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  • Bulletin Board

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Announcements

New Quarterly Editor Needed

The Winter 1995/96 issue is the last one under the present editorship. The new editor will be determined at the Spring Conference in Springfield, MO, and will start reading manuscripts and working with the present editors in the summer of 1994; the new editor's first issue will be Spring 1996. Those interested in the position should contact:

David L. Russell
Publications Chair
729 Marion Avenue
Big Rapids, MI 49307

Paper Call

MLA Session sponsored by the Children's Literature Association. Literary History and Children's Literature. December 1994 Meeting, San Diego. Deadline March 1, 1994.

Now that literary history has called into question our traditional ways of organizing "adult" literature, how might we reconceptualize our new understandings to include and/or reconfigure children's literature? Papers should be 8-10 pages (20 minutes) accompanied by a 200 word abstract. Send the original and two copies to:

Mitzi Myers
2206 Bedford Drive
Fullerton, CA 92631-1504

Paper Call

MLA Session sponsored by the Children's Literature Association. Children's Literature and New Historicism. December 1994 Meeting, San Diego. Deadline March 1, 1994.

This session would extend the current interest demonstrated by recent ChLA conference proceedings, publications, and special sessions in the relationship between literary theory and children's literature. This relationship is often vigorously contested—see, for example, the recent dialogue between Perry Nodelman and Michael Steig in Children's Literature Association Quarterly 18.1 (1993). This session proposes to focus upon the "new historicism" and its connection to children's literature scholarship. How does new historicism—in its attention to ideology, anecdote, and "thick description"—reimagine (or distort) children's literature studies? Send original and two copies to:

Lynne Vallone
Department of English
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4227

Paper Call

Children's Literature Association Quarterly. Fall 1995: Deadline July 1, 1994. Voices From Abroad: International Issue

Papers are invited on global perspectives in children's literature. We solicit papers on recent developments, issues, concerns, and debates in children's literature from a wide range of countries and languages. (Submissions are accepted in major foreign languages, but will be translated for the issue.) Possible topics may include the interplay of dominant and muted voices, issues of translation, and the definition and scope of children's literature. Manuscripts should be 10-15 pages double-spaced and in conformity with the revised MLA handbook. Send original and two copies to either:

Eva-Maria Metcalf
231 Seventh Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55414

or

Bill Moebius
Department of
Comparative Literature
University of Massachusetts
at Amherst
South College
Amherst, MA 01003

Paper Call

36th Annual Conference of the Midwest MLA. The Critical Limitations of Defining Genre in/of Children's Literature. November 11-13, 1994 Meeting, Palmer House, Chicago. Deadline May 15, 1994.

This session will investigate the critical construction of genre in children's literature. As a relatively young field, children's literature scholarship has devoted a large percentage of its energies to asking "What is Children's Literature, anyway?" Critics such as Peter Hunt, Aidan Chambers, Peter Hollindale, C.S. Lewis, Lissa Paul, and John Rowe Townsend have tried to sort through this difficult issue. We might hear accounts of past attempts at definition or question the usefulness of such an act.

Possibilities include a look at how the field has been defined by critics in the past, how different groups seek to define it, or how it can't be defined (or defies definition). How is defining our field different or similar to defining genres designated by history, culture, readership, or structure? How do (or don't) the genre divisions within children's literature correspond to adult literature's demarcations, values, and trends?

Papers should correspond to the M/MLA format for the 36th annual meeting, be single spaced, and not exceed eight pages including notes and works cited. Accepted papers will be distributed beforehand and discussed during the session. Papers or detailed abstracts should be sent to:

Michael J. Cadden
Department of English
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-4240

Paper Call

Feminist/Children's Criticism...

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