Going to the MLA Convention in Chicago? Here are all the sessions on children and YA literature, and on comics. Or, at least, this is what I could find. If I’ve missed anything, please let me know. Thanks!
012: Comics Fandom in Transition
 12:00 PM—1:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Presentations
1: Fandom as Import and Export in the Digital Age: Dojinshi, Comiket, and Fujoshi around Latin American Boys’ Love
Camila Gutierrez, Penn State U, University Park
2: Hi-Diddly-Ho, Tetsuo! How Bartkira’s Fandom Reimagined and Remixed Akira and The Simpsons
Charles Acheson, U of Florida
3: ‘The Concrete Representation of Our Most Subtle Feelings’: Comics Fandom in the Digital Era
Jaime Weida, Borough of Manhattan Community C, City U of New York
4: The Hybrid Lettercol: Ms. Marvel and #KamalaKorps
Leah Misemer, Georgia Inst. of Tech.
Presider
Aaron Kashtan, U of North Carolina, Charlotte
Sponsored by the GS Forum on Comics and Graphic Narratives
029: Selling Childhood
 12:00 PM—1:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Presentations
1: Pricing Black Girl Pain: The Cost of Black Girlhood in Street Lit
Jacinta Saffold, Assn. of American Colleges and Universities
2: Selling the Ferocious Child: Riot Grrrl’s Radicalization of Consumption
Katherine Kruger, U of Sussex
3: Teenage Writers, Marketplace Consciousness, and the Deregulation of Childhood in the Age of Neoliberalism
David Aitchison, North Central C
Presider
Michelle Ann Abate, Ohio State U, Columbus
Sponsored by the GS Forum on Children’s and Young Adult Literature
076: The Graphic Novel in Spain
 3:30 PM—4:45 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Presentations
1: Picturing Peripheries: Basque Identities and Blackness in the Graphic Novel Black Is Beltza
N. Michelle Murray, Vanderbilt U
2:Â Espacios en blanco: Migration, Memory, and Oblivion in Contemporary Spanish Graphic Narrative
Lena Tahmassian, U of South Carolina, Columbia
3: ‘Nobody Expects the Spanish Revolution’: Forms of Politicization in Gran Hotel Abismo (2016), by Marcos Prior and David RubÃn
Xavier Dapena, U of Pennsylvania
Presider
H. Rosi Song, Bryn Mawr C
150: Girlhood Teleologies: Age, Sexuality, and Development in the Long American Nineteenth Century
 7:00 PM—8:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Presentations
1: The Girl in the Contract: Slavery, Consent, and True Girlhood
Lucia Hodgson, Texas A&M U, College Station
2: Settler Discourses of Ability and Reform in The Scarlet Letter
Jessica Cowing, C of William and Mary
3: Perpetual Childhood: Cognitive Disability and the Representation of Childish Women
Allison Giffen, Western Washington U
Related Material: For related material, write to luciahodgson@tamu.edu after 17 Dec.
Presider
Nazera Wright, U of Kentucky
Respondent
Anna Mae Duane, U of Connecticut, Storrs
166: Archives of Images, Archives of Texts: Comics as Sources for Historical Research
 7:00 PM—8:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Description:Â Comics studies is a growing interdisciplinary field, largely (although not always) grounded in critical literary techniques. As comics scholarship grows, however, the potential of comics for researchers in other disciplines, history among them, is quickly becoming apparent. Panelists address the variety of ways that scholars can use comics as sources for historical research by showcasing projects that utilize sequential narratives in this way.
Presiders
Joshua Kopin, U of Texas, Austin
Patrick Jagoda, U of Chicago
Speakers
David Carlson, writer
Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam, Whitman C
Margaret Galvan, U of Florida
Maryanne Rhett, Monmouth U
Rachel Miller, Ohio State U, Columbus
307: Image-Text Encounters in South Asian Graphic Narratives
 1:45 PM—3:00 PM Friday, Jan 4, 2019
Presentations
1: Pulping India in Imperial Britain: Sarath Kumar Ghosh’s Short Fiction
Monika Bhagat-Kennedy, U of Mississippi
2: The Golden Age of Bangla Comics: Narayan Debnath’s Bantul the Great and Handa-Bhonda
Anwesha Maity, U of Wisconsin, Madison
3: Tracing the Creation of an Indigenous Visual Idiom in Amruta Patil’s Adi Parva and Sauptik
Anuja Madan, Kansas State U
4: Graphic Migrations: Stories about Refugees, Gender, and Citizenship
Kavita Daiya, George Washington U
Related Material: For related material, write to amadan@ksu.edu or kdaiya@gwu.edu
Presider
Kavita Daiya, George Washington U
322: Visual Translations of Early Japanese Literary Texts
 3:30 PM—4:45 PM Friday, Jan 4, 2019
Presentations
1: Visualization as Participatory Reception: The Thirty-Six Immortal Waka Poets from Text to Image
Gian Piero Persiani, U of Illinois, Urbana
2: Filling the Empty Center: (Fe)Male Voices in the Manga Comics Afterlives of The Tale of Genji
Lynne Kimiko Miyake, Pomona C
3: Chihayafuru and the Future of the Classics
Lindsey Stirek, Ohio State U, Columbus
Related Material: For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/after 1 Oct.
Presider
Naomi Fukumori, Ohio State U, Columbus
325: Climate Change and Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
 3:30 PM—4:45 PM Friday, Jan 4, 2019
Presentations
2: Solarpunk: A Growing Trend in Young Adult Speculative Fiction
Jennifer Harrison, East Stroudsburg U
3: Growing Down: Coming of Age in a Time of Climate Crisis
Lauren Rizzuto, Simmons C
Presider
Clare Echterling, U of Kansas
Allied organization: Children’s Literature Association.
410: Fandom Spaces
 8:30 AM—9:45 AM Saturday, Jan 5, 2019
Presentations
1: The Leather Pants Phenomenon: Fan Affect and the Rise of Fandom Stars
Sarah Olutola, McMaster U
2: The Curriculum of Fandom: What Are Writers Learning on Wattpad?
Jen McConnel, Queen’s U
3: Professional Spaces for Fan Fiction: Prolonging the YA Series
Carrie Sickmann Han, Indiana U—Purdue U, Indianapolis
Presider
Susan M. Strayer, Ohio State U, Columbus
Sponsored by the GS Forum on Children’s and Young Adult Literature
438: Sesame Street at Fifty
 10:15 AM—11:30 AM Saturday, Jan 5, 2019
Presentations
1: ‘Culture Free’? The Adaptation and Demarcation of Sesame Street in 1970s Europe
Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Aarhus U
2: Tell Me How to Get to Sesa(meme) Street: The Lore and Language of Digitally Street Smart Internet Users
Bonnie Tulloch, U of British Columbia
3: How Sesame Street Saved My Life
Jeane Copenhaver-Johnson, Ithaca C
Presiders
Philip Nel, Kansas State U
Naomi Hamer, Ryerson U
523: Editing and Engineering Children’s Literature
1:45 PM—3:00 PM Saturday, Jan 5, 2019
528: Making Comics, Making Meaning
 1:45 PM—3:00 PM Saturday, Jan 5, 2019
Presentations
1: Epistemologies of Slowness: Teaching Visual Literacy Using Comics
Joshua Kopin, U of Texas, Austin
2: Panel/Page: A Research Drawing Jam
Leah Misemer, Georgia Inst. of Tech.
3: Drawn Words: The Significance of Lettering in the Pedagogy and Work of Kevin Huizenga
Alexander Ponomareff, U of Massachusetts, Amherst
Respondent
Susan E. Kirtley, Portland State U
Presider
Margaret Galvan, U of Florida
Sponsored by the GS Forum on Comics and Graphic Narratives
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum: Business Meeting
3:30—4:45 PM Saturday, Jan 5, 2019
Hyatt Regency -Â Burnham
615: Cash Bar Arranged by the Forum GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
 7:15 PM—8:30 PM Saturday, Jan 5, 2019
 Hyatt Regency – Plaza Ballroom A
661: Visuality, Race, and Childhood in the Golden Age of American Print Culture
 10:15 AM—11:30 AM Sunday, Jan 6, 2019
Presentations
1: Black Girls’ Nineteenth-Century Autograph Albums
Nazera Wright, U of Kentucky
2: Rainbow Work: Color Sense and Colonial Enchantment in Golden Age Picture Books
Erica Kanesaka Kalnay, U of Wisconsin, Madison
3: Performing Black Childhood: Leigh Richmond Miner’s Photographic Illustrations of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Poems
Katharine Capshaw, U of Connecticut, Storrs
4: A Black Modern Childhood: Illustration and Photography in W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Brownies’ Book
Shawna McDermott, U of Pittsburgh
Presider
Shawna McDermott, U of Pittsburgh
697: Graphic Narratives of Disability as Multisensory Transactions
 12:00 PM—1:15 PM Sunday, Jan 6, 2019
Presentations
1: You Are Not Your Illness: Narrativizing Identity in Disability and Illness Memoirs
Sohini Kumar, Stony Brook U, State U of New York
2: A Visual Cure: Exploring the Role of Drawing in Marion Milner’s The Hands of the Living God: An Account of a Psycho-analytic Treatment
Emilia Halton-Hernandez, U of Sussex
3: Traumatic Narrative Drawing in Jacques Tardi’s ‘Basket Case’
Anthony Cooke, Georgia Southern U
704: Graphic Medicine’s Textual Transactions
 12:00 PM—1:15 PM Sunday, Jan 6, 2019
Presentations
1: Graphic Medicine and Patient Education: Using Graphic Narrative to Improve Patient Care
Brian Callender, U of Chicago
2: Subject to or Subject Of: Medicine, Subjectivity, and the Representation of Disability in Una posibilidad entre mil
Elizabeth Jones, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
3: Multimodal Graphic Medicine and the Material Question of Spoons
Rachel Kunert-Graf, Antioch U
Respondent
Erin Lamb, Hiram C
Presider
Lan Dong, U of Illinois, Springfield
Sponsored by the GS Forum on Comics and Graphic Narratives
722: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Postcolonial Graphic Narrative
 1:45 PM—3:00 PM Sunday, Jan 6, 2019
Presentations
1: Comic-Chronotope in Postcolonial Graphic Narratives: Contextualizing Clandestine Immigration
Susmitha Udayan, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2: Human Rights in the Postcolonial Islamic Graphic Novel
Esra Mirze Santesso, U of Georgia
3: Graphic Narrative and the Aesthetics of Complicity
Muhib Nabulsi, U of Queensland
4: Graphic Narratives, Transnational Aesthetics, and Political Critique in Singapore: Sonny Liew’s Frankie and Poo
Weihsin Gui, U of California, Riverside
Kate Slater
Philip Nel