ChLA International Committee
Past International Panels at the ChLA Annual Conference
2022 Dreams in Children's & YA Literature
Emory, Georgia Tech, and SCAD (Atlanta, GA)
Reham Almutairi
"Your Wish is Not My Command: Arab Youth Fighting for their Dreams in Shubeik Lubeik"
Marina di Marco
"A Child 'Lighter Than His Sleep': Nightmares and Dreams that Shape the Future in Latin-American Contemporary Cradlesongs"
Atanu Bhattacharya and Preet Hiradhar
"The Dreaming Subject: Early Speculative Fiction in Colonial Bengal"
2021 Korean Children's Literature
Virtual Conference
HyugJun Kwon, Gongju National University, Korea
"A Study on the Development and Recent Trends of Ecological Picture Books in Korea"
Jang Jeung-Hee, Seoul National University, Korea
"Three Ecological Views on Korean Children's Literature: From April Last Night (Bang Jung-hwan) in the 1920s to The Forest of Mago (Jang Sung-yu) in the 2000s"
Dafna Zur, Stanford University
"Police Dreaming DMZ: A Guide to Division for the South Korean Child"
Yeojee Lim, panel discussant
2020 Conference
Canceled due to COVID-19
2019 BAME Children's Literature
IUPUI & IU East (Indianapolis, IN)
Chair: Karen Sands-O'Connor, SUNY Buffalo State
Patrice Lawrence, award-winning British author
"Well, If I Can Do It… Not Everyone Can"
Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, University College-London
"Be The Change: Author and Publisher Activism in the Monochrome UKYA market"
Aishwarya Subramanian, Independent Scholar
"Police Violence in the 'Multicultural' Londons of Farrukh Dhondy and Michael de Larrabeiti"
2018 German Children's Literature
Texas State University (San Antonio, TX)
Chair: Vanessa Joosen, University of Antwerp
Ada Bieber, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
"Somewhere In Berlin: Film Portrayals of Youth From Weimar to the Wall"
Ute Dettmar, Goethe University Frankfurt
"Comedy in German Children's Literature"
Daniel Feldman, Bar-Ilan University
"Refugee Children at Sea: Kinder auf der Flucht Then (1939) and Now (2018)"
2017 Cuban Children's Literature
University of South Florida (Tampa, FL)
Chair: Vanessa Joosen, University of Antwerp
Translator: Aimee Frier, University of South Florida
Luis Cabrera Delgado, children's writer, Havana, Cuba
"Conversation with the Author: Cuban Children’s Literature Today"
Zeila Frade, Belen Jesuit Prepatory
“Comics, Pioneros y Mas: An Ideological Approach to the History of Cuban Children’s Literature"
Niall Nance-Carroll, Illinois State University
“From Cuba to Miami to Living Rooms around the Nation: Qué Pasa, U.S.A.? and 1970s Optimistic Views of a Multicultural US Future”
2016 Japanese Children's Literature
The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
Chair: Marina Balina, Illinois Wesleyan University
Fumiko Ganzenmueller, International Youth Library
& Junko Yokata, National Louis University
“Artistic Tradition in the Development of Japanese Picturebooks”
Shino Sugimura, Kyoritsu Women’s University
“‘New’ Nostalgia of Mamoru Hosoda’s Animated Films”
Helen Kilpatrick, University of Wollongong
“Animated Animal Trauma: An Activist Response to the Disaster of Fukusima, 2011”
2015 Italian Children's Literature
Longwood University (Richmond, VA)
Chair: Marina Balina, Illinois Wesleyan University
Giorgia Grilli, University of Bologna, Italy
“Italian Children’s Literature: Past History and Present Challenges”
Maria Rosa Truglio, Pennsylvania State University
“A Beatrice for Modernity: Girls in Italian Children’s Literature, 1890-1921”
Lindsay Myers, The National University of Ireland, Galway
“Historicized Fiction or Fictionalized History? Lia Levi’s First-World War Novel Cecilia va alla guerra (2000)”
2014 Polish Children's Literature
University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC)
Chair: Marek Oziewicz, University of Minnesota
Dorota Michulka, University of Wroclaw, Poland
“Looking for Identity? Polish Children Literature Then and Now”
Ada Bieber, Humboldt-University of Berlin
“Historical and Contemporary Aspects of Picture Books in Poland”
Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, University of Wroclaw, Poland
“Dorota Terakowska’s Ruler of Levav as A Polish Radical Fantasy for Young Readers”
2013 Croatian Children's Literature
University of Southern Mississippi (Biloxi, MS)
Chair: Marek Oziewicz, University of Wroclaw
Smiljana Narančić Kovač, University of Zagreb
Željka Flegar, University of Osijek
“Love and Death in Croatian Children’s Literature”
Berlslav Majhut, University of Zagreb
“Croatian Children’s Literature on the Verge of a New Period”
2012 Philippine Children's Literature
Simmons College (Boston, MA)
Chairs: Marek Oziewicz and Lara Saguisag
Virgilio S. Almario, Adarna House, Inc. / University of the Philippines
“Filipino Children’s Literature Today”
Christine Siu Bellen, Hong Kong Baptist University and Ateneo de Manila University
(Paper presented by Lara Saguisag, Rutgers University-Camden)
“Agricultural Landscape, Labor, and The Production of Children’s Literature in Bicol”
Rhoda Myra Garces-Bacsal, Nanyang Technical University
& Jesus Federico Hernandez, Nanyang Technical University
2011 Taiwanese Children's Literature
Hollins University (Roanoke, VA)
Chair: Andrea Mei-Ying Wu
Wei-ching Lai, National Taipei University of Education
“From Harry Potter to ‘Trip You Over’: The Traveling of a British Fantasy to Taiwan”
Shuhwa Snai Wu, National Tainan University
“Writing Aboriginality: Taiwanese Aboriginal Children’s Literature”
Min-Ling Tsai, National Taipei University of Education
“Taiwanese Young Children’s Representation of Children in Personal Narratives”
2010 Russian Children's Literature
Eastern Michigan University (Ann Arbor, MI)
Chair: Kevin Shortsleeve, Christopher Newport University
Marina Balina, Illinois Wesleyan University
“Little Heroes of the Big War: Narrating WWII for Russian Children”
Caterina Balistreri, University of Exeter
“Our Soviet Childhood, Two Autobiographical Novels for the Children of Today’s Russia: A Comparison”
Jane Rosen, Department of Printed Books, Imperial War Museum
“Baba Yaga in Brixton: the Children’s Library at the Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Studies, London, 1924-2010”
2009 Brazilian Children's Literature
University of North Carolina - Charlotte (Charlotte, NC)
Chair: Kevin Shortsleeve, University of Winnipeg
Kevin Shortsleeve, University of Winnipeg
“A Brief History of Children’s Literature in Brazil”
Odete Burgeile & Ana Maria G. C. Aguilar, Federal University of Rondônia (UNIR/Brazil)
“Children Literature and the Indigenous Culture Revitalization in the Inclusive School”
2008 Icelandic Children's Literature
Illinois State University-Normal (Normal, IL)
Chair: Kevin Shortsleeve, University of Winnipeg
Anna Heiða Pálsdóttir, University of Iceland
“Dead or Alive? Landscapes in Icelandic Children’s Literature”
Dagný Kristjánsdóttir, University of Iceland
“Nonni: Reinventing Childhood”
Tanja Nathanael, San Jose State University
“Crossing Borders: Icelandic Children’s Literature and the American Market”
2007 Mexican Children’s Literature
Christopher Newport University (Newport News, VA)
Chair: Mavis Reimer, University of Winnipeg
Evelyn Arizpe, University of Glasgow
"Invitations to the Reader: Authorial Voices and Response-Inviting Structures in Contemporary Mexican Fiction for Children"
Sarah Corona, Universidad de Guadalajara
"Entre voces…Mexican Histories from Indigenous Voices"
Craig Werner, Buffalo State College
"An Inquiring Mind in a Borderless Homeland: Richard Rubio in José Antonio Villarreal’s Pocho"
2006 Speaking Absences: Iranian Children’s Literature
California State University, Northridge (Manhattan Beach, CA)
Chair: Mavis Reimer, University of Winnipeg
Zohreh Ghaeni, Institute for Research on the History of Children’s Literature in Iran
"A Historical Approach to the Concept of Childhood and Modern Children’s Literature in Iran"
Respondent: Kevin Shortsleeve, University of Winnipeg
Niloofar Mahdian, Children’s Book Council of Iran
"Children’s Literature in a Revolutionary Era"
Respondent: Mavis Reimer, University of Winnipeg
Leili Hayeri Yazdi, Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children
"An Overview of Active Iranian Writers of Children’s and Young Adult Literature"
Respondent: Claire Malarte-Feldman, University of New Hampshire
2005 South African Children’s Literature
University of Winnipeg (Winnipeg, MB)
Chair: Maria Nikojaleva, Stockholm University
Elwyn Jenkins, University of South Africa
"Jamie: A Window on the Mid-Twentieth Century"
Althea Tait, Morgan State University
“Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines: an Expose of Imperial Domestication”
2004 Finnish Children’s Literature
Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature at California State University Fresno (Fresno, CA)
Finnish Children's Literature Program I: An Overview
Chair: Rosemary Johnston, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Rosemary Johnston, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
“An Australian in Moominland: ‘Plenty of Things…to Discover in the Valley’”
Janina Orlov, Stockholm University, Sweden
“Creating the Eternal Farewell: Reflections on Tove Jansson’s Moomin Novels”
Elina Drucker, Stockholm University, Sweden
“Images within Images in Tove Jansson’s The Book about Moomin, Mymble and My”
Finnish Children’s Literature Program II: Remembering Tove Jansson
Sophia Jansson-Zambra, Art Director, Moomin Characters, Ltd.
“Moomin Wisdom, Something We Could All Possess”
2002 Australian Children’s Literature
Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School (Kingston, PA)
Chair: Rosemary Johnston, Director of the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Rosemary R. Johnston, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
“Adventures in Wonderland: Australian Children’s Literature”
Clare Bradford, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia
“Transformative Fictions: Postcolonial Encounters in Australian Texts”
2000 Indian Children’s Literature
Ferrum College, Hollins University, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, and Virginia Tech (Roanoke, VA)
International Panel I: The Hans Christian Andersen Awards
Chair: Meena Khorana, Morgan State University
Meena Khorana, Morgan State University
“The Best of the Best: Author and Illustrator Finalists for the 2000 Andersen Awards”
Maria Nikolajeva, University of Stockholm/San Diego State University
“The Power of Language: Ana Maria Machado”
Jean Perrot, Universite de Paris-Nord
“Anthony Browne’s English Promenade”
International Panel II: Visions of India, Social and Cultural Identities
Chair: Diana Chlebek, University of Akron
Ariko Kawabata, Aichi Prefectoral Univeristy, Japan
“The Story of the Indian Gentleman: Recovery of English Masculine Identity in A Little Princess”
Judith Plotz, George Washington University
“The Crack-up: The Child’s Voice in the Broken World of K. B. Vaid’s Beero Novels”
Anita Mannur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Hindu-scapes, Comic-scapes: Negotiating the Popularity of Amar Chitra Katha”
Jilaine Johnson, Christchurch College of Education, New Zealand
“Romanticism or Reality: An Exploration of Chandra by Frances Mary Hendry”
1999 African Images/Images d’Afrique
ChLA/IRSCL Joint Conference (Calgary, AB)
Chair/Présidente: Lois Kuznets, San Diego State University
Ingrid Johnston and Jyoti Mangat, University of Alberta
“Adolescent Readers Responding to Authorial Voice, Culture and Language in African Novels”
Thomas van der Walt, University of South Africa
“Crossing the Rubicon At Last: The Emancipation of Afrikaans Children’s Literature”
Ellwyn Jenkins, Vista University, South Africa
“Making Peace with the San”
1998
ChLA/Institut International Charles Perrault Joint Conference
(Paris, France)
Hans Christian Andersen Award Panel
Chair: Meena Khorana
Meena Khorana, Morgan State University
“The 1998 Andersen Awards: History, Process, Nominees”
Karen Patricia Smith, Queens College Graduate School
“Katherine Paterson: Literary Pilgrimage to the Gates of Excellence”
Michael Scott, Joseph Rutgers University
“Winner of the 1998 Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award Tom Ungerer: ‘I Am an “Agent Provocateur”’”
Images of Nations I
Chair: Susan Gannon
Astrid Surmatz, Universität Goettingen – Allemagne
“Sandinavian Children’s Literature, Media and Globalisation”
Miyuki Sr. Kumasaka, St. John Delany Ph.D. Pace University, NY
“The Portrayal of Japan in Japanese Folk Tales Published for Children in the United States”
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Universität Tübingen
“Children’s Literature and Pan Africanism: Aesthetics of Negritude in Pipo and Fifina, Cuentos Negros de Cuba and Petits Contes Négres pour les Enfants Blanc”
Images of Nations II
Chair: Thomas Cragin
Margarita Slavova, University of Plovdiv-Bulgarie
“Images of Arts in Children’s Literature: The Case of the ‘Moonlight Room’ by Valeri Petrov
Jo Hea Soog, Pusan National University—Corrée
“The Changing Image of Childhood Reflected in Illustrations of Korean Primary School Textbooks for First, and Second Graders: from 1946 to 1995”
Nadia El Kholy, Université du Caire—Egypt
“Images of Readers”
1997
University of Nebraska at Omaha (Omaha, NE)
International Session, Part One
The European Child’s Experiences in the City
Chair: Meena Khorana, Morgan State University
Hamida Bosmajian, Seattle University
“The European Child’s Experience in the City of Berlin 1932: Agitated Alienation in de Hitlerjunge Quex”
Christine Lac, St. Olaf College
“Children in the City of Lights: Divalence and Ambivalence of Paris in Segur’s Novels”
Diana Chlebek, University of Akron
“The Child in the Warsaw Ghetto: City as Haven and Hell”
International Session, Part Two
Asian and African Children in the City
Chair: Bill Finlaw, Nebraska Wesleyan University
Judith Plotz, The George Washington University
“Childhood Modernized, Urbanized, and Nationalized: Desai’s The Village by the Sea”
Clayton MacKenzie, Hong Kong Baptist University
“Urban Reality and Village Heritage: Issues Facing Children’s Literature in East, West, and Central America”
Patricia Kuntz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“City Children in African Literature”
International Session, Part Three
Chair: Christine Lac, St. Olaf College
Kathleen M. Glenn, Wake Forest University
“The City Transformed: Urban Reality and Fantasy in The Nest of Dreams”
Joan Gibbons, The University of Waikato
“The New Zealand Child in the City"
Liora Stavchansky
“Dreams of Childhood in a Mexican Text”
1996 International Children’s Literature
UNC Charlotte (Charlotte, NC)
Chair: Donna R. White, Clemson University
Grace Masselos, University of Woolongong
“Children’s Literature: Then and Now—An Australian Context”
Teya Rosenberg, University of Alberta
“The Truly Australian Hero? The Paradox of Patricia Wrightson’s The Book of Wirrun”
Gwendolyn Davis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
“Dutch Children Literature: Prenpenboeken—Kinderboeken—Jeugdboeken”
1995
University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH)
Creating a Nation I
Chair: Jack Yeager, University of New Hampshire
Jean Perrot, Université de Paris-Nord, France
“The USA in French Children’s Literature”
Luisa Del Giudice, UCLA
“Tomie de Paola and the Writing/Illustrating of Italian Folk Culture for Children”
Elizabeth Pandolfo, Virginia Tech
“World War II in Japanese Children’s Literature: A Modern Mythology”
Creating a Nation II
Chair: William Moebius, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Joel Chaston, Southwest Missouri State University
“Little Houses in the Canadian Wilderness: Blades, Kurelek, and Frye’s ‘Garrison Mentality’”
Patricia Johnston, University of New Brunswick, Canada
“Evidence of Nation in Canadian Folk and Fairy Tales”
Valerie Krips, University of Pittsburgh
“Lore as Lack and Lure: The Child as Meaning-maker in Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising”
1994 International Landscapes
Southwest Missouri State University (Springfield, MO)
Chair: J.D. Stahl, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Elizabeth Hill Askey, Madison, Wisconsin
“Oh, Landscape is Critical: Patricia Wrightson’s Use of Landscape”
Karen Hoyle, University of Minnesota
“A Sense of Place: Contemporary Japanese Settings in Books by Three Japanese-American Immigrants”
Tara L. Rivera, Purdue University
“The Puerto Rican Place in Children’s Literature: A Conflict in Culture”
Many thanks to the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, McCain Library and Archives, and the University of Southern Mississippi for use of these images.