Contributors and Editors
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Brian Alderson is Children's Books Editor of the London Times and a peripatetic children's book bibliographer. He recently collaborated with Felix de Marez Oyens on the exhibition "Be Merry and Wise" at the Pierpont Morgan Library. He is currently writing a critical study of Ezra Jack Keats, based on the Keats Papers at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Phyllis Bixler, professor of English at Southwest Missouri State University, has published widely on Frances Hodgson Burnett. More recently, she has provided afterwords for the New American Library Signet editions of Heidi, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
William Blackburn teaches in the department of English at the University of Calgary. His research and teaching specialties are children's literature, Renaissance drama, and East-West literary relations.
Francelia Butler, founding editor of Children's Literature, has published many books on children's literature, including Skipping Around the World: The Ritual Nature of Folk Rhymes.
John Cech is the book review editor of Children's Literature. He teaches in the English department at the University of Florida. He is the author of a book for children, My Grandmother's Journey (1991). He recently completed a book about the works of Maurice Sendak.
Howard R. Cell teaches philosophy, and occasionally a seminar on fairy tales, at Glassboro State College, New Jersey. Though most of his research and all of his previous publications deal with Rousseau's political theory, he is currently engaged in a project on eighteenth-century children's literature.
Charles L. DeFanti is a professor of English at Kean College in Union, New Jersey. He is the author of The Wages of Expectation: A Biography of Edward Dahlberg (1978) and serves as book review editor of Cover magazine.
Jane Doonan teaches English and visual communications in England and pursues a research interest in the aesthetics of picture-book form. She has published various essays, principally in Signal: Approaches to Children's Literature.
Rachel Fordyce, former executive of the Children's Literature Association, is the author of four books, the most recent of which is Lewis Carroll: A Reference Guide. She is the dean of humanities and social sciences at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Christine Doyle Francis, at the University of Connecticut, has recently completed curriculum guides on Gerald McDermott's and E. L. Konigsburg's books. Her research emphasizes the relation between feminist and myth criticism and children's literature.
U. C. Knoepflmacher, professor of literature at Princeton University, has contributed to volumes 11, 13, and 18 of CL. He recently has co-edited Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers with Nina Auerbach and has written the introduction to Glenn Sadler's Teaching Children's Literature: Issues, Pedagogy, Resources.
Claire L. Malarte-Feldman is an associate professor of French at the University of New Hampshire. Her earlier research on Perrault has developed into an interest, which is reflected in her current research, on contemporary fairy tales written for children. [End Page 251]
Corinne Mccutchan received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1991 with a dissertation titled "Joyous Ventures: Kipling's Experiments with Form and Genre." She is an assistant professor of English at Lander College in Greenwood, South Carolina.
Juliet Mcmaster is University Professor of English at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Thackeray: The Major Novels, Jane Austen on Love, Trollope's Palliser Noveb, and Dickens the Designer, in addition to many articles on eighteenth-and nineteenth-century fiction. Her main teaching interests are the English novel and children's literature.
John Murray is head of the department of English and communication studies at the Sydney branch of Australian Catholic University. He is completing a study of the Australian children's novelist Patricia Wrightson.
Julie K. Pfeiffer is pursuing her doctorate at the University of Connecticut. Her work focuses on Milton and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women novelists.
Anne K. Phillips, at the University of Connecticut, has contributed to a festschrift in honor of Charleton Laird and was co-author of the instructor's manual for The Bedford Introduction to Literature. Her research interests include popular literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
