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  • Contributors and Editors

Jan Bakker teaches English at Utah State University. For the 1980-81 academic year, he has a Fulbright-Hays Teaching Award to Indonesia.

Ronald Berman teaches literature at the University of California at San Diego. He is the author of America in the Sixties: An Intellectual History and is the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Carol Billman teaches English at the University of Pittsburgh. Her publications have appeared in several journals, including Quarterly Journal of Speech and Journal of Popular Culture.

Francelia Butler teaches English at the University of Connecticut and in 1980 received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study the ritual nature of folk rhyme.

John Cech teaches English at the University of Florida and is at work on a study of the archetypal patterns of American children's literature as well as several children's folklore projects.

Ann Charters has lived in Sweden since 1971. She is the author of Kerouac: A Biography and I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, the latter co-authored with Samuel Charters. Mallay is her daughter.

Tom Davenport is head of Davenport Films, Delaplane, Virginia.

Margaret P. Esmonde teaches English at Villanova University. She is past president of the Children's Literature Association and present editor of the Children's Literature Association Quarterly. She has published numerous articles on children's fantasy and science fiction.

Nellvena Duncan Eutsler teaches English at East Carolina University. She has twice traveled to China to study contemporary Chinese children's literature and the role that the media play in the education of Chinese children.

Rachel Fordyce is assistant dean at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University at Blacksburg.

Buckminster Fuller is best known for designing the geodesic dome. He has written widely on the thought potential of modern man.

Maureen Gaffney is the author of More Films Kids Like, co-author of What to Do When the Lights Go On, and director of the Media Center for Children in New York City.

Martin Green teaches studies in imperialism and literature at Tufts University. He is the author of The Von Richthofen Sisters, Children of the Sun, and Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of Empire.

David L. Greene is chairman of the English department at Piedmont College, Demorest, Georgia. He is co-author of the Oz Scrapbook, and past chairperson of the awards committee of the Children's Literature Association. [End Page 239]

D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., teaches English at Baylor University. He has published articles in Children's Literature, English Language Notes, Southern Quarterly, and American Notes and Queries.

Anne Hollander is the author of Seeing through Clothes, an art-historical view of fashions.

R. Gordon Kelly is associate director of the American Studies Program at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Mother Was a Lady and "Children's Literature" in Handbook of American Popular Culture, ed. M. Thomas Inge, Vol. 1.

James Miller directs the Intercultural Studies Program and teaches English at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. He has written articles on contemporary black fiction and is working on a study of Imamu Baraka.

Ruth K. Macdonald teaches English and children's literature at Northeastern University and is the author of the forthcoming Louisa May Alcott volume in the Twayne's United States Authors Series.

Anita Moss teaches English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and has participated in many regional and national programs in children's literature.

Joan Stidham Nist teaches in the department of Educational Media at Auburn University. She recently did research at the International Youth Library in Munich on its Stipendiate program.

Samuel Pickering, Jr., teaches English at; the University of Connecticut. He taught at Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria, on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1979-80. He is the author of a forthcoming study of eighteenth-century children's books.

Milla B. Riggio teaches English at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Her publications include articles in Children's Literature and Harvard English Studies (forthcoming in Vol, 9). In 1981 she will be teaching in Rome.

Barbara Rosen teaches English at the University of Connecticut. She was book review editor for volumes 2 and 3 of...

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