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Children's Literature 35 (2007) 270-272

Contributors and Editors

Michelle Ann Abate is the assistant editor of Children's Literature and an assistant professor of English at Hollins University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on children's literature, LGBTQ studies, American women's literature and culture, and U.S. cinema. She has published recently on Louisa May Alcott, E. D. E. N. Southworth, Dr. Seuss and his The Butter Battle Book, Elizabeth Stoddard, and feminist author and activist Zona Gale.

Gillian Adams has retired from the field of children's literature after many years of service to the field, including editing and publishing Children's Literature Abstracts and serving as editor and associate editor of the Children's Literature Association Quarterly from 1992 to 2000. She is now spending her time playing the violin, viola, and viola da gamba and enjoying her family and the beautiful New England countryside.

Thomas A. Atwood is an instructor at the University of Toledo's Carlson Library whose research interests include information literacy and critical thinking.

Candace Barrington is an associate professor at Central Connecticut State University. Her forthcoming book in Palgrave Macmillan's New Middle Ages series, American Chaucer, traces the ways The Canterbury Tales has been reconceived in the United States to reflect American values. Her other research interests are twofold: the intersection of legal and literary discourses in late-medieval England, and the ways courtly protocol shaped Ricardian and Henrician verse.

Nathalie op de Beeck teaches in the Department of English at Illinois State University. She is completing a manuscript on American picture books, modern modes of word/image representation, and constructions of the child from 1919 to 1945.

Troy Boone is associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published articles on Stoker, Defoe, Sade, Shaw, Twain, and Conrad and is the author of Youth of Darkest England: Working-Class Children at the Heart of Victorian Empire (Routledge, 2005).

Elizabeth Bullen lectures in literary studies at Deakin University, Australia. She is presently working with Elizabeth Parsons and Clare Bradford on two research projects. One attends to intersections between global risk, resilience, and children's literature. The other focuses on contemporary representations of class in screen and print narratives for children.

A. David Cappella is an associate professor of English at Central Connecticut State University where he teaches literature for young adults for the English Education program. He is the co-author with Baron Wormser of Teaching the Art of Poetry: The Moves and of A Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day to Day. His chapbook, Gobbo: A Solitaire's Opera, won the 2004 Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition, and the first poem in the sequence was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His poems have appeared in The Connecticut Review, Diner, The Bryant Literary Review, The Bradford Review, and other journals.

R. H. W. Dillard, editor-in-chief of Children's Literature and editor of The Hollins Critic, is a professor of English at Hollins University and academic adviser to the director of the Hollins Graduate Program in Children's Literature. A novelist and poet, he is also the author of two critical monographs, Horror Films and Understanding George Garrett, as well as articles on Ellen Glasgow, Vladimir Nabokov, Federico Fellini, and others, and the introduction to the Signet Classic edition of Treasure Island.

Christine Doyle is professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, where she teaches children's literature, American literature, and storytelling. She is the [End Page 270] author of Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Brontë: Transatlantic Translations (U of Tennessee P, 2000), co-editor (with Anne K. Phillips) of Children's Literature 34, and book review editor of Children's Literature

Rachel Fordyce retired as vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Hawai'i, Hilo, and is former executive secretary of the Children's Literature Association. She is the author of six books—on late Renaissance literature, children's theater and creative dramatics, and Lewis Carroll.

Robert Hemmings is an assistant professor at Nipissing University—Muskoka, north of Toronto. His...

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