Ritwika Roy

Morag Styles obituary First professor of children’s poetry at Cambridge, who also worked to promote the teaching, dissemination and understanding of Caribbean poetry

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No Guns at My Son's Funeral No Guns at My Son’s Funeral (2005) is the acclaimed Indian children’s...

My reference article on @ParoAnand's Anand's No Guns At My Son's Funeral is now up in the Literary Encyclopedia! Thank you to the editor, Dr. Grace Moore, from whom I learned so much! #kidlit #southasiankidlit

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Here are two CFPs for #ASA2025 (Puerto Rico, Nov. 20-23, 2025)
🔵 Puerto Rico, Empire, and Children’s Literature
🔵 Children, Making/Destroying Empire
Proposals are due Jan. 17, 2025.
➡️ Full details here: www.theasa.net/communities/...
Please share! Thank you!

Hybrid Lecture: "Eco-Passions: Climate Anxiety and Climate Trauma in YA Literature" by Christine Lötscher (University of Zurich)
University of Wrocław
5 December 2024
10.15 a.m. Warsaw time
MS TEAMS
To register, please contact Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak (justyna.deszcz-tryhubczak@uwr.edu.pl)

I created a YASA starter pack! If you’d like adding, let me know. Equally, if I’ve added you by mistake or you’d like out, I’m sorry. Let me know and I’ll take you off it.

#YASA #YALit

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I've love to contribute but I'm only an Anne fangirl and kindred spirit (and struggling too much with my thesis to take on a new project 😥). Hugely excited about the anime and this book!

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New in Feminist Theory

Farooqui, J. (2024). From a toy to a tool: the reception of Barbie and cultural ambiguity in contemporary Pakistan. Feminist Theory, 0(0).

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Have you seen the news about the new anime adaptation of Anne set for release next year?

CALL FOR PAPERS 🌿

@ebonyteach.bsky.social Ebony Elizabeth Thomas & I are co-editing a book!

ANNE FOR EVERYONE: GREEN GABLES, CHILDREN OF COLOR, and GLOBAL CHILDHOODS @upmississippi.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/AnneForEvery... proposals by Dec 1!

#AnneOfGreenGables #ChildLit #ProfessorLife #iSchoolUI

Friendly reminder! If you work on any area of youth culture, consider submitting to the virtual 2025 Children's Literature Association Conference, June 9–14. (Our name is deceiving as our members study all forms of texts and media for children and young adults.) www.childlitassn.org/2025-virtual...

#CFP: Fairy-Tale trouble and the art of fluidity: gender, genre, media
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge
21-22 March 2025
Deadline: 20 December 2024
Email: conferencefairytaletrouble@gmail.com
Website: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/44790/

Hello lovely people following me for some reason!
I'm a PhD Student at Jadavpur University, researching on contemporary Indian English KidLit; & co-founder at aclisa.in. I love Doctor Who & K-drama; love/hate Duolingo & don't remember the last time I read a book for grown-ups.
#introductions

#CFP: Norms of (Dis)ability in Nordic Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Barnboken: Journal of Children’s Literature Research
Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2025
Deadline for articles: 1 October 2025
Email: barnboken@barnboksinstitutet.se
Website: barnboken.net/index.php/cl...

Okay, made a starter pack of people working in children’s and young adult literature (though possibly I missed the starter pack wave already)! Almost certainly missed some people, so let me know if you’d like to be added or, of course, removed #yalit #kidlit #mglit
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Thank you!!

Reading Fantasy Is Way Easier Than Writing About It - Association for Children's Literature in South Asia Shreya Prasad Childhood is a magical time filled with stories of fairies, goblins, quests and adventure. Perhaps it is because the fantastic reach of magic helps a child comprehend the unfamiliar. But...

And the first post from the Assoc for Children's Lit in South Asia (ACLiSA) Fantasy Feature Series is out now! Shreya Prasad writes about growing up with fantasy fiction and making it her research specialisation!

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#CFP: Delicious, Nutritious and Fictious: Food in Popular Culture

Free online #academicconference

25-26 September 2025

Online and in person in Sydney Australia

Abstracts by 31/5/25
To submit go here - tinyurl.com/mrxeys35
Conference registration: tinyurl.com/2hyksxn8
queries popcrn@une.edu.au

Online symposium: Online Symposium on Pinocchio
University of Cambridge
12 December 2024 1:45 PM - 8:15 PM GMT
Website: www.tickettailor.com/events/cambr...

Is there a Children's Literature Studies starter pack around I can sneak into? 👀

Behind the Story with SCAD Atlanta: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Learn About the Origins of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

So I did a TV thing with Atlanta News First.

KidLit folks, what's a good word to substitute "children and young people" with? I'm trying to edit a paper to fit the word count and this is 4 words I've repeated too often. I keep thinking "youth" but the Venn diagram of children, young people, and youth is not a circle.

Help!

Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference The Tolkien Society is pleased to announce it will be hosting the online Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th November 2024. This November marks 100 years since th...

Looking forward to speaking at this Tolkien Society event on 23 + 24 Nov, to celebrate Christopher Tolkien, Middle-earth’s cartographer and first scholar. I’ll be talking about editing new works by #Tolkien from his manuscripts.
The event is online and free: www.tolkiensociety.org/events/chris...

I'm looking for Creative Writing academics - do you know any here?
I made a Starter Pack for those I've spotted already, but I know there must be many more (and my list skews female right now!).
Reply to be added (or taken off, of course). Thanks!
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The gold standard of adaptations!

#CFP: Diversity Committee of the Children’s Literature Association
“One Day and Someday and Now”: Exploring Time in Diverse Youth Literatures
Virtual Conference, June 9-14, 2025
Submission deadline for proposals: November 11th, 2024
Email: capshaw@uconn.edu

Hey, y'all! If you work on any area of youth culture, consider submitting to the virtual 2025 Children's Literature Association Conference, June 9–14. (Our name is a bit deceiving as our members study all forms of texts and media for children and young adults.) www.childlitassn.org/2025-virtual...

In-person event: Pinocchio's Strings: Critical and Creative Encounters
Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
Wednesday, December 4 · 5:30 - 7pm GMT
Website: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pinocchios...

Very excited about this forthcoming conference, co-organised by the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic and children’s literature colleagues at the School of Education, University of Glasgow!
Full CFP here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...