Contributors
- Contributors’ Notes
Hamida Bosmajian is professor of English and director of the Honors Program at Seattle University. She recently concluded a study of Art Spiegelman’s Maus for a critical collection on that work, and is continuing her research on young readers’ literature about Nazism and the Holocaust.
Jane Darcy is senior lecturer in the department of cultural studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. Her research areas are children’s literature, Victorian literature, and the fairy tale, and her current research is on Victorian and Edwardian children’s books and magazines.
Meena G. Khorana is professor of English at Morgan State University, where she teaches adolescent literature, humanities, composition, and technical writing. She is the author of The Indian Subcontinent in Literature for Children and Young Adults: An Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Books (Greenwood 1991) and Africa in Literature for Children and Young Adults: An Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Books (Greenwood 1994), and has edited British Children’s Writers, 1800–1880 (Gale Research and Bruccoli Clark Layman, forthcoming). She is currently working on a literary biography of Ruskin Bond and a collection of critical essays on postcolonial African children’s literature.
Millicent Lenz is an associate professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York, where she teaches courses in children’s and young adult literature. Her publications include Nuclear Age Literature for Youth: The Quest for a Life-Affirming Ethic (American Library Association, 1990) and a number of articles in Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. Her book-in-progress is a study of the portrayal of girls as writers in books for young people.
Eva-Maria Metcalf teaches German and Swedish at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Astrid Lindgren (Twayne 1994) and has published articles about German and Scandinavian children’s literature in Children’s Literature, ChLA Quarterly, The Lion and the Unicorn, and in German and Swedish journals.
Peter Neumeyer is author, editor, or translator of 10 books and over 100 articles. His articles and reviews appear regularly in Mother and Parents’ Choice. In 1994, he published The Annotated Charlotte’s Web (HarperCollins), and he is currently assembling his second collection of poetry.
Suzanne Rahn is an associate professor at Pacific Lutheran University, and director of the English Department’s children’s literature program. She is the author of Children’s Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of the History and Criticism (Garland 1981) and Rediscoveries in Children’s Literature (Garland 1995), as well as numerous articles on children’s literature. She is currently editing an anthology of research and criticism on St. Nicholas Magazine with Susan Gannon and Ruth Anne Thompson, and writing a book for the Twayne Masterwork series on The Wizard of Oz.
Naomi Wood, an assistant professor of English at Kansas State University, teaches children’s literature and Victorian studies. Her articles have appeared in Children’s Literature and Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, and she is working on a book about death and sexuality in Victorian children’s fiction.
