Time of Beauty, Time of Fear: The Romantic Legacy in the Literature of Childhood

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors jennifer smith daniel received her M.A. in English at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She currently teaches in the English composition program and the Core Program in the Liberal Arts at Queens University of Charlotte. elizabeth a. dolan is associate professor of English at Lehigh University . Her publications include Seeing Suffering in Women’s Literature of the Romantic Era (2008); Vol. 12 of The Collected Works of Charlotte Smith, which she edited (2007); and Anna Seward’s Life of Erasmus Darwin, coedited with Philip K. Wilson and Malcolm Dick (2010). She serves as book review editor of the Keats-Shelley Journal. richard flynn, professor of Literature at Georgia Southern University , edited the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly from 2004 to 2009. Recent essays include “The Fear of Poetry” in the Cambridge Companion to Children’s Literature (2009) and “Randall Jarrell’s The Bat-Poet: Poets, Children , and Readers in an Age of Prose” in The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Literature (2011). He has delivered presentations on Bob Dylan and is conducting a series of interviews for Joni Mitchell’s official website: http:// jonimitchell.com. elizabeth gargano is associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She has published Reading Victorian Schoolrooms: Childhood and Education in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (2008). Her essays have appeared in Children’s Literature, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal , Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and other journals. mary ellis gibson is Elizabeth Rosenthal Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Her most recent books are Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 218 Notes on Contributors 1780–1913: A Critical Anthology (2011) and Indian Angles: English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore (2011). dorothy h. mcgavran is professor of English at Queens University of Charlotte. In 1998 she was the inaugural recipient of the Hunter Hamilton Award for Teaching Excellence. For eight years she directed the Core Program in the Liberal Arts at Queens. This is her third published essay on Elizabeth Gaskell. james holt mcgavran, jr., is professor of English at the University of North Carolina–Charlotte. In 2006 he was the recipient of the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence. He has published in European Romantic Review, Children’s Literature, Women’s Writing, and other journals. His latest book is In the Shadow of the Bear: A Michigan Memoir (2010). roderick mcgillis is professor emeritus at the University of Calgary , Canada. He has published He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western (2009). With John Pennington he coedited Behind the Back of the North Wind (2011) and George MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind (2011). claudia mills is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She publishes frequently on ethical and philosophical themes in children’s literature. She is the author of over forty books for young readers, including most recently One Square Inch (2010) and Mason Dixon: Pet Disasters (2011). jochen petzold is professor of British Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Regensburg, Germany. He has published Reimagining White Identity by Exploring the Past: History in South African Novels of the 1990s (2002). He has written on South African children’s literature after Apartheid for the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly (2005) and on the militarization of cricket in Victorian boys’ magazines for the Journal for the Study of British Culture (2011). malini roy, an independent scholar, has worked at the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy (University of Chichester, UK). Her doctoral thesis (Oxford 2008) explores representations of the child as a trope of political resistance in the writings and political philosophy of Notes on Contributors 219 Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, and Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley . She is coediting an essay anthology entitled Space and Place in Children’s Literature. andrew j. smyth is associate professor of English at Southern Connecticut University. His research includes studies in Maria Edgeworth, Renaissance literature, and English education. Doing in-country research in Kenya, he has begun a comparative study of secondary teacher training in the English language arts in the light of reform movements in the U.S. and Kenya. jan susina is professor of English at Illinois State University, where he teaches courses in children’s literature, Victorian studies...