January to September 2014 saw a large number of Master of Arts in Children’s Literature students successfully defend their theses. Congratulations to:
Janet Eastwood, whose thesis title is “Better and Happier and Freer than Before: Agency and Suberting Genre in Diana Wynne Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle, Castle in the Air, and House of Many Ways.” Thank you to her committee: Supervisor Professor Margot Filipenko of LLED and committee member Professor Judi Saltman of SLAIS.
Aline Frederico, whose thesis title is “Playfulness in E-picturebooks: How the Element of Play Manifests in Transmediated and Born-Digital Picturebook Apps.” Thank you to her committee: Supervisor Professor Eric Meyers of SLAIS and committee member Professor Maureen Kendrick of LLED.
Megan Harrison, whose thesis title is “Representations of Trauma and Culture in the Guatemalan Refugee Experience in Juvenile Fiction.” Thank you to her committee: Supervisor Professor Theresa Rogers, Language and Literacy Education and committee member Professor Judi Saltman, SLAIS.
Roberta Loo, whose thesis title is“Katniss’ Fluid Identities: Gender Performance and Media Influence in The Hunger Games Trilogy.” Thank you to her committee: Supervisor Professor Judi Saltman, SLAIS and committee member, Professor Margot Filipenko, LLED.
Natalie Schembri, whose thesis title is “‘I’ll Tell You What: I’ll Just Steer’: An Examination of Metafictive Narrative Strategies in a Selection of Picturebooks by Mo Willems.” Thank you to her committee: Supervisor Professor Judi Saltman, SLAIS and committee member, Theresa Rogers, LLED.
Einar Wong, whose thesis title is: “The Magic of Hogwarts: A Critical Examination of Teachers in Harry Potter.” Thank you to his committee: Supervisor Professor Theresa Rogers, Language and Literacy Education and committee member Professor Eric Meyers, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies.
Lingyun Zhao, whose thesis title is “The Publishing of Youth-Literature in China.” Thank you to her committee: Supervisor Professor Judi Saltman, SLAIS and committee member, Professor Marlene Asselin, LLED.
