ChLA-Sponsored Sessions at the MLA 2020 Convention

January 9, 2020
3:30 PM–4:45 PM
Diverse Destinies: Envisioning Futures for Youth of Color

Presider: Kaylee Mootz, U of Connecticut, Storrs

• “The Best of All Worlds: Empowered Multiracial Characters in Young Adult Speculative Fiction”
  Aleisha Smith, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  

• “Black Feminist Mythmaking and New Girlhood”
  Alvin Henry, St. Lawrence U
  

• “Kin-Making in Laurence Yep’s Early Science Fiction”
  Kai Hang Cheang, Portland State University

January 10, 2020
5:15 PM–6:30 PM
Bodies, Borders, and Boundaries: Embodiments of Multicultural and Transnational Children

Presiders: Nithya Sivashankar, Ohio State U, Columbus; Tharini Viswanath, Illinois State U

• “Constructing Bicultural Identity through Comics and Cuisine: Quan Zhou Wu’s Gazpacho agridulce (‘Sweet and Sour Gazpacho’)”
  Jennifer Nagtegaal, U of British Columbia, Vancouver
  

• “Out of Time: Aetotemporalities and Hawaiian Young Adult Literature”
  Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo, U of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu

• “‘[S]he No Longer Recognized [Her Hands] as Her Own’: Bodily Transformation as Resistance in Latinx Youth Literature”
  Cristina Rhodes, Shippensburg U