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Conference

Nelson, Claudia, Elisabeth Wesseling, and Andrea Mei-Ying Wu. “Transnational Challenges and Opportunities in a Routledge Companion.” 2023 International Children’s Literature Symposium: Transnational Turns in Children’s Literature. New Castle, the United Kingdom. July 27-29, 2023.

 

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Cultural Tours and Children’s Literature: the Invention of the Progressive Child in 1960s Taiwan.” Creativity within Revolt: The Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, October 11–14, 2021 Virtual Conference (https://asa2021.secure-platform.com/a).

 

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. Keynote Speech: “Mess, Wounds, and (Be)longings: The Discourse of Hope in Contemporary Taiwanese Picturebooks.” Fear, Anxiety, and Hope in Children’s Literature Online Symposium, Deakin University, Australia, Nov 30 - Dec 1, 2020.

 

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Munro Leaf, Cultural Tours, and the Making of Children’s Literature in 1960s Taiwan.” The 49th Conference of the Japan Society for Children’s Literature in English. Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan. October 30, 2019.

 

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Keynote Speech: The (Silent) Archival Stories of Children’s Literature: Munro Leaf, Taiwan, and Beyond.” Silence and Silencing in Children’s Literature: International Research Society for Children’s Literature Congress 2019. Stockholm, Sweden, August 14-18, 2019.

 

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Translation and Literary Polysystem: The Case of “Shijie ertong wenxue mingzhu” and the (Trans)formation of Children’s Literature in Postwar Taiwan.” Taiwan Children’s Literature Research Association 8th Annual Conference: Children and Young Adult Literature in Translation. Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan. November 24, 2018.

 

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Children’s Literature and Childhood Imagination in the 1960s Taiwan: Pan Ren-Mu and the Editorial Task Force for Children’s Books.” In Roundtable: “East Asia in the 1940s to 60s: Ideas that Crossed Borders and Their Envoys.” Children and Youth in a Global Age International Conference. Hong Kong University, Hong Kong. May 25-26, 2018.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Imagining Asian Childhood in the 1960s: Munro Leaf Papers, Children’s Literature, and the Archive.” The 23rd Biennial Congress of International Research Society for Children’s Literature. York University, Canada. July 29-August 2, 2017.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Children Filming Everyday Life: ‘Making-do’ in The Chatter Group of Moms and Grandmas.” Children’s Media and Literature in a Mediatized World. Aarhus University, Demark. May 30-June 1, 2017.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “‘Juvenile Periphery’ (Re)considered: The Catcher in the Rye and Wild Child.” International Conference of Challenging Reading: English-Language Education with Children and Teenagers. University of Münster, Münster, Germany. March 11-12, 2016.

吳玫瑛。〈戰後台灣兒童文學的典律化與跨文化生產──以潘人木的「圖畫書」創作為中心〉。亞洲童年與視覺文本國際研討會(International Conference on Childhood and Visual Texts in/of Asia)。國立台北教育大學National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, November 14, 2015.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Western Canons and Local (Re)productions: Childhood Discourse and the (Trans)cultural Formation of Children’s Literature in Postwar Taiwan.” The 22nd Biennial Congress of International Research Society for Children’s Literature. University of Worcester, Worcester, United Kingdom, August 8-12, 2015.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “‘Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness’: Munro Leaf, Helen R. Sattley and the (Trans)cultural Formation of Children’s Literature in Postwar Taiwan.” “Give me liberty, or give me death!” The High Stakes and Dark Sides of Children's Literature: The 42nd International Conference of the Children’s Literature Association, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A., June 18-20, 2015.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “History (Re)meditated in Graphic Novels: Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers and Saints and Li-Chin Lin’s My Youth, My FORMOSA.” Literary Margins and Digital Media: Seminar of the Academia Europaea and University of Wroclaw. Wroclaw, Poland, April 15-17, 2015.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Subjectivity and the Narrative Space as ‘Other(ed) World’ in The Weekly Journal of Big Head Spring.” The International Research Society for Children’s Literature Symposium. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. May 31, 2014.

吳玫瑛,〈「性別與童話」在成大:教學案例分析與經驗分享〉(Teaching “Gender and Fairy Tales” to Undergraduates at NCKU)。台灣兒童文學教學論壇暨工作坊,東海大學,2013年12月21日。

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Narrating Everydayness and Queering the Child in Ni Ya-Da and Diary of a Wimpy Kid.” The International Conference on Childhood and the Practices of Everyday Life. National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, April 27, 2013.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Wild Kids (Re)visited: The Discourse of the Juvenile Periphery and the Construction of Juvenile Subjects in ‘Dan Zi Wang’ and Ye Hai Zi.” International Conference on Children’s Literature: The Child in the Book. Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 16-17, 2012.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Toward a (Re)signification of the Juvenile Periphery: Catcher in the Rye and Wild Kids.” The 39th International Conference of the Children’s Literature Association, Simmons College, Boston, U.S.A., June 14-16, 2012.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Imag(in)ing Home/land: The Discourse of Place and Identity in Soaring Flight, The New Censer of Shun Feng Er, and Farewell Firewheel.” The 20th Biennial Congress of International Research Society for Children’s Literature, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 4-8 July, 2011.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Imagining Home/land and Stor(y)ing Childhood in Taiwan Juvenile Fiction in the 1970s.” Change and Insurrection in Children’s Literature: The 38th International Conference of the Children’s Literature Association, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia, U.S.A., June 23-25, 2011.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Children Are Loving Subjects?: Images of Childhood in Taiwan Juvenile Fiction in the 1960s.” Children’s Literature and Media: The 37th International Conference of the Children’s Literature Association, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A., June 10-12, 2010.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “‘I am a Good Kid’: Ideology, Discourse and the Formation of Model Childhood in Taiwan Children’s Novels in the 1960s.” The 19th Biennial Congress of International Research Society for Children’s Literature, Frankfurt, Germany, August 8-12, 2009.

Wu, Mei-Ying. “A Preliminary Study on Boy Culture in Taiwan: the Ideal(ized) Formation of Boyhood in Lu Pin Hua and A-Huei De Xin.” Cross-strait Conference of Children’s Literature, Taipei, July 24-25, 2008. (in Chinese)

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “The Representations of Childhood and Gender in Contemporary Taiwan Children’s Tales of War.” Reimagining Normal: The 35th International Conference of the Children’s Literature Association, Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, U.S.A., June 12-14, 2008.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Ways to Be/come Male: Scar, Sports, and Schooling in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Books.” The 18th Biennial Congress of International Research Society for Children’s Literature, Kyoto, Japan, August 25-29, 2007.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “A Happier ‘Crocoduck’?: the Politics and the Problematic Representation of Multiculturalism in Chih-Yuan Chen’s Guji Guji.” Anniversaries, Histories, and Colonialisms: The 34th International Conference of the Children’s Literature Association, Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A., June 14-16, 2007.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Boys Will Be Boys: The Commonsensical Discourse and the Conventional Construction of Boyhood in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Books.” The 28th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U. S. A., March 14-18, 2007.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Tough But Tender Boys: Alternative Articulations of Boyhood in Lois Lowry’s The Giver and Jerry Spinelli’s Wringer.” The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature 5th Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, Feb. 23-24, 2007.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Boy, Animal, Animal-Boy: Textual Performativity and the Construction of Boyhood in Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet, Brian’s Winter, and Brian’s Return.” Performing Childhood: The 32nd International Conference of the Children’s Literature Association, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, June 9-12, 2005.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Toward (Re)defining Masculinities: Lowry’s The Giver and Spinelli’s Wringer in Critical Literacy,” The 13th Annual Central New York Conference on Language & Literature, Cortland, New York, U.S.A., Oct. 26-28, 2003.

Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying. “Toward Articulating Multiple Gender Possibilities: A Case Study of Children’s Perceptions on Gender-Challenging Picture Books,” Northern Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association 21st Annual Conference, Jackson Hole, WY, U.S.A., Oct. 8-11, 2003.

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