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  • Contributors' Notes

George R. Bodmer teaches English at Indiana University Northwest and is one of the book review editors for The Lion & the Unicorn.

Julie Brown is an assistant professor of English at Youngstown State University. Her short stories and articles have appeared in journals such as MMLA Journal, Southern Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review.

Robert Brown is an assistant professor of English at Kent State University. His poetry and articles have appeared in Hellas, The Literary Review, Quarterly West, and New Virginia Review.

Joel D. Chaston teaches children's and young adult literature at Southwest Missouri State University. He is the co-author of Theme Exploration: A Voyage of Discovery. His articles have appeared in ChLA Quarterly, Children's Literature in Education, and The Lion and the Unicorn.

Richard Flynn teaches contemporary poetry and children's literature at Georgia Southern University. His book Randall Jarrell and the Lost World of Childhood (Georgia, 1990) was named a 1992 Outstanding Academic Book by Choice magazine, and his essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Children's Literature, ChLA Quarterly, and Children's Literature in Education.

David Galef teaches English literature at the University of Mississippi. He has published a wide variety of fiction, including the children's book The Little Red Bicycle. His critical essays have appeared in American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, The Journal of Modern Literature, and elsewhere. His book On the Margin: The Study of Flat and Minor Characters is forthcoming from Penn State Press. [End Page 109]

A. Waller Hastings is an assistant professor of English at Northern State University. He is currently working on a collection of essays dealing with Disney animation, children's literature, and critical theory.

Judith L. Kellogg is an associate professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where she has been an active organizer of the biennial conference on "Literature and Hawaii's Children." She is the author of Medieval Artistry and Exchange: Economic Institutions, Society, and Literary Form in Old French Narrative and has published on Chaucer, Christine de Pisan, fantasy, and children's literature.

Elizabeth Law is an editor at Viking Children's Books, where she has edited books ranging from picture books to young adult fiction and non-fiction. The former host of "On Children's Books" for WNYE-FM in New York City, she has a B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Anne Lundin is an assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her research interests are in the triumvirate of Edmund Evans: Greenaway, Crane, and Caldecott. Her dissertation is a reception study of Kate Greenaway in English and American, 1879-1901.

Sharon Shaloo has taught at Indiana University, the University of Kent at Canterbury, and the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She is completing a study of Edith Wharton's autobiographical writing and her previous publications include articles on Wharton and Mary McGarry Morris. In her spare time, she and her husband are teaching their three-year-old son to buy books in and around Harvard Square.

Carolyn Sigler is an assistant professor of English at Kansas State University. She is currently working on studies of the relationship between political radicalism and children's literature and on environmentalism in children's literature. [End Page 110]

Jan Susina teaches children's literature in the English department at Illinois State University. He is working on a study of nineteenth-century literary fairy tales for children.

Roberta Seelinger Trites is an assistant professor in the English department at Illinois State University, specializing in children's literature. Her research interests include critical theories—especially feminist and narrative theories—as they are applied to recent children's texts.

Naomi J. Wood is an assistant professor of English at Kansas State University. She works on the intersections between children's literature, Victorian studies, and theories of gender and sexuality. [End Page 111]

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