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From: angelica
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 13:19:09 -0800
Frances Hodgson Burnett Conference
The Arne Nixon Center will host the first conference ever to examine the life and works of Frances Hodgson Burnett, April 25', 2003, in Fresno. This event is attracting participants from England, Ireland, Japan, and many parts of the United States.
Frances Hodgson Burnett is renowned for her classic children?s books: The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and A Little Princess. The fact that most of her 60+ bestselling novels were written for adults is not so well known. These books, with sub-jects like working women, single motherhood, abusive marriages, and the interaction of cultures, are sparking new, international interest.
The conference will include plenary sessions with featured speakers, and at other times will divide into two special interest tracks, one for academics and one for teachers and librarians. Participants are welcome to attend any session of either track. An optional unit of university credit will be available. A children?s track will be offered for children (ages 6) of conference participants.
Participants will stay at the Piccadilly Inn?University (phone 559"4B00; ask for ?Burnett Conference? rates). Conference meetings will take place on campus and at the hotel. The conference will conclude with brunch in a beautiful Fresno garden.
Featured speakers for plenary sessions:
Phyllis Bixler, author of Frances Hodgson Burnett (Twayne?s English Authors Series).
Angelica Shirley Carpenter, Curator of the Arne Nixon Center and author of Frances Hodgson Burnett: Beyond the Secret Garden.
Michael Cart, librarian, teacher, Booklist columnist, and author of From Romance to Realism, a History of Young Adult Literature.
Penny Deupree, Frances Hodgson Burnett?s great-granddaughter.
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Professor of English, Vassar University, author of Black London: Life Before Emancipation and Carrington. Her new biography of Burnett will be published in 2003 by Rutgers University Press.
Alison Lurie, Professor of English, Cornell University, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, author of Foreign Affairs, Boys and Girls Forever: Children?s Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter, and Don?t Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children?s Literature.
Ann Thwaite, Burnett?s principal biographer, author of Waiting for the Party: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, 184924. Thwaite, author of A. A. Milne: The Man Behind Winnie-the-Pooh and The Brilliant Career of Winnie-the-Pooh: The Definitive History of the Best Bear in All the World, will deliver a pre-conference lecture, ?Who Wrote Winnie-the-Pooh?? at the Satellite Student Union at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 24, as part of the University Lecture Series.
Presentors and their topics:
Amy Billone, Professor, University of Tennessee. ??Almost Like Fear?: Doubling and the Sublime in Frances Hodgson Burnett?s A Little Princess.?
Nancy Chinn, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Baylor University. ?A Little Princess and Two Film Versions: Changing Images of American Girls.?
Carole Dunbar, Lecturer, St. Patrick?s College, Drumcondra, Ireland.
?Rats in Black Holes and Corners: An Examination of Frances Hodgson Burnett?s Portrayal of the Urban Poor.?
Phillip Glassborow, author and dramatist for the British Broadcasting Company and Focus on the Family Radio Theatre. "The Garden as Eden."
Jerry Griswold, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University, author of Audacious Kids: Coming of Age in America?s Classic Children?s Books. ?Snugness: The Robin in its Nest.?
Ariko Kawabata, Assistant Professor, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan. ?A Fair Barbarian and ?the Noble Bachelor?: The Transatlantic Marriage Plot in Burnett and Doyle.?
Megan Lambert, Youth Services Librarian, Gaylord Memorial Library, South Hadley, Massachusetts. ?Just a Whisper: Connecting Burnett?s Secret Garden with Other Touchstone Works of Children?s Literature in an Undergraduate Survey Course.?
Anne Lundin, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, author of Victorian Horizons: The Reception of the Picture Books of Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, and Kate Greenaway. "Cultural Work: The Critical and Commercial Reception of The Secret Garden."
Tim Morris, Professor and Chair in the English Department, University of Texas at Arlington, author of You?re Only Young Twice: Children?s Literature and Film. ?Shifting Secrets in Burnett?s Surly Tim (1877).?
Sylvia Nosworthy, Professor, Walla Walla College, Washington. ?A Comparison of Frances Hodgson Burnett?s Two Little Pilgrims? Progress with Louisa May Alcott?s Little Women and Richard Peck?s Fair Weather.?
Sally Strokes, Curator, National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection, University of Maryland. ?The Influence of Burnett on Noel Streatfeild, Particularly as Manifested in Streatfeild?s Movie Shoes.?
Midori Todayama, Associate Professor, Hachinohe National College of Technology, Japan. ?Those Abandoned Children: The Children and Sexuality in The Turn of the Screw and The Secret Garden.?
Additional speakers will be announced. The deadline for conference registration is April 11. For more information, E-mail the Center at anc at listserv.csufresno.edu, or call 559'8?16. The Center will launch a new Web site at www.arnenixoncenter.org early in February; information and registration forms will be located on this site.
Received on Sat 01 Feb 2003 03:19:09 PM CST
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 13:19:09 -0800
Frances Hodgson Burnett Conference
The Arne Nixon Center will host the first conference ever to examine the life and works of Frances Hodgson Burnett, April 25', 2003, in Fresno. This event is attracting participants from England, Ireland, Japan, and many parts of the United States.
Frances Hodgson Burnett is renowned for her classic children?s books: The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and A Little Princess. The fact that most of her 60+ bestselling novels were written for adults is not so well known. These books, with sub-jects like working women, single motherhood, abusive marriages, and the interaction of cultures, are sparking new, international interest.
The conference will include plenary sessions with featured speakers, and at other times will divide into two special interest tracks, one for academics and one for teachers and librarians. Participants are welcome to attend any session of either track. An optional unit of university credit will be available. A children?s track will be offered for children (ages 6) of conference participants.
Participants will stay at the Piccadilly Inn?University (phone 559"4B00; ask for ?Burnett Conference? rates). Conference meetings will take place on campus and at the hotel. The conference will conclude with brunch in a beautiful Fresno garden.
Featured speakers for plenary sessions:
Phyllis Bixler, author of Frances Hodgson Burnett (Twayne?s English Authors Series).
Angelica Shirley Carpenter, Curator of the Arne Nixon Center and author of Frances Hodgson Burnett: Beyond the Secret Garden.
Michael Cart, librarian, teacher, Booklist columnist, and author of From Romance to Realism, a History of Young Adult Literature.
Penny Deupree, Frances Hodgson Burnett?s great-granddaughter.
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Professor of English, Vassar University, author of Black London: Life Before Emancipation and Carrington. Her new biography of Burnett will be published in 2003 by Rutgers University Press.
Alison Lurie, Professor of English, Cornell University, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, author of Foreign Affairs, Boys and Girls Forever: Children?s Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter, and Don?t Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children?s Literature.
Ann Thwaite, Burnett?s principal biographer, author of Waiting for the Party: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, 184924. Thwaite, author of A. A. Milne: The Man Behind Winnie-the-Pooh and The Brilliant Career of Winnie-the-Pooh: The Definitive History of the Best Bear in All the World, will deliver a pre-conference lecture, ?Who Wrote Winnie-the-Pooh?? at the Satellite Student Union at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 24, as part of the University Lecture Series.
Presentors and their topics:
Amy Billone, Professor, University of Tennessee. ??Almost Like Fear?: Doubling and the Sublime in Frances Hodgson Burnett?s A Little Princess.?
Nancy Chinn, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Baylor University. ?A Little Princess and Two Film Versions: Changing Images of American Girls.?
Carole Dunbar, Lecturer, St. Patrick?s College, Drumcondra, Ireland.
?Rats in Black Holes and Corners: An Examination of Frances Hodgson Burnett?s Portrayal of the Urban Poor.?
Phillip Glassborow, author and dramatist for the British Broadcasting Company and Focus on the Family Radio Theatre. "The Garden as Eden."
Jerry Griswold, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University, author of Audacious Kids: Coming of Age in America?s Classic Children?s Books. ?Snugness: The Robin in its Nest.?
Ariko Kawabata, Assistant Professor, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan. ?A Fair Barbarian and ?the Noble Bachelor?: The Transatlantic Marriage Plot in Burnett and Doyle.?
Megan Lambert, Youth Services Librarian, Gaylord Memorial Library, South Hadley, Massachusetts. ?Just a Whisper: Connecting Burnett?s Secret Garden with Other Touchstone Works of Children?s Literature in an Undergraduate Survey Course.?
Anne Lundin, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, author of Victorian Horizons: The Reception of the Picture Books of Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, and Kate Greenaway. "Cultural Work: The Critical and Commercial Reception of The Secret Garden."
Tim Morris, Professor and Chair in the English Department, University of Texas at Arlington, author of You?re Only Young Twice: Children?s Literature and Film. ?Shifting Secrets in Burnett?s Surly Tim (1877).?
Sylvia Nosworthy, Professor, Walla Walla College, Washington. ?A Comparison of Frances Hodgson Burnett?s Two Little Pilgrims? Progress with Louisa May Alcott?s Little Women and Richard Peck?s Fair Weather.?
Sally Strokes, Curator, National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection, University of Maryland. ?The Influence of Burnett on Noel Streatfeild, Particularly as Manifested in Streatfeild?s Movie Shoes.?
Midori Todayama, Associate Professor, Hachinohe National College of Technology, Japan. ?Those Abandoned Children: The Children and Sexuality in The Turn of the Screw and The Secret Garden.?
Additional speakers will be announced. The deadline for conference registration is April 11. For more information, E-mail the Center at anc at listserv.csufresno.edu, or call 559'8?16. The Center will launch a new Web site at www.arnenixoncenter.org early in February; information and registration forms will be located on this site.
Received on Sat 01 Feb 2003 03:19:09 PM CST
