Joseph
“The Meaning and End of Children's Literature”
Michael Joseph, Rutgers University Libraries
“War and the Ends of Children’s Literature”
Margaret R. Higonnet, University of Connecticut
“Curious Boys, or How William S. Burroughs Murdered Children’s Literature”
Joseph Thomas, California State University, Northridge
5.2 Violence and Trauma – Franklin
Moderator: Christine Doyle
“Of Mice and Men: Discipline, Sympathy and the Self in Late Eighteenth-Century Children's
Literature”
Adrianne Wadewitz, Indiana University
“Lynching 101: Stories of the Murder of Emmett Till for Young Adults”
Michelle H. Martin, Clemson University
“Retelling 9/11: How Picture Books Re-Envision National Crises”
Paula T. Connolly, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
5.3 Sleuthing a Mystery - Davidson
Moderator: Aisha Barnes
“Class Politics: An Approach to Nancy Drew Across 76 Years”
Leona Fisher, Georgetown University
“Realism, Passion, and Intellectual Integrity: Harry Potter and the Detective Fiction of Dorothy
Sayers”
Karin E. Westman, Kansas State University
“Nancy Drew and Hermione, Too: The Girl Sleuth and the Status Quo”
Susan Hopkirk, Middle Tennessee State University
10:30 a.m., Complimentary Refreshments
Session 6: 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
6.1 The End of Children’s Literature, Part II – Brentwood
Moderator: Joseph Thomas
“The Means and Ends of Black Arts Children’s Literature”
Katharine Capshaw Smith, University of Connecticut
“The End of Poetry”
Richard Flynn, Georgia Southern University
“Rubrics: Murdering Children's Literature – The Saga Continues . . .”
Lissa Paul, Brock University
6.2 Exploring Picture Book Conventions – Franklin
Moderator: Edwina Helton
“Bruno Munari: New Designs for Picture Books”
George Bodmer, Indiana University Northwest
“Red Clothes and Metanarratives in Falconer’s Olivia”
Abbye Meyer, University of Connecticut
“Musical Picture Books: Reading and Listening to Margaret Wise Brown and Raffi”
Jan Susina, Illinois State University
6.3 Ethics and Power – Davidson
Moderator: Karen Coats
“Meditations on the Ethics of Power in Georgia Byng’s Molly Moon Novels”
Kim E. Becnel
“Magic and the Anti-romantic Child: The Fiction of Diana Wynne Jones”
Amelia A. Rutledge, George Mason University
“The Trappings of Man – The Freedom of Animal: Biotechnologically Blurred Boundaries in
Young Adult Science Fiction”
Cat Yampell, Wayne State University
12:30-2:00 p.m., Lunch Break
Session 7: 2:00-3:30 p.m.
7.1 Children as Artists - Brentwood
Moderator: George Bodmer
“American Children’s Cookbooks: Charting the Loss of Instruction, Writing, and Memory”
Kara Keeling and Scott Pollard, Christopher Newport University
“Is She For Real? Historical Implications and Modern Complications of Female Literacy in the
Middle Ages”
Lauren E. Rizzuto, Clemson University
“Processing the World: Acts of Creation and Production in Young Adult Literature”
Aisha Barnes, Western Illinois University
7.2 “Novel” Illustrations: American Children’s Classics, 1868-1968 – Franklin
Moderator: Anne Phillips
“Intimacy, Alienation, and the Illustration of Alcott's March Family Trilogy”
Gregory Eiselein, Kansas State University
“‘The Only Good Indian’? Text, Illustration, and Issues of Race in Little House on the Prairie”
Anne Phillips, Kansas State University
“Three Faces of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”
Christine Doyle, Central Connecticut State University
7.3 Philosophical Influences - Davidson
Moderator: Paula T. Connolly
“Narrative Constructions in Howard Pyle's The Garden Behind the Moon, Jack Ballister's
Fortunes and Twilight Land”
Jill P. May, Purdue University
“‘By circumstance, and selection, and competition’: Darwinism, Detritus, and the Mother
Goddess in Kingsley's The Water-Babies”
Catherine Cronquist Browning, University of California - Berkeley
“Jack London and the Wolf in Plato’s Cave”
Karen Crossley, University of Manitoba
3:30 p.m., Complimentary Refreshments
Session 8: 4:00-5:30 p.m., Plenary Session – Tennessee Room
“Adult Children’s Books”
Uli Knoepflmacher, Princeton University
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Session 9: 9:00-10:30 a.m.
9.1 Creating a Sense of Self - Brentwood
Moderator: Tina Hanlon
“Postmodern Picture Books and the Transmodern Subject”
Karen Coats, Illinois State University
“Reading Addy, Reading Black Feminist Thought: Connie Porter's Adolescent Map Toward
Self-Definition”
Ladrica Menson-Furr, The University of Memphis
“The Visionary Beatrix Potter: Ancestress of Lucy Sprague Mitchell’s Here-and-Now
Philosophy”
Melissa Glaser, Kansas State University
9.2 Masculine Coming of Age - Franklin
Moderator: Catherine Elick
“Jesse Jackson's Boyology: Raising Team Consciousness”
Fern Kory, Eastern Illinois University
“Getting It in the End: Re-Writing the Loss of Virginity in Gay Adolescent Literature”
Thomas Crisp, Michigan State University
“Crafting the Writerly Life: Sharon Creech's Love That Dog”
Ann M. Lawrence, Michigan State University
9.3 Law and the Child - Davidson
Moderator: Leona Fisher
“‘My daughter, you must’: Laws of Submission and Mastery in Elsie Dinsmore”
Lorinda Cohoon, The University of Memphis
“Rhetoric of the Child at Risk”
Ruth Carver Capasso, Kent State University, Stark Campus
“Prisoners of Innocence: American Justice, Children, and Children's Books, 1865-1920”
Ramona Anne Caponegro, University of Florida
10:30 a.m., Complimentary Refreshments
Session 10: 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
10.1 Genre Boundaries - Brentwood
Moderator: Michelle H. Martin
“M Is for Mature Audiences Only: Children's Literature for Adults and Adult Children’s
Literature”
Eric L. Tribunella, University of Southern Mississippi
“‘Where the Falling Angel Meets the Rising Ape’: Crossing the Boundary Between Adult and
Children’s Literature in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Novels”
Amanda Cockrell, Hollins University
“Linguistic Accessibility and Style in Young Adult Literature”
Mohammed Albakry and Gloria Morrissey, Middle Tennessee State University
10.2 Biography and Autobiography - Franklin
Moderator: Ruth Carver Capasso
“Time and Memory in Tibet Through the Red Box”
Susan Stan, Central Michigan University
“Carver as Hagiography: Reshaping Cultural Conceptions of George Washington Carver”
Emily Cardinal Cormier, University of Connecticut
“Childhood Loss and Remembrance in Contemporary Graphic Novels”
Katrina Imison-Mázy, Purdue University
12:30-2:00 p.m., Lunch Break
Session 11: 2:00-3:30 p.m.
11.1 Folktale Paradigms Revisited - Brentwood
Moderator: Michelle Pagni Stewart
“‘The White Cat’: Heretical Heroics in Renaissance France”
Lindsay Baldrige, Florida State University
“‘Rhyme Her Deadly’: Fantasy and Nursery Lore in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in
the Castle”
Emily M. Vieyra, Kansas State University
“‘Read my tales, spin my rhymes’: James Still's Books for Children”
Tina Hanlon, Ferrum College
11.2 Carnivale - Franklin
Moderator: Lorinda Cohoon
“County Fair as Carnival Festival: Carnivalization in E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web”
Catherine Elick, Bridgewater College
“Intertextuality in Gay-themed Young Adult Fiction: Transitioning from Homosexual Panic to
Gay Carnival”
Jennifer Kolb, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
11.3 Identity and Agency - Davidson
Moderator: Amanda Cockrell
“Facades, Phonies, and Falsehoods in Ghost World: Alternative Comics as the New Problem
Novel”
Andrea Nicole Miller, Texas A&M University - Commerce
“Here Comes the (Daughter of the) Bride: Parental Weddings in Children's Literature”
Meghan Sweeney, University of North Carolina – Wilmington
“My Skin Tells a Story: Self-Mutilation in Young Adult Fiction”
Jennifer Miskec, Christopher Newport University, and Chris McGee, Longwood University
3:30 p.m., Complimentary Refreshments
Session 12: 4:00-5:30 p.m.
12 Plenary Discussion – Brentwood
Roundtable Discussion
Uli Knoepflmacher, Michael Joseph, Naomi Wood