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  • Contributors and Editors

Janice M. Alberghene teaches children's and adolescents' literature at Fitzburgh State College. Her current research interests are autobiographies of childhood and contemporary humor for child readers.

Gillian Avery teaches in the Department of External Studies at Oxford University. She is currently completing a history of American children's books.

Kristine Bushnell has worked as a professional translator of Russian for Progress Publishers. She currently teaches courses in literature at Northwestern University and is engaged in a study of formalist critical theory.

Francelia Butler, founder of Children's Literature, teaches at the University of Connecticut. She is most recently author of Skipping around the World: The Ritual Nature of Folk Rhymes.

John Cech, past president of the Children's Literature Association, teaches English at the University of Florida. He is writing a book on the archetype of the child.

Tracy Crouch, bibliographer for the festschrift section of the MLA International Bibliography, is engaged in doctoral research at Purdue University on the Old English Acer-bot.

Steven V. Daniels, who teaches Victorian literature at Southern Methodist University, has published on Charles Dickens. His interest in Margery Williams Bianco began when his psychoanalyst referred him to The Velveteen Rabbit.

Rachel Fordyce, former executive secretary of the Children's Literature Association, is dean of humanities and social sciences at Indiana University, Pennsylvania. She is the author of four books, the most recent of which is Lewis Carroll: A Reference Guide.

Martin Gardner has written and edited many books in science, mathematics, philosophy, and literature, including several edited volumes of L. Frank Baum, The Annotated Alice, and Snark. He is now updating The Ambidextrous Universe and The Annotated Alice.

Anita Susan Grossman, who has taught in the English departments at DePauw University and the University of California at Berkeley, is currently a free-lance writer in the Bay Area. Her articles and reviews, including a number on series fiction for children, have appeared in such publications as Twentieth-Century Literature, Clio, Commonwealth, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times Book Review.

Margaret R. Higonnet, on the faculty at the University of Connecticut, won a Children's Literature Association prize for her "Narrative Fractures and Fragments," Children's Literature 15.

Patrick Hogan, who teaches English at the University of Connecticut, has published widely on psychoanalysis and literature. He and Lalita Pandit have co-edited Criticism and Lacan: Essays and Dialogue on Language, Structure, and the Unconscious.

R. D. S. Jack is professor of Scottish and medieval literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has written The Italian Influence on Scottish Literature, Patterns of Divine Comedy, and on J. M. Barrie's drama.

U. C. Knoepflmacher has contributed to volumes 11 and 13 of Children's Literature. His most recent publication in the field is "Of Babylands and Babylons: E. Nesbit and the Reclamation of the Fairy Tale" in Tuba Studies in Women's Literature (1987).

Lois Kuznets, who teaches children's literature at San Diego State University, has recently published the Twayne Kenneth Grahame. [End Page 210]

Roni Natov, co-founder and -editor of The Lion and the Unicorn, teaches English Literature at Brooklyn College. She has published widely in the field of children's literature criticism and is currently writing a book on Leon Garfield for Twayne.

Jean Perrot, who teaches comparative literature at the University of Paris 10, has published a study of twins, Mythe et littérature (1976), Henry James: une écriture énigmatique (1982), and Du jeu, des enfants et des livres (1987).

Susan Petit, who teaches English and French at the College of San Mateo, has previously published on Michel Tournier in a variety of journals. She reviews fiction for French Review and criticism for Romance Quarterly.

Jerry Phillips, a graduate student at the University of Essex, studied the literature of Pacific adventure while on a Fulbright scholarship in 1988-89.

Lucy Rollin holds a Ph.D. from Emory. She is an assistant professor at Clemson University, teaching children's and adolescents' literature.

Barbara Rosen, who teaches at the University of Connecticut, has published on witchcraft, children's literature, and Shakespeare and has organized workshops for teachers on Shakespeare in performance.

Richard W. Rotert has co...

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