Notes on Contributors
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Linda Belau is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas-Pan American. She is co-editor of Topologies of Trauma (Other Press), special issue editor for Postmodern Culture and Women Writers, and author of several articles. She is currently finishing a book entitled Encountering Jouissance: Trauma, Psychosis, Psychoanalysis.
Amy Boesky is an Associate Professor of English at Boston College, where she teaches English literature. She has been teaching and researching the history of adolescent fiction and is currently at work on a study of changing ideas of “girlhood” from the early modern period to the twentieth century. In addition to numerous articles on early modern literature and culture, she is author of Founding Fictions: Utopias in Early Modern England (University of Georgia Press) and of a memoir, What We Have (Gotham Books, August 2010).
David Cappella is Associate Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, where he teaches poetry and young adult literature. He has co-authored with Baron Wormser two widely used textbooks, Teaching the Art of Poetry: The Moves and A Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day to Day. Cappella has led workshops on the teaching of poetry in public schools in Connecticut and throughout the United States, including the National Endowment for the Humanities. Cappella’s poem series Gobbo: A Solitaire’s Opera won the 2004 Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition and was a finalist for the 2006 Bordighera Prize and the 2008 Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition. He recently completed a novel entitled Kindling.
Sara K. Day is a PhD candidate at Texas A&M University, where she specializes in children’s and young adult literature. Her dissertation, “Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Fiction for Adolescent Women,” explores representations and narrative constructions of intimacy in young adult literature from 1994 to the present, attending particularly to cultural contradictions regarding young women’s interpersonal relationships.
Amanda M. Greenwell teaches in the English Department at Central Connecticut State University. She earned her MA from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and also teaches high school English. Her scholarly work focuses (though not exclusively) on young adult and children’s literature. [End Page 202]
Irina Kyulanova has two undergraduate degrees from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” Bulgaria: BA in Indology (2003) and BA in English and American Studies (2006), as well as a Master’s degree in English Language and Culture from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2008). She currently is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on representations of war and adolescence in contemporary young adult fiction and on life writing related to conflicts in Africa and the Middle East.
Rob McAlear is completing his dissertation in twentieth-century American literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research investigates the ways that narrative and rhetoric shape political possibility in contemporary fiction.
Deirdre H. McMahon, Department of English and Philosophy, Drexel University, teaches children’s and young adult literature as well as British literature and writing. She has published on a number of topics in critical race studies, particularly in relation to the structural co-dependence of race and sex in the nineteenth-century transatlantic imagination. Recent pieces include analyses of black doctress Mary Seacole, the political history of the British tea trade, girls’ responses to imperial juvenile fiction, and the repercussions of theories of “colored people’s time.”
Michelle Robinson is a graduate student in the American and New England Studies Program at Boston University.
Anna Silver is Associate Professor of English at Mercer University, where she teaches courses in Victorian and children’s literature. She is the author of Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body (Cambridge University Press), as well as essays on Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lucy Lane Clifford, Christina Rossetti, and others. She lives in Macon, Georgia, with her husband and son.
Michelle Pagni Stewart is Associate Professor of English at Mt. San Jacinto College in California, where she teaches children’s, adolescent, Native American, and ethnic literatures, among other things. She is co-editor of American Ethnic Literary Traditions in American Children’s Literature (Palgrave) and has published on multiethnic children’s literature in Children’s Literature Quarterly, MELUS (Multiethnic...
