- ChLA International Committee
2024 International Committee Panelists
The ChLA International Committee is pleased to announce the panelists for the 2024 sponsored panel, focusing on Memory in Children's and Young Adult Literature. Please join the International Committee on Thursday, May 30, 2024 from 3:00pm - 4:20 pm to hear this excellent panel.
Diana Carolina García Gómez is a postdoctoral fellow in childhood studies at George Mason University and will join Bridgewater State University’s childhood studies department as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2024. Her work examines and centers children's and youth's self-constructions as political subjects by focusing on their participation in peacebuilding through collective memory and peace education processes. Her multidisciplinary approach to the Colombian post-accord context draws from childhood studies, memory studies, and political philosophy. She combines Latin-American scholarship, decolonial and postcolonial theories, and ethnographic methods. She has published work about children’s representations and participation in the Colombian Truth Commission and on children’s views on Colombian lived citizenship. In two forthcoming publications, she discusses how inhabiting the past through collective memory work affects young activists' transitions into adulthood and a literature review on the inquiry about childhood in Latin American scholarship on Collective Memory.
Diana is also a member of the transnational research group Children, Media, and Parenting in the COVID-19 Pandemic. The group studies the effects the COVID-19 pandemic had on parent-child relations by analyzing media usage in households in Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, South Korea, the UK, and the US. Drawing from her interests in global childhoods, children and media, and political subjectivities, Diana's focus is on understanding how notions of an "ideal childhood" affected media negotiations around this period.
Lidong Xiang (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. She teaches courses in children’s literature and childhood studies. Her research focuses on girlhood studies, global childhoods, environmental injustices and childhood, violence, trauma, and memory studies. Taking on roles approaching children’s literature in production, circulation, and education, she interweaves these diverse and related insights to investigate cultural productions for and featuring children and youth, including children’s periodicals, literature, and films. Attending to the visual, cultural, and political constructions of childhood, she is committed to critically engaging with social justice issues regarding girls and other marginalized children and youth.
Xinyue Hu is a second-year PhD candidate in the School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics at Newcastle University where she was awarded the PhD scholarship. She holds a BA in Chinese Literature from Sichuan University (China) and an MA (Distinction) in Comparative Literature from the University of Edinburgh. Her current research project is entitled ‘The Global Mulan and the Construction of Global Girlhoods’. She will examine the Chinese tale of Mulan and its multidirectional travels across the globe. Through looking at the diverse representations and the global circulations of Mulan, the project intends to explore the diverse construction of global girlhoods. Her research interests revolve around children’s literature and film, transmedia adaptation, global girlhoods, migration and transnational communities.
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