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  • Contributors' Notes

George R. Bodmer teaches English at Indiana University Northwest. He has published research on the contemporary picture book, American fiction, and technical illustration. He is the new book reviewer for The Lion and the Unicorn.

Joel D. Chaston is an assistant professor of English at Southwest Missouri State University where he teaches children's and young adult literature. He is the co-author of the forthcoming Growing Into Whole Language (1993) and a number of articles in publications such as Children's Literature Association Quarterly and Children's Literature in Education.

Beverly Lyon Clark teaches English at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. She has written on Alcott, Carroll, Sharp, and Stevens. Her current pursuits are cross-gendered school stories and the cultural construction of children's literature.

Gwenth Evans teaches English at Malaspina College in British Columbia. She is an accomplished harpist.

Perry Nodelman is professor of English at the University of Winnipeg. He is the editor of Touchstones: Reflections on the Best in Children's Literature, The Children's Literature Association Quarterly, and author of Words About Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children's Picture Books.

Anne Phillips is a doctoral candidate at the University of Connecticut, completing a dissertation on the influence of Transcendentalism on American popular novelists between 1880-1925. She is co-editor of Children's Literature, vol. 21, and co-author of Resources for Teaching the Bedford Introduction to Literature. [End Page 245]

Lisa Schlangen is a graduate student in English at Eastern Michigan University and former editorial assistant of The Lion and the Unicorn.

Carole Scott is undergraduate dean at San Diego State University. She has published in children's literature and in pedagogy, and is currently working on a study of "otherworlds" in literature for children.

Jan Susina is an assistant professor of English at Illinois State University where he teaches children's literature. He is currently at work on a critical study of the image of the Great Plains in children's literature. He is guest editor of the next issue of The Lion and the Unicorn.

Cheryl B. Torsney is an associate professor of English at West Virginia University, where she teaches American literature and literary theory. Her publications include works on Constance Fenimore Woolson, Henry James, quilting, and feminist criticism.

J. R. Wytenbroek teaches English at Malaspina College in British Columbia. Her academic interests include fantasy and science fiction together with children's literature. She has written a book on Madeleine L'Engle, soon to be published. [End Page 246]

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