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  • Contributors and Editors

Michelle Ann Abate is an associate professor of English at Hollins University. Her most recent book, Bloody Murder: The Homicide Tradition in Children's Literature, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press earlier this year. She is also the author of Raising Your Kids Right: Children's Literature and American Political Conservatism (Rutgers UP, 2010) and Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History (Temple UP, 2008).

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.

Christine Doyle is a professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, where she teaches courses in children's literature, storytelling, and nineteenth-century women writers.

Jani L. Barker is an associate professor of English at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, where she teaches children's literature. She has presented and published papers focusing on historical and contemporary children's literature, with special interest in narrative strategies, historical fiction, and ethics.

Lauren Byler recently joined the English Department at California State University, Northridge. Chapters from her dissertation, "And Everything Nice: Girls, Aggression, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel," appear in Novel and Victorian Literature and Culture. She is currently revising her dissertation into a book manuscript and completing an essay on Victorian young adult fiction.

Laura D'Aveta is currently pursuing her PhD in curriculum and instruction at The Pennsylvania State University, where she also earned her master's degree in children's literature. Her research interests include the use of young adult science fiction and fantasy novels, especially dystopian works, in teaching methods of critical theory.

Frances E. Dolan is professor of English at the University of California, Davis, specializing in the history and literature of early modern England—and, increasingly, children's literature. Her books include True Relations: Reading, Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England (2013) and Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy (2008).

Elisabeth Rose Gruner is an associate professor of English at the University of Richmond, where she also coordinates the First-Year Seminar Program. After teaching children's and young adult literature for many years, she recently developed a first-year seminar course on fairy tales and fairy tale revisions; her published research in both Children's Literature and The Lion and the Unicorn has also focused on fairy tale revisions in children's literature. Her current work is on representations of reading in contemporary young adult fiction.

Martha P. Hixon is a professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, where she teaches courses in children's literature and folk- and fairy tales. She has written and published on fantasy literature for children and young adults and on contemporary versions of fairy tales.

A. Robin Hoffman is a postdoctoral research associate at the Yale Center for British Art, which supports her interdisciplinary interests in nineteenth-century print culture. Her current book project derives from doctoral research completed at the University [End Page 309] of Pittsburgh, tracing the coevolution of constructions of literacy and childhood in Victorian alphabet books.

Helene Høyrup is an associate professor at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen. In 2012-13 she is also Dodson Visiting Professor in children's literature at the University of British Columbia.

Joyce E. Kelley is an assistant professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery, where she teaches British and American literature, children's literature, and modernism. Her articles have appeared in Journal of Narrative Theory, Victorians, and The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts. She is working on a book about modernism and travel.

Naomi Lesley is a PhD candidate in English at George Washington University. Her dissertation research focuses on the intersections of race and school reform in children's literature about desegregation.

Anuja Madan received her BA, MA, and MPhil from Delhi...

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