Children’s and Young Adult Literature Sessions at the 2018 MLA Conference

18: Calling Dumbledore’s Army: Activist Children’s Literature

Thursday, January 04, 2018, 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM. Hilton: Clinton
Presider

Philip Nel, Kansas State U
Presentations

Agents of Change: Pupils, Parents, and Publishers Moving toward Enlightenment in Denmark, 1780–1850, Charlotte Appel and Nina Christensen, Aarhus U
Guiding White Tears: Looking to Abolitionist Children’s Literature, Brigitte Fielder, U of Wisconsin, Madison
Brujas, Revolutionaries, and Warriors: The Emergence of Radical Queerness in Contemporary Youth Literature, Angel Daniel Matos, San Diego State U
Harry Potter and the Nazis: Myth, Text, Social Change, Ika Willis, U of Wollongong
Session Information

Forum: GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Program: Forum Sessions
Subject: Genre, Theory, Method – Children’s Literature, British Literature – Twentieth and Twenty-First Century
Day: Thursday, January 04, 2018
Related to the Presidential Theme: Yes
Keywords

children’s literature, activism, resistance, history, Trumpism
190: Radical Sisterhood in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Thursday, January 04, 2018, 07:00 PM – 08:15 PM. Sheraton: Sugar Hill
Presiders

Deirdre H. McMahon, Drexel U
Mary Jeanette Moran, Illinois State U
Presentations

Sisterhood, Motherhood, and the Personal as Political in Rita Williams-Garcia’s One Crazy Summer, Michelle Holley Martin, U of Washington, Seattle
‘Fierce Foursome’: Making Familia from Scratch in Rigoberto González’s The Mariposa Club, Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez, LaGuardia Community C, City U of New York
‘Wait a Little While and the Fruit Will Fall into Your Hand’: Empathetic Reading in Esperanza Rising, Caren Town, Georgia Southern U
Session Information

Program: Special Sessions
Subject: Genre, Theory, Method – Children’s Literature
Day: Thursday, January 04, 2018
Keywords

Children’s literature, Social justice, Intersectionality, Empathy, Feminist theory
298: 4H: History, Hamilton, and Hip-Hop in High School

Friday, January 05, 2018, 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM. Sheraton: Empire Ballroom West
Presider

Jan Christopher Susina, Illinois State U
Presentations

History in Three Minutes: Interrogating the Uses of Billy Joel’s List Song, Jennifer A. Low, Florida Atlantic U
21: The Story of Roberto Clemente: Teaching History through Graphic Biography, Joshua Adams, DePaul U
‘Freedom’ in History: Teaching Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar’s BET Performance, Bethany Jacobs, Georgia Inst. of Tech.
Resignifying the Body of History: Hamilton and Hybrid, Subaltern Forms, Sandra K. Stanley, California State U, Northridge
Session Information

Forum: GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Program: Forum Sessions
Subject: American Literature – Twentieth and Twenty-First Century
Day: Friday, January 05, 2018
Keywords

young adult literature, history, nonfiction, performance, music
Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum: Business Meeting

Friday, January 05, 2018, 01:45 PM – 03:00 PM. Sheraton New York Times Square: Madison 4
413: Narrating Vulnerability: Re-seeing Asian American Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Friday, January 05, 2018, 05:15 PM – 06:30 PM. Sheraton: Chelsea
Presider

James Kyung-Jin Lee, U of California, Irvine
Presentations

Restaging the Superhero Spectacle: Shame and Performative Pedagogy in Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew’s Shadow Hero, Kai Hang Cheang, U of California, Riverside
Goyangi Means Cat and the Precarity of Transnational and Transracial Adoptive Citizenship, Sandra Kim, U of Southern California
Reading Vulnerability: Young Adulthood in Cynthia Kadohata’s Kira-Kira, Mika Kennedy, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Session Information

Forum: LLC Asian American
Program: Forum Sessions
Subject: American Literature – Twentieth and Twenty-First Century
Day: Friday, January 05, 2018
Related to the Presidential Theme: Yes
Keywords

Asian American Literature, Children’s/Young Adult Literature, Politics/Aesthetics, Transnationalism, Environmentalism
543: The Rise of Latinx Literature for Youth

Saturday, January 06, 2018, 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM. Hilton: Hudson
Presider

Marilisa Jiménez García, Lehigh U
Presentations

Navigating the Borderlands: Childhood and the Power of the Mestiza Consciousness in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Bilingual Picture Books, Cristina Rhodes, Texas A&M U, Commerce
Learning Unbounded: Emancipatory Education in Latinx Young Adult Fiction, Ashley Perez, Ohio State U, Columbus
Conocimiento Narratives: (Re)Imagining the Künstlerroman for Latina Girls, Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez, LaGuardia Community C, City U of New York
Session Information

Allied Organization: Children’s Literature Association
Program: Allied Organizations
Subject: Genre, Theory, Method – Children’s Literature
Day: Saturday, January 06, 2018
Keywords

children’s literature, latinx literature, latino/a literature, ethnic studies, young adult literature
618: From Gotham to Camazotz: Madeleine L’Engle at One Hundred and New York City

Saturday, January 06, 2018, 01:45 PM – 03:00 PM. Sheraton: Bowery
Presider

Michelle Ann Abate, Ohio State U, Columbus
Presentations

Actualizing Camazotz in New York City, Heidi A. Lawrence, U of Glasgow
When You Wrinkle Time: The ‘Expanding Universe’ of Madeleine L’Engle in Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me, Susan Strayer, Ohio State U, Columbus
A Butterfly in the City: Interrelational Musical Identity in The Young Unicorns and A Severed Wasp, Mary Jeanette Moran, Illinois State U
Session Information

Program: Special Sessions
Subject: Genre, Theory, Method – Children’s Literature
Day: Saturday, January 06, 2018
Keywords

Madeleine L’Engle, children’s literature, science fiction, author centennial, New York City
625: Queer Futurities in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Saturday, January 06, 2018, 03:30 PM – 04:45 PM. Sheraton: Central Park West
Presider

Angel Daniel Matos, San Diego State U
Presentations

The Ethics of Queer Futurity, Gabrielle Owen, U of Nebraska, Lincoln
‘Read Up on Your Future’s History’: Futurity through Bisexuality in Young Adult Novels, Christine N. Stamper, Ohio State U, Columbus
‘We’ll Always Come Here for the Summer, Right?’: The Queer Geographies of This One Summer, Katharine Slater, Rowan U
Out of History: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, the Reclamation of a Lost Past, and Queer Retrosity, Michelle Ann Abate, Ohio State U, Columbus
Session Information

Forum: GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Program: Forum Sessions
Subject: American Literature – Twentieth and Twenty-First Century
Day: Saturday, January 06, 2018
Related to the Presidential Theme: Yes
Keywords

queer, temporality, sexuality, childhood, adolescence