Contributors and Editors
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Gillian Adams has recently retired as the editor of Children's Literature Abstracts and associate editor of the ChLA Quarterly. She plans to continue research and publication on ancient and medieval children's literature.
Sandra Beckett is professor of French at Brock University and the president of the International Research Society for Children's Literature. She is the author of several books on contemporary French literature and the editor of Reflections of Change: Children's Literature Since 1945 (1997) and Transcending Boundaries: Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults (1999). She is currently completing a book on contemporary retellings of Little Red Riding Hood.
Jennifer Bolton is a graduate student at Virginia Tech and Hollins University. Her research interests include English, children's literature, and gender studies. She hopes to earn her doctorate in the next ten years.
Clare Bradford is an associate professor of literary studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the editor of the journal Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, and has published widely on picture books and colonial and postcolonial literature for children. Her most recent book, Reading Race, a study of representations of Aborigines in Australian children's literature, will be published by Melbourne University Press in 2001.
Ruth Carver Capasso is associate professor of French at Kent State University. She has published on the fairy tales of Mme D'Aulnoy and the tales for children written by George Sand. Her current research focuses on the Bibliothèque Rose Illustrée and children's formation, including messages concerning the social order, gender roles, and relations with the Other such as the poor or the colonized.
Laura B. Comoletti received her bachelor's degree in English from Wheaton College in 1999. She is the winner of Wheaton's Anne Louise Knowles '55 Prize in English and is currently preparing to enter graduate school in English.
Christine Doyle is an associate professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, where she teaches courses in children's literature, storytelling, American literature, and women writers. She is the author of Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Brontë: Transatlantic Translations (2000).
Michael D. C. Drout is assistant professor of English at Wheaton College, where he teaches medieval literature and Anglo-Saxon as well as fantasy literature and science fiction. He recently completed an edition of Beowulf and the Critics, a previously unpublished manuscript of Beowulf rriticism written by J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1930s. His publications include articles on Piers Plowman, Ken Kesey, Susan Cooper, and the Old English poem "The Fortunes of Men." Drout is currently completing a book on tradition and cultural transmission during the tenth-century English Benedictine reform.
Rachel Fordyce is the vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Hawai'i, Hilo and a former executive secretary of the Children's Literature Association. She is the author of five books—on late Renaissance literature, children's theater and creative dramatics, and Lewis Carroll.
Mary Galbraith teaches children's literature at San Diego State University. Her research interests include the psychohistory of classic picture books, the attachment dynamics of intense scenes in children's literature, and the need for a multidisciplinary childhood studies program.
Elizabeth Lennox Keyser is an associate professor of English at Hollins University, [End Page 299] where she teaches children's literature and American literature. She is the author of Whispers in the Dark: TheFiction of Louisa May Alcott (1993) and Little Women: A Family Romance (1999) as well as the editor of The Portable Alcott.
Fern Kory is a professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, where she teaches courses in children's literature and early twentieth-century American literature, among others. Her current projects include a book-length study of the folk and fairy tales in the Brownies' Book.
Kate Lawson is an assistant professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, where she teaches Victorian and children's literature.
Michelle H. Martin is an assistant professor of English at Clemson University, where she teaches children's and young adult literature and, most recently, women's studies. Her latest publication, "Postmodern Periods: Menstruation Media in the 1990s," appeared in the...
