2016 International Committee Panelists

The ChLA International Committee is pleased to announce the panelists for the 2016 sponsored panel, focusing on Japanese Children's Literature.

Fumiko Ganzenmueller is an expert on Japanese children’s and youth literature. For the past 20 years she worked at the International Youth Library (IYL) in Munich where she was responsible for the East Asian section. Since retiring in 2008, she has been working there as a freelancer for Japanese children’s literature. She has published articles about children’s literature for Japanese and German professional periodicals, written expertise for Japanese children’s books, created translations, etc. She has given various lectures and curated several exhibitions for Japanese children’s literature and Japanese authors.

Junko Yokota, Ph.D. is the Director of the CTCB and a Professor Emeritus of Reading & Language at National Louis University. She was an elementary classroom teacher and school librarian for the first ten years of her career. In her professional roles, she has served as a consultant to numerous school districts, guiding curriculum development and providing professional development for teachers. She is past president of the U.S. national section of the International Board on Books for Young People, and has served on numerous committees of the International reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English. She has served on the Caldecott and Newbery Award committees, chaired the Batchelder Award committee, and served two terms on the IBBY Hans Christian Andersen Award for Contribution to Multicultural Literature, Reading the World Award and is an active participant in the international literature community.

Shino Sugimura is an associate professor of Faculty of Arts and Letters of Kyoritsu Women’s University. Her work focuses on British culture and literature.

Helen Kilpatrick is a Senior Lecturer in Japanese and English Language Studies in the Modern Languages Program, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong. Her undergraduate degrees are in Japanese language, sociolinguistics and English literature. Her MA, from the English Department at Macquarie University (Sydney), is in Children's Literature and her thesis provides a cross-cultural analysis of ideologies Australian and Japanese picture books. Her PhD thesis explores Buddhist ideologies in contemporary Japanese picture books of the tales of Miyazawa Kenji, who was writing in Japan in the 1920s. She has teaching experience in Japanese language, English and Japanese literature, culture, and children's literature at the University of Newcastle, Macquarie University (Sydney) and the University of Wollongong. She has also taught interpreting and translation courses and English as a Foreign Language at Seishin Notre Dame University and Okayama University in Japan.

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