Panel 9: Technology, Fantasy, and Escape in Young People’s Literature

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 5: War and Survival in Children’s and YA 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 2: Crossing Borders: Migration, Translation, and Graphic Novel Depiction

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