Contributors' Notes
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Alida Allison is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. She is the director of the SDSU-based Children's Literature Circle, a community-wide organization devoted to the study and promotion of children's literature.
Elizabeth C. Clark is Dean of Girls at Cranbrook Kingswood Middle School, Cranbrook Schools, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She teaches English to sixth-grade girls and writes plays as well as song lyrics for dramatic productions at the elementary division of Cranbrook Schools.
Geraldine DeLuca is a professor of English and director of Freshman Writing at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She co-founded The Lion and the Unicorn and co-edited it for 15 years. She has published widely in the field of children's literature criticism.
Eileen Early has directed bilingual educational programs and taught English as a second language to elementary school students in Trujillo, Peru. Her book about a prizewinning Peruvian novelist, Joy in Exile: Ciro Alegria's Narrative Art (UP of America), is a cross-cultural study written for an English-speaking audience.
Julia Hirsch is a professor of English at Brooklyn College and has recently been teaching a course on "New York City Folklore."
Judith Gero John currently teaches at Kansas State University and has just accepted an assistant professorship in children's literature at Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield. Her research interests include mothers' advice books from the Renaissance. [End Page 129]
Lois R. Kuznets is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. She has taught children's literature for many years and is the author of Kenneth Grahame, published by Twayne Press.
Henry Innes MacAdam is Associate Archivist at Princeton Theological Seminary. He taught Graeco-Roman history and archaeology for many years at the American University in Beirut. "Return to the Island of Mist" is dedicated to his daughters, who enjoyed reading Sir William Tarn's classic as much as he did.
Isabella Marinoff teaches writing and literature at Brooklyn College and Kingsborough Community College. She is currently studying the way various Western observers have interacted with the cultures of China and Japan.
W. Nikola-Lisa is an assistant professor at National-Louis University, Evanston, Illinois, where he works with teachers in a graduate program in interdisciplinary studies and teaches children's literature. He is the author of two picture books, with a third book soon to be published by Atheneum.
Ashraf H. A. Rushdy is an assistant professor of English and Afro-American Studies at Wesleyan University. He is the author of The Empty Garden: The Subject of Late Milton (Pittsburgh UP, 1992) and is working on a book about contemporary African-American reconstructions of Euro-American intellectual systems.
Lynne Vallone is an assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University. She has published essays on gender and children's literature and is completing a book titled Happiness and Virtue: The History and Ideology of Fiction for Girls. [End Page 130]
