Twenty-Second Annual Francelia Butler Student Conference on Children's Literature

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Twenty-Second Annual Francelia Butler Student Conference on Children's Literature
Saturday, July 23, 9 am
Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

Keynote Speaker Marah Gubar teaches and writes about children’s literature from a variety of periods, but she is especially interested in 19th- and 20th-century representations of childhood and the history of children’s theatre. Her book Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children’s Literature (2009) won the Children’s Literature Association’s Book Award. She is associate professor of English at MIT and previously directed the children’s literature program at the University of Pittsburgh. Sponsored by the graduate program in children's literature and children's book illustration.