Panel 11: Heroes and Villains: The Making of

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 8: Navigating Merchandise, Franchises, and Online Media

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 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