H.C. Andersen
"Hidden But Not Forgotten":
The Legacy of Hans Christian Andersen in the
Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
10-12 November 2005
Below you will find brief biographical statements about the conference participants. Click on speakers' names to read abstracts of their papers.
Speakers:
Brian Alderson is a noted author and critic of children's literature. He has published a range of anthologies, bibliographies, and studies of children's literature.
Julia Briggs (De Montfort University)
Hans-Heino Ewers is the Director of the Institut für Jugendbuchforschung (Centre for Children's Literature Research) at the Johann Woflgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.
Diana Crone Frank (ABC News) and Jeffrey Frank (Senior Editor, The New Yorker) have completed an important and highly acclaimed translation of Andersen's tales, which was published in 2003 as The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen: A New Translation From the Danish. Jeffrey Frank is a novelist and editor. Diana Crone Frank, a native of Denmark, has a Ph.D. in Linguistics.
Mikhail Magaril trained at the Moscow Printing Institute and New York's Center for Book Arts and is a noted illustrator and book artist.
Johan de Mylius is the Director of the Hans Christian Andersen Center at the University of Southern Denmark and the leading expert on Andersen's life and works.Terry Staples is the author of All Pals Together: The Story of Children's Cinema (1997) and has contributed articles to The Oxford Companion to the Fairy Tale (2000).
Naomi Wood (Kansas State University)
Jane Yolen is a noted author of children's books, fairy tales, fantasy and science fiction.
Jack Zipes (University of Minnesota)
Additional activities:
Complementing the formal papers will be the presentation of Andersen's works in various forms, including live storytelling by Storytelling Arts Inc. devoted to the telling of tales--both familiar and unfamiliar--to introduce participants to the full range of Andersen's achievements as a writer. A number of films, both shorts and feature-length, will be screened, and there will be live dramatic reproductions, including excerpts from an operatic adaptation of "The Princess and the Pea" and "The Emperor's New Clothes" performed by the Westminster Conservatory Youth Opera Workshop.
There will also be a major exhibition of Andersen's works on display in Firestone Library's Milberg Gallery. Wonderful Stories for Pictures: H. C. Andersen and His Illustrators will include a wide variety of books and other items offering a survey of Andersen's illustrators, featuring the stunning new version of "The Nightingale" by Russian book artist Mikhail Magaril. The exhibition will debut on 9 October 2005 and will be open to the public through 26 March 2006.