Scholar to Lecture on African-American Children's Literature
February 14, 2006
Champaign - The second annual Gryphon Lecture will be given by a pioneer in children’s literature, Rudine Sims Bishop.
Bishop's talk, which is free and open to the public, begins at 6:30 p.m., Feb. 23 in Room 126 of the Library and Information Science Building, 501 E. Daniel St., Champaign.
Her topic is "Stony the Road We Trod: African American Children's Literature, Stories of a People's Journey.”
Bishop, professor emeritus in the School of Teaching and Learning at Ohio State University, was one of the first researchers to produce scholarly criticism about the way African-American lives are represented in children's books and the impact that representation has on children's lives. Her book "Shadow and Substance: Afro-American Experience in Contemporary Children's Literature” was "a touchstone study that is still used today," said Betsy Hearne, the director of Illinois' Center for Children's Books, one of the event sponsors.
Go to http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/06/0214bishop.html for more information.
source: http://www.news.uiuc.edu/
Andrea Lynn, Humanities Editor