[CALIBK12] Call for Papers: Return to Prince Edward Island: Anne of Green Gables at 100

[Megan Fuller]

Did you see this site? http://www.anne2008.com/index.php  They just announced a writing contest on the 28th.
Megan Fuller Aptos Junior High http://www.aptosjr.pvusd.net/library/ Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher von Braun 


Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:57:44 -0800From: shatz at verizon.netTo: calibk12 at lists.sjsu.eduSubject: [CALIBK12] Call for Papers: Return to Prince Edward Island: Anne of Green Gables at 100






Just spotted this on the Children's Lit listserve. Well, it's nice to know someone is talking about Anne during the year of her 100th birthday, even if the conference (in San Francisco) isn't until the end of December . . . !
 
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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:52:31 -0500
From: "Michelle A. Abate" <mabate at hollins.edu>
Subject: [child_lit] Call for Papers:  MLA 2008
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Call for Papers 
 
Return to Prince Edward Island:  Anne of Green Gables at 100 
 
Panel for Modern Language Association Annual Conference 
 
December 27th - 30th, 2008
 
San Francisco, California
 
 
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
 
*     the past place, present status and future importance of Anne in children's literature
*     Anne and (de)construction of gender and girlhood
*     the pastoral tradition and literary romanticism in Anne
*     Anne and/as adolescent literature
*     Anne and Canadian identity, literature, nationalism and culture
*     cinematic, theatrical and television adaptations of the Anne story
*     Anne in American, British and Canadian popular and material culture 
*     Anne and/in the evolution of the "girls' book" 
*     L. M. Montgomery as Anne author and icon
*     Anne as a reflection and/or revision of the orphan story
*     female friendship in Anne; the novel as both homosocial and possibly homoerotic/queer
 
 
Send 2-page abstracts to Michelle Ann Abate, mabate at hollins.edu
 
Deadline:  March 1st, 2008
 
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Michelle Ann Abate
Assistant Professor of English
Assistant Editor, Children's Literature
Hollins University
P.O. Box 9677
Roanoke, VA  24020
phone:  (540) 362-6317 
fax:  (540) 362-6097
mabate at hollins.edu <mailto:mabate at hollins.edu>  
 
posted by:
Joanne Ladewig  (A.K.A. "Library Lady")
Library Media Tech
Lawrence Elementary, GGUSD
Garden Grove, California
shatz at verizon.net
 
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