“GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH!”:

The High Stakes Dark Sides Children’s Literature & of

JUNE 18-20, 2015 OMNI RICHMOND HOTEL, RICHMOND, VA "GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH!”:

The High Stakes and Dark Sides of Children’s Literature

This year’s conference, themed “Give me liberty, or give me death!”: The High Stakes and Dark Sides of Children’s Literature, will examine the many ways in The Children’s which authors, artists, publishers, and scholars Literature Association of contemporary children’s and young adult WELCOME literature and culture are addressing the not-so-cute, not-so-safe, but oh-so-intriguing Longwood University aspect of children’s and young adult literature - Tand culture. This year, papers will explore the & darker sides of children’s stories—stories of death, ghosts, hauntings, monsters—and the Welcome you to the more liberating sides as well. Set in historic Richmond, where America’s 42nd Annual most troubled past meets some of its greatest Children’s Literature future ambitions, this conference explores how Association Conference stories for young readers offer promise and hope while tackling what waits in the shadows. As always, the conference features papers from across disciplinary boundaries and theoretical perspectives, historical periods and genre interests, demonstrating the breadth and depth of the conversation to which we all gladly contribute. We welcome old friends, new colleagues, mentors, students, and members, both international and local, who are here to celebrate the vitality of children’s literature.

The 42nd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 18-20, 2015 3 SPECIAL OFFICERS THANKS BOARD &

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CONTRIBUTING SPONSOR: University of Richmond OFFICERS: Kara Keeling, CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY, PRESIDENT CONFERENCE PLANNING CHAIR: Annette Wannamaker, UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN MICHIGAN, VICE-PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT Claudia Mills, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER, PAST PRESIDENT Jennifer M. Miskec Jennifer M. Miskec, LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY, SECRETARY 2015 CONFERENCE Jackie Stallcup, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY-NORTHRIDGE, TREASURER PLANNING COMMITTEE: BOARD MEMBERS: Rhonda Brock-Servais Chris McGee Karen Coats, ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY, 2012-2015 Brooke Vaughan Michael Joseph, RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY, 2012-2015 Amanda Thompson Margaret Mackey, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, 2012-2015 Joel Chaston, MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY, 2013-2016 2015 CONFERENCE PAPER June Cummins, SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY, 2013-2016 SELECTION COMMITTEE: Christine Doyle, CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY, 2013-2016 Rhonda Brock-Servais Kenneth Kidd, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, 2014-2017 Chris McGee Philip Nel, KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, 2014-2017 Claudia Mills Sara L. Schwebel, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 2014-2017 Jennifer M. Miskec Roberta Seelinger Trites INCOMING OFFICERS: Kenneth Kidd, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT Roberta Seelinger Trites, ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY, TREASURER Special thanks from the conference organizing team to all who made this conference possible: Kristi Olson, ChLA MANAGER INCOMING BOARD MEMBERS: Wade Edwards, CHAIR, EML, LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY Marah Gubar, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 2015-2018 Lisa Seamster, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, EML, LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY Joe Sutliff Sanders,KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, 2015-2018 Ken Perkins, PROVOST, LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY Gwen A. Tarbox, WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, 2015-2018 Jeannine Perry, DEAN, COLLEGE OF GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES, LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY Eric Tribunella, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI, 2015-2018 Elisabeth Gruner, ASSOCIATE DEAN, SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND

4 The 42nd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 18-20, 2015 5 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS AT-A-GLANCE - - THURSDAY, JUNE 18 PHOENIX 7:30-5:00 Registration and Bookstore Open, Omni Richmond Hotel AWARD RECIPIENT 9:00-10:15 Concurrent Sessions #1 Kyoko Mori will receive the Phoenix Award for One Bird (1995), the story 10:30-11:45 Concurrent Sessions #2 of fifteen-year-old Megumi’s self-discovery after her mother leaves her 11:45-1:30 Lunch on your own 1:30-2:45 Concurrent Sessions #3 with her philandering and mostly absent father and cranky grandmother. 3:00-4:15 Concurrent Sessions #4 In addition to One Bird, Mori is the author of novels, essays, short stories, 5:30-7:00 Welcome Reception and a memoir: Yarn: Remembering the Way Home. Mori is a Professor of 7:00 Dinner on your own Creative Writing at George Mason University.

FRIDAY, JUNE 19 FRANCELIA BUTLER 8:00-5:00 Registration and Bookstore Open 8:00-9:15 Concurrent Sessions #5 LECTURE 9:30-10:45 Concurrent Sessions #6 Cinderella's Stepsisters, Traumatic Memory, and Young People's Writing 11:00-12:15 Concurrent Sessions #7 Dr. Adrienne Kertzer, Professor of English at the University of Calgary 12:15-1:30 Lunch on your own or Genre-Themed Group Lunch (pre-registration required) and past president of ChLA, will deliver the Francelia Butler Lecture. Her 1:30-2:45 Concurrent Sessions #8 book My Mother’s Voice: Children, Literature, and the Holocaust won the 3:00-4:15 Concurrent Sessions #9 Canadian Jewish Book Award and ChLA’s Honor Book Award. In addition 4:30-5:45 Concurrent Sessions #10 6:30 Bus transportation from the Omni Richmond Hotel to the University of Richmond to further work on Holocaust representation, she is currently engaged in a 7:00 Phoenix Reception at University of Richmond (pre-registration required) or Dinner on your own study of memory and trauma in young adult literature.

SATURDAY, JUNE 20 8:30-11:00 Registration and Bookstore Open 8:30-9:30 Francelia Butler Lecture, Adrienne Kertzer, Ph.D. PURCHASING BOOKS 9:45-11:00 Concurrent Sessions #11 AT THE CONFERENCE 11:15-12:30 Concurrent Sessions #12 12:30-2:00 Lunch on your own or Career-Themed Group Lunch (pre-registration required) THE SCHOLAR’S CHOICE will be on site at the Omni Richmond Hotel 2:00-3:15 Membership Meeting (all members encouraged to attend) and will carry scholarly books in children’s literature and culture. 3:30-4:45 Concurrent Sessions #13 5:00-6:15 Concurrent Sessions #14 6:30-7:00 Reception HOURS: 7:00-9:00 Awards Banquet Thursday 7:30-5:00 9:00- The Tobacco Company Club – 1201 E. Cary Street (directly across from hotel) Friday 8:00-6:00 (attendees are invited for an informal get together following the banquet) Saturday 8:00-11:30

6 The 42nd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 18-20, 2015 7 SESSION 1 1C. We Are Family 9:00-10:15 A.M. POTOMAC E CHAIR: KATY LEWIS, LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY 1A. The Gothic JENN COLETTA, JAMES RIVER A Hollins University CHAIR: REBECCA WIGGINTON, “John Green Tramples Tropes: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Examining Functional Parents’ Roles in Resolving Trauma in The Fault ALYCE BAKER, in Our Stars, Paper Towns, and Will Lock Haven University of Grayson, Will Grayson” Pennsylvania “Gothic Sensibilities in Ransom Riggs’ Peculiar Children Series: ERIC PRESS, University of Virginia Where and Why?” “Reconfiguring the Family: Kindship in Dystopian Novels” KRISTA AHLBERG, Independent Scholar “Gothic Elements and the Power 1D. Revolutionary War of the Gothic Heroine in the Harry POTOMAC G Potter Series” SCHEDULE CHAIR: JESSICA STANLEY, LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY REBECCA WIGGINTON, University of Pittsburgh MARY COUZELIS, “‘People aren’t born good or Morgan State University IN DETAIL bad’: Religious Syncretism and “Uncanny Doubles: Two Christian Spiritual Freedom in Cassandra ‘Gothic’ Young Adult Novels” Clare’s The Mortal Instruments”

TERESA MICHALS, - 1B. War and Trauma George Mason University “‘Useless to Himself and Others’: JAMES RIVER B Children’s Literature, War, and CHAIR: ANUJA MADAN, Disability” UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

KEVIN SHORTSLEEVE, ANUJA MADAN, Christopher Newport University University of Florida “Rebellion, Children’s Books, “Children’s War Trauma and the and the American Revolution: The Fissures in the Collective in When Cases of Isaiah Thomas and Francis the Emperor was Divine” Hopkinson”

DAN HADE, Pennsylvania State University “Learning to Forget: Memory and Amnesia in American Children’s Books about War”

ASHLEY O’DONNELL, Central Michigan University “The Affects of Trauma on Adolescent Relationships in Patrick Ness’s Monsters of Men”

Illustration by Fabian Negrin THURSDAY THURSDAY 06.18.15

The 42nd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 18-20, 2015 9 1E. Imaginary Worlds SESSION 2 2C. Goodness 2E. Reading and Literacy JILL COSTE, 3B. Latin American San Diego State University Children’s Literature SHENANDOAH H 10:30-11:45 A.M. POTOMAC E SHENANDOAH H “Enchanting the Masses: Fairy CHAIR: TAMMY MIELKE, CHAIR: CAROLINE WEBB, CHAIR: NAOMI LESLEY, COASTAL Tale Dystopias and Allegorical JAMES RIVER B UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE, CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE Diversity” Aftermath of the CHAIR: ANN GONZÁLEZ, UNIVERSITY 2A. AUSTRALIA OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE JOSHUA ANDERSON, Afterlife NAOMI LESLEY, MEGHAN GILBERT-HICKEY, University of California at Berkeley CAROLINE WEBB, Coastal Carolina Community MARÍA LAMARQUE, JAMES RIVER A St. John’s University “Margaret Wise Brown’s The University of Newcastle, College “White Mothers, Lost Fathers: Texas A&M University- Commerce Goodnight Moon: Possibility and CHAIR: CRISTINA RHODES, Australia “Tropes of Illiteracy: Desire and The Biological Lineage of YA “Carmen Boullosa’s Children and Pessimism in the Here and Now” TEXAS A&M- CORPUS CHRISTI “Oppression, Resistance, and Resistance in Young Adult Novels” Dystopia’s Biracial Daughters” Adolescent Literature in Spanish” Guilt in the Novels of Diana Wynne CRISTINA RHODES, KAREN LI MILLER, Jones” MEGAN NORCIA, Texas A&M- Corpus Christi MIRANDA GREEN-BARTEET, GEORGIA SEMINET, Trinity College SUNY Brockport St. Edward’s University Texas “‘Life can be really tough for the University of Western Ontario “From Iraq to Tibet: Orientalism SARAH WINTERS, “‘E’ is for Empire: the Imperial “Liberty and ‘The Awkward Age’: living’: Alternate Spaces in Day of “Docile Bodies, Racialized and the Silk Road in Children of the Nipissing University Legacy of An ABC for Baby Patriots Bodies: Liberating the Black Body Adolescence in a Recent Mexican THURSDAY the Dead Narratives” Lamp” “The Dark Side of the Light: (1899)” in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Novel by Xavier Velasco” The Conflict between Love and Games” KATY LEWIS, TAMMY MIELKE, Goodness in The Dark is Rising REBECCA FOX, MARILISA JIMENEZ GARCIA, Longwood University and Harry Potter” - University of Wyoming Simmons College Hunter College CUNY “Adventures in Limbo-Land: “The Many Identities of Arya “What Children Are Forced “Old Forgotten Textbooks: Race, Re-Constructing the Boundaries Stark: Negotiating Oppositions CLAUDIA MILLS, to Say: The Liberating and 11:45 A.M.–1:30 P.M. History, and National Identity in Between Life and Death” and Performativity within Gender, University of Colorado at Boulder Oppressive Potentials of Character LUNCH ON YOUR OWN Puerto Rican Textbooks” Economic Status, and Ability” “The Dark Side of Goodness: The Construction in Beginning Readers” BROOKE VAUGHAN, Woodbegoods, Betsy-Tacy and Tib, Longwood University ANN GONZÁLEZ, and Ivy and Bean: Bound to Be Bad” University of North Carolina 1F. Old Girlhood “Living with Death in Young Adult 2F. Verse Novels SESSION 3 Charlotte Literature” SHENANDOAH J 2D. Queer as Folk SHENANDOAH J 1:30-2:45 P.M. “Latin American Children’s CHAIR: AMANDA THOMPSON, CHAIR: RICHARD C. BURKE, Literature and the Right to Play” LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY 2B. Post-Colonial POTOMAC G LYNCHBURG COLLEGE CHAIR: RACHEL SKRLAC LO, 3A. Through the Victorians, JAMES RIVER B 3C. Liberating the MELANIE GRIFFIN, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA RICHARD C. BURKE, Darkly University of South Florida CHAIR: RACHEL MALEY, Lynchburg College Monstrous Tales of “‘Beginning to Feel at Home in UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH RACHEL SKRLAC LO, “‘Their Hearts Were Very Bad’: JAMES RIVER A Our Affections the World’: School Stories, Orphans, University of Pennsylvania Shaping Childhood through Early CHAIR: PATRICK FLEMING, POTOMAC E and Educating the Progressive Era EMILY COOLIDGE TOKER, “Peaking In from the Exemplary and Cautionary Tales” ROLLINS COLLEGE Girl for a Life of Liberty” Simmons College Periphery: An Analysis of (Under) CHAIR: LAURA HUDOCK, “Reasserting Agency from the Representation of Gay Families in ALIXANDRIA LOMBARDO, CARRIE SICKMANN HAN, PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY Periphery: How Terry Pratchett’s SUZANNE RAHN, International English-Language San Diego Mesa College Indiana University LAURA D’AVETA, Retired Nation Destabilizes Power Relations Picturebooks” “Language and Power of Verse in “Loving Pan and Hating Peter: Pennsylvania State University “Spinning the Wheels: Louisa in the Dichotomies of Post- Serafina’s Promise” Recent Responses to Peter Pan” Colonialism” “It’s Still Alive: Questioning the May Alcott and the Colonial Revival” CAREN TOWN, Pursuit of Science at the Expense Georgia Southern University PATRICK FLEMING, RACHEL RICKARD, of Humanity in Mary Shelley’s RACHEL MALEY, “Oppression in and Suppression Rollins College NANCY MCCABE, The Ohio State University Frankenstein and Kenneth Oppel’s University of Pittsburgh of M.E. Kerr’s Deliver Us From Evie” “Victorian Vogue and Disney’s University of Pittsburgh “Craters of Meaning Between This Dark Endeavor” “Looking for Liberty: Adventure “Reforming the Creole Child: the Lines: Novels in Verse and the Alice in Wonderland” Domestic Violence, Empire, and vs. Comfort and the Titles of Classic ANDREW TREVARROW, Vietnam War” LAURA HUDOCK, Girls’ Novels” Abolition in Clarissa Dormer, or The Illinois State University JEN CADWALLADER, Pennsylvania State University Advantages of Good Instruction” “Transgressive Desire: Sexual Randolph-Macon College 2G. Race in Young Adult “The Captivating Word-Image Agents in Young Adult Literature” “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and Dystopian and Science the Pig: Beatrix Potter Reimagines Interplay of Fabien Vehlmann and Fiction Edward Lear” Kerascoët’s Beautiful Darkness”

ROANOKE ANNETTE GREGERSON, CO-CHAIRS: MEGHAN GILBERT- Pennsylvania State University HICKEY, ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY “‘But, Mommy, you said I MIRANDA GREEN-BARTEET, could choose the book tonight!’: UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO Psychological Terror and the ‘Bedtime’ Story” MARY CATHERINE MILLER, The Ohio State Unversity “Exploring Race in Panem from Colonialism to the Present”

10 The 42nd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 18-20, 2015 11 3D. Illustrating African 3F. Female Authorship SESSION 4 4C. Getting Hands-On with AMY PATTEE, LANCE WELDY, American History Children’s Literature Simmons College Francis Marion University SHENANDOAH J 3:00-4:15 P.M. “Giving Shape to Anxiety: “Spiritual Death/Physical POTOMAC G CHAIR: MEGAN ISAAC, ELON POTOMAC E Creepypasta, Contemporary Liberty: Cognitive Dissonance and UNIVERSITY Legend, and Children’s Media” the Fundy-Queer Teen in Hartzler’s CHAIR: JANI BARKER, SOUTHEASTERN Resurrecting the CHAIR: RAMONA CAPONEGRO, OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY 4A. EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY Rapture Practice” MEGAN ISAAC, Victorians in Contemporary MARAH GUBAR, Elon University GISELLE ANATOL, Children’s Literature ELLEN RUFFIN, Massachusetts Institute of 4G. Gender in War University of Kansas “Progress and Problems: The and Media University of Southern Mississippi Technology “‘Give Me Liberty!’ African Young Female Author from Alcott’s “Looking at Eternity Through the “The Strangeness of STONE ROANOKE Americans Seeking Agency and Little Women to Westerfield’s JAMES RIVER A Eyes of a 19th Century Child: 19th SOUP: Children Writing Children’s CHAIR: KATY STEIN, Autonomy in M.T. Anderson’s Afterworlds” CHAIR: VICTORIA FORD SMITH, Century Books for Children at the Literature (I)” ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY The Astonishing Life of Octavian UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT de Grummond Children’s Literature Nothing” JOCELYN VAN TUYL, Collection” LAURA ANDERSON, 4E. Problems in Novels New College of Florida VICTORIA FORD SMITH, The University of Hull

THURSDAY MELISSA HAYES, “Rainbow Rowell and the Murder University of Connecticut JEAN STEVENSON, SHENANDOAH H “Athena Reborn: Young Women University of Illinois at of Jo March: Reenactment, Revision, “Return of the Dapper Men and University of Minnesota Duluth CHAIR: DEANNA STOVER, and War in Young Adult Literature” Urbana-Champaign Revenge?” the Nonsense of Neo-Victorian “Displacement, Destruction, and TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY “Being Honored: African Literature” Death: The Story Behind the Writing KAROLINA JEDRYCH, - American Illustrators and their CLAIRE COVINGTON, of Theodore Taylor’s The Bomb DEANNA STOVER, University of Silesia, Katowice, Caldecott Recognized Books, 2000- Waynesboro Public Library SARA K. DAY, Using the Resources of the Kerlan Texas A&M University Poland 2015” “Revolutionary Change: Lydia Southern Arkansas University Collection-CLRC” “‘My boyfriend is named “War Through the Eyes of Little Maria Child and Sarah Josepha Hale, “Sunny Days at Wuthering Percocet’: Disability and Criminality Girls in Polish Children’s Literature” JANI BARKER, Influential and Forgotten” Heights: How the BabyLit Books NAOMI HAMER, in E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars” Southeastern Oklahoma Look on the Bright Side of Dark University of Winnipeg DAWN SARDELLA-AYERS, Victorian Tales” State University 3G. Illustrated Childhoods “‘What does hell look like?’: The DINA MASSACHI, University of Cambridge “High Stakes and the Pursuit of Absences and Negotiations of Dark University of North Carolina “Playacting Gender in Annie Liberty in Picture Books Featuring ROANOKE SONYA SAWYER FRITZ, Material in Children’s Book and Art at Charlotte Fellows Johnston’s The Little Harriet Tubman” CHAIR: MARK MACLEOD, University of Central Arkansas Exhibitions for Young People” “Starving for Readers: The Colonel Series” CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY “In Space No One Can Hear Your Epidemic of Glamorizing Eating PHILIP NEL, Cry: Victorian and Contemporary RAMONA CAPONEGRO, Disorders in Young Adult Fiction” Kansas State University CLARE ECHTERLING, Boyhood in Disney’s Treasure Eastern Michigan University 5:30-7:00 P.M. “Is This 2015 or 1965?: Structures University of Kansas Planet” “Peter’s Legacy: What’s at Stake JEN MCCONNEL, WELCOME RECEPTION of Racism in Children’s Literature” Graduate Student Essay with the Ezra Jack Keats Book Hollins University Award Winner 4B. The High Stakes of Award?” “LOVESICK: Depression and Self- “Individualism, Harm in ‘Cupid and Psyche’ 3E. Off to Never-Never Land Children’s Media in the US: Environmentalisms, and the Pastoral and Subsequent Adaptations” 7:00 P.M. 4D. Child Authors SHENANDOAH H in the Children’s Biographies of Film, Television, Music DINNER ON YOUR OWN Wangari Maathai” CHAIR: MIKE C JAMES RIVER B POTOMAC G Rainbow Boys 4F. CHAIR: TYLER BICKFORD, CHAIR: AMY PATTEE, M. TYLER SASSER, SHENANDOACH J HANNAH COLE, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SIMMONS COLLEGE University of Missouri- Kansas City University of Southern Mississippi CHAIR: DAVID MCKAY, “‘Poor Little Half-and-Half’: The “The Not-So-Dark Side of the RYAN PIERSON, PAIGE GRAY, BROOKLYN COLLEGE/CITY Tragedy of a Post-Colonial Peter Akedah (Genesis 22): How Christian University of Pittsburgh University of Southern Mississippi UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Pan” Children’s Literature Adapts the “The Child as Animator and the “Youth, Power, and Making the Binding of Isaac” Creative Collective” News in American Culture: Richard DAVID MCKAY, MARCIE ROVAN, Harding Davis and ‘The Reporter Brooklyn College/City University Duquesne University MARK MACLEOD, KERRY MOCKLER, Who Made Himself King’” of New York “Liberty as Death: Peter Pan Charles Sturt University University of Pittsburgh “Revolting Queers: Sexual and the Disturbing Implications of “Give me Death: Wars, Culture “New Neighbors, New LISA DUSENBERRY, Identity Politics and Dystopian YA Eternal Youth” Wars, and Australian Children’s Neighborhoods: From Mister Rogers Georgia Institute of Technology Fiction” Texts” to Daniel Tiger” “Instruction through Narrative: AMANDA PHILLIPS CHAPMAN, The High Stakes of Technical JOSH THOMPSON, University of Pittsburgh Communication Narratives Virginia Tech TYLER BICKFORD, Illustration by Fabian Negrin “‘Floreat Etonia!’: Hook’s Dying University of Pittsburgh for Youth” “‘Having HIV means I’m Words and the Fatalities “Pop Music, Tween TV, and the somebody': Challenging AIDS as a of Schoolboy Good Form” Transformation of Disney” Gay Disease in Brian Farrey’s With or Without You”

12 The 42nd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 18-20, 2015 13 SESSION 5 5C. Anxiety and Fear 5E. Mothering 5G. Graphic History 6B. Poverty and Marginality POTOMAC E SHENANDOAH H ROANOKE in Brazil, Puerto Rico, 8:00-9:15 A.M. Trinidad, and Zimbabwe CHAIR: SAGE LAMBERT GRAHAM, CHAIR: LILIAN P.W. FEITOSA, JAMES CHAIR: KARLY GRICE, UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS MADISON UNIVERESITY/ UNIVERSITY THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Children’s and Adolescent 5A. Flights of Freedom: OF VIRGINIA Literature Imaginative Freedom, KRISTEN GREGORY, KARLY GRICE, JAMES RIVER B Literary History, and Codes University of Florida KAAVONIA HINTON, The Ohio State University and Captivity in Elizabeth “‘You’re responsible because Old Dominion University “Keeping it Real: The Effects of CHAIR: RENEE LATCHMAN, MORGAN you choose’: The High Stakes of ANGELA P. BRANYON, the Realistic Visual Style in March” STATE UNIVERSITY Wein’s Code Name Verity Childhood Agency in Choose-Your- Old Dominion University LILIAN P.W. FEITOSA, JAMES RIVER A Own-Adventure Novels” “There is Freedom in Big Ma’s KAREN CHANDLER, James Madison University/ Love: Grandmothering in Rita University of Louisville CHAIR: HAYLEY JOHNSON, University of Virginia NATOYA FAUGHNDER, Williams-Garcia’s One Crazy “Graphic History: Ironic Framing UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS “Rebelling or Conforming: University of Florida Summer and P.S. Be Eleven” in Joel Christian Gill’s Strange Fruit” Poverty, Marginality and Racial “Liberty and Agency for All: Or, at LORINDA B. COHOON, Identity in Brazilian Children’s least, for the Subversive Readers/ SUSAN TAN, University of Memphis ASHLEY DALLACQUA, Literature” “Children’s Literature and Players/Cheaters of Interactive University of Massachusetts- The Ohio State University Literary History in Code Name Narratives” Boston “Fact or Fiction?: A Critical RENEE LATCHMAN, Verity” “Phased Out: Race, Gender, Reading of Nathan Hale’s Morgan State University CECILIA CHAN, and the Denial of Native American Hazardous Tale, One Dead Spy” “Siblings and Grim Things: The University of British Columbia Motherhood in Twilight” TAMMY R. JONES, Poor and Immigration from Puerto “Voices in the Dark: Portrayal of University of Memphis Rico to the US” “Flights of Imagination: Flying to Bedtime Fears in Picture Books” 5F. Representing the Body SESSION 6 Freedom in Code Name Verity” SHENANDOAH J DENISE JARRETT, MARY GRYCTKO, 9:30-10:15 A.M. Morgan State University University of Pittsburgh CHAIR: SHARON PAJKA, GALLAUDET ELIZABETH G. ALLEN, “Young Male on the Margin in “‘Things only a child could UNIVERSITY University of Memphis 6A. Editors’ Roundtable Michael Anthony’s The Year in San understand’: Technological Paranoia “African American Codes, Flights, Fernando” and Captivity” and Childhood in Poltergeist” SHARON PAJKA, JAMES RIVER A Gallaudet University CHAIR: AMANDA COCKRELL “Finding Liberty and Death in the GENIRA NELSON-LEWIS, 5B. Violent Departures 5D. Adults and Power Portrayals of Deaf Characters in AMANDA COCKRELL, Howard University Children’s Literature and Dark Deviations in POTOMAC G Adolescent Literature” “Creative Art in Understanding the African Adolescence on the Children’s and YA Comics CHAIR: GAIL EDWARDS, NAOMI HAMER, Jeunesse TIFFANY BROWNE, Margin: A Nervous Condition” JAMES RIVER B DOUGLAS COLLEGE Eastern Michigan University ANNETTE WANNAMAKER, CHAIR: GWEN ATHENE TARBOX, SANDIP LEEANNE WILSON, “You Can’t Just Pick One and Children’s Literature in Education 6C. Violence in Story WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY Hollins University You Shouldn’t Have To: Analyzing KARIN WESTMAN, POTOMAC E “High Stakes in Children’s Biracial Protagonists in Young Adult JOE SUTLIFF SANDERS, The Lion and the Unicorn Historical Nonfiction Literature: Fiction” CHAIR: ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, Kansas State University Historical Thinking in Accounts of DAVID L. RUSSELL, ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY “Hergé’s Occupations: How the Young People Facing Challenge BETH BRENDLER, The Lion and the Unicorn Creator of Tintin Made a Deal with and Promise” University of Missouri CHLOE WHITAKER, the Devil and Became a Better “Continuing the Colonization: CAROLINE JONES, Clemson University Cartoonist” The Looking Glass: New “Off with His Head: An GAIL EDWARDS, The Representation of African Perspectives on Children’s Literature Examination of Lewis Carroll’s Use Douglas College Cultures in Picture Books” KATE SLATER, of Violence and Death in the Alice “Stemming the Flow of CLAUDIA NELSON, Children’s Rowan University Books” Pernicious Literature: Controlling KATY STEIN, Literature Association Quarterly “In His House at Riverdale Children’s Print Culture in Postwar Illinois State University Dead Jughead Waits Dreaming: ANDRES MONTANES-LLERAS, Canada” “Material Histories: The MARK MACLEOD, IRCL Resurrecting the Familiar in Afterlife The Ohio State University Exploration of Ugly Girls in Young with Archie” ROXANNE HARDE, Bookbird “There and Back Again: Violence, Adult Literature” MICHELLE BEISSEL HEATH, War, and Death in J.R.R. Tolkien’s University of Nebraska, Kearney CRAG HILL, Study and Scrutiny GWEN ATHENE TARBOX, The Hobbit” “‘Hissing and Clapping’: Dark Western Michigan University Undercurrents and Contradictions “Clear Line, Clearly Violent, and ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, of Liberty in Narrative Descriptions Carefully Formulated: Gene Luen Illinois State University of 19th Century Children’s Games” Yang’s Use of the Clear Line Style in “Coming Undone: Rhetorical Boxers and Saints” Violence and Violent Rhetoric in Neil Shusterman’s Unwind Dystology” FRIDAY FRIDAY 06.09.15

The 42nd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 18-20, 2015 15 SCOTT PYRZ, 6F. Building a Nation 6H. Constructing an Identity AMANDA COCKRELL, 7C. Working Class Literature 7E. Show Us Your Ankles Illinois State University Hollins University POTOMAC F in Texts for Children and POTOMAC E SHENANDOAH H “‘Say Something’: Young Adults “Herding Scholarly Cats: Neurolinguistic Normativity CHAIR: GARRETT JOHNSTON, Editing a Peer-Reviewed Journal” CHAIR: J.D. ISIP, COLLIN COLLEGE CHAIR: A. ROBIN HOFFMAN, YALE and Justified Violence in Terry LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY SHENANDOAH J CENTER FOR BRITISH ART J.D. ISIP, Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice CHAIR: SHAWNA MCDERMOTT, JOE SUTLIFF SANDERS, MARILYNN OLSON, Collin College A. ROBIN HOFFMAN, and His Educated Rodents” UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Kansas State University Texas State University “Navigating Post-Tenure Life” “From Ben Franklin to Spider- Yale Center for British Art “Billy Whiskers (1902-1930): Man: The American Poor Boy’s “Primer for a ‘little victim’: Hilaire Good and Bad as MICHELLE WATTS, 6D. Mrs. Montgomery Defines Struggle for Dignity and Power from Belloc’s A Moral Alphabet (1899) Symbiotic Independent Scholar MARGARET MACKEY, FRIDAY Freedom for Young America” Street Smart Saints to Book Smart and Industrial Print Culture at the “The Luxury of Innocence: Race, University of Alberta Superheroes” Fin de Siècle” POTOMAC G Agency, and the Lived Realities of “The High Stakes and Dark Sides CHAIR: JOE SUTLIFF SANDERS, JULIE PFEIFFER, Black Childhood in Sharon Draper’s of Working with Grad Students” WYNN YARBROUGH, DEIDRE MCMAHON, KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Hollins University Stella by Starlight” - “Growing Girls, Growing Nations: The University of the District Drexel University 7B. Italian Children’s ALLISON WEXLER, Nineteenth-Century Girls and the of Columbia “Girls Who Kill in Victorian Books SONIA ALEJANDRA RODRIGUEZ, Literature Hollins University Project of Nation-Building” University of California- Riverside “Work and Progress: and Magazines for Boys” “Give Me Liberty? The Prison “Latino and Queer: Challenging Sponsored by the Representations of Work in African- American Children’s Poetry” Paradigm in Cathrine Fisher’s CIARA GALLAGHER, Homonationalism in Latino Young International Committee CHRISTIANA SALAH, Incarceron and Sapphique” Trinity College Dublin Adult Conocimiento Narratives” University of Connecticut JAMES RIVER B “The High Stakes of ‘Irish’ JANE ROSEN, “Governess to Monsters: Resurrecting the Victorian Gothic in JAQUELIN ELLIOTT, Children’s Literature in Nineteenth SHAWNA MCDERMOTT, CHAIR: MARINA BALINA, ILLINOIS Imperial War Museum University of Florida Century America” University of Pittsburgh WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY “‘Where is our revolutionary Contemporary Children’s Fiction” “Chocolate and Honey: “Reading Race: Visual Literacy literature for the children?’ GIORGIA GRILLI, An Examination of the Children’s Disenfranchised Teachers JONNE AKENS, in Nineteenth Century Children’s The Holocaust University of Bologna, Italy 7F. and Children in Harry Potter Texas A&M University-Texarkana Magazines from 1850-1900” Publications of Martin Lawrence “Italian Children’s Literature: and Matilda” “High Stakes and Dark Sides: and Lawrence and Wishart, SHENANDOAH J Past History and Present Subject Positions Lost and Gained 1934-1950” CHAIR: MARK WEST, UNIVERSITY OF RHONDA BROCK-SERVAIS, Challenges” ERIC TRIBUNELLA, in Terry Pratchett’s Nation” Longwood University NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE TINA HANLON University of Southern Mississippi ASHLYN KEMP, , MARIA ROSA TRUGLIO, “The Wind in the Willows as Longwood University Ferrum College MARK WEST, 6G. Comics and Feminism Pennsylvania State University Horror: Kenneth Grahame and the “Femininity and Power in “Struggles for Life, Liberty, University of North Carolina “A Beatrice for Modernity: Motorcar” ROANOKE Meg Medina” and Land in Appalachian Mining at Charlotte Girls in Italian Children’s Literature, Communities” “Dr. Seuss’s Response CHAIR: AMANDA LOEFFERT, 1890-1921” to Nazism” 6E. Girlhood and Society UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE SESSION 7 7D. Normalizing the Body SHENANDOAH H LINDSAY MYERS, LAURA JIMENEZ, The National University of Ireland, POTOMAC G CHAIR: KATE SLATER, AMANDA LOEFFERT, 11:00 A.M.-12:15 P.M. Boston University Galway ROWAN UNIVERSITY University of North Carolina at CHAIR: CUTHBERT ROWLAND-STORM, “Images of Isolation and Charlotte “Historicized Fiction or PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY Othering in WWII Camp Graphic 7A. Building a Career in HELEN BITTEL, “Fighting in Flats: How Kamala Fictionalized History? Lia Levi’s Novel Narratives” Marywood University Khan is Revolutionizing the Female Children’s Literature: First-World War Novel Cecilia va alla CUTHBERT ROWLAND-STORM, guerra (2000)” “Losing the Cheese Touch: The Superhero” Mid-Career Concerns Pennsylvania State University JUDITH RYPMA, “Becoming Different: How Diary of a Wimpy Kid Readalike” Sponsored by the Western Michigan University Gendered Body Books Perpetuate KEN PARILLE, Membership Committee “Reinforcing Vs. Minimizing Gendered Difference” MARIKO TURK, East Carolina University the Holocaust’s Impact In Youth University of Florida “Death and Misogyny in JAMES RIVER A Fiction: Archetypal and Folkloric “Personal and Political: Mid-Twentieth-Century Children’s CHAIR: SARA DAY, SOUTHERN AMANDA HOLLANDER, Underpinnings In Yolen’s Devil’s The High Stakes of Girls’ Historical Comic Books” ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY University of California- Arithmetic and Lowry’s Number Fiction Series” Los Angeles the Stars” “Liberty in the Age of Eugenics: RACHEL DEAN-RUZICKA, MICHELLE ANN ABATE, Non-Normative Bodies in Fabian ROBERTA TRITES, Georgia Gwinnett College The Ohio State University DANIEL FELDMAN, Socialist Children’s Fiction” Illinois State University “What the Junk? Defeating the ANNETTE WANNAMAKER, Bar-Ilan University “Dirt, Disasters, and Dystopias: Velociraptor in the Outhouse with Eastern Michigan University “Light Games and Dark History: Ecofeminism in Adolescent the Lumberjanes” “The Good, the Bad, and the MEGHAN RADOSEVIC, Play in Young Adult Fiction about Literature” Weird: What to Expect when Eastern Michigan University the Holocaust” Co-editing a Collection of Critical Graduate Student Essay Winner Essays” “Blood Money: The Commodification of Menstrual Education through American Girl’s Illustration by Fabian Negrin The Care and Keeping of You Series”

16 The 42nd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 18-20, 2015 17 7G. Science Fiction HANNA-DORA FAZEKAS, 8B. Black Lives Matter: 8D. Moral and Modest 8F. The Carnivalesque 8H. Serial Killers University of Debrecen ROANOKE Narrating Child Death in POTOMAC G SHENANDOAH J POTOMAC F “‘Silent Talking’: The Exploration Word and Image CHAIR: ERIKA ROMERO, of Trauma in Kevin Brooks’s The CHAIR: AMANDA THOMPSON, CHAIR: SAMANTHA STEWART, CHAIR: JACKLYN MARTIN, ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY Bunker Diary” JAMES RIVER B LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS CHAIR: MICHELLE H. MARTIN ROBIN CALLAND, KATIE NUNNERY, AMANDA THOMPSON, JUNE CUMMINS, JENNY MORRIS, Colorado Mesa University University of Connecticut MICHELLE H. MARTIN, Longwood University San Diego State University Northwest Shoals “Give Us Scientific Salvaton, “The Impact of Fantasy on University of South Carolina “Dressing and Undressing in “Halloween and Purim: Sydney Community College or We Won’t Think about Mass Childhood Trauma Narrative in A “Lynching 101: Young Adult Portero: Dia Reeves’ Fashionable Taylor and the Carnivalesque” “The Feminine Wild: The Natural FRIDAY Extinctions: The Limitations of Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and Primers on the Murder of Serial Killers” World as Threat in Baum’s Land Children’s Nonfiction Featuring Jim Kay” Emmett Till” SAMANTHA STEWART, of Oz” Scientist Saving Species” SHELBY RAGAN, The Ohio State University Illinois State University “‘And gobbled her right up’: A JACKLYN MARTIN,

- KATHARINE CAPSHAW, KAZIA BERKLEY-CRAMER, 12:15-1:30 P.M. University of Connecticut “‘Your morality isn’t the only History of Devouring Children in University of Memphis Simmons College LUNCH ON YOUR OWN OR “Fractured Innocence in G. Neri morality in the world’: The Morality Children’s Literature” “Confronting the Forgotten “Progressive Pasts and GENRE-THEMED GROUP LUNCH and Randy DuBurke’s Yummy: The of Life and Death from a Care Ethics Narrative: Watching Dahmer Fall Restrictive Futures: Gender Perspective in the Anna Dressed in through the Cracks” (pre-registration required) Last Days of a Southside Shorty” DANIELLE BIENVENUE BRAY, and Scientific Morality in YA Blood Series” University of Georgia Steampunk” “Voodoo City: Reading as ERIN REILLY-SANDERS, MYISHA PRIEST, SESSION 8 New York University ELAINE OSTRY, Tourism and New Orleans’ Independent Scholar ROBERT LYNCH, “Beyond Innocence: Politics, SUNY Plattsburgh Constructed Image in Recent MICHELE D. CASTLEMAN, Longwood University 1:30-2:45 P.M. Practice and the Public Deaths of “‘Billions of Lives Weighed Disney Media” Heidelberg University SONJA LYNCH, Black Children” Against the Ethics of Six Kids’: “The Darkest Risk: An Intimate Wartburg College Animorphs and the Art of War” Investigation of Death through Killer “Using the Machine to Fight the 8A. Building a Career in 8G. The Feral Child Protagonists” RICHARD FLYNN, Man: Hacktivism, Direct Action, and Children’s Literature: Georgia Southern University 8E. The Fantastic ROANOKE Other Civil Disobedience in Cory Alternative Approaches Respondent CHAIR: PETER KUNZE, Doctorow’s Young Adult Fiction” SHENANDOAH H to Children’s Literature UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN SESSION 9 CHAIR: DEREK PACHECO, Careers Breaking Boundaries ERIKA ROMERO, 8C. PURDUE UNIVERSITY HOLLY BATTY, 3:00-4:15 P.M. Illinois State University Sponsored by the Membership Through Darkness with California State University- Committee JOHANNA BRINKLEY TOMLINSON, “Dismantling Boundaries: Wizards, Demigods, and Northridge Syllabus Exchange The Posthuman World of M.T. The University of Iowa 9A. JAMES RIVER A Nobody Graduate Student Essay Anderson’s Feed” “The Clue in the ‘Clew’: The Honor Award Sponsored by the Membership CHAIR: BRIDGID SHANNON, PINEVIEW POTOMAC E Stakes of Belief in E. Nesbit’s The “Picturing Animality in Emily Committee SCHOOL FOR THE GIFTED Enchanted Castle” 7H. Trauma in Children’s CHAIR: ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, Hughes’ Wild” JAMES RIVER A ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY Literature JEANNE LAHAIE, CHAIR: M. TYLER SASSER, UNIVERSITY DEREK PACHECO, Western Michigan University PETER KUNZE, POTOMAC F KELSEY MCLENDON, Purdue University OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI “Adjuncting and Non-Tenure University of Texas at Austin Eastern Michigan University “‘Queer and Back Again’: CHAIR: KRYSTAL HOWARD, Track Positions” “Artistry Within Industry: AMANDA ALLEN “The Harry Potter Septology: , WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY Teaching Gender in The Hobbit” Maurice Sendak, Walt Disney, and A Battle with Prevailing Hegemony Eastern Michigan University PAIGE CARLSON, the Business of Children’s Culture” “Teaching ‘Dangerous’ Literature” KRYSTAL HOWARD, and History as a Means of Control DEE CLERE, Penguin Young Readers Western Michigan University and Defense” University of Mount Olive “Careers in Children’s Publishing: MICHAEL JOSEPH, “Trauma, Poverty, and “Mirrors, Moving Tombstones, M. TYLER SASSER, Baking in the Night Kitchen” Rutgers University CHRISTOPHER STUART, University of Southern Mississippi Punishment: British Culture and and Missing Parents: Kate’s “How Robert Graves Invented Eastern Michigan University “Non-English Disciplines” Social Change of the 1960s in Roald Search for Identity in The Way to Maurice Sendak: The Big Green BRANDI J. VENABLE, “The Righteousness of Darkness: Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach Sattin Shore” Book as Ur-Text for Where the Wild and Charlie and the Chocolate Rutgers University, Camden Nico di Angelo, Blending into KATE SLATER, “Childhood Studies: Things Are” Factory” Shadows” AMANDA DAIGNAULT, Rowan University Intersections and Alternative University of Alberta “Incorporating Children’s Pathways” Literature into Non-Children’s ADAM KEALLEY, Deakin University ALEESA MILLET, “I Haven’t Finished Volume Three Literature Classes” “The Martyr’s Age: Death and Eastern Michigan University Yet, But...: Seriality and Narrative THOMAS CRISP, the End of Adolescence in Sonya “The Jacks of All Trades in Neil Closure in Children’s Quest Fantasy” Georgia State University Hartnett’s Surrender” Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book: “Where’s Your Data?: Notes Nobody Gets Around the System” on Being a ‘Coherent Scholar’ of Children’s Literature in a College of Education”

18 The 42nd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 18-20, 2015 19 9B. Liberty and Death for 9D. Take Me to Church 9F. The Child Soldier KATE PEI-YING WU, 10E. Neil Gaiman SESSION 10 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities the Nineteenth-Century POTOMAC G SHENANDOAH J SHENANDOAH H Child 4:30-5:45 P.M. “Pacy vs. Grace: Examining CHAIR: MATTHEW PRICKETT, CHAIR: NIALL NANCE-CARROLL, Cultural Identity and Cultural CHAIR: JOSEPH MICHAEL SOMMERS, JAMES RIVER B RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, CAMDEN ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY Authenticity Issues in Grace Lin’s CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY 10A. Bringing the Dark CHAIR: ELIZABETH HOIEM, The Year of the Dog” SUSAN ALTERI, ADAM GRIFFEY, KATHERINE BELL, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT into the Light: Inverted University of Florida University of South Carolina Wilfrid Laurier University URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Paradigms in Russian Femininity and Agency “Eminent Doom: The Puritan “Katniss and Ender: The Child 10C. “‘Time to Dance the Macabray:’ Rhetoric of Death in Children’s Soldier in Young Adult Literature” Children’s Literature after Gothic Mobility, Liberty, and The ALISA CLAPP-ITNYRE, POTOMAC E Literature” Communism Graveyard Book”

FRIDAY Indiana University East CHAIR: MARY JEANETTE MORAN, “‘Sing me a hymn, then give me MARIAH GRUNER, JAMES RIVER A ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY SUSAN STEWART, Boston University RACHEL MANUSZAK, death’: Reconsidering Children’s CHAIR: OLGA BUKHINA, Texas A&M Commerce “Rage and Responsibility: The University of South Carolina Hymns within the 19th Century Cult INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION JESSICA STANLEY,

- “Capitalism and Christianity Status of the Child (as) Soldier in “It Was An Honor To Be Your of the Deathbed” FOR THE HUMANITIES Longwood University in Young Adult Literature: A Dark Harry Potter” “Mary Downing Hahn's All the Guardian: Death, Identity, and Marriage” Community in Neil Gaiman’s A ELIZABETH HOIEM, ANDREA LANOUX, Lovely Bad Ones: Tomboy Taming University of Illinois at Urbana- NIALL NANCE-CARROLL, Connecticut College for the 21st Century” Graveyard Book” Champaign MATTHEW PRICKETT, Illinois State University “Bad Mothers in Russian “‘Naughty full-grown babes’: Rutgers University, Camden “Political and Politicized Children’s Literature after 1991: OLIVIA BUSHARDT, JOSEPH MICHAEL SOMMERS, Children’s Literature and the “The First Book for Little Saints: Childhoods in Filipovi´c and Alcoholism, Neglect, and the University of Southern Mississippi Central Michigan University Radical Press, 1816-1836” The Book of Mormon for Children in Challenger’s Stolen Voices” Problem of Post-Socialist Realism” “Speaking from Beyond the “Dark Fantasies/ Comic(s) 19th-Century America” Grave: Narratology and Female Realities: Neil Gaiman’s New Old Mythologies Made to be Seen, LAUREEN TEDESCO, 9G. Fairy Tales OLGA BUKHINA, Agency in Thirteen Reasons Why” East Carolina University 9E. American Indians and International Association for Possibly Read” ROANOKE “The Uses of Dying Children in Indianness the Humanities MARY JEANETTE MORAN, the Evangelical Fiction of ‘Pansy’” CHAIR: ANASTASIA ULANOWICZ, “The Subversive Nature of Illinois State University ANNETTE WANNAMAKER, SHENANDOAH H UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA Children’s Literature and Its Conflict “‘A Life Wish’: Reimagining Eastern Michigan University with the Russian State” the Rhetoric of Life and Death in “The Horror! The Shame!: 9C. Reclaiming Disability CHAIR: JUDITH LEGGATT, LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY ANASTASIA ULANOWICZ, Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke Neil Gaiman’s Books for POTOMAC E University of Florida KELLY HAROLD, and Bone” Children for Adults” “Between the Wolf and the CHAIR: TAMMY MIELKE, VALERIE CATO, Grinnell College Bear: Louise Murphy’s The True UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING Georgia Regents University “The Darkest Trauma of All: The 10D. Didactic Death 10F. India in Literature “‘They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?’ Story of Hansel and Gretel and Siege of Leningrad and Russian Representations of Europe Between KIT KAVANAGH-RYAN, Uncanny Horses and Sherman Children’s Literature” POTOMAC G SHENANDOAH J Hitler and Stalin” Deakin University Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary” CHAIR: MARTHA HIXON, MIDDLE CHAIR: POUSHALI BHADURY, “Stumbling Through the School 10B. Let Freedom Fly: TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA of Pain: Disability, Death, and KAY HARRIS, TANYA JONES, Rehabilitation from Katy Carr University of Southern Mississippi Independent Scholar Children’s Literature as MELISSA LI SHEUNG YING, POUSHALI BHADURY, to Avatar Korra” “Crutches, Feather, Bows, and “‘It Came From the Woods (Most a Site of Cross-Cultural Queen’s University, Canada University of Florida Arrows: Objects of Disability and Strange Things Do)’: The Gothic Exchange “A Boy, His Bird, and Their “The Female Sleuth in Early Indianness in The Squaw Lady” Fairy Tale and the Dark Forest in Bullies: Death and the Child in Bengali Children’s Crime Fiction KARIN WESTMAN, JAMES RIVER B Kansas State University Graphic Novels for Children” Bob Staake’s Bluebird” Series” CHAIR: EMILY MURPHY, “Affective Agency through JUDITH LEGGATT, Embodied Emotion in Meg Rosoff’s Lakehead University REBECCA ANDERSON, NYU SHANGHAI KATIA VANDENBORRE, SREEMOYEE DASGUPTA, How I Live Now and Picture “Suicide Prevention in Cree Pennsylvania State University BAEF Fellow University of Pittsburgh ANDREA MEI-YING WU, Me Gone” Comic Books” “‘But If You Take Away My Voice, “Death and Liberty in Jacek “Swami and Friends: Epistemic National Cheng Kung University, What Is Left for Me’: Relationship Dukaj’s Crowman” Violence and Boyish Agency in Models for the Inappropriate Taiwan Colonial India” BRANDIE REED, SUSAN CANNATA, Sacrifices of Individual and “‘Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit University of Wyoming University of North Carolina and of Happiness’: Munro Leaf, Helen MARTHA HIXON, Collective Identity in HC Andersen HARI ADHIKARI, “A Game of Disability: When the Pembroke R. Sattley and the (Trans)cultural Middle Tennessee State University and Disney’s The Little Mermaid” Tribhuvan University Child is the Monster Under the Bed” “From Zits to Michael: Formation of Children’s Literature “‘Everyone and everything has a “From the ‘Fire of Death’ to the Constructing Identity in Sherman in Postwar Taiwan” time to die’: Good and Evil, Death, Alexie’s Flight” MANDY MOORE, and the Afterlife as Represented by ‘Fire of Life’: Playful Twisting of Hollins University Zolotow, Nix, LeGuin, and Rowling” Hindu Funeral Rituals in Salman “Beauty and the Beast and EMILY MURPHY, Rushdie’s Luka and the Fire of Life” Calcifer: Deconstructing Gendered NYU Shanghai Binaries in Howl’s Moving Castle” “Liberty After the White Terror: Darkness and the Global Citizen in Grace Lin’s Dumpling Days”

20 The 42nd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 18-20, 2015 21 ERIKA HABER, PLENARY Syracuse University SUPRIYA GOSWAMI, SESSION “A.M. Volkov’s Urfin Dzhius: George Washington University Playful Fairy Tale or Post-Stalinist “Dismantling the British Raj in 8:30-9:30 A.M. Allegory?” Rabindranath Tagore’s The Land of Cards” Francelia Butler Lecture: EMILY CARDINALI CORMIER, University of Connecticut JAMES RIVER A 10G. State Power and “Black Agrarianism and Mildred Suppression in The ADRIENNE KERTZER, Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry” Hunger Games University of Calgary "Cinderella's Stepsisters, IVY LINTON STABELL, FRIDAY ROANOKE Traumatic Memory, and Young Iona College People's Writing" “Narrating the Survival Stories, CHAIR: ROXANNE HARDE, UNIVERSITY Hazardous Tales, and Wicked OF ALBERTA-AUGUSTANA Histories of Children’s Nonfiction” - CANDACE ISHMAEL, SESSION 11 New York University 11C. Girl Power “Post-Colonial Panem: An 9:45-11 A.M. Examination of the Revolutionary POTOMAC E and Anti-Imperial Themes in 11A. Phoenix Panel CHAIR: AMY BENNET-ZENDZIAN, Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Sponsored by the Phoenix Award BOSTON UNIVERSITY Games Trilogy” Committee and Phoenix Picture THARINI VISWANATH, Book Award Committee Illinois State University ROXANNE HARDE, University of Alberta-Augustana JAMES RIVER A “‘What’s more masculine than a “‘Are you preparing for another CO-CHAIRS: LISA ROWE FRAUSTINO, wolf?’: Examining the Relationship war?’: Un/Just War and The Hunger EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE Between the Agency of the Games Trilogy” UNIVERSITY Material and Silencing in Justine ANDREA SCHWENKE WYILE, Larbalestier’s Liar” KATHERINE LASHLEY, ACADIA UNIVERSITY Morgan State University CHELSEA BROMLEY, “Facing Trauma in The Hunger SCOTT SHERIDAN, Independent Scholar Games and Divergent” Illinois Wesleyan University “Caped Katnisses: Ms. Marvel, “Fanelli’s My Map Book as a Batgirl, and the New Young Adult Model of Decentering Reading: Heroine” 6:30 P.M. Re-Mapping Loci of Identity in Children’s Picture Books” MICHELLE ANN ABATE, BUS TRANSPORTATION The Ohio State University FROM THE OMNI A. WALLER HASTINGS, “‘From the Top, Stupid!’: The Li’l RICHMOND HOTEL TO West Liberty University Tomboy Comic Book Series, Female “Absent Mothers in the Works of Juvenile Delinquency, and the THE UNIVERSITY OF Kyoko Mori” Comics Code” RICHMOND KYOKO MORI, 11D. Popular Scary Stories Respondent 7:00 P.M. for Children POTOMAC G 11B. Retelling the Past PHOENIX RECEPTION CHAIR: ANN CHILDS, AT UNIVERSITY OF JAMES RIVER B INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR RICHMOND CHAIR: RACHEL SMITH, ANN CHILDS, (pre-registration required) Illustration by Sara Fanelli UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS Independent Scholar KYOKO MORI RACHEL SMITH, “Defanging the Monster: How Speaker University of Memphis Illustrations Change Texts in Alvin “‘And this time I felt no fear’: Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in or Trauma and Power in the Historical the Dark” Fiction of Christopher Paul Curtis” DINNER ON YOUR OWN MELISSA SMITH, Ferris State University “I Can Feel it in My Bones: The Corporeal Nature of Horror

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22 The 42nd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 18-20, 2015 23 SEAN FERRIER-WATSON, MARINA BALINA, CASEY WILSON, JACKIE HORNE, 12:30-2:00 P.M. KRISTEN PROEHL, Collin College Illinois Wesleyan University University of Florida Independent Scholar SUNY- Brockport “Haunting Suburbia: “All Vegetables, Unite: ‘The “Instruments of Death: Teenage “Narrative Voice in Young Adult vs. LUNCH ON YOUR OWN “Coming of Age in the Queer South: Consumption, Consumerism, Adventures of Cippolino’ as Assassins and the Reclamation of New Adult Literature” OR CAREER-THEMED Writing, Friendship, and Collaboration” and Identity Crisis in R. L. Stine’s Revolutionary Legacy in Post- American Innocence” GROUP LUNCH Goosebumps” Stalinist Russia” 12F. Blurred Lines (pre-registration required) 13C. I Am An American: 12D. Pop Culture SHENANDOAH J Immigration and the Quest 11E. US Civil Rights CLAUDIA ALBORGHETTI, Adaptations for Liberty, Identity, and Universita Cattolica del Sacro CHAIR: HEATHER CYR, KWANTLEN 2:00-3:15 P.M. Acceptance SHENANDOAH H Cuore, Milan, Italy POTOMAC G POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY CHLA MEMBERSHIP CHAIR: ADA BIEBER, “The English Voice of Gianni CHAIR: MEGHANN MEEUSEN, POTOMAC E HUMBOLT-UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN Rodari” UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEATHER CYR, MEETING Kwantlen Polytechnic University (All members encouraged to attend) CHAIR: JEANNE LAHAIE, CHATTANOOGA WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY ADA BIEBER, “Pyramids in America: Rethinking 12B. The Periphery of JAMES RIVER C Humbolt- University of Berlin American Fantasy in the Landscapes the Periphery KATOSHA O’DANIEL, MICHELE LEE, “The US-Civil Rights Movement University of Florida of Rick Riordan’s The Kane Chronicles” SATURDAY Sponsored by the ChLA University of Florida in the Mirror of GDR Children's “The High Stakes and Dark Sides Diversity Committee “Cultural Cringe and the Hideous Literature” of Adapting Children’s Literature to MARGARET MACKEY, SESSION 13 FOB: Transnational Identity and Race JAMES RIVER B Themed Environments” University of Alberta 3:30-4:45 P.M. in Frank Chin’s Donald Duk and Gene RACHEL DRIGGERS, “Taking Liberties: Mary Poppins, Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese” - CHAIR: CHERYL COWDY, Pamela Travers, and the Lives, University of South Carolina YORK UNIVERSITY MEGHANN MEEUSEN, “Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit: Mutations, and Deaths of Characters The Craft of Pictures: University of Tennessee 13A. JEANNE LAHAIE, and Authors” Their Adventures through Lost CHERYL COWDY, Chattanooga Meet the Italian Book Western Michigan University Cause Ideology, African American York University “Deciphering the ‘Dreams That Illustrator Fabian Negrin “Whose Home and Who’s Brave? Folklore, and Disney” “‘And into the darkness … such You Dare to Dream’: Conflicting MIKE CADDEN, Immigration and Belonging in beautiful monsters’: Diversifying Ideologies in Adaptations of The Missouri Western State University Joint session of the ChLA International Allen Say’s Pictures and Katherine LAURA HAKALA, the Apocalyptic Impulse in Urban Wonderful Wizard of Oz” “The Real, the Exaggerated, and the Committee and the Phoenix Picture Applegate’s Verse” University of Southern Mississippi Canadian YA Fantasies” Impossible Character” Book Award Committee “Sharecropper Cabins and JOEL ARMSTRONG, JAMES RIVER A GABRIELLE ATWOOD HALKO, Jim-Crow Cars: Reconstructing the JANE GANGI, Northeastern University 12G. The Witching Hour West Chester University Spaces of Slavery in Mary White Mount Saint Mary College “Medieval Morality for CO-CHAIRS: “When We Want to Hear Your Story, ROANOKE Ovington’s Hazel” “’The Periphery of the Postmodern Preteens: Dante ANDREA SCHWENKE WYILE, We’ll Tell You What to Say: Reader Periphery’: Invisibility and Informing Tim Burton’s Charlie CHAIR: ALYSA AURIEMMA, ACADIA UNIVERSITY Expectations in Picture Books about Diversity in Children’s Literature and the Chocolate Factory” UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT MARINA BALINA, Japanese-American Internment” SESSION 12 of Genocide” ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY AMY BENNETT-ZENDZIAN, SPENCER CHALIFOUR, University of Florida FABIAN NEGRIN, 13D. Dealing with Death 11:15 A.M.-12:30 P.M. MAREK OZIEWICZ, Boston University “Judica me Deus: Apocalypse in The Respondent SARA STERNER, “What’s At Stake in Adapting POTOMAC G Northanger Abbey for Teen House with a Clock in its Walls” 12A. Tales of Power and University of Minnesota CHAIR: JAMES CURTIS, Readers?” 13B. Queer Friendship in Independence: Liberating “‘I’m That Person to Other UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI People’: R.J. Palacio’s Wonder BEVIN ROUE, Children’s and YA Literature Legacies of Gianni Rodari, and the Sensibility Revolution” Michigan State University AMBERYL MALKOVICH, 12E. What is YA? JAMES RIVER B 1920-1980 “Citizenship Exclusion and Concord University SHENANDOAH H Racialized Difference: Rewriting CHAIR: ELIZABETH BARNES, THE “The Orphan Whom There’s JAMES RIVER A 12C. Panic! at the Bookstore: American Exceptionalism in Nnedi CHAIR: JACKIE HORNE, COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY None To Cherish: ‘Handling’ CHAIR: PHILIP NEL, Deconstructions of the Okorafor’s Akata Witch” INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR Horror and Death in A Series of KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY American Dream in Young DERRITT MASON, Unfortunate Events” Adult Literature and Culture AMANDA ALLEN, ALYSA AURIEMMA, University of Alberta JUDITH PLOTZ, “Horny Bugs and Thorny Critics, Eastern Michigan University University of Connecticut JAMES CURTIS, Emerita- George Washington POTOMAC E Or, the Unbearable Darkness of “Forgotten Canon Wars: Postwar “‘Ours is the power’: Reading the University of Southern Mississippi University CHAIR: REBEKAH FITZSIMMONS, Young Adult Literature” Junior Novel Critics and the American Witch in Teen Television “From Bambi to Big Hero 6: “‘The Grammar of Fantasy’ or UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA Struggle to Define YA” and Film” Dealing with Death in Contemporary the Art of Inventing a Free Child: SARAH SAHN, Gianni Rodari and the Pedagogy REBEKAH FITZSIMMONS, Children’s Films” MICKENZIE FASTELAND, University of Illinois at of Reggio Emilia” University of Florida Urbana-Champaign “YA Shaming; or, The Generation University of Michigan- Ann Arbor JESSICA EVANS, “Reading the Anti-Modern Way: “Temporal Suspensions: The JACK ZIPES, Who Wouldn’t Grow Up” University of Kentucky G. Stanley Hall, Adolescence, Queerness of Intergenerational Emeritus- University of Minnesota “The Fear of Death in Kipling’s and Reconstructing Authentic Friendship” “Encounters with Gianni Rodari” MARY ROCA, The Jungle Books” Young Men through Greek and University of Florida Medieval Culture” “‘DNA Doesn’t Make a Family’: Investigating Incest in ABC Family’s The Fosters”

24 The 42nd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 18-20, 2015 25 13E. Happily Never After 13G. Freedom and Beauty SESSION 14 14C. Victorian Secrets LISA VON DRASEK, DION MCLEOD, in Death University of Minnesota, University of Wollongong SHENANDOAH H 5:00-6:15 P.M. POTOMAC E Kerlan Collection “‘You’re free to go, and never CHAIR: MELISSA SMITH, ROANOKE CHAIR: KIRSTEN GAINES, “Words Matter: Grief in Picture return!’: Ultimatums and the FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY CHAIR: GRAEME WEND-WALKER, LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY Books, an Examination of Original Perpetuation of Heterosexism in TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY 14A. The Many Lives of a Manuscripts, Author Research, Animated Disney Films” VIKKI TERRILE, Wooden Puppet: Liberating KIRSTEN GAINES, Art and Texts of Contemporary Queens Library GRAEME WEND-WALKER, Pinocchio through the Longwood University Children’s Books” TRACY ZIMMERMANN, “What’s Your Price for Flight? Texas State University Optics of the Contemporary “Beyond the Gilded Cage: A Allegany College of Maryland Escape from Arranged and Forced Romantic Child’s Adventures in “The Excluded Middle in Political Criticism 14F. Consumer Culture “‘Ghost-Watching’ Disney’s Marriage in Young Adult Literature” Criticism: How Did ‘Liberty’ and Wonderland” Aladdin and Pocahontas” ‘Death’ Become the Only Options?” JAMES RIVER A SHENANDOAH J JENNIFER GEER, CHAIR: LINDSAY MYERS, ALEXANDRA VALINT, CHAIR: MARILYN KOESTER, University of Louisiana at Lafayette SARA KERSTEN, THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY University of Southern Mississippi UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS 6:30-7:00 P.M.

SATURDAY “Clockworks and Cruel The Ohio State University OF IRELAND, GALWAY “‘Wheel me over there!’: Colin’s RECEPTION Princesses: Trapped Women in “Liberty AND Death, Challenging Wheelchair in The Secret Garden MARILYN KOESTER, Mary de Morgan’s Fairy Tales” the Cycle in Midwinterblood” LAURA TOSI, University of Memphis JAMES RIVER C University Ca’ Foscari AMY HICKS, “The Death of the Snow-Girl and the Rise of Materiality: Authorial - MEGHAN SWEENEY, MEGHANNE FLYNN, PETER HUNT, Illinois State University University of North Carolina University of Cambridge University of Cardiff “Voices from Wonderlands: Agency in Hawthorne and Alcott” 7:00-9:00 P.M. at Wilmington “The Choice to Die in Young Adult “Pinocchio in Wonderland: The Language, Gender, and Power in CHLA AWARDS BANQUET “‘If you like it so much, why Supernatural Romance” Power of Global Fantasy” Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books and L. MAGGIE BOKELMAN, don’t you marry it?’: Weird Frank Baum’s The Sea Fairies” Hollins University JAMES RIVER C Weddings in Children’s “‘I Surround Myself With Such KAREN COATS, CARL F. MILLER, Smart People’: Participatory Picturebooks and Cartoons” Illinois State University Palm Beach Atlantic University 14D. Things that Go Bump in “Zany, Cute, and Interesting?: “The Puppet and the Pope: Culture and Collective Intelligence in the Night Literature for Youth” 13F. Torture in the School The Contemporary Aesthetics of Pinocchio, John Paul I, and the Death in Books for Young Readers” Transient Utopia of Childhood” POTOMAC G SHENANDOAH J CHAIR: RICHARD GOODING, SEAN PRINTZ, CHAIR: KATHERINE MAGYARODY, 14B. Masculinity UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA University of Florida UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 13H. Human/Animal “The Ideological Game System: Interactions JAMES RIVER B SEAN CONNORS, Challenging the Constructing of KATHERINE MAGYARODY, POTOMAC F CHAIR: MICHELLE RESENE, University of Arkansas Gender in Video Games” University of Toronto UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT “Creating Monsters: The Abject CHAIR: MONICA FLEGEL, “‘Hurrah for a revolution’: and Hegemonic Masculinity in Rick MEGAN MUSGRAVE, LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY Schoolboy Rebellion in Tom Brown’s MICHELLE RESENE, Yancey’s The Monstrumologist” Indiana University- School Days” University of Connecticut MONICA FLEGEL, Purdue University Indianapolis Lakehead University “‘They Can’t Stand the Sunlight’: RICHARD GOODING, University of “Gamer Girls, Gold Farmers, and ALLISON SPEICHER, “‘No one seemed to trouble The Troubled Relationship between British Columbia Activism In Real Life” Eastern Connecticut State University themselves about my unhappiness’: Porphyria, Intellectual Disability, “Denizens of the Uncanny and Black Masculinity in Virginia “From Child to Citizen: The Role Working-Class Trauma in Valley: David Almond’s Posthuman Disney on the Big Screen of Violence in the Nineteenth- Hamilton’s Sweet Whispers, 14G. Nineteenth-Century Animal Monsters” CHAIR: KRISTEN PROEHL, Century American School Story” Brother Rush” Autobiographies for Children” SUNY- BROCKPORT KATHRYN GRAHAM, Virginia Tech ANNE W. ANDERSON, ALETHIA SHIH, University of JASON VANFOSSON, “A Gift from a Dead Hand: Patrick RYAN BUNCH, University of South Florida California, Los Angeles Western Michigan University Ness’s Completion of A Monster Rutgers University “The Abjection of Genius and the “Art, Death, and the Routinization “From Norvelt to Manhood: The Calls” “Bursting Into Flight: Animated Subverting of High-Stakes Testing of Rural Spaces in Charlotte’s Web” Murderous and Manly Road Trip Bodies and Adolescent Desire in in First Grade Takes a Test and The in Jack Gantos’ From Norvelt to 14E. Children’s Collections Disney Musical Films from The Little Report Card” Nowhere” MORGAN OLDACRE, Mermaid to Frozen” SHENANDOAH H Middle Tennessee State University “Allure of the Animal Charmer in CHRISTOPHER PARKES, CHAIR: LAURA WASOWICZ, Children’s Literature” Lakehead University AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY “The Child Prodigy Ages Out: White Male Privilege as Trauma in LAURA WASOWICZ, John Green’s An Abundance American Antiquarian Society Illustration by Fabian Negrin of Katherines and The Fault in “Divertisements for Young People: Our Stars” Light and Darkness in Book-Based Games and Game-Based Books in Nineteenth-Century America”

26 The 42nd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 18-20, 2015 27 Anne Devereaux Jordan Award HONOR BOOKS: JOHN STEPHENS RESEARCH GRANTS Winner: JUDITH PLOTZ, for Subjectivity in Asian Children’s Literature: Global Theories and Professor Emerita, Diversity Research Grant George Washington University Implications, Routledge CLARK BARWICK, NORA MAGUIRE and BETH RODGERS Indiana University, Bloomington Article Award for Children’s Literature on the Move: Project: Harry F. Liscomb’s The Prince (FOR AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN 2013) Nations, Translations, Migrations, of Washington Square (1925), African WINNER: ZETTA ELLIOTT for “The Four Courts Press American Children’s Literature, and the Trouble with Magic: Conjuring the Making of Black Authorship; and, Harry Past in New York City Parks,” published F. Liscomb’s The Prince of Washington in Jeunesse Graduate Student Essay Awards Square and Other Stories PH.D. LEVEL AWARD: CLARE ECHTERLING for “Individualism, HONOR WINNERS: RACHEL CONRAD FACULTY RESEARCH GRANTS Environmentalism, and the Pastoral in for “’We Are Masters at Childhood’: DANIEL FELDMAN, the Children’s Biorgraphies of Wangari Time and Agency in Poetry by, for, and Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2015 Maathai,” sponsored by Giselle Anatol about Children,” published in Jeunesse Project: Play in Children’s Literature (The University of Kansas) of the Holocaust MARAH GUBAR, ROBIN BERNSTEIN, MASTER’S LEVEL AWARD: KARIN E. WESTMAN, and SARA L. MEGHAN RADOSEVIC for “Blood Money: MICHELLE BEISSEL HEATH, SCHWEBEL for Forum: Manifestos the Commodification of Menstrual University of Nebraska, Kearney AWARD GRANT from the 2013 Children’s Literature Education through American Girl’s Project: Dueling with Literary Association Conference, published in The Care and Keeping of You Series,” Legacies?: The Battle for Cultural Children’s Literature sponsored by Ramona Caponegro Respectability and National Pride in (Eastern Michigan University) U.S. and British 19th Century Card, Book Award Board, and Parlor Games & (FOR A BOOK PUBLISHED IN 2013) MASTER’S LEVEL HONOR AWARD: RECIPIENTS DEIRDRE H. MCMAHON, WINNER: ANASTASIA ULANOWICZ HOLLY BATTY for “Picturing Animality for Second-Generation Memory and in Emily Hughes’ Wild,” sponsored Drexel University Contemporary Children’s Literature, by Jackie Stallcup (California State Project: Non-normative Gender Roles in - Routledge University, Northridge) Imperialist British Children’s Fiction ELIZABETH A. WHEELER, HONOR WINNER: COURTNEY International Sponsorship WEIKLE-MILLS for Imaginary Citizens: University of Oregon Child Readers and the Limits of Grant Project: HandiLand: Kids with American Independence, 1640-1868, Distinguished scholars for a Disabilities Infiltrate Public Culture Johns Hopkins University Press special focus panel on Italian children’s literature: HANNAH BEITER GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS Carol Gay Awards GIORGIA GRILLI, TARANEH MATLOOB HAGHANIKAR, Ph.D. WINNER: ALEXANDRA CATHCART for University of Bologna, Italy Candidate, Oakland University “A Racialized Menagerie: Unpacking MARIA ROSA TRUGLIO, Project: Toward Multicultural Race in Marc Brown’s Arthur Series,” Pennsylvania State University Narratology: A Narrative Approach to sponsored by Courtney Weikle-Mills the Examination of Persian Authenticity (University of Pittsburgh) LINDSAY MYERS, in Multicultural Children’s Literature The National University of Ireland, HONOR WINNER: CLAIRE WERKISER Galway BONNIE TULLOCH, M.A. Candidate, for “Visibility Invisibility: Socialization, University of British Columbia Bodily Inscription, and Ideology in The Phoenix Award Project: The ‘Billy Sooks’ of Nonsense: Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing,” (FOR BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 1995) Examining the Relationship between sponsored by Anna Redcay (University WINNER: KYOKO MORI for One Bird, Nonsense Verse and Critical Literacy of Pittsburgh) Henry Holt & Company MARIKO TURK, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Florida Edited Book Award Phoenix Picture Book Award Project: History Girls: Girlhood and (FOR A BOOK PUBLISHED IN 2013) (FOR BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 1995) WINNER: BALAKA BASU, KATHERINE Political Consciousness in Historical WINNER: SARA FANELLI for My Map R. BROAD, and CARRIE HINTZ for Fiction Series for Girls, 1913-2013 Book, HarperCollins Contermporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers, HONOR BOOKS: CHARLOTTE ZOLOTOW Routledge and STEFANO VITALE for When the Wind Stops, HarperCollins

KADY MACDONALD DENTON for Would They Love a Lion?, Kingfisher

28 The 42nd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 18-20, 2015 29 2015 Participant Index

Abate, Michelle Ann, 7A, 11C Evans, Jessica, 13D Latchman, Renee, 6B Romero, Erika, 7G Adhikari, Hari, 10F Fasteland, MicKenzie, 12E Lee, Michele, 13C Rosen, Jane, 7C Ahlberg, Krista, 1A Faughnder, NaToya, 5C Leggatt, Judith, 9E Roue, Bevin, 12G Alborghetti, Claudia, 12A Fazekas, Hanna-Dora, 7H Lesley, Naomi, 2E Rovan, Marcie, 3E Allen, Amanda, 9A, 12E Feitosa, Lilian P. W., 6B, 5E Lewis, Katy, 2A, 1C Rowland-Storm, Cuthbert, 7D Allen, Elizabeth G., 5A Feldman, Daniel, 7F Li Sheung Ying, Melissa, 10D Ruffin, Ellen, 4C Alteri, Suzan, 9D Ferrier-Watson, Sean, 11D Loeffert, Amanda, 6G Russell, David L., 6A Anatol, Giselle, 3D Fitzsimmons, Rebekah, 12C Lombardo, Alixandria, 2F Rypma, Judith, 7F Anderson, Anne W., 13F Flegel, Monica, 13H Lynch, Robert, 7F Sahn, Sarah, 13B Anderson, Joshua, 1E Fleming, Patrick, 3A Lynch, Sonja, 7F Salah, Christiana, 7E Anderson, Laura, 4G Flynn, Meghanne, 13G Mackey, Margaret, 7A, 12F Sanders, Joe Sutliff, 5B, 7A, 6D Anderson, Rebecca, 9G Flynn, Richard, 8B Macleod, Mark, 3G, 6A Sardella-Ayres, Dawn, 4G Armstrong, Joel, 12D Fox, Rebecca, 2E Madan, Anuja, 1B Sasser, M. Tyler, 3G, 9A Auriemma, Alysa, 12G Fraustino, Lisa Rowe, 11A Magyarody, Katherine, 13F Seminet, Georgia, 3B Baker, Alyce, 1A Fritz, Sonya Sawyer, 4A Maley, Rachel, 2B Shannon, Bridgid, 8A Balina, Marina, 12A, 7B, 13A Gaines, Kirsten, 14C Malkovich, Amberyl, 13D Sheridan, Scott, 11A Barker, Jani, 3D Gallagher, Ciara, 6F Manuszak, Rachel, 10E Shih, Alethia, 13H Barnes, Elizabeth, 13B Gangi, Jane, 12B Martin, Jacklyn, 8H Shortsleeve, Kevin, 1D Batty, Holly, 8G Geer, Jennifer, 13E Martin, Michelle H., 8B Sickmann Han, Carrie, 3A Beissel Heath, Michelle, 5D Gilbert-Hickey, Meghan, 2G Mason, Derritt, 13B Skrlac Lo, Rachel, 2D Bell, Katherine, 10E González, Ann, 3B Massachi, Dina, 4E Slater, Kate, 5B, 9A, 6E Bennett-Zendzian, Amy, 12D, 11C Gooding, Richard, 14D McCabe, Nancy, 1F Smith, Melissa, 11D, 13E Berkley-Cramer, Kazia, 7G Goswami, Supriya, 10F McConnel, Jen, 4E Smith, Rachel, 11B Bhadury, Poushali, 10F Graham, Kathryn, 14D McDermott, Shawna, 6H Smith, Victoria Ford, 4A Bickford, Tyler, 4B Gray, Paige, 4D McKay, David, 4F Sommers, Joseph Michael, 10E Bieber, Ada, 11E Green-Barteet, Miranda, 2G McLendon, Kelsey, 8C Speicher, Allison, 13F Bienvenue Bray, Danielle, 8F Gregerson, Annette, 3C McLeod, Dion, 14G Stabell, Ivy Linton, 11B Bittel, Helen, 6E Gregory, Kristen, 5C McMahon, Deirdre, 7E Stanley, Jessica, 10C, 1D Bokelman, Maggie, 14F Grice, Karly, 5G Meeusen, Meghann, 12D Stein, Katy, 5F, 4G Branyon, Angela, 5E Griffey, Adam, 9F Michals, Teresa, 1D Sterner, Sara, 12B Brendler, Beth, 5F Griffin, Melanie, 1F Mielke, Tammy, 1E, 9C Stevenson, Jean, 4C Brock-Servais, Rhonda, 6H Grilli, Giorgia, 7B Miller, Carl F., 14A Stewart, Samantha, 8F Bromley, Chelsea, 11E Gruner, Mariah, 9F Miller, Karen Li, 1E Stewart, Susan, 9D Browne, Tiffany, 5F Gryctko, Mary, 5C Miller, Mary Catherine, 2G Stover, Deanna, 4E Bukhina, Olga, 10A Gubar, Marah, 4D Millet, Aleesa, 8C Stuart, Christopher, 8C Bunch, Ryan, 14G Haber, Erika, 11B Mills, Claudia, 2C Sweeney, Meghan, 13E Burke, Richard C., 2F Hade, Dan, 1B Mockler, Kerry, 4B Tan, Susan, 5E Bushardt, Olivia, 10C Hakala, Laura, 11E Montanes-Lleras, Andres, 6C Tarbox, Gwen Athene, 5B Cadden, Mike, 12F, 3E Halko, Gabrielle Atwood, 13C Moore, Mandy, 9G Tedesco, Laureen, 9B Cadwallader, Jen, 3A Hamer, Naomi, 4C, 6A Moran, Mary Jeanette, 10C Terrile, Vikki, 13E Calland, Robin, 7G Hanlon, Tina, 7C Morris, Jenny, 8H Thompson, Josh, 4F Cannata, Susan, 9E Harde, Roxanne, 6A, 10G Murphy, Emily, 10B Thompson, Amanda, 8D, 1F Caponegro, Ramona, 4C Harris, Kay, 9E Musgrave, Megan, 14F Tomlinson, Johanna Brinkley, 8E Capshaw, Katharine, 8B Hastings, A. Waller, 11A Myers, Lindsay, 7B, 14A Tosi, Laura, 14A Carlson, Paige, 8A Hayes, Melissa, 3D Nance-Carroll, Niall, 9F Town, Caren, 2D Castleman, Michele D., 8H Herold, Kelly, 10A Negrin, Fabian, 13A Trevarrow, Andrew, 2D Cato, Valerie, 9E Hicks, Amy, 14C Nel, Philip, 3D, 12A Tribunella, Eric, 6D Chalifour, Spencer, 12G Hill, Crag, 6A Nelson, Claudia, 6A Trites, Roberta, 6E Chan, Cecilia, 5C Hinton, KaaVonia, 5E Nelson-Lewis, Genira, 6B Truglio, Maria Rosa, 7B Chandler, Karen, 5G Hixon, Martha, 10D Norcia, Megan, 2E Turk, Mariko, 6E Chapman, Amanda Phillips, 3C Hoffman, A. Robin, 7E Nunnery, Katie, 7H Ulanowicz, Anastasia, 9G Childs, Ann, 11D Hoiem, Elizabeth, 9B O'Daniel, KaTosha, 12D Valint, Alexandra, 14C Clapp-Itnyre, Alisa, 9B Hollander, Amanda, 7D O'Donnell, Ashley, 1B Van Tuyl, Jocelyn, 3F Clere, Dee, 8E Horne, Jackie, 12E Oldacre, Morgan, 13H Vandenborre, Katia, 10D Coats, Karen, 13G Howard, Krystal, 7H Olson, Marilynn, 6F Vanfosson, Jason, 14B Cockrell, Amanda, 6A, 7A Hubler, Angela, 9H Ostry, Elaine, 8D Vaughan, Brooke, 2A Cohoon, Lorinda B., 5A Hudock, Laura, 3C Oziewicz, Marek, 12B Venable, Brandi J., 8A Cole, Hannah, 3E Hunt, Peter, 14A Pacheco, Derek, 8E Viswanath, Tharini, 11C Coletta, Jenn, 1C Isaac, Megan, 3F Pajka, Sharon, 5F Von Drasek, Lisa, 14E Collins, Anastasia, 9H Ishmael, Candace, 10G Parille, Ken, 6G Wannamaker, Annette, 6A, 7A, 10E Connors, Sean, 14D Isip, J.D., 7C Parkes, Christopher, 14B Wasowicz, Laura, 14E Coolidge Toker, Emily, 2B Jarrett, Denise, 6B Pattee, Amy, 4D Watts, Michelle, 6H Cormier, Emily Cardinali, 11B Jedrych, Karolina, 4G Pfeiffer, Julie, 6F Webb, Caroline, 2C Coste, Jill, 2G Jimenez, Laura, 7F Pierson, Ryan, 4B Weldy, Lance, 4F Couzelis, Mary, 1D Jimenez Garcia, Marilisa, 3B Plotz, Judith, 12A Wend-Walker, Graeme, 13G Covington, Claire, 3F Johnson, Hayley, 5A Press, Eric, 1C West, Mark, 7F Cowdy, Cheryl, 12B Johnston, Garrett, 6F Prickett, Matthew, 9D Westman, Karin, 6A, 9C Crisp, Thomas, 8A Jones, Caroline, 6A Priest, Myisha, 8B Wexler, Allison, 6D Cummins, June, 8F Jones, Tammy R., 5A Printz, Sean, 14F Whitaker, Chloe, 6C Curtis, James, 13D Jones, Tanya, 9G Proehl, Kristen, 13B, 14G Wigginton, Rebecca, 1A Cyr, Heather, 12F Joseph, Michael, 8G Pyrz, Scott, 6C Williams, Elizabeth, 6C, 8C Daignault, Amanda, 8E Kavanagh-Ryan, Kit, 9C Radosevic, Meghan, 7D Wilson, Sandip LeeAnne, 5D Dallacqua, Ashley, 5G Kealley, Adam, 7H Ragan, Shelby, 8D Wilson, Casey, 12C Dasgupta, Sreemoyee, 10F Kemp, Ashlyn, 6H Rahn, Suzanne, 1F Winters, Sarah, 2C D'Aveta, Laura, 3C Kersten, Sara, 13G Reed, Brandie, 9C Wu, Andrea Mei Ying, 10B Day, Sara K., 4A, 7A Koester, Marilyn, 14F Reef, Anne, 2B Wu, Kate Pei-Ying, 10B Dean-Ruzicka, Rachel, 6G Kunze, Peter, 8G Reilly-Sanders, Erin, 8H Wyile, Andrea Schwenke, 11A, 14B Driggers, Rachel, 11E LaHaie, Jeanne, 8A, 13C Resene, Michelle, 14B Yarbrough, Wynn, 7C Dusenberry, Lisa, 4D Lamarque, María, 3B Rhodes, Cristina, 2A Zimmermann, Tracy, 14G Echterling, Clare, 3G Lambert Graham, Sage, 5C Rickard, Rachel, 2F Zipes, Jack, 12A Edwards, Gail, 5D Lanoux, Andrea, 10A Roca, Mary, 12C Elliott, Jaquelin, 6D Lashley, Katherine, 9C Rodriguez, Sonia Alejandra, 6H

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