Monday, November 22, 2004

CFP: Open Call for Submissions on any aspect of children's literature or the study of children's literature

CFP: Open Call for Submissions on any aspect of children's literature or the study of children's literature
Conference Location: Rochester, NY
Conference Date: March 19, 2005
Deadline: December 15, 2004.

Off to See the Wizard: Quests for Memory and Culture in Children's Literature

Saturday, March 19, 2005
Monroe Community College
Rochester, NY

Keynote Speakers:
Roni Natov, co-founder of The Lion and the Unicorn, author of The Poetics of Childhood (2003) and Leon Garfield (1994), Professor of English, Brooklyn College

Linda Sue Park, winner of the 2002 Newberry Medal for A Single Shard (2001), author of Seesaw Girl (1999), The Kite Fighters (2000), When My Name was Keoko (2002)

Guest Speakers:
Russell Peck, John Hall Deane Professor of English at University at Rochester. Popular children's authors, Vivian Vande Velde, and Mary Jane and Herm Auch

We welcome abstracts on any aspect of children's literature, contemporary, classic, obscure or popular. Papers might focus on illustration, drama, poetry, the picture book, the historical novel, fantasy, science fiction, realism, fairy tales, Disney revisions of history and/or fairy tales, representations of gender, race or class, political activism or conservatism. We also welcome papers about the study of children's literature.

Please forward abstracts (250-500 words) by December 15, 2004 to: Dr. Laurie Ousley, Department of English and Philosophy, Monroe Community College, 1000 E. Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY 14623 or lousley@monroecc.edu.

Conference sponsored by Monroe Community College.

Dr. Laurie Ousley
Department of English and Philosophy
Monroe Community College
1000 E. Henrietta Road
Rochester, NY 14623
(585)292-3378
lousley@monroecc.edu