Call for Papers Lost Futures: Representing the Displaced Child The image of the child has long been deployed in literature, illustration, film and other media to represent ideas of national identity, societal norms and societal anxieties. Yet, this deployment is
CFP – L.M. Montgomery and Vision
CFP: L.M. Montgomery and Vision The L.M. Montgomery Institute’s Fourteenth Biennial Conference University of Prince Edward Island, 25-28 June 2020 “My fingers tingle to grasp a pen—my brain teems with plots. I’ve a score of fascinating dream characters I want
CFP – The Spatial Dynamics of Children’s Series Literature
Call for Papers: The Spatial Dynamics of Children’s Series Literature Editors: Michael G. Cornelius, Marybeth Richards, and Courtney Gotham, Wilson College “Geography,” Nedra Reynolds asserts, “fixes identities” (149). That is to say, where we come from—and where we are, literally,
CFP – Edited Collection on Plants in Children’s and YA Literature
Call for Papers Edited Collection on Plants in Children’s and YA Literature Editors: Melanie Duckworth and Lykke Guanio-Uluru From the forests of the tales of the Brothers’ Grimm to Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree, from Piglet’s house in Winnie the
CFP – Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene
Call for papers for edited collection Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene Brian Attebery, Tereza Dědinová and Marek Oziewicz (Eds.) “Fantasy’s main claim to cultural importance resides, I believe, in the work of redefining the relationship between contemporary readers and
CFP – Literary Juvenilia, Material Imagination and “Things”
Literary Juvenilia, Material Imagination and “Things” Seventh International Literary Juvenilia Conference UNSW Sydney 20 May to 23 May 2020 A young writer’s learning and creative experience is built around things. Drawing on Gaston Bachelard’s evocative phrase “material imagination,” this conference
CFP – Special Issue of Boyhood Studies: Boyhood and Belonging: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Roles of Space and Place on Young Men’s Identities
Call for Papers Special Issue of Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal Boyhood and Belonging: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Roles of Space and Place on Young Men’s Identities EDITOR: Michael R.M. Ward, Swansea University MANAGING EDITOR: Diederik F. Janssen, Independent Scholar
Call for Book Reviewers for Special Issue of Jeunesse
Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures seeks academic reviews to be published in our upcoming Special Issue on Borders (Winter 2019). Reviews will be due September 1, 2019. Jeunesse publishes two types of academic reviews: Standard academic reviews of a single
CFP – Slavic Worlds of Imagination 3: Metamorphoses
International Conference “Slavic Worlds of Imagination 3: Metamorphoses” 23-24 September 2019, Cracow, Poland The Children’s and Youth Literature Research Centre of the Faculty of Polish Studies and the Institute of Slavonic Philology (Jagiellonian University) are hosting the third meeting in
CFP – Adapting Children’s and Young Adult Novels into Anglophone Television Series
Call for Papers International Conference by GUEST Normandie Adapting Children’s and Young Adult Novels into Anglophone Television Series Rouen Normandy University, 5-6 September 2019 Following up on its research programme exploring audiovisual serial fiction as narrative, aesthetic and ideological works