Newcastle University (UK), the University of Pittsburgh, Ocean University of China, Antwerp University, and the Catholic University of Chile invite you to our Global Speaker Series. As part of this series, we invite scholars from around the world to provide global perspectives on key issues related to social justice and children’s literature.
For our fall event, we have asked our invited speakers to consider the question, “How do you think children’s and/or YA fantasy can help promote social justice for the young?” Guest speakers are asked to prepare a 5- minute response to the proposed question, and we will moderate the Q&A for the remaining hour.
Time: 8:00 Eastern US Time
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Registration: Please follow the link below to register for the event. Once you have registered, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about how to join the meeting.
https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvcuGuqzsjG9bOuwdSzjn6LBrAsRY3jP4A
Speaker Information:
Cathy Yue Wang is a lecturer in Department of Chinese Language and Literature, School of Humanities, Shanghai Normal University in China. She received her PhD from Macquarie University in Australia. She is particularly interested in applying feminist and queer perspectives into examinations of adaptation and retelling, children and young adult literature, as well as boys’ love subculture and fandom in the East Asian context. She is the author of Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy (Wayne State University Press, 2023) and editor of Catching Chen Qing Ling: The Untamed and Adaptation, Production, and Reception in Transcultural Contexts (Peter Lang, forthcoming).
Ritwika Roy (she/her) is a PhD Candidate and former Senior Research Fellow at the Department of English, Jadavpur University, India; and co-founder of the Association for Children’s Literature in South Asia. She is a recipient of the IRSCL Research Grant 2023 from the International Research Society for Children’s Literature and the Hannah Beiter Graduate Student Research Grant 2023 from the Children’s Literature Association. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Young Adult Literature and Literaturalising the Popular and she has presented at conferences in the University of Cambridge, University of Malta, University of British Columbia, among others. She is presently working on the Online Oxford Bibliography of South Asian Children’s Literature with Dr. Poushali Bhadury and on entries on South Asian and diasporic children’s literature in The Literary Encyclopaedia and The Springer Handbook of Diasporic Literature. Other areas of research interest include mythology and folklore, visual arts and literature, Japanese literature, literature and psychology, race and representation in literature, silence theory, Anglo-American children’s fiction, and 19th century British literature.