Contributors and Editors
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Gillian Adams is the editor of Children's Literature Abstracts and an associate editor of the ChLA Quarterly. Her most recent essays and papers are on medieval children's literature, a subject she plans to pursue for the next few years.
Karen Coats is assistant professor of English at Illinois State University, where she teaches children's literature. Her research focuses on children's and adolescent literature and critical theory, as well as children's studies.
R. H. W. Dillard is professor of English and chair of the creative writing program at Hollins University. The author of several scholarly books, he is also a novelist and poet.
Christine Doyle is an assistant professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, where she teaches courses in children's literature, storytelling, American literature, and women writers. Her recent research focuses on literary influences on Louisa May Alcott, on which she has an essay in Little Women and the Feminist Imagination.
Rachel Fordyce is a professor of English and dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University and is the former executive secretary of the Children's Literature Association. She is the author of five books, on late Renaissance literature, children's theater, creative dramatics, and Lewis Carroll.
Pamela K. Harer is a retired California attorney whose avocation for the past twenty years has been the study and collecting of children's books of historical interest. She has given occasional talks at California State University San Bernardino about her collection.
A. Waller Hastings is professor of English and coordinator of English and linguistics at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where he teaches a variety of courses on children's literature. He is currently trying to develop two book projects: a critical book on Disney's animated feature films and a children's novel about the devastating 1997 floods in the Dakotas.
Elizabeth Lennox Keyser is an associate professor of English at Hollins University, where she teaches children's literature, American literature, and American studies. She is the author of Whispers in the Dark: The Fiction of Louisa May Alcott (1993) and Little Women: A Family Romance (1999).
Alice Mills is a senior lecturer in literature, including children's literature, at the University of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. She has published widely in the field of fantasy literature and is the editor of the Random House Children's Treasury. She also has a private practice as a Jungian psychotherapist.
Claudia Mills is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder, teaching and writing in the areas of ethics, applied ethics, and social and political philosophy. She is the author of more than twenty books for children, including the Dinah series (Dynamite Dinah, Dinah for President, Dinah in Love, and Dinah Forever) and the Gus and Grandpa series for first readers.
Philip Nel completed his doctorate in 1997 at Vanderbilt University and now teaches at the College of Charleston. His current project (until recently, known as his dissertation) studies novelists, popular culture figures, and children's authors as a way to examine the historical avant-garde in diverse media. In addition to transforming this dissertation into a book, he is trying to interest a publisher in printing a selection of the political cartoons that Dr. Seuss wrote during World War II. [End Page 255]
Julie Pfeiffer is an assistant professor of English at Hollins University. Her research interests focus on Milton's influence on nineteenth-century literature.
Anne K. Phillips is an assistant professor at Kansas State University. Co-editor of Children's Literature 21, she is currently collaborating with Gregory Eiselein on The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia. She is interested in all aspects of American children's literature.
Carolyn Sigler teaches courses in children's and young adult literature, women's studies, and popular culture at Kansas State University. She has edited a collection of Victorian imitations and parodies of Carroll titled Alternative Alkes: Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll's "Alice" Books and is completing a critical book on Carroll and his imitators.
Katharine Capshaw Smith, whose work has appeared in Ariel and The Southern Quarterly, is a doctoral...
