Contributors and Editors
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Jonathan Alexander is a professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. The author, editor, or coauthor of nine books, he specializes in the study of the teaching of writing in multimediated environments. His most recent book is On Multimodality: New Media in Composition Studies, coauthored with Jacqueline Rhodes.
Brian Attebery is editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and author, most recently, of Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth (Oxford University Press, 2014). He wrote about Enright in an article called “Elizabeth Enright and the Family Story as Genre,” published in Children’s Literature in 2009.
Robin Bernstein is a professor of African and African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. She is the author of Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights, which won awards from the Children’s Literature Association, the International Research Society for Children’s Literature, and the Society for the History of Children and Youth.
Rebecca Black is an associate professor of Language, Literacy, and Technology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research centers on how young people use media and technology to learn, create, and communicate.
Troy Boone is completing a book titled Victorian Ecology, the Brontës, and the North of England and has begun studies of ecohorror and the ecology of seafaring. He is the author of Youth of Darkest England: Working-Class Children at the Heart of Victorian Empire (Routledge, 2005) and is an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Hamida Bosmajian is Professor Emerita of the Department of English at Seattle University. Her Sparing the Child: Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature About Nazism and the Holocaust (2002) received the Children’s Literature Association’s Book Award.
Emma Butcher is a doctoral candidate at the University of Hull, UK. Her research primarily focuses on children’s literature and war, specifically how masculinity and militarism are constructed in the juvenile fantasy writings of Charlotte and Branwell Brontë.
David Cappella is a poet and professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, where he teaches creative writing and literature and works with students in the English Education Program.
Karen Coats is a professor of English at Illinois State University, where she teaches courses in children’s and young adult literature. She publishes widely on the intersections of youth literature and contemporary cultural and literary theory.
Amanda Cockrell is director of the Graduate Programs in Children’s Literature at Hollins University, where she is also managing editor of The Hollins Critic. Her most recent book is the young adult novel What We Keep Is Not Always What Will Stay (2011).
Mary J. Couzelis is an assistant professor of English at Morgan State University in Maryland, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in adolescent literature and multiethnic American literature. She has published articles and book chapters on adolescent historical fiction, young adult dystopian novels, and graphic novels.
R. H. W. Dillard, editor-in-chief of Children’s Literature and editor of The Hollins Critic, is the Susan Gager Jackson Professor of Creative Writing 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. [End Page 325]
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. She publishes primarily on Louisa May Alcott and on twentieth-century children’s literature.
Daniel Feldman is an assistant professor of English at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, where he specializes in Holocaust literature and young adult fiction of the Holocaust. He is currently writing a manuscript on the use of play in young adult...
