Panel 12 (Room 158) 3:15 – 4:15 P.M.
Chair: Judi Saltman
Katie Kinsley, University of British Columbia
Imagining the Future: Advocating with Children’s Literature
Viktoriya Yakolyeva, University of Alberta
Toreadors in a Strange Land: The Analysis of Ideological Messages in a Book for
Children
Laura Quintana Crelis, University of British Columbia
Mise-en-abyme in the Short Stories of Jorge Luis Borges and Arabian Nights
Panel 11 (Room 157) 3:15 – 4:15 P.M.
Chair: Rob Bittner
Eleanor Crumblehulme, University of British Columbia
Beowulf, the Self-Creating Hero: Robert Nye’s Exploration of Heroism and Identity
Kate Conerton, University of British Columbia
Bellatrix: Stories of a Villain
Kevin Tunnicliffe, University of British Columbia
The Shadow and the Other Mother: A Jungian Reading of Coraline
Panel 10 (Room 156) 3:15 – 4:15
Chair: Eric Meyers
Kathie Shoemaker, University of British Columbia
Visual and Verbal Cohesive Resources used to Construct Coherent Picturebook Texts for
Young Children.
Lindsay Bromley and Alexis Birner, University of British Columbia
Critical Literacy: Using Picturebooks to Read the World
Justin Unrau, University of British Columbia
Unreliable Instructions: Book-Failure and Critical Readership in Fantasy for Young
Readers
Panel 9 (Room 158) 2:00 – 3:00 P.M.
Chair: Rick Gooding
Leanne Hooper, University of Roehampton
Travel, Teens, and Tethering: Exploring Cell Phone Use in Childhood Journeys in
Ostrich Boys and Unhooking the Moon
Phil Gough, Currently Unaffiliated
Ghost in the Machine: Displacement and Embodiment in Mary E. Pearson’s The
Adoration of Jenna Fox and The Fox Inheritance
Alethia Shih, University of California, Los Angeles
Lands Beyond Home: The Distance Between Child Protagonist and Reader in The
Phantom Tollbooth
Panel 8 (Room 157) 2:00 – 3:00 P.M
Chair: Naomi Hamer
Lindsey Krabbenhoft and Julia McKnight, University of British Columbia
Peeling Back the Layers of Intertextual Adaptation of the Tinkerbell Character in
Contemporary Children’s Texts and Merchandise
Naomi Hamer, University of Winnipeg
Growing Up with the Olsens: A Case Study of Global Distribution and Cross-Cultural
Consumption Within a Teen Franchise
Devon Greyson, University of British Columbia
Navigating Teen Parenthood Online: Grrrl Mom Texts for Support and Resistance
Panel 7 (Room 156) 2:00 – 3:00 P.M.
Chair: Eric Meyers
Cynthia Nugent, University of British Columbia
Picturebook Theory and the Touchscreen Picturebook App
Teresa Lin, University of British Columbia
Multimodal Electronic Books and Mobile Apps as Resources for Supporting Struggling
Readers in Secondary Schools
Lindsay Zebrowski, Simon Fraser University
“Beyond the Book”: Preliminary Observations on Childrens’ Engagement with Digital
Texts
Panel 5 (Room 157) 12:45 – 1:45 P.M.
Chair: Rick Gooding
Akemi Aoki, Université de Strasbourg, France
No Nation: Children in War
Megan Sorenson, University of British Columbia
Authenticity from Many Voices in Hana’s Suitcase
Phoebe Li, University of British Columbia
Survival in the Wilderness – Survival of the Fittest
Panel 4 (Room 156) 12:45 – 1:45 P.M.
Chair: Rob Bittner
Thaddeus Andracki, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Here’s to Overcoming Our Parents’ Dreams for Us”: Gendered Racializations and
“Deviance” in Two Young Adult LGBT Novels
Robert Bittner, University of British Columbia
“Why Can’t I Wear a Dress?”: Perceived Homosexuality and Non-Normative Gender
Performances in Books for Children
Hannah Dyer, University of Toronto/OISE
Queer Desire, ‘Growing-up’ and ‘Becoming’: On Alain Berliner’s Ma Vie en Rose (My
Life in Pink)
Panel 3 (Room 158) 9:45 – 10:45 A.M.
Chair: Rob Bittner
Kat Thomson, University of British Columbia
A Close Visual Reading of Intrusion and Displacement in Armin Greder’s The Island
Amanda Lastoria, Simon Fraser University
Benjamin, Books and Babes: Theorizing the Covers of Radical Children’s Books
Nathanael Vass, University of British Columbia
Lost Voices: The Jungian Individuation Process in the Anime Films of Makoto Shinkai
Panel 2 (Room 157) 9:45 – 10:45 A.M.
Chair: Rick Gooding
Elizabeth Kennedy, San Diego State University/University of California – Santa Barbara
“Al otro lado”: Transnational Youth Migration through the U.S.-Mexico Border in Film
Saeyong Kim, University of British Columbia
The Author as Translator: Issues in the Cross-Cultural Retelling of Folktales
Jennifer Mah, University of British Columbia
Coming to Know Our Ways: Aboriginal Epistemology and the 7 Generations Graphic Novels