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Staters Bill Ellis, associate professor of English and American studies at Penn State Hazleton, spoke on "The Roots of Perspectives on Contemporary Legend: Urban Myths‚ in the 1960 Rhodes-Livingstone Institute for Social Research Conference" at the 20th International Conference on Perspectives on Contemporary Legend held in Sheffield, England. He also spoke on "I Hate Math: The Barbie Complex Deconstructed in Cardcaptor Sakura" at the Children's Literature Association Conference on "Education in Children's Literature" at the Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pa.; and on "The Japanese Kimodameshi as Ostensive Narration" as part of a panel he organized on "Making Folk Narrative Real: The Influence of Storytelling on Life" at the American Folklore Society's annual meeting in Rochester, N.Y. Lucy Morrison, assistant professor of English at Penn State Hazleton ,presented papers at two international conferences: "Commenting Upon Kotzebue from the Wings to the Audience: Jane Austen's Dramatic Commentaries in Mansfield Park and Emma" at the Jane Austen Special Session at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Annual International Conference in London, Ontario, and "Dealing with Literary Annuals: Letitia Elizabeth Landon's Liberation in Letters," presented at a conference titled "Places of Exchange: Magazines, Journals and Newspapers in British and Irish Culture, 1688-1945," given at Glasgow, U.K. |