Leaving the Hundred Acre Wood

Upcoming 2026: "Winnie-the-Pooh: The Bear and the Critics" Children's Literature Association, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

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2024: “Youth in Power: Teenagers in Elected Executive Authority in Prez and Teen Regime” Children’s Literature Association, Madison, Wisconsin

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2022: “The First Hundred Years of Winnie-the-Pooh” Lois Lenski Children’s Literature Lecture. Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois.

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2021: “Whose streets? The flâneuse/ flâneur in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” Children’s Literature Association, Atlanta, Georgia (held virtually)

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[Conference Cancelled] 2020: “Deforestation, Genocide, and Survival: Intergenerational Indigenous Activism in Margarito’s Forest/El bosque de don Margarito” Children’s Literature Association, Bellevue, Washington

 

2020: “Exploding the Canon for Fun and Profit” Modern Language Association, Seattle, Washington

 

2019: “Ungrateful Exiles? Beyond the Performance of Gratitude in Naomi Iizuka’s Anon(ymous) and Antonio Skármeta’s No pasó nada/Chileno!” Children’s Literature Association, Indianapolis, Indiana

 

2019: “Finding Neutral Territory in the Culture Wars? Disney’s Fan Art Borrowings as a Balancing Act” The Louisville Conference on Literature after 1900, Louisville, Kentucky

 

2018: “‘The Chorus of Refugees’: Individuated versus Collective Experience in Naomi Iizuka’s Anon(ymous)” Children’s Literature Association, San Antonio, Texas

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2018: “Latecomers to the Hundred Acre Wood: The Tension between Nostalgia and Updating in Return to the Hundred Acre Wood and The Best Bear in All the World” The Louisville Conference on Literature after 1900, Louisville, Kentucky

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2017: “From Cuba to Miami to Living Rooms around the Nation: Qué Pasa, U.S.A.? and 1970s Optimistic Views of a Multicultural US Future” Children’s Literature Association, Tampa, Florida

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2017: “Prosaics of Marriage and Religion in David Lodge’s Souls and Bodies” The Louisville Conference on Literature after 1900, Louisville, Kentucky

2016: “Consequence-Free? Sex and Desire in Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl,” Midwest Popular Culture Association, Chicago, Illinois

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2016: "'Wouldn't it make us nicer...if we had to switch every day?'" Embodiment and Ethics in David Levithan's Every Day / Another Day" Children's Literature Association Columbus, Ohio

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2015: "Borrowing Back: The Influence of Fanfictional Structures on Fangirl." South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Durham, North Carolina

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2014: “The Diverse Individual: The Draw of Universality and Elision of Difference in David Levithan’s Every Day” Children’s Literature Association, Columbia, South Carolina

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2013: “Tolkien’s Tweens: The End of Childhood in Letters from Father Christmas” Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

 

2013: “I Know You, I’ve Been You: Ethics and Perspective Taking in David Levithan’s Every Day” Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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2013: “How Young are these Adults? The Rise of Young Adult Literature in the Adult Market” Reception Studies Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin​

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2013: “‘The end result of that advice was me riding an express taxi towards death’: Adolescence and Politics in Antonio Skármeta’s No pasó nada/Chileno!” Children’s Literature Association, Biloxi, Mississippi

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2012: “A Gentle Debt: Obligations in the Hundred Acre Wood” Midwest Modern Language Association, Cincinnati, Ohio

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2012: “History, Not Personal Trauma: Exploring Corroborated Subjectivity in Maus” Midwest Modern Language Association, Cincinnati, Ohio

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2012: “A Prosaics of the Hundred Acre Wood: Ethics in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner” Ethics and Children’s Literature, The Janet Prindle Institute of Ethics Greencastle, Indiana

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2012: “Ignorance is No Defense: Politicized Childhood in Antonio Skármeta’s La composición /The Composition” Children’s Literature Association, Boston, Massachusetts 

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2011: “A.A. Milne’s Behind the Lines: Comic Poetry as War Propaganda” Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, Missouri

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2011: “A ‘Teenage Dream’? Constructions of Adolescence in Glee” Midwest Popular Culture Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin