Contributors and Editors
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Michelle Ann Abate is co-editor of Children's Literature and an assistant professor of English at Hollins University. Her book Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History was published by Temple University Press in 2008.
Brian Attebery is editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and author of many scholarly works, including Decoding Gender in Science Fiction and Strategies of Fantasy. He is a professor of English at Idaho State University and also teaches in the Graduate Program in Children's Literature at Hollins University.
Hamida Bosmajian, Professor of English, Emerita of Seattle University, is the author of Metaphors of Evil: Contemporary German Literature and the Shadow of Nazism (1979) and Sparing the Child: Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust (2002). The latter received the 2004 Book Award from the Children's Literature Association.
R. H. W. Dillard, editor-in-chief of Children's Literature and editor of The Hollins Critic, is a 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.
Christine Doyle is a professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, where she teaches children's literature, storytelling, and courses on nineteenth-century women writers.
Monica Flegel is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Lakehead University. Her work focuses on the construction of abused children in Victorian England, and on the discourse of the NSPCC in particular. Her monograph, Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-Century England, is forthcoming from Ashgate.
Rachel Fordyce retired as vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Hawai'i, Hilo, and is former executive secretary of the Children's Literature Association. She is the author of six books—on late Renaissance literature, children's theater and creative dramatics, and Lewis Carroll.
Rosemary Marangoly George is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth-Century Fiction (Cambridge UP, 1996) and editor of and contributor to Burning Down the House: Recycling Domesticity (Harper Collins/Westview P, 1998). Her recent scholarship has appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Feminist Studies, Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography, Gender and History, Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, and other academic venues. She is currently working on a book on South Asian literature.
Elisabeth Rose Gruner is Associate Professor of English and WGSS at the University of Richmond, where she teaches courses on children's and young adult literature, fantasy literature, the Victorian novel, and creative nonfiction writing. She has published on Frances Hodgson Burnett, Cinderella revisions, and various Victorian authors; her current research is on contemporary English fantasy for children.
Erica Hateley teaches children's and young adult literature at Kansas State University.
Shelley King is an associate professor in the Department of English at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, where she teaches courses in Romantic and Victorian [End Page 317] literature and in children's literature. Her previous work on Pullman has appeared in His Dark Materials Illuminated (ed. Millicent Lenz and Carole Scott) and in Children's Literature.
Mabel Komasi is a lecturer in literature at the Department of English, University of Ghana, Legon. Her research is in the area of children's literature and gender. Her publications have appeared in African Research and Documentation (ARD), International Journal of Language and Literature, and others.
Benjamin Lefebvre is an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta and Director of the L. M. Montgomery Research Group. He is currently writing a monograph on the ideological potential of child protagonists in Canadian fiction for adults published between 1947 and 2007 and is co-editing a collection of essays on Anne of Green Gables for the University of Toronto Press.
Roderick McGillis is a professor of English at...
