Contributors and Editors
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Ruth B. Bottigheimer teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has published Fairy Tales and Society (1986), Grimms' Bad Girls and Bold Boys (1987), The Bible for Children (1996), Folklore and Gender (1999), and is currently working on a study of the fairy tales of Giovanfrancesco Straparola.
Karen Coats is an assistant professor of English at Illinois State University, where she teaches children's and adolescent literature. Her publications on children's literature have appeared in Children's Literature, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, JPCS: Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Pedagogy, Bookbird, and Paradoxa.
R. H. W. Dillard, editor-in-chief of Children's Literature and professor of English at Hollins University, 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.
Ellen Butler Donovan is an associate professor at Middle Tennessee State University where she teaches courses in children's and adolescent literature. Her research centers on the ways in which texts allow or encourage reader participation.
Christine Doyle is an associate professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, where she teaches children's literature, storytelling, American literature, and courses on women writers. She is the author of Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Brontë: Transatlantic Translations.
Christopher A. Fahy is an assistant professor of humanities and rhetoric at the College of General Studies, Boston University. He has published entries on "Domestic Life," "Religion," and "A Pair of Eyes" in The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia and an article entitled "Dark Mirrorings: The Influence of Fuller on Alcott's 'A Pair of Eyes'" in ESQ.
Richard Flynn is professor of English at Georgia Southern University, specializing in children's literature and contemporary poetry. His work on childhood and postmodern poetry has appeared in James McGavran's Literature and the Child and in African American Review , and he is completing a book-length study titled "Postmodern Poetries, Postmodern Childhoods."
Rachel Fordyce recently retired as the 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 five books—on late Renaissance literature, children's theater and creative dramatics, and Lewis Carroll. She is currently working on an anthology of early American children's literature.
Marah Gubar is a graduate student at Princeton University. She is currently completing a dissertation entitled "Collaborative Efforts: British Children's Fiction, 1860-1911." Her most recent publication, an essay about the Anne of Green Gables series, appeared in the January 2001 issue of The Lion and the Unicorn.
Michael Joseph is a librarian at Rutgers University, where he also teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in children's literature. He is currently working on a book about the reflexive dynamic between nineteenth-century wood engraving and the emerging American picture book.
Elizabeth Lennox Keyser is professor of English at Hollins University, where she [End Page 261] teaches children's literature and American literature. She is the author of Whispers in the Dark: The Fiction of Louisa May Alcott (1993) and Little Women: A Family Romance (1999) as well as the editor of The Portable Louisa May Alcott (2000).
Valerie Krips is an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is director of the Children's Literature Program in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Her book, The Presence of the Past: Memory, Heritage and Childhood in Postwar Britain, was published by Garland in November 2000. She is currently writing a book on the representation of the Viking past in the Jorvik Museum in York, England, together with Richard Kemp, the museum's director.
Michelle H. Martin is an assistant professor of English at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, where she teaches children's and young adult literature, women's studies, and laptop composition. She has published articles...
