Contributors and Editors
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Phyllis Bixler is a professor of English at Southwest Missouri State University and the author of Frances Hodgson Burnett (G. K. Hall, 1984). She recently published an essay entitled "Gardens, Houses, and Nurturant Power in The Secret Garden" in Romanticism and Children's Literature in Nineteenth-Century England, edited by James Holt McGavran, Jr.
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, book review editor of Children's Literature, teaches in the English Department at the University of Florida. He is the author of a book for children, My Grandfather's Journey (1991), and recently completed a book on the works of Maurice Sendak.
R. H. W. Dillard, editor-in-chief of Children's Literature and professor of English at Hollins College, is the longtime chair of the Hollins Creative Writing Program and is 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, Robert Coover, Fred Chappell, and others.
Angela M. Estes is an associate professor of English at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where she teaches American literature and creative writing. She has published articles on Louisa May Alcott and is currently at work with Kathleen M. Lant on a book-length study, Their Own Sweet Will: Resistance and Relationship in the Works of Louisa May Alcott, for the University of Tennessee Press. She has also published her poems widely and is the author of a collection of poems, Boarding Passes.
Rachel Fordyce, former executive secretary of the Children's Literature Association, has written four books, most recently Lewis Carroll: A Reference Guide. She is dean of humanities and social sciences at Montclair State College.
Bonnie Gaarden teaches in the English and Theatre Department at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and is a doctoral student at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she is writing a dissertation on the fantasies of George MacDonald. She also reviews books on children's literature for American Literature.
Elizabeth Goodenough, who teaches Victorian writers and children's literature at Claremont McKenna College, has written articles on Virginia Woolf and Carl Jung. She is coeditor of the forthcoming Infant Tongues: The Voice of the Child in Literature.
Peter Hollindale teaches English at the University of York, England, specializing in children's literature and Renaissance drama. His essay "Ideology and the Children's Book" received the Children's Literature Association award for the best essay in the field in 1988.
Mary V. Jackson is completing two volumes on early children's literature: Aspects of the Hanoverian and Victorian Children's Book Trade and Pygmalion Print: Molding Class, Gender, and National Consciousness in British Children's Literature, 1740-1878.
Christa Kamenetsky is a professor of English at Central Michigan University, where she teaches children's literature and comparative literature. She has published The Brothers Grimm and Their Critics (1992) and Children's Literature in Hitler's [End Page 231] Germany (1984), as well as articles in the Journal of American Folklore, Children's Literature (volume 6), Journal of the College Language Association, and other periodicals.
Elizabeth Lennox Keyser, editor of volume 22, is an associate professor of English at Hollins College, where she teaches children's literature, American literature, and American studies. She is the author of Whispers in the Dark: The Fiction of Louisa May Alcott (University of Tennessee Press, 1993) and of numerous articles on American women writers, including Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Kathleen Margaret Lant is a professor of English at California Polytechnic State University, where she teaches American literature and women writers. Her publications include work on Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kate Chopin, Tennessee Williams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Louisa May Alcott, and with Angela M. Estes she is completing a book on Alcott. Her essays on Stephen King and Sylvia Plath are forthcoming.
Cynthia Marshall, associate professor of English at Rhodes College, is the author of Last Things and Last Plays...
