Contributors
- Contributors’ Notes
George R. Bodmer teaches English at Indiana University Northwest, and is the Book Review Co-editor of The Lion and the Unicorn.
David Galef is the author of “Second Thoughts: A Prolegomenon to Rereading” (forthcoming in Reader). An assistant professor specializing in modernism at the University of Mississippi, he has published essays on Joyce, Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Forster, Ford, and others in Twentieth Century Literature, The Journal of Modern Literature, The Columbia History of the British Novel, and elsewhere. He is also the author of The Supporting Case: A Study of Flat and Minor Characters (Penn State UP, 1993).
Dana Gliserman graduated from York University in Toronto and is currently pursuing her M.A. in English with a concentration in Children’s Literature from Eastern Michigan University. Her work focuses on eighteenth-century British literature, children’s literature, and the intersection thereof.
A. Waller Hastings teaches a variety of classes at Northern State University, including children’s literature and fairy tales. He is currently working on a study of Disney animation.
M. Daphne Kutzer is Associate Professor of English at the State University College of New York at Plattsburgh, NY. She has published on both nineteenth- and twentieth-century children’s books, and is the editor of Writers of Multicultural Fiction for Young Adults (Greenwood 1996).
Eva-Maria Metcalf teaches German and Swedish at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Astrid Lindgren (Twayne, 1995) and several articles about German and Scandinavian children’s literature in Children’s Literature, Children’s Literature Quarterly, and The Lion and the Unicorn.
Mitzi Myers is especially interested in and writes about historical children’s literature and women’s writing. She teaches children’s and adolescent literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is finishing a book on Maria Edgeworth.
Kathy Piehl is a reference librarian at Mankato State University, where she serves as department chair and oversees the collection of juvenile books. Her articles about and her reviews of books for children and young adults have appeared in a variety of journals.
Lucy Rollin is Associate Professor of English at Clemson University, where she teaches children’s and adolescent literature and chairs Clemson’s biennial Children’s Literature Symposium. She has published books and articles on nursery rhymes, Charlotte’s Web, illustration, film, and Walt Disney.
Bruce A. Ronda is Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Director of the American Studies Program at Colorado State University. His essay on “An American Canon of Children’s Literature” appeared in Teaching Children’s Literature (1992). He is working on a study of imagination and history in several early American texts for children.
Joachim J. Savelsberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. His most recent book is Constructing White-Collar Crime: Rationalities, Communication, Power, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
J. D. Stahl has written about German-American cross-cultural perceptions in Phaedrus, and about Erich Kästner and Karl Alys Schenzinger in Studies in Twentieth Century Literature and Children’s Literature. He is the author of Mark Twain, Culture and Gender (U of Georgia P, 1994). Currently he teaches at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Gerhard Weiss is Distinguished Morse-Alumni Teaching Professor of German at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. His areas of research interest and publication include late 19th- and early 20th-century German literature and German cultural history.
