Animal/Nonhuman Ecologies: Reframing Animal Studies for Children's Literature

How does children’s/young adult literature position animals as co-agents of our more-than-human environments? We invite 300-word-abstracts that explore topics such as nonhuman kinship, posthuman frameworks of agency, multispecies relationships, ecological care, etc. in animal stories.

Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 14, 2026

Sungmey Lee, Korea National Open University(KNOU) (sungmerz@gmail.com )