Contributors
- Contributors’ Notes
Hans-Heino Ewers has been Professor (German Literature/Children’s Literature) at Frankfurt University and Director of the “Institut für Jugendbuchforschung” (Institute for Children’s Literature Research) since 1989. He is the author of Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Von der Gründerzeit bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg. Eine Textsammlung (Children’s Literature from 1870 to 1918. An anthology) (1994) and Jugendkultur im Adoleszenzroman (Youth Culture in the Adolescent Novel) (1994).
Christine Doyle Francis was coeditor of Volume 20 of Children’s Literature and has published curriculum guides on the work of Gerald McDermott and E. L. Konigsburg. She teaches children’s literature, storytelling, and American literature at Central Connecticut State University.
Terri Frongia holds a BA in Art History and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Riverside, and is currently director of distance learning and instructional development at that university. Author of a monograph on seventeeth-century literature and art, The Aesthetics of the Marvelous, she has published articles on Shakespeare’s Othello, the works of modern Italian poets and fantasists, hypertext and cyberpunk, children’s literature, and various issues in scholarly publishing. She also co-authored the book, The Grad Student’s Guide to Getting Published (ARCO 1992).
Betty Greenway is an associate professor at Youngstown State University, where she teaches children’s literature. She has published articles in the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, the ALAN Review, and The New Advocate and is editing a special issue of the Quarterly on ecology.
Peter Hunt is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Wales, Cardiff. His academic publications include An Illustrated History of Children’s Literature (ed.) (1995), Children’s Literature: The Development of Criticism (1990), and Literature for Children: Contemporary Criticism (1992). Forthcoming is The Routledge Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Professor Hunt’s published fiction includes Backtrack (1986) and Going Up (1989).
Michael Kowalski holds his PhD in American literature from the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches English and philosophy at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah.
Mitzi Myers is especially interested in and writes about historical children’s literature and women’s writing. She teaches children’s and adolescent literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is finishing a book on Maria Edgeworth.
Jean Perrot, who teaches comparative literature at the University of Paris, is the author of Mythe et Littérature (1976), Henry James, Une Écriture Énigmatique (1982), Du Jeu, des Enfants et des Livres (1987), Artbaroque, and Art d’Enfance (1991). He has also edited Jeux Graphiques dans l’Albumpour la Jeunesse (1993) and Culture, Texte et Jeune Lecteur (1993).
Mavis Reimer holds a postdoctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in affiliation with the University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She is the editor of a collection of essays on L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, entitled Such a Simple Little Tale (Scarecrow, 1992).
Wolfgang Schneider is the Director of the Children’s and Young People’s Theatre Centre in the Federal Republic of Germany. He is also Lecturer at the Institut für Jugendbuchforschung (Institute for Research on Literature for Young People) at the University of Frankfurt am Main and at the Institute for Theatrescience at Munich University. Dr. Schneider is editor of the Children’s media magazine “Fundevogel.” His publications include Kinder- und Jugendtheater in der Schweiz (1994), Kinder- und Jugendtheater in den Niederlanden (1992), and numerous articles in specialist books and periodicals.
J. D. Stahl is the author of Mark Twain, Culture and Gender: Envisioning America Through Europe (University of Georgia Press). He has written essays for Children’s Literature, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, and many other journals. He teaches at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Craig Stroupe teaches creative writing and literature at Kansas State University, where he directs the English department’s computer writing center. He earned his PhD in American literature and rhetoric from Florida State University.
Reinbert Tabbert, now retired, was a professor of English at the College of Higher Education Schwäbisch Gmünd, southwestern Germany, and also taught children’s literature at the College of Librarianship in Stuttgart. He is the author of...
