Contributors and Editors

Michelle Ann Abate is an assistant professor of English at Hollins University, where she teaches courses in children's literature, gay and lesbian studies, American literature, film, and women's studies.

Nathalie Op De Beeck, an assistant professor of English at Illinois State University, writes on pictorial texts and children's culture from a historical materialist and ecofeminist standpoint. Her essay, "Anima and Anime: Environmental Perspectives and New Frontiers in Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away," will appear in The Japanification of Children's Popular Culture: From Godzilla to Spirited Away, ed. Mark West (Scarecrow Press, 2005).

Troy Boone is an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was recently acting director of the Children's Literature Program. He has published articles on Stoker, Defoe, Sade, Shaw, Twain, and Conrad and is the author of Youth of Darkest England: Working-Class Children at the Heart of Victorian Empire (Routledge, 2005).

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 Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, where she teaches children's literature, American literature, and storytelling. She is the author of Transatlantic Translations: Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Brontë (University of Tennessee Press, 2000).

Richard Flynn is Professor of Literature at Georgia Southern University, where he teaches children's literature and modern and contemporary poetry, and the editor of The Children's Literature Association Quarterly.

Rachel Fordyce retired as the 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.

James Fowler, Professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas, edits the poetry journal SLANT. He has published articles on Dante, Carroll, Robert Browning, Woolf, Frost, and Bishop, among others. His poems, stories, and personal essays have appeared in such journals as The Classical Outlook, Zone 3, and Karamu.

Elizabeth Gargano has published articles in Topic and The University of Mississippi Studies in English. She has articles forthcoming from SEL: Studies in English Literature and Texas Studies in Literature and Language. Another forthcoming essay will appear in Mary Augusta Ward: A Collection of Critical Essays.

Kathryn V. Graham is an instructor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where she teaches literature for children and British literature. She has published on Kenneth Grahame in Children's Literature Association Quarterly and on Peter Dickinson in The Lion and the Unicorn.

Marah Gubar is an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Her publications include essays on E. Nesbit, Juliana Ewing, L. M. Montgomery, E. B. White, and Jack Gantos.

Margaret R. Higonnet, a former editor of Children's Literature, is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. She has published on literary theory, women's literature, suicide, and the literature of World War I and trauma. With Beverly Clark, she coedited Girls, Boys, Books, Toys (Johns Hopkins UP, 2000).

Meni Kanatsouli is an associate professor at the University of Athens, where she teaches children's literature. She is the author of five books (published in Greek). Her most recent books include The Ambivalence of Children's Literature: Between Greekness and Multiculturalism (2002); Folktales of Greece: A Treasury of Delights (co-author, Libraries Unlimited, 2002, in English).

Kenneth Kidd is Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Children's Literature and Culture at the University of Florida. He is author of Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale (Minnesota, 2004) and coeditor...