New Journal Issues and Website

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.

From My Inbox

In the last few days I’ve received notices of two new websites that promise to provide unique resources for Canadian and international researchers: Canada Screens: News and Resources on Independent Canadian Cinema, run by Ezra Winton, a Ph.D. student at Carleton University, and Student Journal of Canadian Jewish Studies, published out of Concordia University, where I did my undergraduate degree.

New Website for IRSCL

The International Research Society for Children’s Literature has a new website, which can be found at http://www.irscl.com/. At this website you will find detailed information about the organization, including links to its new journal, International Research in Children’s Literature, the first issue of which will be published in July 2008 by Edinburgh University Press. To become a member, visit the CRYTC website.