Contributors and Editors
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Michelle Ann Abate is co-editor of Children's Literature and an associate professor of English at Hollins University. Her most recent book, Raising Your Kids Right: Children's Literature and American Political Conservatism, was released by Rutgers University Press in 2010.
Sarah K. Cantrell earned her PhD in comparative literature from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2010. Her articles have appeared in Children's Literature in Education and The Lion and the Unicorn. Her research explores the cross-cultural intersections between contemporary fantasy for young adults in Great Britain and France.
Karen Chandler is an associate professor of English at the University of Louisville, where she teaches courses on African American and American literature and culture. She is working on a book about literacy, folk expression, and children's literature and film.
R. H. W. Dillard, editor-in-chief of Children's Literature and editor of The Hollins Critic, is a professor of English at Hollins University and academic 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, and others, and the introduction to the Signet Classic edition of Treasure Island.
Brian Dillon is a professor of English at Montana State University-Billings, where he teaches a wide range of literature courses. His recent publications discuss the literatures of World War I and twentieth-century Ireland.
Karen Dillon is a teaching fellow in the English Department at Indiana University. Her work focuses on twentieth-century and contemporary US and comparative ethnic literatures.
Christine Doyle is a professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, where she teaches children's literature, storytelling, and courses on nineteenth-century women writers.
James Fowler teaches literature at the University of Central Arkansas, where he edits the poetry journal SLANT. His publications include articles on Dante, Carroll, Mary de Morgan, Robert Browning, Woolf, Frost, and Bishop. His poems, short stories, tales, and personal essays have appeared in various journals.
Eugenia Gonzalez is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at The Ohio State University, where she studies nineteenth-century British literature. She is particularly interested in gender and material culture and is currently writing a dissertation on dolls in Victorian literature.
Michael Joseph is an independent scholar employed by Rutgers University as a rare book librarian. His most recent publication is a chapter on Robert Graves entitled "Poetic Truth and The Penny Fiddle" in Poetry and Childhood, edited by Morag Styles, Louisa Joy, and David Whitley (Trentham Press, 2010).
Jamil Khader is Professor of English at Stetson University, where he teaches postcolonial literature and theory, transnational feminism, and popular fiction (science fiction, vampire fiction, fairy tales). His publications have appeared in various national and international literary journals, including Ariel, Feminist Studies, College Literature, MELUS, The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and other collections. His article on the ethics of vampirism in Bram Stoker's Dracula is forthcoming in College Literature, and he is co-editor with Molly Rothenberg of the forthcoming volume Žižek Now: Current Perspectives in Žižek Studies (Polity 2011). [End Page 312]
Michael Levy, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, is a past president of both the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and the Science Fiction Research Association. He and co-author Farah Mendlesohn are currently at work on a history of children's fantasy.
Celia M. Lewis, the Charlyne Smith Wyche Endowed Professor of English at Louisiana Tech University, teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in medieval studies, British literature, and composition. She is the author of essays in Poetica, New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry, and Chaucer Review.
Roderick McGillis is a professor of English at the University of Calgary. Recent publications include the forthcoming scholarly edition of George MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind, edited with John Pennington for Broadview Press (2011), and "Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Children's Literature, and the Case of Jeff Smith," in Handbook of Research on Children's and Young...
