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Children's
Literature Studies at EMU
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of English Language and Literature|Pray-Harrold Hall|Ypsilanti,
MI|48197|
Contact:
Annette Wannamaker|awannamak AT emich DOT edu|
(734)
487-4220
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pleased to announce the
2008-9 Family Film Schedule
Featuring
free children's films the first Sunday of
every month during the 2008-9 school year |
*New*
Degree Requirements and Courses
for the
Masters
in Children's Literature:
Students
enrolling on or after Summer 2008 follow the new
requirements. Students enrolled before this date
can choose to follow the old program requirements
listed in the catalog
or those in the new program.
See
Below for details:
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Spring/Summer
2008
Graduate
Student Achievements:
Sarah
Goletz
has been awarded a 2008-9 EMU Graduate College Crisler
Fellowship to pursue her research on the Feminine
Hero!
Sarah
Goletz's
paper, "Maternity as Magic: The Search for
the Mother in The Secret Garden" won
an EMU Graduate College Award for best research
in the Humanities at the 2008 Graduate Reearch Fair!
The
following
current MA students
and alumni
of our Program presented papers
at the Annual Meeting of the Children's
Literature Association:
Gina
Boldman presented
"Toys and Tokenism: Whitewashing Multicultural
Toys."
Sarah
Fabian presented
"These Picture Books Aren't for Kids!: The
Problem of 'Graphic' Sexuality in Alison Bechdel's
Fun Home."
Sarah
Goletz presented
"Betrayal, Blood, and Redemption: The Feminine
Hero's Path to Community."
Jennifer
Goodhue presented
"Blurring the Genres: Bringing the Feminine
Hero into Focus."
Walter
Hogan presented
"Animal Encounters in Young Adult Literature."
Ryan
Kerr presented
"Some Decapitated Pig: Conflicting and Complementary
Portrayals of Boys and Swine in Lord of the
Flies and Charlotte's Web."
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Requirements
for the MA in Children's Literature
*Effective
Summer 2008*
Program
Requirements: 30 hours total
Required
Courses (21 hours):
Two
Required courses (6 hours)
CHL 516 Intro to Graduate Studies in Children’s
Literature (3 hrs)
CHL 585 Children’s Literature:
Criticism and Theory (3hrs)
Plus five
courses (15 hours) from the following:
CHL 517 Children’s Literature for Teachers (3 hrs)
CHL 518 History of Children’s Literature (3hrs)
CHL 581 Critical Approaches to Mythology (3 hrs)
CHL 582 Folktales, Legends and Ballads (3hrs)
CHL 583 Children’s Illustrated Texts (3 hrs)
CHL 584 Literature for Adolescents (3hrs)
CHL 586 Multicultural Children’s Literature (3hrs)
CHL 587 Children’s Media Studies (3 hrs)
CHL 588 Topics in Children’s Literature (3 hrs)
(may be taken up to two times)
Plus
Electives (9 hours):
a combination of the following:
- Cognate Courses (up to 6 hours):
Select in consultation
with the program coordinator.
- Elective Courses (up to 9 hours):
Select additional children’s literature courses from
the above list or appropriate courses in literature, creative
writing, writing, English education, linguistics or thesis*
*Students can choose to write a thesis
and take a 3 hr thesis course or can choose to take a final
comprehensive exam. See catalog for description of the culminating
experience for the MA.
Congratulations!
to
the following students who presented papers at the 2008 EMU
Graduate Research Fair:
Rachel DuBois
Sponsor: Professor Annette Wannamaker
"Harry Potter and Magical Multiculturalism: Using J.K.
Rowling's Phenomenal Series as a Guide for Classroom Discussions
of Diversity"
Sarah Goletz
Sponsor: Professor Annette Wannamaker
"Maternity as Magic: The Search for the Mother in The
Secret Garden"
Jennifer Goodhue
Sponsor: Professor Annette Wannamaker
"Blurring Genres: Bringing the Feminine Hero into Focus"
Ryan Kerr
Sponsor: Professor Annette Wannamaker
T"he Father, Son, and the Holy Clone: Re-vision of Biblical
Genesis in The House of the Scorpion"
Kayti Purkiss
Sponsor: Professor Ian Wojcik-Andrews
"The Invention of Hugo Cabret: Crossing Genre Lines"
Theresa Smith
Sponsor: Professor Annette Wannamaker
"What’s in a Name?: Language and Power in Three
Works of Fantasy Fiction"
2007 Study Abroad:
Children's Literature
in Oxford
Photo
Album
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Spring
2007 Graduate Student Achievements:
Ryan Kerr presented a paper
titled "The Mummification vs. The Cremation of
Folklore: The Rhetorical Difference between Joseph Jacobs's
and Lewis Carroll's Colonization of Oral English Culture"
at the 2007 Children's
Literature Association Conference.
Laura Handy's essay titled
"Bodies Betrayed: Subjectivity and Abjection in
Speak and Blood and Chocolate" was honored by the
EMU Graduate College with an award for best graduate
student research.
Tammy Shonta Smith, who
completed a Masters thesis on the Black Aesthetic in
Children's Literature, has been accepted into the doctoral
program in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American
Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Best of Luck, Tammy! |
2007 Graduate Research Fair
Congratulations
to our Children's Literature Students Presenting Papers at
this year's Graduate Research Fair. For more information and
for a schedule of events, go to: The
Graduate School
Catherine M. Ahmann
"Standing Up Prince Charming: The Cultural Cause and
Effect of Feminist Folklore Revisions"
Stephanie Comer
"Worlds Beyond Worlds: Heterotopia in the Novels of
Diana Wynne Jones"
Rachel DuBois
“'You Know You Love Me': Trends, Tropes, and the
Continued Popularity of Teen Girl Series"
Sarah Fabian
"The Return of the Repressed: “The Real”
in Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye"
Laura Ellen Handy
"Bodies Betrayed: Subjectivity and Abjection in Speak
and Blood and Chocolate"
Ryan Kerr
"Rats and Marxists: A Critical Reading of The
Amazing Maurice"
Pam McCombs
"Remembering"
Jennifer Saul
"Images of the Goddess in Sue Monk Kidd’s The
Secret Life of Bees"
Summer
2007 Study Abroad:
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EMU Study Abroad Programs:
Oxford
and Beyond:
British
Children’s Fantasy Writers
July 9 through July 27 2007
Lit 479/Lit 592: 3 CREDITS
Want to study Lewis Carroll,
Phillip Pullman, and C.S. Lewis in Oxford, England
in 2007?
Want to visit other important
children’s literary sites? |
Students in the Children’s Literature Studies
Program at Eastern Michigan University will read the
work of three major British fantasy writers—Carroll,
Pullman, and Lewis. In the second part of the program,
we will visit historic Oxford, the area that profoundly
influenced each of these writers and where Pullman now
resides. Thus, we will be reading works such as Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland, The Golden Compass
(part of His Dark Materials trilogy), and The
Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (part of the
Narnia series) and visiting the places in and around
Oxford that inspired these seminal children’s
literature texts. Other relevant areas of interest include
Norwich (Pullman’s birthplace), Cheshire (Carroll’s
birthplace), the Lake District (Beatrix Potter’s
Hilltop farm), East Sussex (Kipling), Glastonbury and
Stonehenge, two mighty landscapes that have shaped much
British children’s fantasy.
Contact: Professor Ian Wojcik Andrews for more information |
Great Graduate Student News:
Congratulations to our graduate students
who presented papers at the 2006 meeting of the Children's
Literature Association. Camille W. Parker presented
"Trials: A Catalyst for the Coming of Age"
and Sarah Fabian presented "The Private Goes Public:
The Trial as Transformer in Annie On My Mind."
Congratulations to the following Graduate
Students who presented papers Monday, March 27 at the
EMU
Graduate Student Research Fair:
Jennifer Marie Armstrong: British
Conceptions of India in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s
A Little Princess and The Secret Garden:
A Post-Colonial Reading
Judy Bosshart: The “American
Myth” and Early Misrepresentations of Native
Americans in Children’s Literature
Paul Breck: Emergent Identity and
Emergent Literacy: Theories of Formation and Transformation
Courtney Ceronsky: The Myth of Aryan
Supremacy: How Narrative Informed the Politics of
the Third Reich
Sarah Fabian: Gifted
Children in Inclusive Classrooms: The New Children
Left Behind
Camille Parker: Riding a Broomstick
out of Plato’s Cave: Elements of Plato found
in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series
Theresa Przystup: Modifying the
Mabinogion: Lloyd Alexander and the Prydain Chronicles
Tammy S. Smith: Movement Literature:
Reevaluating the African American Children’s
Literature Canon
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Congratulations to Pam McCombs
and Andrew Conant, graduate students who both presented
papers at the The 4th Annual Hawaii International
Conference on Arts and Humanities held from January
11 –14, 2006. Pam gave a paper on “Egalitarian
Religion” and Andrew gave a paper titled “Sendak:
A Model of a Successful Children’s Writer.”
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Congratulations
to Recent MA grad Kathleen Allen.
Her second Y.A. Novel, Please
to See the
King, is being released on Feb. 13, 2006.
She will read from her new novel 7 p.m. March
29th at
Nicola's Books in Ann Arbor.
Her fist novel, Witch Hunter, was released
August 22, 2005. Find out more here: Witch
Hunter. |
Congratulations
to recent MA grad Daria Plumb. She
presented a paper at the 2005 NCTE, which was
very well-received and which she has made into
a web site: Her handouts are all available at
Get Em'
Reading. |
Congratulations
to MA Student Pam McCombs, who
will be presenting a paper on Animation and Hayao
Miyazki at the University of Florida's 4th Annual
Comics
Conference in February 2006. |
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