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Jade Dillon Craig
Dr Jade Dillon Craig
Associate Professor of Children's Literature, NTNU
I am an Associate Professor of Children's Literature and Young Learners within the department of Teacher Education at NTNU. My research focuses on the visual iconography of the ‘Alice’ figure created in Lewis Carroll’s Alice books and explores the progression of Alice’s characterisation through multimodal platforms including illustration and fine art photography. I am also very interested in the construction of childhood in picturebooks and other visual texts.
I am the author of From How to Catch a Star to Now: Theorising Oliver Jeffers’ Picturebooks (under contract with Routledge) and the co-editor of Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature (Routledge, 2023). I have published book chapters in volumes with Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Peter Lang, and McFarland. My most recent article publication features in Barnboken: Journal of Children's Literature Research.
Research interests: Children's Literature; Alice Studies; Visual Methodologies and Aesthetics; Literary Theory; Girlhood Studies; Gender Studies; Picturebooks; Film.
Address: Institutt for lærarutdanning (ILU), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Associate Professor of Children's Literature, NTNU
I am an Associate Professor of Children's Literature and Young Learners within the department of Teacher Education at NTNU. My research focuses on the visual iconography of the ‘Alice’ figure created in Lewis Carroll’s Alice books and explores the progression of Alice’s characterisation through multimodal platforms including illustration and fine art photography. I am also very interested in the construction of childhood in picturebooks and other visual texts.
I am the author of From How to Catch a Star to Now: Theorising Oliver Jeffers’ Picturebooks (under contract with Routledge) and the co-editor of Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature (Routledge, 2023). I have published book chapters in volumes with Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Peter Lang, and McFarland. My most recent article publication features in Barnboken: Journal of Children's Literature Research.
Research interests: Children's Literature; Alice Studies; Visual Methodologies and Aesthetics; Literary Theory; Girlhood Studies; Gender Studies; Picturebooks; Film.
Address: Institutt for lærarutdanning (ILU), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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This chapter explores the intertextual relationship between Lewis Carroll’s children’s novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, Walt Disney’s 1951 animated film, Alice in Wonderland, and much more recent film and television adaptations. In particular, the chapter focuses on the female form and various embodiments of Alice, using the construct of meta-adaptation to explore the narrative and cultural significance of evolving interpretations of the Alice character, with particular attention to the implications of Alice’s maturation from the pre-adolescent girl of Lewis Carroll’s original dream narrative to the young adult action hero of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (ABC, 2013–2014). In the course of the narrative and visual conversation among Carroll’s canonical works and these four film adaptations, specifically the conversation around the notion of girlhood, the Wonderland storyverse’s conception of Alice is broadened to include these adapted Alices within her scope. This chapter will investigate how each films’ characterization of Alice and depiction of her agency creates a female protagonist informed by her cultural context while simultaneously moving the character of Alice from child figure to adult woman through a series of artistic reinterpretations.
In this online article, I discuss the ideology of body symbolism related to girl characters in 19th century children’s literature. I interpret Carroll’s Alice and her bodily alterations within the context of the Victorian female ideal of a petite woman. I also look at the contrasting female characters in Peter Pan and Wendy: Wendy, the kind motherly figure, and mermaids, the playful, seductive and dangerous other worldly females. The article is available on the University of Birmingham website: https://blog.bham.ac.uk/glareproject/2019/01/14/exploring-female-identity-in-carrolls-wonderland-and-barries-the-neverland/
Publisher: Sibéal Feminist and Gender Studies Network
Publication Date: 18th April 2017
Publication Name: Sibéal Journal Issue Two '(In)visible Lines'
Popular family film is often overlooked and underestimated as a valuable resource for teachers of English as a Foreign/Additional Language. Though students of all ages are accessing English-language media at unprecedented rates (Sayer & Ban, 2014), the in-service teachers we encounter as instructors of EFL-focused professional development courses express hesitancy toward utilizing those resources in the classroom, usually based on fears about student comprehension. Though popular film has immense potential for introducing authentic language alongside thematic content often well-suited to a variety of curriculum aims, little work is done in teacher education programs to prepare teachers to use a now commonplace technology to support skill development in listening, comprehension, and cultural awareness.
We contend that elevated exposure to popular media can help to reframe language learning in the contemporary EFL/EAL classroom through increased motivation and language immersion, fostering language acquisition through authentic texts and encouraging cultural understanding. Research supports these claims (Hameed, 2016; King, 2002), but adoption of film-based pedagogy, in our experience as educators of in-service teachers, remains low.
This paper aims to empower teachers to incorporate popular English-language media into the EFL/EAL classroom by undertaking an exploration of best practices for film selection and for designing film-based learning activities that maximize film’s potential in the classroom. We combine discussion of film analysis (Brown, 2017; Hintz & Tribunella, 2019) with pedagogical research (Hameed, 2016; King, 2002) and preliminary data collection to make film as an EFL/EAL tool accessible and achievable.
Keywords: family film, children’s media, EFL/EAL education, language learning, teacher education
At: University of Warwick, UK
At: Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
At: Linnæus University, Växjö, Sweden
This chapter explores the intertextual relationship between Lewis Carroll’s children’s novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, Walt Disney’s 1951 animated film, Alice in Wonderland, and much more recent film and television adaptations. In particular, the chapter focuses on the female form and various embodiments of Alice, using the construct of meta-adaptation to explore the narrative and cultural significance of evolving interpretations of the Alice character, with particular attention to the implications of Alice’s maturation from the pre-adolescent girl of Lewis Carroll’s original dream narrative to the young adult action hero of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (ABC, 2013–2014). In the course of the narrative and visual conversation among Carroll’s canonical works and these four film adaptations, specifically the conversation around the notion of girlhood, the Wonderland storyverse’s conception of Alice is broadened to include these adapted Alices within her scope. This chapter will investigate how each films’ characterization of Alice and depiction of her agency creates a female protagonist informed by her cultural context while simultaneously moving the character of Alice from child figure to adult woman through a series of artistic reinterpretations.
In this online article, I discuss the ideology of body symbolism related to girl characters in 19th century children’s literature. I interpret Carroll’s Alice and her bodily alterations within the context of the Victorian female ideal of a petite woman. I also look at the contrasting female characters in Peter Pan and Wendy: Wendy, the kind motherly figure, and mermaids, the playful, seductive and dangerous other worldly females. The article is available on the University of Birmingham website: https://blog.bham.ac.uk/glareproject/2019/01/14/exploring-female-identity-in-carrolls-wonderland-and-barries-the-neverland/
Publisher: Sibéal Feminist and Gender Studies Network
Publication Date: 18th April 2017
Publication Name: Sibéal Journal Issue Two '(In)visible Lines'
Popular family film is often overlooked and underestimated as a valuable resource for teachers of English as a Foreign/Additional Language. Though students of all ages are accessing English-language media at unprecedented rates (Sayer & Ban, 2014), the in-service teachers we encounter as instructors of EFL-focused professional development courses express hesitancy toward utilizing those resources in the classroom, usually based on fears about student comprehension. Though popular film has immense potential for introducing authentic language alongside thematic content often well-suited to a variety of curriculum aims, little work is done in teacher education programs to prepare teachers to use a now commonplace technology to support skill development in listening, comprehension, and cultural awareness.
We contend that elevated exposure to popular media can help to reframe language learning in the contemporary EFL/EAL classroom through increased motivation and language immersion, fostering language acquisition through authentic texts and encouraging cultural understanding. Research supports these claims (Hameed, 2016; King, 2002), but adoption of film-based pedagogy, in our experience as educators of in-service teachers, remains low.
This paper aims to empower teachers to incorporate popular English-language media into the EFL/EAL classroom by undertaking an exploration of best practices for film selection and for designing film-based learning activities that maximize film’s potential in the classroom. We combine discussion of film analysis (Brown, 2017; Hintz & Tribunella, 2019) with pedagogical research (Hameed, 2016; King, 2002) and preliminary data collection to make film as an EFL/EAL tool accessible and achievable.
Keywords: family film, children’s media, EFL/EAL education, language learning, teacher education
At: University of Warwick, UK
At: Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
At: Linnæus University, Växjö, Sweden
Deadline for submissions: January 22, 2018
Conference Location: Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
Date of Conference: 25th April 2018
#villainousvictims2018
Where monsters and other gothic villains are often seen as adversaries, Stephen T. Asma chooses to deconstruct this familiar perspective, and introduces the concept of the ‘accidental monster’. His research underscores that both literary and real villains are not intuitively immoral, but that external influences turn them toward malevolence. The deligitmated villain adheres to the concept of ‘Tabula Rasa’, a theory surmised by John Locke. This revelation suggests how our consciousness is a “blank slate” and after the moment of birth, life experiences fill in this vacant space, shaping one’s personality and character. The anti-hero is therefore not born evil, but is conditioned by external forces, learning only degenerative behaviour from the human race.
Thus, the status of the villain being seen as aggressor is no longer sufficient to completely explain their actions as the lack of nurture in their life can be seen as a catalyst that fuels one’s revenge-filled actions. On the basis of society’s understanding of monstrosity, an analysis can be made on the official practices of exclusion and marginalisation of social elements. It is not the fault of the subject from turning down a path of darkness; rather it is the failure of society to provide a space for them within what is deemed as the status quo. When analysed with postmodern eyes, one can move away from the linear perspective of the good/evil dichotomy. The reader is introduced to the marginalised narrative of the villain or the anti-hero where their immoral behaviour could be rooted in them being cut off from positive emotional responses and severed from the functioning of all society. It is consequent of society’s prejudiced stance and perspective that disallows the dark outsider to enter the realm of cultural norms.
The anti-hero therefore exists as the cultural Other, as a victim of society, marginalised because of its failure to be categorised. The condition of ‘Otherness’ results in the subject being alienated from the centre of society, and being placed at the margins of inclusiveness and acceptance. The purpose of this conference is to shed a light on the darker aspects of humanity and their exclusory role in marginalising anyone that situates themselves outside the norm. Therefore, this underlines the demonisation of the “Other”, in the image of the anti-hero, as a political device for scapegoating those whom the rules of society deem impure or unworthy - the transgressors and deviants. The Creature’s deviation from the accepted path compels society to clip his wings, disallowing him the privilege of sharing any bond with human beings, ultimately becoming the ‘fallen angel’.
Topics and Themes include but are not limited to:
- Monster Theory
- Postmodernism
- Gothic Studies
- Gender Studies
- Popular Culture
- Psychoanalytic Theory
- Literary Deconstruction
- Media Studies
- Children's Literature
- Fiction/Non-Fiction Analysis
- Transgressive Identities
- The Dichotomy of Self and Other
Abstracts of 300 words to jade.dillon@mic.ul.ie and adele.hannon@mic.ul.ie
Deadline for submissions: 22nd January 2018
28th and 29th June 2017
Author: Jade Dillon
Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
19th & 20th May 2017
Lancaster University, UK
28th & 29th April 2017
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
9th March 2017
National University of Ireland, Galway
18th & 19th November 2016
National University of Ireland, Galway
22nd-26th August 2016
* for the purpose of clarity within this conference, popular culture will relate to areas of analysis within literature, film, poetry, television, and social events.
The conference will take place on Thursday, the 9th of March 2017 in Mary Immaculate College in G08 and G10, and our CFP closes on the 18th of January.
Girls on Fire: Transformative Heroines in Young Adult Dystopian Literature. Sarah Hentges. McFarland, 2018. 290 pages. £38.50 (paperback).
Publisher: Fantastika Press
Publication Date: 24th April 2017
Publication Title: Fantastika Journal; Volume 1, Issue 1