If you have questions, please let me know by email at jackie.stallcup@csun.edu.

Session 1A: Reform and Social Critique
Room: 211
Chair: Jameela Lares, University of Southern Mississippi
A/V available: None

Ramona Anne Caponegro, University of Florida
      "Behind Bars: Representations of Prisons in Children’s Literature Written in Reform-Ridden Victorian England"
Karen Keely, Mount St. Mary’s University
      "Pollyanna Meets the Slum Lord and the White Slaver: Transforming Urban Ills in the Progressive Era"

Session 1B: Maturation through Fantasy
Room: 215
Chair: Phillip Serrato, San Diego State University
A/V available: None

Stephanie Hepner, Arlington Central School District
      "Wood, Words, and Worlds: Modes of Maturity in Cornelia Funke’s Novels"
Chandra Howard, San Diego State University
      "Through Juzzles, Down Rabbit Holes: Aggression and Maturation in Hoban’s Trokeville and Carroll’s Wonderland"
Laurie Ousley, Trocaire College
      "‘Well-Read People are Less Likely to be Evil’: On Nurturing Intellect and Compassion in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events"

Session 1C: YA Lit Left Behind? Reading Habits of Middle and High School Students
Room: 219
Chair: Kent Baxter, California State University, Northridge
A/V available: Power Point Projector and Computer

Kent Baxter, California State University, Northridge
Christina Saidy, California State University, Northridge
Kevin Volkan, California State University, Channel Islands

Session 1D: Dreaming, Imagination and Escape
Room: 200 A&B
Chair: Lynne Vallone, Texas A&M University
A/V available: Slide Projector

Pamela D. Gay-White, Alabama State University
      "Visions of Loss and the Carnivalesque: ‘Lettres à Ses Petits Enfants’ by Sidonie de la Houssaye"
Joseph Stanton, University of Hawaii at Manoa
      "Cooking in the Night Kitchen: The Artist Dreaming in the Child’s House"
Joey Weber, San Diego State University
      "Perspective Thoughts: Character Emotion, Character Imagination, and Authorial Viewpoints in Madeline and Where the Wild Things Are"

Session 1E: Trading Spaces: Geography and Travel
Room: 223
Chair: Jaimy Mann, University of Florida
A/V available: Powerpoint computer and projector

Claudia Mills, University of Colorado-Boulder
      "‘Travel is So Broadening’: Transformation Through Travel in Betsy and the Great World, and My Heart’s in the Highlands"
Michelle Hawley, California State University, Los Angeles
      "Transforming Places, The Geography of Latina/o Picture Books"
Kara Keeling, Christopher Newport University
      "Place and Geographical Identity in Yep’s Golden Mountain Chronicles"

Session 2A: Intertextual Subversion
Room: 211
Chair: Kent Baxter, California State University, Northridge
A/V available: None

Michelle Hudgens
      "‘I Wanna Be a Witch!’: Changing Women’s Ideals in the Wizard of Oz"
Don Latham, Florida State University
      "Gods and Monsters: Textual/Sexual Transformations in David Almond’s Clay"
Katy Southern, University of Wisconsin-Madison
      "Reading Dialogically: Transforming Narratives in Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents"

Session 2B: Deconstructing the Folktale
Room: 215
Chair: Debra Mitts-Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A/V available: None

Genevieve Baumann, Missouri State University
      "Transforming Briar Rose: Orality and Oral Narratives in Jane Yolen’s Briar Rose"
Linda Benson, Missouri State University
      "Post-Modern Pigs: Contemporary Picture Book Variants of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and the Child as Implied Reader"
Frieda Bostian, Virginia Tech
      "Owl in Love: A Transformer Transformed?"

Session 2C: When the Judge Pounds the Gavel: Trials in Children’s Literature
Room: 219
Chair: Ian Wojcik-Andrews, Eastern Michigan University
A/V available: Powerpoint Projector and Computer

Walter Hogan, Eastern Michigan University
      "Magic on Trial in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix"
Camille W. Parker, Eastern Michigan University
      "Trials: A Catalyst for the Coming of Age"
Sarah Fabian, Eastern Michigan University
      "The Private Goes Public: The Trial as Transformer in Annie On My Mind"
Ian Wojcik-Andrews, Eastern Michigan University
      "Crime and Punishment and the Image of the Trial in Holes"

Session 2D: Syllabus Exchange Roundtable: Crossing Boundaries Between Children’s
Literature and Non-Children’s-Literature Courses
Room: 200 A&B
Chair: Kate Capshaw Smith
A/V available: Power Point Projector and Computer

Yvonne Atkinson, California State University, San Bernardino
      "Children’s Literature in an African-American Literature Course"
Dorothy G. Clark, California State University, Northridge
      "Children’s Literature in a Graduate Seminar: An Evil Crossover"
Tina Bertacchi-Love, California State University, Northridge
      "Using Children’s Literature as a Tool to Read and Understand Literature"
Renée L. Gross, Corning Community College
Ruth Mirtz, Ferris State University
      "Children’s Literature in Introductory Linguistics"
Elisabeth R. Gruner, University of Richmond
      "Children’s Lit in the ‘Adult Lit’ Classroom"
Lissa Paul, Brock University
      "Teaching Diversity"

Session 2E: Transforming the Ideal Girl
Room: 223
Chair: Laura M. Robinson, Royal Military College
A/V available: Power Point Projector and Computer

Laureen Tedesco, East Carolina University
      "‘Instructions Included’: The American Girl Scout Makeover, 1913-1930"
Meg Florio, California State University, Northridge
      "Let’s Hear It From the Girls: The Transformation of American Girl Talk"
Michelle Ann Abate, Hollins University
      "Trans/Formation: Sharon Dennis Wyeth’s Tomboy Trouble and Transgenderism in Children’s Literature"

Session 3A: The Human Animal
Room: 211
Chair: Martha Hixon, Middle Tennessee State University
A/V available: None

Kimberly Kennelly, San Diego State University
      "Overcoming the Beast Within: Animal Metamorphosis as Metaphor for Adolescence in Dr. Frankin’s Island"
Elaine Ostry, State University of New York-Plattsburgh
      "Turning Into Rats and Roaches: A Transformative Experience"
Jennifer Marchant, Middle Tennessee State University
      "Born Under a Hunting Moon: Owl in Love and Blood and Chocolate from an Ecofeminist Perspective"

Session 3B: A New Day Yesterday: Re-Envisioning Old Tales
Room: 215
Chair: Stephanie Hepner, Arlington Central School District
A/V available: None

Jameela Lares, University of Southern Mississippi
      "The Big Issue: Myth and Social Criticism in Catherine Fisher’s Corbenic"
Melody Green, Illinois State University
      "‘Just Say "No" to Pillaging’: The Transformation of Norse Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy"
Sara Day, Texas A&M University
      "Finding Her Way: Robin McKinley’s Beauty and the Journey of Adolescence"

Session 3C: Transforming Children’s Awareness of Regional Culture and Literature
Room: 219
Chair: Tina Hanlon, Ferrum College
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer, CD Player

Shelby Mahan, Hollins University
      "The Will to be Transformed: Linking Regions with a Strong Folk Heroine"
Kerry Madden, UCLA Writers’ Program
      "Writing an Appalachian Family Novel and Encouraging Children to Become Storytellers"
Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore, Hollins University
      "California’s Mosaic: Exploring a New Regional Literature"

Session 3D: The Good (M)other: Representing Mothering and Childbirth
Room: 200 A&B
Chair: Christina Saidy, California State University, Northridge
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer

Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Eastern Connecticut State University
      "Mass Market Mommy II: More Popular Picture Books as Mother Training Manuals" (Claudia Mills will deliver this paper in Lisa Rowe Fraustino’s absence)
Jennifer Laine Gyurisin, Illinois State University
      "‘Down Will Come Baby’: Pregnancy and Birth in Children’s Picture Books"
Melissa Sara Smith, Illinois State University
      "Celebrating the Mother and Sacrificing the Body: The Transformation from Adolescence to Motherhood"

Session 3E: Picture Book Transformations
Room: 223
Chair: Joseph Stanton, University of Hawaii at Manoa
A/V available: Power Point Projector and Computer, Speakers, Overhead

Nathalie op de Beeck, Illinois State University
      "Now Playing: Silent Cinema and Picture Book Montage"
Rea C. Berg, Simmons College
      "Transformations in the Work of Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire"

Session 4A: Treating and Mistreating the Child
Room: 211
Chair: B. Aaron Talbot, University of Florida
A/V available: None

Adrianne Wadewitz, Indiana University
      "The Sympathetic Self: Wollstonecraft’s and Barbauld’s Religious Sensibilities"
Kenneth Kidd, University of Florida
      "Future Prospects: Queer Theory’s Child and Children’s Literature Studies"
Jonathan Klassen, Illinois State University
      "Transforming Readers: Tensions Between Distancing and Engaging Narration in Adolescent Fiction"

Session 4B: Learning the Way: Education and Adolescence
Room: 215
Chair: Karin Westman, Kansas State University
A/V available: Overhead Projector

Winona Howe, La Sierra University
      "School Snapshots: C.A. Stephens and the Educational Dream"
Andrea Farenga, Malone College
      "Becoming Amish: A Study of ‘Young Companion’"
Phillip Serrato, San Diego State University
      "From Boys to Men, But What Kind of Men?: Masculinity in Two Chicano YA Novels"

Session 4C: Speaking Absences: Iranian Children’s Literature
Room: 219
Chair: Mavis Reimer, University of Winnipeg
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer

Zohreh Ghaeni, Institute for Research on the History of Children’s Literature in Iran
      "A Historical Approach to the Concept of Childhood and Modern Children’s Literature in Iran"
       Respondent: Kevin Shortsleeve, University of Winnipeg
Niloofar Mahdian, Children’s Book Council of Iran
       "Children’s Literature in a Revolutionary Era"
       Respondent: Mavis Reimer, University of Winnipeg
Leili Hayeri Yazdi, Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children
       "An Overview of Active Iranian Writers of Children’s and Young Adult Literature"
       Respondent: Claire Malarte-Feldman, University of New Hampshire

Session 4D: All in the Family
Room: 200 A&B
Chair: Michelle Pagni Stewart, Mt. San Jacinto College
A/V available: Power Point Projector and Computer, Overhead

Lois Rauch Gibson, Coker College
      "Depressed Mothers and Transformed Daughters: Saving Francesca and Love and Other Four-Letter Words"
Sarah Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      "Whiteout? The Racialization of Korean Adoptees in Children’s Literature"
Jean Webb, Worcester University
      "Reconstruction of the Family in the Work of Jacqueline Wilson"

Session 4E: Wild Kingdoms, Within and Without
Room: 223
Chair: Frieda Bostian, Virginia Tech
A/V available: Power Point Projector and Computer, Overhead

Mary McNulty, Francis Marion University
      "The Postmodern Transformation of the Animal Character"
Debra Mitts-Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      "Reversal, Revision and Rehabilitation: The Transformation of the Big Bad Wolf in Contemporary Picture Books"
Nicky Didicher, Simon Fraser University
      "Transforming the Transformation Story: Dahl and Pullman"

Session 5A: Textual Transformations
Room: 211
Chair: Teya Rosenberg, Texas State University, San Marcos
A/V available: None

Martha Hixon, Middle Tennessee State University
      "Story, Time, and Timelessness: Narrative Transformations in Diana Wynne Jones’s Hexwood"
Novella Brooks de Vita, Indiana University, South Bend
      "Astral/Body: Grounding the Metaphysical in Nicholas Wright’s Adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials"
Melissa McCrory, University of Memphis
      "Signs of the Continual Fall in Lyra’s Oxford"

Session 5B: Textual Relations: Engaging Students of All Ages with Children’s Texts
Room: 215
Chair: Elisabeth R. Gruner, University of Richmond
A/V available: None

Jonathan Greenberg and Patricia Matthew, Montclair State University
      "Bringing Up Bambi: Children’s Texts in/as the Intro Theory Course"
Scott Rice, San Jose State University
      "Reading Projects: Egg Salad on our Faces"
Keren Moses Joshi, University of Illinois
      "You Can’t Scare Me: Transforming—and Being Transformed By—A Favorite Text"

Session 5C: Opening Spaces for Transformation and Agency: Developing Critical
Consciousness through Literature for Young People
Room: 219
Chair: Jamie Tsai, National Taitung University, Taiwan
A/V available: Power Point Projector and Computer, Overhead Projector

Elisa Hopkins, Pennsylvania State University
      "Drawing Upon Multicultural Poetry for Children and Adolescents"
Jamie Tsai, National Taitung University
      "Reading the Character Tenar in Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea Novels"
Eunja Yun, Pennsylvania State University
      "Exploring Understandings of Childhood through Picture Books"

Session 5D: Understanding Childhood Trauma
Room: 200 A&B
Chair: Ramona Anne Caponegro, University of Florida
A/V available: Powerpoint Projector and Computer

Melissa Gross, Florida State University
      "Hero or Monster?: Character Transformation and Child Abuse in Ender’s Game"
Wan-Hsiang Chou, Pennsylvania State University
      "Attachment Theory, Adult-Child Relationships, and Picture Books about Fear"
Virginia A. Walter, University of California, Los Angeles
      "Revisioning the New York Skyline: Post 9/11 Picture Books"

Session 5E: Self-Reflexivity and Intertextuality: Creating Identity through Text
Room: 223
Chair: Dorothy G. Clark, California State University, Northridge
A/V available: Overhead Projector

Laura M. Robinson, Royal Military College
      "Transformation by Looking Glass: Self-Reflexivity from Yonge to Alcott to Montgomery"
Melinda Cardozo, University of Florida
      "Postmodern Platitudes and Performative Fairy Dust: Consumption Masquerading as Transformation in Francesca Lia Block"
Jane M. Gangi, Manhattanville College
      "Refugees in Recent Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Sociocultural Considerations"

Session 6A: Girls Transforming
Room: 211
Chair: Jackie C. Horne, Center for the Study of Children’s Literature, Simmons College
A/V available: None

Marie L. Coffey, San Antonio College
      "Creating Folklore: Transforming Robin Hood in The Outlaws of Sherwood"
Angelia M. Northrip-Rivera, Missouri State University
      "Beauty and Rose Daughter: Robin McKinley’s Transformations of Beauty and the Beast"
René E. Fleischbein, California State University, Northridge
      "Revising the Female Hero: Diana Wynne Jones’ Fire and Hemlock"

Session 6B: Reframing National Identity
Room: 215
Chair: Karen Keely, Mount St. Mary’s University
A/V available: None

Anne K. Phillips, Kansas State University
      "‘Lie Down, McBride! A Zero Overhead!’: Elizabeth Enright’s Citizen Soldiers"
Alejandra Sánchez Valencia, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
      "From the ‘Melting Pot’ to the Wound in the Myth: The Marches’ Saga from Little Women to Jo’s Boys"
Michelle Pagni Stewart, Mt. San Jacinto College
      "Undoing the Past and Reclaiming Their Cultural Voice: Third Generation Native American Children’s Literature"

Session 6C: Religious Worlds
Room: 219
Chair: Andrea Farenga, Malone College
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer, Overhead

Diane Carver Sekeres, University of Alabama
      "Faith-based Children’s Books: A Comparison of Books for Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Home Schools"
Suzanna Henshon, Florida Gulf Coast University
      "The Development of Narnia in the Public Imagination"
Sam McBride, De Vry University
      "Becoming Aslanian: Religious Conversion in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia"

Session 6D: Transforming Child Readers
Room: 200 A&B
Chair: Megan Norcia, State University of New York, Brockport
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer

Ruth Mirtz, Ferris State University
      "‘You Have to Write’: Transforming Child Readers into Writers"
Joan Menefee, University of Wisconsin-Stout
      "Transforming Dimensions: Representing Children’s Art in Picture Books"
Shauna Bigham, Independent Scholar
      "Transforming Reticent Readers"

Session 6E: Dusting Off the Classics I
Room: 223
Chair: Alida Allison, San Diego State University
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer

Erica Obey, Fordham University
      "Covering the Earth with Leather: Sidney Lanier Transforms the Middle Ages"
Marlene Zoehrer, University of Munich
      "Shakespeare, Goethe, and Poe for Children: Classics into Picture Books"
Veronique Bragard, Université Catholique de Louvain/University of California, Los Angeles
      "Opening-Up Aesop’s Fables: Heteroglossia in Slade and Toni Morrison’s Who’s Got Game"

Session 7A: Forum: Examining the Critical Pedagogy of Young Adult Literature
Room: 211
Chair: Mike Cadden, Missouri Western State University
A/V available: none

Mike Cadden, Missouri Western State University
Karen Coats, Illinois State University
Roberta Seelinger Trites, Illinois State University

Session 7B: (Re)Formatting Fairy Tales
Room: 215
Chair: Mary McNulty, Francis Marion University
A/V available: Overhead Projector

Jacqueline L. Gmuca, University of Texas at El Paso
      "Fractured Fairy Tales of the Southwest—Exactly How Fractured are They?"
Jane E. Kelley, Washington State University
      "Repeating Storylines in ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ Transformations"
Jennifer Schacker, University of Guelph
      "Renegotiating the ‘Real Traditional Fairy Tale’: French Contes de Fées and Victorian Constructions of Generic Authenticity"

Session 7C: Witches—for Good or Evil
Room: 219
Chair: Jean Webb, Worcester University
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer

Fiona Feng-Hsin Liu, National Chung Hsing University
      "Witches Must Live: How Witches Empower Teenage Girls’ Adolescence in Contemporary Young Adult Fictions"
Erin Delaney, California State University, Northridge
      "The Mistress of All Evil: Portrayals of Witches in Fairy Tales"
Marie Soriano, San Diego State University
      "From Hell-Raisers to Healers: The Evolution of Witches in Children’s Literature, A Case Study"

Session 7D: Colonialism and Children’s Literature: 1880s to the Present
Room: 200 A&B
Chair: Kara Keeling, Christopher Newport University
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer, Overhead

Barbara Lehman, The Ohio State University
      "Children’s Literature and Transformation in the New South Africa"
Greta D. Little, University of South Carolina, Columbia
      "Colonialism in the Antipodean World as Represented for Children"
Lara Saguisag, The New School
      "Beauty in the Eye of the Hispanophile: Colonial Mentality in Nick Joaquin’s ‘Johnny Tinoso and the Proud Beauty’"

Session 7E: Remediating Children’s Texts: Graphic and Digital Innovations
Room: 223
Chair: Dorothy G. Clark, California State University, Northridge
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer, Overhead
Laura Kooris, Texas State University
      "The Transformative Revolution of Modernism in Wild Things"
Cathlena Martin, University of Florida
      "Pixie Dust to Pixels: Classic Children’s Novels Transformed to Video Games"
Jennifer M. Miskec, Christopher Newport University
      "The Narrative of Fear: YA Fiction for Generation Y"

Session 8A: Editors of Academic Journals: A Roundtable
Room: 211
Chair: Richard Flynn, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly
A/V available: None

Richard Flynn, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly
Lissa Paul, The Lion and the Unicorn
Mavis Reimer, Canadian Children’s Literature
Michelle Abate, Children’s Literature

Session 8B: Harry Potter Transformed
Room: 215
Chair: Michael W. Young, La Roche College
A/V available: None

Kathryn V. Graham, Virginia Tech
      "Harry Potter and The Little White Horse: J.K. Rowling and the Persistence of Memory"
Naomi J. Wood, Kansas State University
      "Beyond Good and Evil: Terry Pratchett, J.K. Rowling, and 9/11"
Catherine Tosenberger, University of Florida
      "Homosexuality at Hogwarts: The Discourse of Queerness in Harry Potter Slash Fan Fiction"

Session 8C: Surviving Youth
Room: 219
Chair: Lois Rauch Gibson, Coker College
A/V available: Power Point Projector and Computer

Lance Roberts, Excelsior Academy
      "A Window into the Real World: S.E. Hinton’s Depiction of Gang Society in The Outsiders"
Tere Stouffer, Hollins University
      "Transformations in the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Survival Novels"
Susan Stewart, Texas A&M-Commerce
      "Transforming the World: Social Realism and Virginia Hamilton’s The Planet of Junior Brown"

Session 8D: Hollywood Texts
Room: 200 A&B
Chair: Lance Weldy, Western Michigan University
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer

Katie Sciurba, New York University
      "Staging Pages: The ‘Hollywoodification’ of Children’s Picture Books"
Benjamin Lefebvre, McMaster University
      "‘Caroline, I’ll see to the ponies’: Adapting and Readapting Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie"
Amy Getty, Grand View College
      "The More Things Change: Images of Gender in Pop Culture Fairy Tales"

Session 8E: Life Studies
Room: 223
Chair: Joan Menefee, University of Wisconsin-Stout
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer

Sharon McQueen, University of Kentucky
      "May Massee: Pioneering Editor of Youth Literature"
Joel Myerson, University of South Carolina, Columbia
      "Transforming Louisa May Alcott from ‘Children’s Friend’ to Canonical Author: The Role of the Editor"
Philip Nel, Kansas State University
      "Dave and the Purple Crayon: Crockett Johnson Grows Up, 1906-1924"

Session 9A: Phoenix Award
Room: 211
Chair: Priscilla A. Ord, BookPerson, Inc.
A/V available: None

Priscilla A. Ord, BookPerson, Inc.
      "Philip Pullman’s Other Trilogy: An Overview of the Sally Lockhart Mysteries"
Michael Levy, University of Wisconsin, Stout
      "‘A Great New Work’ or ‘Demon-Trap’: Attitudes Towards Technology in Philip Pullman’s The Shadow in the North"
Hilary Crew, Kean University
      "Transformations: Margaret Mahy’s The Tricksters"
Claudia Mills, University of Colorado
      "What Moves and What Doesn’t: Change and Stability in Howl’s Moving Castle"

Session 9B: Regional Book Awards
Room: 215
Chair: Carol Vogt, Omaha Public Schools
A/V available: None

Carol Vogt, Omaha Public Schools
      "Transformations as Shown in Award-Winning Books: Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Readers’ Choice Awards"
Alexandria LaFaye, California State University, San Bernardino
      "What’s in an Award?: The Implications of a Nebraska Book Award for a Novel"
Jennifer Miskec, Christopher Newport University
      "The Trouble with Children’s Book Awards"

Session 9C: Transforming Class-Coded Identities: "The O.C.," "Veronica Mars," Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Room: 219
Chair: Elizabeth Parsons, Deakin University

A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer
Elizabeth Parsons, Deakin University
      "The Deserving Poor in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
Debra Dudek, Deakin University,
      "Over My Dead Body: Multicultural Social Cohesion in Veronica Mars"
Elizabeth Bullen, Deakin University
      "Social Mobility in The O.C."

Session 9D: Moving Between Two Worlds: Transporatation, Transformation, Transposition
Room: 200 A&B
Chair: Mavis Reimer, University of Winnipeg
A/V available: Overhead Projector

Kevin Shortsleeve, University of Winnipeg
      "The Longest Defended ‘Fantasy’ Border in the World"
Louise Saldanha, University of Winnipeg
      "Comfort Zones: (Un)Settling Diaspora in North American Children’s Literature"
Mavis Reimer, University of Winnipeg
      "Transpositions: Interchanges and Internationalism in an Age of Globalization"

Session 9E: Archiving Communities: Scholars, Children, and Children’s Literature
Room: 223
Chair: Laureen Tedesco, East Carolina University
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer, Overhead

Angelica Carpenter, California State University, Fresno
      "Connecticut Yankees in King Arthur’s Court: The American Influence in European Collections of Children’s Literature"
Megan Norcia, State University of New York, Brockport
      "‘Picture It…’: College Students Illustrate Children’s Stories"
Claudia M. Reder, California State University, Channel Islands
      "The Stories Project: Service Learning in Children’s Literature"

Session 10A: Transformation Traditions and Reminiscence
Room: 211
Chair: Adrianne Wadewitz, Indiana University
A/V available: None
Glenda Hudson, California State University, Bakersfield
      "‘Two is the Beginning of the End’: Peter Pan and the Doctrine of Reminiscence"
Barbara Carman Garner, Carleton University
      "Historical Transformations: A Comparative Analysis of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne Shirley Series and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series"

Session 10B: Textual Production and Reproductions
Room: 228
Chair: Michael Heyman, Berklee College of Music
A/V available: None

Karen Roggenkamp, Texas A&M University, Commerce
      "Suffer the Little Children: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Ideology of Little Eva in Nineteenth- Century American Picture Books"
Donelle Ruwe, Northern Arizona University
      "The Use of Sight, or, the Industrious Child Takes a Rural Walk"
Amberyl M. Malkovich, Illinois State University
      "‘Please Sir, I Want Some More’: ‘Transmorphing’ Jane Eyre and The Tale of Two Cities and the Obsession with the Victorian Sentimental Child"

Session 10C: Transformation in the Face of Power
Room: 219
Chair: Michelle Martin, Clemson University
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer, Overhead

Graeme Wend-Walker, Macquarie University
      "Opening the Space of Transformation: Russell Hoban and How Tom Beat the Critics"
Alan Richards, Red Deer College
      "Move Over Reagan—Here Comes Isis!: The Moral Vision of Monica Hughes’s Trilogy"
Benjamin Lefebvre, McMaster University
      "Adolescence Through the Looking-Glass: Ideology and the Represented Child in ‘Degrassi: The Next Generation’" Graduate Student Essay Award Paper

Session 10D: Graphic Texts
Room: 200 A&B
Chair: Charles Hatfield, California State University, Northridge
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer

Adrienne Kertzer, University of Calgary
      "The Excluded Child in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis"
Susan Larkin, Central Michigan University
      "From Damsels to Demons: Reconsidering the Bildungsroman"
Anna L. Nielsen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
      "The Invisible Scarlet O’Neil"

Session 10E: Childist Transformations
Room: 223
Chair: Carole H. Carpenter, York University
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer

Jeffrey Canton, York University
      "Read It Like A Teen: Taking a Childist Approach to Reading Walter Dean Myers"
Carole H. Carpenter, York University
      "What is the Culture of the Reader?: Transformations in Children’s Culture and Their Significance to Children’s Literature Today"
Peter E. Cumming, York University
      "Transforming Imposed Constraints Into Risky Opportunities: An Adultly Search for Childist Readings"
Lisa Wood, Wilfrid Laurier University
      "Children’s Studies/Women’s Studies: How Can We Learn from our Theoretical Past?"

Session 10F: Giving Up the Ghost: Death and Dying in Children’s Literature
Room: 215
Chair: Jennifer Laine Gyurisin, Illinois State University
A/V available: Overhead projector

Suzanne M. LaFleur, Independent Scholar
      "‘A Fate Worse Than Death’: Soul-Sucking Monsters and Loss of Self in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials"
Mary Galbraith, San Diego State University
      "Fish-belly White and the Sound of Marbles: How Five Authors Transformed Traumatically- Charged Sensory Experiences at the Time of their Fathers’ Deaths into Classic Moments of Children’s Literature"
Richard C. Burke, Lynchburg College
      "Changed Utterly: The Reality and Unreality of Death in Children’s Fantasy Series"

Session 11A: Reconsidering Twain and Stevenson
Room: 211
Chair: Suzanna Henshon, Florida Gulf Coast University
A/V available: None

Katherine Adams, Wheaton College
      "‘The Man of the Island’: Ben Gunn as Native in Treasure Island" Carol Gay Award Paper
Beverly Lyon Clark, Wheaton College
      "Why I Love and Hate Tom Sawyer"
Maude Hines, Portland State University
      "Transformation and the National Body in Mark Twain’s Changeling Narratives"

Session 11B: Disturbing the Universe
Room: Pier
Chair: Susan Stewart, Texas A&M-Commerce
A/V available: None

Karyn Huenemann, Simon Fraser University
      "Fade to Black: Adolescent Invisibility in the Works of Robert Cormier"
David Sandner, California State University, Fullerton
      "A Fatal Plunge into the Fantastic: Sublime Transformations Beyond the Limits of Imagination in Gray’s Bard and Carroll’s Snark"
Carole Scott, San Diego State University
      "Brought into this World for a Purpose: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go"

Session 11C: Transformations of Hi/stories I
Room: 219
Chair: Kathryn V. Graham, Virginia Tech
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer, TV/VCR

Michael W. Young, La Roche College
      "The Transformation from Boy to Wizard, from Child to King: Harry Potter and Shakespeare’s Henry V"
Katie M. Kapurch, Texas State University – San Marcos
      "Harry Potter: A Transformation of the Renaissance Epic"
Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Indiana University East
      "Help! I’m a Feminist but My Daughter is a ‘Princess Fanatic’!: Disney’s Transformation of Twenty-first Century Girls"

Session 11D: Children’s Literature and the Archive: Readings in the de Grummond Children’s
Literature Collection
Room: 200 A&B
Chair: Eric Tribunella, University of Southern Mississippi
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer

Eric Tribunella, University of Southern Mississippi
      "Picturing the Bayou: Lois Lenski’s Photography and the Regional Novel for Children"
Rodney Jarrod Mooney, University of Southern Mississippi
      "Journey through A Wrinkle in Time and Explore the World of Sacred Idleness"
Lorinda B. Cohoon, University of Memphis
      "Editha’s Burglar and Two Little Pilgrims’ Progress: The Secret Gardens of the Archive"
Carrie Hoffman, University of Southern Mississippi
      "The Conventions of Children’s Biography and the Myth of Walt Disney: Elizabeth Rider Montgomery’s Walt Disney: Master of Make Believe"

Session 11E: Constructing Self and History
Room: 223
Chair: Philip Nel, Kansas State University
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer, Overhead

Jackie C. Horne, Center for the Study of Children’s Literature, Simmons College
      "Reinventing Rosa: The Changing Construction of Rosa Parks in Contemporary Children’s Literature"
Gale Eaton, University of Rhode Island
      "Dress in Biographies of Women: Transforming Heroines into Role Models for Girls"
Susan Stan, Central Michigan University
      "How Todd Strasser Became Morton Rhue"

Session 11F: Reinventing the Classics: Peter Pan and Cinderella, Too
Room: 215
Chair: Don Nilsen, Arizona State University
A/V available: Overhead

Rosanna West Walker, University of Oregon
      "Lock-out Time in the Gardens of Desire: Absence, Refusal, and Silence in J.M. Barrie’s First Peter Pan Narrative"
Jennifer Geer, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
      "Finding Neverland; or, J.M. Barrie Gets the Miramax Treatment"
Laura Ewald, George Washington University
      "Cinderella II: Dreams Came True: The New? Improved? Disney Heroine"

Session 12A: New Visions of Old Tales
Room: 211
Chair: Amberyl M. Malkovich, Illinois State University
A/V available: None

Martin Woodside, San Diego State University
      "Changing the Classics: The Politics and Process of Abridgement"
Alida Allison, San Diego State University
      "‘Say What?’: Why Translation Sometimes Doesn’t Work"
Celia Catlett, Eastern Connecticut State University
      "Bear Transformations: From Both Sides Now"

Session 12B: Roundtable: Building an Academic Career in Children’s Literature
Room: Pier
Chair: Melissa Smith, Illinois State University
A/V available: None

June Cummins, San Diego State University
Kevin Shortsleeve, University of Winnipeg
Marilynn Olson, Texas State University – San Marcos
Linda Benson, Missouri State University

Session 12C: Intertextual Identity
Room: 219
Chair: Adrienne Kertzer, University of Calgary
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer

Sanna Lehtonen, University of Jyväskylä
      "‘There’s Been an Accident! Something’s Wrong!’: Reformulating a Feminine Identity Quest in Diana Wynne Jones’ The Time of the Ghost"
Lee Talley, Rowan University
      "Telling Tales: British Fairy Lore, Trauma and Francesca Lia Block’s I Was a Teenage Fairy"
Ebony E. Thomas, University of Michigan
      "The Broken Bridge over the Black Atlantic: Pullman, Gilroy, and the Question of Afro-British Identity"

Session 12D: "‘All That is Solid Melts into Air…’: Queer Ephemera and Physical Transformation"
Room: 200 A&B
Chair: Michelle Hawley, California State University, Los Angeles
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer

B. Aaron Talbot, University of Florida
      "Pedagogical Pederasty and the Horatio Alger Archive"
Joel Adams, University of Florida
      "The Things (We Make) Children Do: Children’s Literature and a Transformative Archive of Desire"
Jaimy Mann, University of Florida
      "Henry Darger, the Blengiglomenean Serpent: The Queer Artist, The Wizard of Oz, and Cuteness"

Session 12E: The Boys and Girls of Oz
Room: 223
Chair: Craig Svonkin, University of California, Riverside
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer

Joel D. Chaston, Missouri State University
      "‘All My Heroes are Boys’: Ruth Plumly Thompson and the Defeminization of Oz"
Denise H.B. Schiller, San Diego State University
      "Feminism in Oz: Using History, Gender Boundaries, and Language for a Deeper Understanding of The Wizard of Oz"
Colleen Thorndike, Francis Marion University
      "‘I Don’t Want to be a Girl!’: Femininity and Masculinity in The Marvelous Land of Oz"

Session 12F: The Self Betwixt and Between
Room: 215
Chair: Kelly Herold, Grinnell College
A/V available: TV/DVD

Karin Westman, Kansas State University
      "Speak, Memory: Transforming the Past, Transforming the Self in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter"
Sara Crabtree, Texas A&M University, Commerce
      "Harry the Hero? The Quest for Self-Identity, Heroism, and Transformation in The Goblet of Fire"
Terri Doughty, Malaspina University-College
      "On the Threshold: Liminality and Transformation in Fairy Tale Fiction for Young Adults"

Session 13A: Transformations—or Not—of Self
Room: 211
Chair: Alleen Pace Nilsen, Arizona State University
A/V available: None

Caroline E. Jones, Texas State University, San Marcos
      "Making a Necklace of Kisses: Weetzie Bat at Forty"
Wynn Yarbrough, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
      "The Toad Who Would Be King: Questions of Transformation in The Wind in the Willows"
Kassandra Clark, San Diego State University
      "Transformations into Adulthood: Leaving Childhood Behind in Shabanu and Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys"

Session 13B: Transforming our Gender(ed) Icons
Room: 215
Chair: Benjamin Lefebvre, McMaster University
A/V available: TV/VCR and TV/DVD

Annette Wannamaker, Eastern Michigan University
      "Me Tarzan, You Other: Transformations of A Cultural Icon"
Craig Svonkin, University of California, Riverside
      "Castrated (Tin) Woodmen, Boys Becoming Girls, and Girls Becoming Generals: Emasculation Anxieties and Desires in the Land of Oz"
James Francis, Middle Tennessee State University
      "Fairy Tale to Adult Film: The Conversion of Children’s Literature to R-Rated Movie"

Session 13C: Fantastic Tales
Room: 219
Chair: Jennifer Geer, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
A/V available: Power Point Projector and Computer, Overhead

Tammy Mielke, University of Worcester
      "Mouse or Rat: The Cultural Transformation of Disney in Koslowski’s Three Fingers"
Rachel Elizabeth Johnson, University of Worcester
      "Recombination: Narrative and Genre in George MacDonald’s A Rough Shaking"
Mary E. Kielbasa, Assumption College
      "Illuminating the Fantastic as Avenue to Transformative Growth: An Exploration of the Relationship between Sara and Emily in Francis Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess"

Session 13D: Transformations of Hi/stories II
Room: 200 A&B
Chair: Shauna Bigham, Independent Scholar
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer

Seungwon Kim, University of Texas at Arlington
      "Replicas of Pocahontas: Interpretation and Reconstruction of the American Mythology"
Yu-Chi Liu, Macquarie University
      "The Cultural Transformation of Selfhood: Disney’s Mulan and Mulan II"
Kelly Herold, Grinnell College
      "Tanya Grotter and the Creation of a Russian Hero(ine)"

Session 13E: Celebrating Race and History
Room: 223
Chair: Naomi J. Wood, Kansas State University
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer

Holly Blackford, Rutgers University, Camden
      "Transforming Literature into Festival: Reflection of History or Reinscription of Racial Tension?"
Michelle Martin, Clemson University
      "Dreamkeepers Transforming Children’s Literature: Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps"
Katherine Capshaw Smith, University of Connecticut
      "The Legacy of Paul Laurence Dunbar: Dialect, Racial Configuration, and Contested Childhoods in Silas X. Floyd and Christina Moody"

Session 14A: Transformations in International Children’s Literature
Room: 211
Chair: Maude Hines, Portland State University
A/V available: None

Jill Gaeta, Michigan State University
      "Tales of Otherness: Chamoiseau’s Response to French Acculturation in Antillean Children"
Belinda Rincón, Cornell University
      "Heroic Boys, Good Neighbors, and the U.S.-Mexican War in María Cristina Mena’s Boy Heroes of Chapultepec"

Session 14B: Dusting Off the Classics II
Room: 215
Chair: Angelia M. Northrip-Rivera, Missouri State University
A/V available: None

Dominic Cheetham, Sophia University
      "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Adaptors"
Amy Lee Bennett, Simmons College Center for the Study of Children’s Literature
      "Beauty is the Beast: Female Animal Transformation in Folk and Fairy Tales"
Marilyn Jurich, Suffolk University
      "The Salvation of the Tale and the Wisdom of Women: Versions of Shahrazad in Fletcher’s Shadow Spinner, Mahfouz’s Arabian Nights and Days, and Beyond"

Session 14C: Big Films for Little People
Room: 219
Chair: Joseph T. Thomas, Jr., California State University, Northridge
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer, TV/DVD

Jerry Griswold, San Diego State University
      "Children’s Films: A Subject in Search of an Author"
Brian Scott, California State University, Northridge
      "Metaworldnarratives, Protean Selves, Tools to Adapt the Self: The Postmodern Lessons of Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away"
Lance Weldy, Western Michigan University
      "Once Upon A Time in Idaho: Transforming Cinderella through A-temporality, Awkwardness, and Adolescence in Napoleon Dynamite"

Session 14D: The Visual Text: Dreams, Jungles, and the Barrio
Room: 200 A&B
Chair: Nathalie op de Beeck, Illinois State University
A/V available: PowerPoint Projector and Computer

Linnea Hendrickson, Bandelier School
      "Enigmas, Dreams, and Transformations in the Picture Books of Allen Say"
Marilynn S. Olson, Texas State University, San Marcos
      "Jungles Transformed: Henri Rousseau and Children’s Culture"
Teya Rosenberg, Texas State University, San Marcos
      "Guevara’s Art(ful) Transformations for the Chato Books"

Session 14E: Transformations of Old Tales: A Roundtable
Room: 223
Chair: Susan Stan, Central Michigan University
A/V available: Power Point Projector and Computer, Overhead

Susan Stan, Central Michigan University
      "‘The Tortoise and the Hare’ and Contemporary Stories of Rivalry"
Sandra L. Beckett, Brock University
      "Visual Transformations: The Case of ‘Snow White’"
Claire Malarte-Feldman, University of New Hampshire
      "‘The Princess and The Pea’ and Feminist Transformations"