1.1 Animal Stories and Alternatives to an Anthropocentric Moral Universe--Amphitheater

1.1.a "We are not Alone: Including Animals in the Moral Universe"
Mary Trachsel, University of Iowa

1.1.b "The 'Daemons' Inside Us: Human-Animal Interactions in Juvenile Fantasy"
Mary Jeanette Moran, University of Iowa

1.1.c "Love and Death and Relational Human Selfhood in Animal Stories for Adolescents"
Bonnie Sonnek, University of Iowa

1.2 Language and Its Uses--Belmont

1.2.b "Lilliputian Chuckles: Humor and Heroism in Kendall's The Gammage Cup" Richard Seiter, Central Michigan State University

1.3 Other Cultures and Children's Literature--Harding

1.3.a "Whoselore?: The Folklore Question in Contemporary Children's Literature"
Deborah Stevenson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1.3.b "Anansi, Ananse, Anancy, Bro Nancy, Annancy: The Name and the Illustrations Are Not the Same"
Laura Meyers, Purdue University

1.3.c "Haitian Folklore: Oral Tradition Transcribed for Children"
Anna M. Suranyi

2.1 Children's Literature and Politics--Amphitheater

2.1.a "David Leon Cahun's Adventure Novels: A Response to French Colonial Politics and the anti-Semitic Novel"
Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch, Angelo State University

2.1.b "The Myth of a Nation: British Children's Myth-based Fiction after 1945"
Karen Sands, Buffalo State College

2.1.c "Disdaining Didacticism in Holocaust Books"
Gail Murray, Rhodes College

2.2 Reading Through Different Lenses--Belmont

2.2.a "A Rare Bat: A Structuralist Reading of Randall Jarrell's The Bat Poet"
Joseph Thomas, Illinois State University

2.2.b "Black Children's Literature Got the Blues . . .Aesthetic!"
Nancy D. Tolson, Illinois State University

2.2.c "Morals in Children's Literature: Exploring the Teachings of Tolerance in Our Young Folks"
John I. Kille, University of Minnesota--Duluth

2.3 Food, Eating, and Gender--Harding

2.3.a "Honey and Bitter Fruit: Women as Food in Cynthia Voigt's A Solitary Blue"
Jennifer Marchant, Illinois State University

2.3.b "'Through His Stomach…': Lenora Mattingly Weber and the Anxiety of Domesticity"
Katrine Poe, Loyola University

2.3.c "Kate Greenaway, John Ruskin and the Erotic Innocent Child"
Anna Silver, Mercer University

3.1 Versions of History--Amphitheater

3.1.a "Liberty and Justice for All: A New Historical Look at the American Ideology of Freedom in Toning the Sweep and Johnny Tremain"
Marlena Zapf

3.1.b "American History Orientalized: Peter Parley in Japan"
Eriko Ogihara, University of Tsukuba

3.1.c "Toward a Theory of Historical Fiction for Children"
A. Waller Hastings, Northern State University

3.2 Daughters and Mothers--Belmont

3.2.a "Mother's in the Garden: Figuring the Maternal in Burnett's The Secret Garden"
Katherine Ghiselin, Lane Community College

3.2.b "'The Making of Rebecca': Mother Figures in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm"
Elvira Casal, Middle Tennessee State University

3.2.c "Transvaluations of Violations: The Persephone Myth in Children's Literature"
Carole Schuyler, Auburn University

3.3 The Middle Ages and Children's Literature--Harding

3.3.a "Medieval Children's Literature: Problems, Possibilities, Parameters"
Daniel T. Kline, University of Alaska--Anchorage

3.3.b "Fidelity to the Infidel: Religion in Adolescent Literature Set in the Middle Ages"
Rebecca Barnhouse, Youngstown State University

3.3.c "Almost Liberated: The Medieval Female in Young Adult Literature"
Judith N. Mitchell, Rhode Island College

4.1 The East and the West--Amphitheater

4.1.a "Walter Crane, the Aesthetic Movement, and Japan"
Catherine Ramsdell, Auburn University

4.1.b "Child, Language, and Asia in Mrs. Sherwood's The History of Little Henry and His Bearer"
Li Zheng, University of Tsukuba

4.1.c "Little Henry, Little Lucy, and the Conquest of the East: Mary Sherwood and Colonial Allegory"
Judith Plotz, The George Washington University

4.2 The Problem Novel for Young Adults--Belmont

4.2.a "The Anxiety of Identity: Kidnapped Children in Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Young Adults"
Kara Keeling, Christopher Newport University

4.2.b "Models for Coping with Death in Young Adult Literature"
Gail Radley, Stetson University

4.2.c "'If I do this, am I being a real friend to you, or am I betraying you?': James Bennett's Moral agents in an Immoral World"
Anita Tarr, Illinois State University

4.3 The Supernatural or the Magical--Harding

4.3.a "Mystery in Cinderella: Physics as a New Lens for an Old Tale"
Jean Stringam, Mesa State College

4.3.b "'What sort of future do you want?': Children and Contemporary British Cyber Fiction's Take on Tech"
Elizabeth L. Pandolfo Briggs, University of Wales, Cardiff

4.3.c "The Form and Purpose of Magical Realism in Two Novels by Elizabeth Goudge"
Teya Rosenberg, Southwest Texas State University

5.1 Illustrations and How They Work--Amphitheater

5.1.a "Everything Hardy: Illustrations and The Hardy Boys"
Chris McGee, Illinois State University

5.1.b "Suki in Silver: Illustration and Interpretation in Joyce Blackburn's Multicultural Series"
Carole Brown Knuth, Buffalo State College

5.1.c "'Never overlook the art of the seemingly simple': Crockett Johnson and the Politics of the Purple Crayon"
Phil Nel, College of Charleston

5.2 Visualizing Story--Belmont

5.2.a "Sweetness and Light, Bump in the Night: Adventures in Children's Theatre"
Richard Davis, Jr., Augusta State University

5.2.b "From Self-Improvement to Self-Gratification: Reinterpreting Little Women in Film"
Jill Belarmino, Mississippi University for Women

5.2.c " Daddy-Long-Legs on Film: The Marginalization of Judy Abbott"
Anne K Phillips, Kansas State University

5.3 Gender at the Turn of the Century--Harding

5.3.a "'But that a daughter of mine should so far forget herself in her hospitality to a guest—': Doing Gender in Early Twentieth-Century Girls' Fiction"
Julie Pfeiffer, Hollins University

5.3.a "'But that a daughter of mine should so far forget herself in her hospitality to a guest—': Doing Gender in Early Twentieth-Century Girls' Fiction"
Julia McQuillan, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

5.3.b "In the Wake of Fauntleroy: The Politics of Burnett's Reputation"
Beverly Lyon Clark, Wheaton College

6.1 New Theories--Amphitheater

6.1.a "Radical Change: A Modern Critical Approach"
Eliza T. Dresang, Florida State University

6.1.b "Discovering Geographical Criticism on the Way to Aberdeen's Oz Festival"
Mark West, University of North Carolina--Charlotte

6.1.c "Children's Literature--The Impossible Genre--Before Your Very Eyes!"
David Rudd, Bolton Institute

6.2 African-American Traditions--Belmont

6.2.a "Contrapuntal Voices of the 'New Negro Renaissance': Southern African-American Children's Literature"
Katharine Capshaw Smith, University of Connecticut

6.2.b "Aesop fuh true: The Nature of Gullah Fables"
Jacqueline Gmuca, Coastal Carolina University

6.2.c "From Pentecostal to Postmodern: Spirituality in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Thomas"
Anita Moss, University of North Carolina--Charlotte

6.3 Versions of Childhood—Harding

6.3.a "Emerging Innocent: the Boston Child of the New Republic"
Nancy Sutherland, Augusta State University

6.3.b "Asi es la Vida: Two Faces of growing up Chicano"
Liticia J. Salter, Texas A & M University

7.1 Plenary Session—Amphitheater

7.1 "The Children's Literature Theory of Children's Literature, or Why we have been going in the wrong direction for twenty years"
Peter Hunt, University of Wales, Cardiff

8.1 Rethinking Girls' Formula Fiction: Progressive Possibilities or Regressive Realities?--Amphitheater

8.1.a "Cherry Ames: Feminist Nurse"
Natalie Ziarnik

8.1.b "Nancy Drew and the Case of Our Lost Past"
Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Purdue University

8.1.c "The New Girls' Club: Regenerating Stereotypes Through Formula Fiction"
Jennifer Liethen Kunka, Purdue University

8.2 Sexuality--Belmont

8.2.a "Sex and the Schoolgirl: The Fairy Tale Pattern of Adele Geras's Tower Room Trilogy"
Martha Hixon, University of Southwestern Louisiana

8.2.b "Where is the Joy of Sex? Sexuality in the Young Adult Novel"
Roberta Seelinger Trites, Illinois State University

8.3 Psychological Readings—Harding

8.3.a "If Piaget and Vygotsky were Literary Critics: Readings of Frog and Toad are Friends"
Cathryn M. Mercier, Simmons College

8.3.b "'I Never Explain Anything': What Children's Literature Knows about Sexual Difference"
Karen Coats, Illinois State University

9.1 From Life to Art—The Development of Writers—Amphitheater

9.1.a "A Daughter's Place"
Jane Goldstein, Hollins University

9.1.b "The Use of Journals by Children's Book Authors"
Dawn Reno, University of Central Florida

9.1.c "Diaries of a Shropshire Lass: The Shaping of Stella Benson"
Marlene Baldwin Davis, College of William and Mary

9.2 Adaptations of Traditional Lore in Contemporary Children's Literature—Belmont

9.2.a "The Earthly and the Sacred United: Good Versus Evil in Jane Yolen's 'Good Griselle'"
Judy Teaford, College of West Virginia

9.2.b "Magic and Reality in Tom Davenport's Fairy Tale Films"
Tina Hanlon, Ferrum College

9.2.c " Maniac Magee: A Modern Legend"
Marcy Talbert, Hollins University

9.3 Socialization in L. M. Montgomery's Novels--Harding

9.3.b "Issues of Romance: Montgomery's Anne vs. Sullivan's Anne"
Melissa Juvinall, Illinois State University

10.1 Adult (Re)Appropriations—19 ^th-Century Figures of the Child and Children's Literature--Amphitheater

10.1.a "'Wet Smiles': Adult Longing and Sentimentality in Peter Pan"
John P. Nuckols, University of Southern California

10.1.b "Fanny's Fairy Godmother: The Sibling Difference in Jane Austen's "Cinderella," or Mansfield Park"
Elisabeth Rose Gruner, University of Richmond

10.1.c "Reforming Cinderella: Cruikshank, Dickens, and Moral Fairy Tales"
Christine Alfano, University of Colorado—Denver

10.2 Defining the Female—Belmont

10.2.a "The American Girl: Louisa May Alcott 'Talks Back' to Henry James"
Christine Doyle, Central Connecticut State University

10.2.b "Female Protagonists in Spanish Prize-winning Narrative Fiction for Children and Adolescents"
Louise Salstad, North Carolina State University

10.2.c "Beauty and B.: Eighteenth-Century Construction of the Female in deBeaumont's 'Beauty and the Beast' and Richardson's Pamela"
Laurie Walczak, Illinois State University

10.3 Disguising Ideology--Harding

10.3.b "Ouida and the Philosophy of Money"
Mary S. Pollock, Stetson University

10.3.c "'Rather to be admired than imitated': Charles Lamb and the Conduct Book for Girls"
Katie Hannah, University of Alabama

11.1 Childhood Studies—"Children of the Poor": Representations of Working Class Children in 19 ^th and 20 ^th Century Texts--Amphitheater

11.1.a "Coffee or Tea: The Two Nations of Victorian Children's Literature"
Jan Susina, Illinois State University

11.1.b "Lewis Hine's Children: Ideologies of Working Bodies"
Patricia Pace, Georgia Southern University

11.1.c "'The Kindergarten of New Consciousness': Gwendolyn Brooks and the Social Construction of Childhood"
Richard Flynn, Georgia Southern University

11.2 The Christian and the Pagan—Belmont

11.2.a "Defining the Merman"
Jennifer Camden, Hollins University

11.2.b "(Em)bracing Icy Mothers and Other Images of the North in British Children's Fantasy"
Naomi Wood, Kansas State University