Contributors and Editors

Maria Sachiko Cecire is an assistant professor of literature at Bard College, where she teaches courses in children’s literature and media studies. She is coeditor of the collection Space and Place in Children’s Literature and is currently working on a book about medievalisms and enchantment in Anglo-American children’s culture since the rise of modernism.

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.

R. H. W. Dillard, editor-in-chief of Children’s Literature and editor of The Hollins Critic, is 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.

Jennifer Farrar is an associate tutor at the University of Glasgow’s School of Education and a high school English teacher. Her research interests include metafiction, children’s literature, and critical literacy.

Bonnie Gaarden is a professor of English at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches mythology and literature of the Bible. She has published many articles dealing with fantasy and children’s literature. Her major work is a 2011 book, Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald.

Melody Green currently serves as the Dean of Urbana Theological Seminary. She has published several articles on Tolkien, Lewis, George MacDonald, and the television program Doctor Who. Her most recent publication is “George MacDonald and Celtic Christianity” published in the journal North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies.

Amanda M. Greenwell is a graduate student of English at the University of Connecticut, adjunct instructor of English at Central Connecticut State University, and Writing Center Administrator at the University of Saint Joseph. Her work on children’s and young adult literature appears in several journals and edited collections.

Emma Hayes is a PhD candidate at Deakin University, Australia. Her research focuses on representations of place—notably, representations of liminality—in Golden Age texts for children.

Susan Honeyman is a professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and author of, most recently, Child Pain, Migraine, and Invisible Disability (Routledge, 2017).

Angela E. Hubler teaches in the department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at Kansas State University. She edited Little Red Reading: Historical Materialist Perspectives on Children’s Literature and has published on dystopian novels by Suzanne Collins and Lois Lowry, representations of feminism and women’s history in children’s literature, and girls’ reading and gender.

Alexandra Jeikner is a lecturer I, associate faculty, at Deree—The American College of Greece. She teaches academic writing and research and has taught freshman seminar courses in the Deree General Studies Program. She holds a doctorate in english literature, in the area of children’s literature, from Newcastle University.

Louise Joy is a fellow and the director of studies of English at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Her monograph, Literature’s Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealisation, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. She has published widely on eighteenth-century literature, the history of children’s literature, and the aesthetics of children’s poetry.

Sophia Klein is a PhD student in children’s literature at Newcastle University, England. Her research is focused on the “girl gaze” and body image in contemporary young adult fiction. Her master’s thesis at the University of Cambridge looked at animals in children’s literature.

Jameela Lares is Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she specializes in Milton, history of rhetoric, and children’s and YA literature, and teaches undergraduates and graduate students. She is currently a member of the ChLA Book Award Committee and has served on...