I’m pleased to report that issue 34.1 (Spring 2008) of Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse is almost ready. I updated the website today to include the table of contents of this latest issue. The issue contains contributions by a number of international scholars: articles by Jackie C. Horne, Marlene Kadar, Monique Noël-Gaudreault and Flore Gervais, and Judith Thistleton-Martin. In our “Views, Reviews, & Interviews” section, you will find responses to a piece by Sebastien Chapleau published in issue 33.2 (Fall 2007) by Suzanne Pouliot, François Paré, Peter E. Cumming, Virginie Douglas, Laura M. Robinson, Kiera Vaclavik, and Evelyn Airzpe, as well as review articles by Kerry Mallan, Jean Stringam, and John J. Guiney Yallop. To order your copy, subscribe today!

Last week I received in the mail the latest issues of several journals I subscribe to: English Studies in Canada 32.4 (December 2006), Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne 32.2 (2007); Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 33.2 (Summer 2008); and Canadian Journal of Film Studies / Revue canadienne d’études cinématographiques 17.1 (Spring 2008). Each issue contains timely and provocative material: in ESC, a reader’s forum on “Popular Culture and the Culture of Research Funding,” edited by Julie Rak; in SCL/ELC, a special issue on “Poetics and Public Culture in Canada,” edited by Diana Brydon, Manina Jones, Jessica Schagerl, and Kristen Warder; in ChLAQ, a forum on J.K. Rowling’s outing of Dumbledore, edited by Kenneth Kidd; and in CJFS, a special issue on film and disability, edited by Nicole Markotic.

Meanwhile, I have recently finished setting up a new website for the Early Canadian Literature Society, which was founded last year. There’s not much up yet, but it will grow.

I did another interview for CBC Radio 1 last week—on Anne of Green Gables again, but this time in English—and have been told it will air tomorrow morning between 5:45 and 6:00 A.M. I probably won’t be awake to hear it, but if anyone is awake at that hour go to http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ and click on “Atlantic” under the CBC Radio One banner.

I returned late last night from Congress in Vancouver, where I had a great time. Waiting for me was the latest issue of Children’s Literature, where I discovered a listing of my doctoral dissertation in their “Dissertations of Note” column! This was a pleasant surprise, given that the column tends to focus primarily on dissertations from American universities. The column—and the whole issue for that matter—is available through ProjectMuse to subscribing libraries.

I also received an e-mail today from the L.M. Montgomery Research Centre at the University of Guelph (not to be confused with the L.M. Montgomery Research Group that I run) that a tentative program has been posted for their forthcoming conference on Montgomery and the archival collection there. I will be participating in a roundtable of people who will be discussing two short films from the early 1980s: Boys and Girls and I Know a Secret.