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Constructing the Island of the Blue Dolphins’ Archive: A talk by Dr. Sara Schwebel
April 20, 2015 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Constructing the Island of the Blue Dolphins’ Archive: A talk by Dr. Sara Schwebel
Event Type: Discussion
Age Group(s): Adult, College Students and Faculty
Date: 4/20/15
Time: 4:00pm
Schwebel will discuss her most current project, a digital archive of materials related to Scott O’Dell’s Newbery award-winning children’s book Island of the Blue Dolphins, and how it relates to nature, historical narratives, and colonialism. The archive will be released in 2016 alongside the first-ever critical edition of Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Sara Schwebel holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and is an Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. She teaches children’s, young adult, and American literature. She is the author of Child-Sized History: Fictions of the Past in U.S. Classrooms and a number of academic articles about children’s historical fiction and history pedagogy.
This event is co-sponsored by the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature (George A. Smathers Libraries), the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture, and the Department of English as part of the Baldwin Library’s Annual Speaker Series.
Location: Judaica Suite, located on the 2nd floor of Smathers Library (East).
Contact: Suzan Alteri, John Cech, or Kenneth Kidd