14th Annual British Women Writers Conference 23 - 26 March 2006. Gainesville, Florida
Lynne Vallone
General Keynote Information :: Talia Schaffer :: Carolyn Steedman :: Lynne Vallone
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Lynne Vallone is Professor of English at Texas A&M University. She is the author or co-editor of five books; her most recent major publications include Becoming Victoria (Yale UP 2001) and the Norton Anthology of Children's Literature (WW Norton 2005), for which she served as co-associate general editor. She is currently finishing a book on the miniature and gigantic in children's literature. Vallone is a member of the Board of the Children's Literature Association and has served as the chair of the ChLA Grants committee for the past three years. She has taught at the first two biennial Children's Literature International Summer Schools (CLISS) in 2001 and 2003 and will serve as Senior Tutor at the third CLISS in 2005. |
| In her keynote address, Vallone will be talking about the figure of Mary, Queen of Scots as a "lightning rod" or focus for the energies of 18th and 19th-century girl readers and girl writers. She will consider educational texts (history and historiography) from those periods, as well as look at the "Mary, Queen of Scots obsession" that has currently emerged in contemporary British and American children's publishing. | |