Conference Panels and Papers | Critical Childhood Studies at C19 2020

FRIDAY, October 16
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Critical Childhood Studies Lunch
Presentation: Introduction to Critical Childhood Studies
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm
A Slave Girl is a Girl: Feminist Abolitionist Representations of Slavery’s Sexual Violence and the Sexual Plight of Free Girls
by Lucia Hodgson
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Children’s Labor in Antebellum Urban Publishing
by Blevin Shelnutt
4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
“The lost boy of Cuba”: Translation and Affective Reinterpretation in Blake; Or, the Huts of America
by Daniella Cadiz Bedini
Book History for Children: Comenius in New York
by Patricia Crain
SUNDAY, October 18
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm
“Fitted for the System”: Ability, Education, and the Female Seminary
by Jess Libow
SATURDAY, October 24
11:00 am – 12:15 pm
On Innocence and Dissent: Some Troubles with Books for, by, and about Children
Chaired by Robin Bernstein
Moving Beyond Innocence: Finding Pip’s Inner Life
by Micah-Jade Stanback
One Wrong Step: The Threat of the Dissenting Minor in Antebellum Children’s Literature
by Allison Curseen
Genocidal Innocence: Imperialism and Children’s Bookmaking
by Karen Sánchez-Eppler
Claiming Agency through Racial Innocence: Elaine Eastman’s Yellow Star as Pedagogical Counter-narrative
by Sarah Ruffing Robbins
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Critical Childhood Studies and Disability Studies: Charting Confluences
Chaired by Diane Price Herndl
“Chicago is a big, wicked city”: Disability and Childhood Trauma in Gene Stratton-Porter’s Freckles
by Elizabeth Donaldson
“One yeah older”: Narratives of Failed Development and the Figure of the Black Boy in Saint Nicholas Magazine
by Allison Giffen
Reading Interdependently: Disability and Literacy in Nineteenth- Century Children’s Fiction
by Amanda Stuckey
SUNDAY, October 25
11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Filial Grief and Futurity in the African Colonization Debate
by Anna Mae Duane
Audubon’s Black Sisters
by Brigitte Fielder
Black Girls and their Nineteenth-Century Albums
by Nazera Sadiq Wright