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 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