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| Sandra Beals (EMU CHL M.A. 2011) was presented with the 2011 Children's Literature Association award for best M.A.-level graduate student essay at the annual meeting of the ChLA in June. Sandra will begin her doctoral studies this fall at MSU, and we are all so proud! |
Brynne Barnes (EMU CRTW M.A. 2009) whose first picture book, Colors of Me, will be published September, 1 2011 by Sleeping Bear Press. Laura Handy (EMU CHL M.A. 2009) whose first young adult novel, Blind Spot, will be published in 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
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ChLA 2010: "Children's Literature and Media"
Thanks to all our EMU colleagues, friends, students, and alumni who helped host ChLA2010.
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The following EMU faculty, grad students and alumni presented papers at the 2010 annual meeting of the ChLA:
Teresa Asiain, University of West of England
“What is Dora Really Exploring?: Language, Ideology and Race in
Nickelodeon’s Dora the Explorer”
Sandra Beals, Eastern Michigan University
“Who is the King of All Wild Things?: Parenting and Imperialism
in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are”
Gina Boldman, Eastern Michigan University
“Walking Contradictions: Becoming Whole in Jacqueline Woodson’s
After Tupac and D Foster”
Rachel DuBois, Independent Scholar
“The 30-Year-Old Freshman: (Re)Viewing Television’s Adult/Adolescent
Bodies”
Sarah Fabian, Eastern Michigan University
“Beyond Teenyboppers: Music, Identity and Connection in Sofia Coppola’s
The Virgin Suicides”
Sarah Wagenseller Goletz, Maine School of Science and Math
““My Power Should be Our Power”: Sacrifice, Singularity,
and the Ultimate Boon of the Evolving Hero”
Jessica Kander, Eastern Michigan University
“Slashing & Mashing: Queer Appropriations of Popular Culture”
Ryan Kerr, Elgin Community College
“High-Resolution Bows and Pixilated Arrows: Re-Creation of Mythos
in The Legend of Zelda”
Angie Laginess, Eastern Michigan University
“Fairytale Fallout: Or, Why Women are More than Happy to Oppress
Themselves to Become the Next Cinderella”
Robin Lucy, Eastern Michigan University
“Black and White Unite: The Children’s Books of Arna Bontemps
and Jack Conroy”
Katie Mangeno, Eastern Michigan University
“The Power of Creation and Destruction: Healing Through Horror,
Humor and Art in Jhonen Vasquez’s Comics”
Camille Parker, Independent Scholar
“Author Accessibility, Blogs and the Literary Process: Forging a
New Connection Between Writer and Reader”
Kayti Purkiss, Independent Scholar
“Bullying Young Adult Literature: Visions of Adolescent Literature
in Rockstar’s Bully”
Lauren Roberts, Eastern Michigan University
“Charlie and the Commodity Factory”
Jennifer Rose, Eastern Michigan University
“The Intersection of Ecological and Media Literacies in Sesame Street”
Terry Smith, Borders Group, Inc.
“The Good, the Bad, and the Superhero: Comic Books and Changing
Attitudes Towards Authority”
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