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Thursday, June22 Session 1 - 8:00 - 9:15 A.M First Name Last Name Institution Paper Title Thursday, June22 Session 1 - 8:00 - 9:15 a.m. Session 1A: Panel Title: North American Girls' Bildungsroman as Genre Chair: Claudia Mills University of Colorado at Boulder "The Best of All was Coming Home": Girls' Literature as Genre Presenter 1: Dawn Sardella-Ayres University of Cambridge Presenter 2: Claudia Mills University of Colorado at Boulder The Betsy-Tacy Series of Maud Hart Lovelace as a North American Girls' Bilungsroman - or Not? Presenter 3: Ashley Wilson University of South Florida North American Girls' Bildungsroman as a Genre Presenter 4: MicKenzie Fasteland Independent Scholar Bildungsroman for "Bad Girls": Mary MacLane, Girls' Bildungsroman, and Fan Fiction at The turn of the Century Session 1B: Panel Title: On the Wrong or Right Side of History?: Travel, National Identiy, and Anti-Immigrant Perspectives Chair: Craig Svonkin Metropolitan State University of Denver Presenter 1: Emily Murphy NYU Shanghai Innocents Abroad: Youth, National Identity, and the Travel Narrative in Chinese Children's Literature Presenter 2: Valerie Cato Augusta University Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been: Travel and Indian History in Alexie's Absolutely True Diary Presenter 3: Lorinda Cohoon University of Memphis Nativism and Know-Nothingism: Reinforcements, Responses, and Resistance in 1850s Issues of the Youth's Companion Session 1C: Panel Title: Tomorrowlands: Gender, Childhood, and Science Fiction Chair: Mary Stephens University of Southern Mississippi Catfishing in the OASIS: Gender in Ernest Cline's Ready Player One Presenter 1: Mary Stephens University of Southern Mississippi Presenter 2: CJ Yow University of Southern Mississippi Monster in the Mecha: The Female "Double Bind" in Mobile Fighter G Gundam Presenter 3: Laura Hakala Shawnee State University Pretty in Pink: Girl Agency in Stranger Things Session 1D: Panel Title: Journeys through Childhood and Adolescence Chair: Suzan Alteri University of Florida Presenter 1: Toni Thibodeaux Middle Tennessee State University Imagining the Future: The Child's Play of Escape as Practice for Adulthood in Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses Presenter 2: Christina Petersen Eckerd College Adolescence, Anxiety, and Escape in The Breakfast Club Presenter 3: Golan Moskowitz Brandeis University Growing Backward: Maurice Sendak's Child is Not Your Symbolic Future Session 1E: Panel Title: School Stories of the Future Chair: Meghann Meeusen Western Michigan University Presenter 1: Molly Saunders Simmons College The Once and Future Classroom: The Sword in the Stone as a Pacifist School Story Presenter 2: Csaba Osvath University of South Florida Applied Imagineering: An Artist's Reading of Ready Player One to Enhance Virtual Education Presenter 3: Anah-Jayne Markland York University The Imagined Future of Education in School Stories Session 1F: Panel Title: Complex Concepts and the Aesthetic Imagination in Picturebooks Chair: Erica Hateley Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Presenter 1: Craig Carey University of Southern Mississippi Geometry, Perspective, and the Children's Picture Book Presenter 2: Amy Hicks Bowling Green State University The Little Single-Celled Organism that Could: Evolution in Children's Picture Books Kanesaka Presenter 3: Erica Kalnay University of Wisconsin, Madison Form, Color, and the Child's Aesthetic Imagination Session 1G: Panel Title: Remembering the Past, Interrogating the Present, and Imagining the Future of Contemporary Graphic Novels for Young Readers: From March to Ghosts to Tales of the Talented Tenth Chair: Gwen Tarbox Western Michigan University Imaging/Imagining African Americans as Activists in Lewis, Aydin and Powell's March, Gill's Bass Reeves: Tales of the Talented Tenth, and Nathan Hale's Treacherous Tales: The Underground Abductor Presenter 1: Gwen Tarbox Western Michigan University Presenter 2: Laura Jimenez Boston University Intersectionality in Graphic Novels for the Classroom: Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Appreciation Presenter 3: Katharine Capshaw University of Connecticut Dissent and Pedagogical History in John Lewis's March, Books I and II Presenter 4: Session 2 - 9:30 - 10:45 a.m. Session 2A: Panel Title: Past, Present, and Futures of Young Adult Literature Imagined through Grasshopper Jungle Chair: Cathryn Mercier Simmons College Presenter 1: Cathryn Mercier Simmons College Author, Scriptor, and Reader: Back to the Future with Grasshopper Jungle Presenter 2: Amy Pattee Simmons College Unreliable or Just Impossible: Reading Andrew Smith's Grasshopper Jungle as an Unnatural Narrative Presenter 3: Lauren Rizzuto Independent Scholar Faking History in Grasshopper Jungle Session 2B: Panel Title: Fairy Tale Adaptations Chair: Michele Castleman Heidelberg University Presenter 1: Judith Rypma Western Michigan University Past, Present, and Future: Global Morphings of the Grotesque in Depictions of Baba Yaga Presenter 2: Rebecca Resinski Hendrix College When Beauty and the Beast Know Latin and Greek: Reading the Past toward the Future in Robin McKinley's Beauty and Donna Jo Napoli's Beast Presenter 3: Aubrey Plourde The University of Texas at Austin "I Must Follow My Thread": Subversive Belief in George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin Session 2C: Panel Title: Children and Art: Analyzing Young People's Contributions to Culture Chair: Marah Gubar MIT Presenter 1: Victoria Ford Smith University of Connecticut Daphne Allen as Art and Artist: A Study of the Real Child and the Scholar Presenter 2: Alisa Clapp-Itnyre Indiana University East Animating Childhood: The Illustrated Teenage Diary of Dorothy Daubney, 1899-1901 Presenter 3: Amy Fish Harvard University Cross-Age Aesthetics: Child-Adult Literary Collaboration in The Voice of the Children Session 2D: Panel Title: Of Bytes, Bits, and Books: The Role of Digitization, Libraries, and Archives in Children's Literature Chair: Rhonda Brock-Servais Longwood University First Name Last Name Institution Paper Title Presenter 1: Mary Roca University of Florida A Little Question about Archived Texts: Investigating Rose Cecil O'Neill's Illustrations in Parker Fillmore's A Little Question in Ladies' Rights Presenter 2: Tanya Radford Dominican College of Blauvelt Reinventing the Library in Children's Fiction Presenter 3: Shelby Ragan Illinois State University Digitizing the Real: Theorizing Futuristic YA Texts in an Increasingly Digital World Session 2E: Panel Title: Multicultural Futures Chair: Zeila Frade Belen Jesuit Preparatory Presenter 1: Rebecca Rowe University of Connecticut Viewing the Future through Multiculturalism: Multiracial vs. International in Big Hero 6 and Home Matloob Presenter 2: Taraneh Haghanikar University of Northern Iowa Nomadic Multicultural Children's Literature Presenter 3: Niall Nance-Carroll Illinois State University From Cuba to Miami to Living Rooms around the Nation: Qu Pasa, U.S.A.? and 1970s Optimistic Views of a Multicultural US Future Session 2F: Panel Title: Representations in Fandom, Manga, and Comics Chair: Hannah Lay University of South Florida Presenter 1: Sara Austin University of Connecticut Child Cosplayers: Embodying Potentialities Presenter 2: Yoshiko Ito Taisho University The Female Leadership in the Imagined Future of Nausica of the Valley of the Wind Presenter 3: Alysa Auriemma University of Connecticut "Not Without You": Captain America Fan Culture and the 'Stucky' Fandom Session 2G: Panel Title: Time Traveling Scholars: Interpreting Early Children?s Texts as a Window into the Past Chair: Andrea Immel Princeton University Library Presenter 1: Katharine Kittredge Ithaca College Window into Darkness: Blindness in Early Children?s Literature Presenter 2: Joe Johnson Clayton State University Leaving Home, Racial Prejudice, and Friendship in Julie Delafaye-Brhier?s Robinson franais Presenter 3: Lisa Maruca Wayne State University B is for Battledore, I is for Immersive: Educating Children with Print Ephemera Session 3 - 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Taylor and Toni Morrison Presenter 2: Branna J. McDaniel Independent Scholar Presenter 3: Sarah Hardstaff Independent Scholar "I expect you'd best just forget about teaching altogether": Teaching as Resource and Resistance in Mildred Taylor's Logan Family Novels Session 3B: Panel Title: Prepping Youth: Empire and Society from The Game of Life to Maurice to The Red Planet Chair: Kristen Proehl SUNY-Brockport Presenter 1: Eric Tribunella University of Southern Mississippi Retrofuturism and the Temporalities of Children's and Young Adult Literature Presenter 2: Kristen Proehl SUNY-Brockport Friendship and Queer Futures in E.M. Forster's Maurice Presenter 3: Megan Norcia SUNY College at Brockport Gaming the Future: The Game of Life and Future-Forward Board Games from 1790-Present Session 3C: Panel Title: Seeing Beyond the Past and Future: Literary and Pedagogical Approaches for Empowering Youth of Color Chair: Marilisa Jimenez Garcia Lehigh University A Visual Dictionary of the Past and Present: How Latinx Writers Just Changed Your View on Youth and the American Future Presenter 1: Marilisa Jimenez
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