Catherine L. Elick, "Bakhtin in Wonderland";
Jan Susina, "Too Gaudy or Not Gaudy Enough: Lewis Carroll's The Nursery 'Alice'";
Amy Billone, " A Little Princess Viewed Through the Looking Glass: The Nightmare of Mirrors in Children's Literature";

1.2 Narration and Voice

Christian P. Knoeller, "'Not One Voice, But Many': A Bakhtinian View of Contemporary Native American Writing";
Maria Nikolajeva, "Crossvocalization and Subjectivity: Performative Voice in Children's Fiction";
Louise Salstad, "Manolito Gafotas, a Series for All Ages";

1.3Post-colonial Readings

Neva Bermundo, "Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty: Instruments of the Colonizer in Reshaping the Consciousness and Identity of the Colonized";
Dawn Eli Keller, "Cute Conveyor Belts Carry Dangerous Messages: Arlene Sardine from a Multicultural Perspective";
Takako Seino, "Cultural Translations in Japan: Louise De La Ramee's A Dog of Flanders";

Lunch

Session 2: 1:00-2:30

2.1 Redrawing, Revisioning, and Retelling: Reillustrating Children's Picture Books

George Bodmer, "Redrawing the Velveteen Rabbit";
Sharon Scapple, "Strangely Familiar";
Louisa Smith, "Switched Images";

2.2 Constructions of Identity

Susan Larkin, "Werewolf or Woman: Shifting Subjectivities and Empowerment in Annette Curtis Klause's Blood and Chocolate";
Don Latham, "Portraits of the Artist: Creativity and Selfhood in Kit's Wilderness";
Jordan Stouck, "'Hook or Me': Peter Pan and the Play of Identity";

2.3 Historical Fiction and Biography

Erika Andra, "Opportunities and Obligations: Contemporary Culture Impacting Perceptions of the Past in Historical Fiction for Children";
Edwina L. Helton, "Revisiting the Past: Cultural Intertextuality and Re-visioning the Native American Experience in Michael Dorris' Historical Children's Novels";
Carole Brown Knuth, "Life and Legacy of the Mexican Muse: Pat Mora's A Library for Juana: The World of Sor Juana Inés";

Break—Refreshments provided

Session 3: 3:00-4:30

3.1"We're Not in Kansas Anymore";: The Lost Girls Motif in Children's and Young Adult Literature

Dorothy Clark, Chair

Pamela Bourgeois, "Lost Girls in Andersen and Masden";
Kevin O'Neill, "Young Women in the Left Behind Series";
Laureen Tedesco, "Death by Croquet: Disposing of the Unrepentant Girl in Charlotte Yonge's Family Stories";

3.2 Ideology of Family

Amelia A. Rutledge, "Reconfiguring Nurture in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials";
Donelle Ruwe, "The Violent Didactic in Original Poems for Infant Minds";
Jackie E. Stallcup, "Elsie Dinsmore vs. Jo March: Competing Methods of Child-Rearing in Nineteenth-Century Children's Novels";

3.3 Children in Other Cultures

Jane Goldstein, "Pain and Hope in Poetry: The Voices of Children from the Middle East";
Anna L. Nielsen, "Islam in Children's and Young Adult Literature: Portrayals and Perceptions";
Maria Morrison, "And They Lived Happily Ever After…: Cannibalism, Mutation and Murder in Helme Heine's The Most Beautiful Egg in the World";

Cocktail Reception

Friday, April 11, 2003

Session 4: 9:00-10:30

4.1 Inappropriate Children's Literature, Part I

Richard Flynn, "Is There Pleasure in this Text? Francesca Lia Block's Fairy Tales and the Young/Adult Binary";
Caroline E. Jones, "For Adults Only? Searching for Sexual Subjectivity in Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Alice Series";
Joseph T. Thomas, Jr., "'Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Burning of the School': Child Poets and the Poetry of the Playground";

4.2 Storytelling and Other Art Forms

Louise Collins, "Autonomy and Authorship: Children's Picture Books Through the Lens of Feminist Ethics";
Jennifer Smith, "The Music of Appalachian Children's and Young Adult Literature";
Craig Werner, "Discovery through Storytelling: Pat Mora's Tomás and the Library Lady and The Rainbow Tulip";

4.3 Rethinking Adolescent Literature

Karen Coats, "Sacrificial Violence and the 'Anthropology of the Cross': A Girardian View of The Chocolate War";
Susan Stewart, "'Seeing' the World: Visual Challenges in Adolescent Fiction";
Waller Hastings, "Cobble's Knot: Reconciling Pubic and Private in Maniac Magee";

Break—Complimentary Refreshments

Session 5: 11:00-12:30

5.1 Inappropriate Children's Literature, Part II

Michael Heyman, "Seventy-three Entirely Evil Things To Do: Edward Gorey's Children's Books";
Christopher McGee, "You'd Really Be Better Off Hearing Something Else: Thoughts on the Terribly Inappropriate Lemony Snicket Books";
Lissa Paul, "Knives";

5.2 American Identity

June Cummins, "Understood Betsy, Understood Nation: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Queers America";
Elizabeth Marshall, "Citizen Drew: The All-American Girl and the Case of Gendered Childhood";
Anne K. Phillips, "'Citizen Soldiers' and Series Fiction: American Children's Literature, 1940-1955";

5.3 Variations on the Female Bildungsroman

Elisabeth Rose Gruner, "Resisting Cinderella: Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries";
Anita Tarr, "The Poetic Voices of Karen Hesse";
Karen V. Zagrodnik, "The Death of the Child Velvet in National Velvet";

Lunch

Session 6: 2:00-3:30

6.1Early Twentieth Century Children's Literature

Kenneth Kidd, "Newbery Gold: Children's Literature as Cultural Capital";
Philip Nel, "A Very Special House: Maurice Sendak, Ruth Krauss, and Crockett Johnson, 1950-1960";
Nathalie op de Beeck, "The Proto Picture Book: Mary Liddell's Little Machinery (1926)";

6.2 Crossing Genre Borders

Paula T. Connolly, "Repressing Race: Nineteenth-Century Unconscious Representations of Slavery";
Maude Hines, "Reading Like a Hero: Fairy-tale Mirrors in Alger, Alcott, and Twain";
Teya Rosenberg, "E. Nesbit, Intertexuality, and the Empire: Does Genre Matter?";

6.3Female Communities

Charles Hatfield, " Castle Waiting, a Revisionist Fairy Tale Comic Book";
Jackie C. Horne, "Women Write the Adventure Story";
Theresa M. Martus, "Snow White Tales and the Search for the Good Mother";

Break—Complimentary Refreshments

Session 7: 4:00-5:30

Plenary Session: Bill Moebius, "Hermeneutics and History: The Picturebook as Memory's Muse";

Saturday, April 12, 2003

Session 8: 9:00-10:30

8.1 Inheriting Older Traditions

Amberyl Malkovich, "Contemporary Orphan Narratives: The Case of Lemony Snicket and Charles Dickens";
Evelyn M. Perry, "Metaphor and MetaFantasy: Questing for Literary Inheritance in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone";
Linda Benson, "Adoring Tradition: Art and Ideology in William Steig's Picture Books";

8.2 Children's Periodicals, the Child's Voice, and Children's Citizenship, Part I

Shauna Bigham, "Setting Precedence: Caroline Gilman's Contribution to Early Children's Periodicals";
Lorinda B. Cohoon, "'Shall I Be Your Boy?': Conversational Citizenships in the St. Nicholas Serialization of Little Lord Fauntleroy";
Fern Kory, " The Brownies' Book: Children's Magazine for the 'New Negro'";

8.3 Children's Literature and Socially Imposed Constructs

Katherine Fiorelli, "Caught in a Real Pickle: Negotiating Children's Agency through Language, Subjectivity and Gender Construction in Nickelodeon's Rugrats";
Claire L. Malarte-Feldman, "The Fabric of Postmodern Fairy Tales: Political Correction or Incorrection?";
Jennifer M. Miskec, "The Virtual Reality of Power and Political Correctness in Edward Bloor's Crusader";

Break—Complimentary Refreshments

Session 9: 11:00-12:30

9.1 Postmodern Picture Books

Cathlena Martin, "Postmodern Piglets: A Look at Marginalization in 'The Three Little Pigs'";
Tammy Mielke, "David Wiesner's The Three Pigs: Deconstructed Text through Intertextual Illustration";
Andrea Schwenke Wyile, "Narration, Pictorialization, and the Drama of Potentiality in Picturebooks, or The Playful Collision of 'Subjective' and 'Objective' Details in Voices, Shortcut, Ooh-La-La, and A. Wolf's True Story";

9.2 Children's Periodicals, the Child's Voice, and Children's Citizenship, Part II

Lisa Jacobson, "Educating and Celebrating the Child Consumer: Children's Magazines in the Early Twentieth-Century United States";
Carolyn Watson, " Le Edad de Oro: Writing Citizen and Nation";
Richard Jobs, "Tarzan Under Attack: Comic Books, Censorship, and Youth During the Fourth Republic";

9.3 Constructions of Gender

Daniel F. Pigg, "Jeff, the Professor, and the Men's Movement: The Semiotics of Gendered Space in Voight's A Solitary Blue";
Rebecca Rabinowitz, "'Where the Tillermans Could Be Themselves': A Queer View of Gender in Children's Literature";
Kara Keeling, "'Room to Breathe': The Geographical Space and Identity in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Novels";

Lunch

Session 10: 2:00-3:30

10.1The Psychological and Social Possibilities of Fantasy

Christine Doyle, "Orson Scott Card's Ender and Bean: The Exceptional Child as Hero";
James Matthews, "Community, Isolation, and Self-Knowledge in A Wizard of Earthsea and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone";
Donna R. White, "LeGuin and Farmer: Challenging Racial Assumptions in Fantasy and Science Fiction";

10.2Mildred Wirt Benson Remembered: Papers on the First Carolyn Keene

Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, "'A Heroine More to My Liking': Benson's Penny Parker, the Sleuth that Nancy Drew Might Have Been";
Carolyn Darin, "The Changing Nature of Power and Authority in the Nancy Drew Series";
Leona Fisher, "Harriet Stratemeyer Adams and Mildred Wirt Benson: Exploitation or Collaboration?";

10.3Power and Subjectivity

K. L. Poe, "Who's Got the Power? Montgomery, Sullivan, and the Unsuspecting Viewer";
Karin E. Westman, "A Sentimental Education?: Georgette Heyer's Regency Romance and the Young Adult Reader";
Michelle H. Martin, "'It's Just My Hammers Sucking Wind!': The Power of John Henry, Black American Legend";

Break—Complimentary Refreshments

Session 11: 4:00-5:30

Plenary Session: Bill Moebius, Phil Nel, Maria Nikolajeva