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SUMMARY:2023 Children's Lit Scholar-in-Residence
DESCRIPTION:Cristina Rhodes\, Ph.D.\, is an assistant professor of English at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania\, where she teaches courses on academic writing and ethnic literature. As a Latina and a scholar\, much of her research centers on Latinx childhoods from multiple\, intersecting perspectives. She studies children’s literature\, film/television\, ephemera\, and other materials that engage Latinx youth and their experiences. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript on speculative fiction\, magical realism\, and Latinx youth in literature tentatively titled Facing Uncertain Futures: The Transformative Possibilities of Latinx Youth Literatures. Additionally\, Rhodes is the coeditor of the forthcoming collection Comidas\, Cocinas\, y Cultura: Food in Latinx Children’s and Young Adult Literature and is the Book Review coeditor for the open access journal Research on Diversity in Youth Literature. She serves as a member of the Américas Award committee until 2024.\n\nAll summer Children’s Literature and Book Illustration events will be held in person and simultaneously broadcast by Zoom webinar. They are free and open to the public. To receive webinar links to the series\, please email kidlit@hollins.edu.
URL:https://www.hollins.edu/event/2023-childrens-lit-scholar-in-residence/
CATEGORIES:Graduate Programs,Lectures,Open to the Public
ORGANIZER;CN="Children's Literature and Book Illustration":MAILTO:kidlit@hollins.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230710T180000
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SUMMARY:2023: Children's Lit Visiting Author-Illustrator
DESCRIPTION:Olivia Stephens is a graphic novelist\, illustrator\, and writer from the Pacific Northwest. She earned her B.F.A. in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017. Stephens has created work for a number of sites and publications\, including The New York Times\, The Guardian\, and FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. Stephens was a 2019-20 Literary Fellow for the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Her debut graphic novel\, Artie and the Wolf Moon\, was released from Lerner Books in 2021. Stephens will give a public lecture and a workshop for students.\n\n \n\nhttps://www.olivia-stephens.com/\n\nReception to follow.\n\nAll Children’s Literature and Book Illustration events will be held in person and simultaneously broadcast by Zoom webinar. They are free and open to the public. To receive webinar links to the series\, please email kidlit@hollins.edu.
URL:https://www.hollins.edu/event/2023-childrens-lit-visiting-author-illustrator/
CATEGORIES:Graduate Programs,Lectures,Open to the Public
ORGANIZER;CN="Children's Literature and Book Illustration":MAILTO:kidlit@hollins.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230714T193000
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SUMMARY:Author Lesléa Newman
DESCRIPTION:Lesléa (pronounced “Lez-LEE-uh”) Newman has created 80 books for readers of all ages\, including the teen novel-in-verse October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard. Recent picture books include The Babka Sisters\, The Fairest in the Land\, I Can Be….ME!\, Sparkle Boy\, and Gittel’s Journey: An Ellis Island Story. Her classic story Heather Has Two Mommies\, the first children’s book to portray lesbian families in a positive way\, was followed by more children’s books on lesbian and gay families: Felicia’s Favorite Story\, Too Far Away to Touch\, Saturday Is Pattyday\, Mommy\, Mama\, and Me\, and Daddy\, Papa\, and Me. Newman’s numerous literary accolades include the Sydney Taylor Body-of-Work Award. Her book Always Matt: A Tribute to Matthew Shepard will be published by Abrams ComicArts in the fall of 2023 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Matthew Shepard Foundation. A popular guest lecturer\, Newman has spoken on college campuses across the country and teaches in Spalding University’s low-residency M.F.A. program.\n\nhttps://lesleanewman.com/\n\nAll Children’s Literature and Book Illustration events will be held in person and simultaneously broadcast by Zoom webinar. They are free and open to the public. To receive webinar links to the series\, please email kidlit@hollins.edu.
URL:https://www.hollins.edu/event/author-leslea-newman/
CATEGORIES:Graduate Programs,Lectures,Open to the Public
ORGANIZER;CN="Children's Literature and Book Illustration":MAILTO:kidlit@hollins.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230722T110000
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SUMMARY:Francelia Butler Conference Keynote Speaker
DESCRIPTION:Julia L. Mickenberg\, Ph.D.\, is professor of American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Learning from the Left: Children’s Literature\, the Cold War\, and Radical Politics in the United States\, winner of the ChLA Book Award. She also coedited Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature (2008) and The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Literature (2011)\, which won the Children’s Literature Association’s 2011 Edited Book Award. Mickenberg teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on American cultural history since 1865\, children’s literature and culture\, radicalism in the United States\, the Cold War\, the 1960s\, Americans abroad\, women radicals and reformers\, and\, most recently\, the history and future of higher education.\n\nAll Children’s Literature and Book Illustration events will be held in person and simultaneously broadcast by Zoom webinar. They are free and open to the public. To receive webinar links to the series\, please email kidlit@hollins.edu.
URL:https://www.hollins.edu/event/francelia-butler-conference-keynote-speaker/
CATEGORIES:Graduate Programs,Open to the Public
ORGANIZER;CN="Children's Literature and Book Illustration":MAILTO:kidlit@hollins.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230724T193000
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SUMMARY:Author and Editor Frances Gilbert (with Rebekah Lowell)
DESCRIPTION:After earning her M.A. in English\, Frances Gilbert’s first job in publishing was as a book club editor at Scholastic Canada in Toronto. She moved to New York in 2000 to set up a children’s editorial division at Sterling Publishing\, where she stayed until 2012. Gilbert then moved to Random House Children’s Books\, where she is vice president\, editor-in-chief of Doubleday Books for Young Readers. Titles she has acquired and edited include The New York Times bestseller The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine by Mark Twain\, Philip Stead\, and Erin Stead; I Don’t Want to Be a Frog by Dev Petty and Mike Boldt; the Happy Hair series by Mechal Renee Roe; and Catching Flight by Hollins alumna Rebekah Lowell (concurrently a guest speaker at Hollins). In addition to editing children’s books\, Gilbert also writes them: She is the author of the picture books Can You Hug a Forest?\, Go\, Girls\, Go!\, Too Much Slime!\, and I Will Always Be Your Bunny in addition to several Step Into Reading titles. You can follow Gilbert on Twitter at @GoGirlsGoBooks\, where she posts about children’s writing and editing.\n\nAll Children’s Literature and Book Illustration events will be held in person and simultaneously broadcast by Zoom webinar. They are free and open to the public. To receive webinar links to the series\, please email kidlit@hollins.edu.\n\n(Photo: Vaz Dando)
URL:https://www.hollins.edu/event/author-and-editor-frances-gilbert-with-rebekah-lowell/
CATEGORIES:Graduate Programs,Lectures,Open to the Public
ORGANIZER;CN="Children's Literature and Book Illustration":MAILTO:kidlit@hollins.edu
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SUMMARY:Alumna Author-Illustrator Rebekah Lowell (with Frances Gilbert)
DESCRIPTION:Rebekah Lowell is an author-illustrator and surface pattern designer with a passion for the natural world. As a survivor of domestic abuse\, she’s found the natural world to be a peaceful healing ground. Her debut novel in verse\, The Road to After\, offers a story of healing from trauma\, and her debut picture book\, Catching Flight\, provides hope on the wings of birds. It was released in March 2023 and edited by Frances Gilbert (concurrently a guest speaker at Hollins). When not in her studio\, you can find Lowell outside—gardening\, nature journaling\, birding\, and raising butterflies— often with her daughters\, who she homeschools. Lowell has a B.F.A. in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. in children’s book writing and illustrating from Hollins. She is represented by Paige Terlip at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.\n\nhttps://rebekahlowell.com/\n\nAll Children’s Literature and Book Illustration events will be held in person and simultaneously broadcast by Zoom webinar. They are free and open to the public. To receive webinar links to the series\, please email kidlit@hollins.edu.
URL:https://www.hollins.edu/event/alumna-author-illustrator-rebekah-lowell-with-frances-gilbert/
CATEGORIES:Graduate Programs,Lectures,Open to the Public
ORGANIZER;CN="Children's Literature and Book Illustration":MAILTO:kidlit@hollins.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230728T090000
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SUMMARY:Agent Chad W. Beckerman
DESCRIPTION:Chad W. Beckerman brings over 20 years of illustration and design experience to the CAT Agency. After studying illustration as an undergrad at RISD\, Beckerman went on to be a designer at Scholastic\, a senior designer at Greenwillow Books\, and then became the creative director at ABRAMS Kids and Comic Arts\, where he spent 13 years overseeing the design of 250 books a year—from picture books to novels\, to graphic novels\, to art and entertainment books. Beckerman is behind the aesthetic for over 40 The New York Times bestselling and award-winning books including the blockbuster Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney\, the Caldecott honor\, and Coretta Scott King Award Winning Trombone Story\, illustrated by Brian Collier\, and the Newbery Medal honor book El Deafo by Roanoke resident Cece Bell. Beckerman’s greatest joy is working with illustrators\, and as an agent he is busy curating and cultivating a unique group of artists who are inspiring and innovating in children’s literature. He represents illustrators and author-illustrators from all over the globe\, who create artworks for all ages and genres. In addition to representing illustrators\, Beckerman offers packaging of picture books\, graphic novels\, and middle-grade series books through his design studio CWB Art & Design.\n\nwww.chadwbeckerman.com\n\nAll Children’s Literature and Book Illustration events will be held in person (Wetherill Visual Arts Center\, Room 119) and simultaneously broadcast by Zoom webinar. They are free and open to the public. To receive webinar links to the series\, please email kidlit@hollins.edu.
URL:https://www.hollins.edu/event/agent-chad-w-beckerman/
CATEGORIES:Graduate Programs,Lectures,Open to the Public
ORGANIZER;CN="Children's Literature and Book Illustration":MAILTO:kidlit@hollins.edu
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