Contributors and Editors
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Michelle Ann Abate is an associate professor of English at Hollins University. She is the author of Raising Your Kids Right: Children’s Literature and American Political Conservatism, which was released by Rutgers University Press in 2010. In addition, with Kenneth B. Kidd, she coedited Over the Rainbow: Queer Children’s and Young Adult Literature (U of Michigan P, 2011).
Amanda K. Allen is an assistant professor in the Children’s Literature Program at Eastern Michigan University. She is currently working on a book-length project on postwar/Cold War teen girl romance novels, in which she argues that the texts provide evidence of a unique female society, silently operating under patriarchy, in which females networked with each other to create their own semiautonomous community.
Dennis Butts taught at Reading University and is the former chairman of the Children’s Books History Society. He has written widely on various aspects of children’s literature, including studies of Barbara Hofland and R. L. Stevenson. His most recent publication is Children’s Literature and Social Change: Some Case Studies from Barbara Hofland to Philip Pullman.
Catherine Cronquist Browning is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley, working on Victorian literature and the history of childhood. Her dissertation, “Reading Children in Nineteenth-Century British Literature,” examines representations of child readers in the bildungsroman, the fantasy novel, the autobiography, and the educational treatise.
R. H. W. Dillard, editor-in-chief of Children’s Literature and editor of The Hollins Critic, is a professor of English at Hollins University and academic adviser to the director of the Hollins Graduate Program in Children’s Literature. A novelist and poet, he is also the author of two critical monographs, Horror Films and Understanding George Garrett, as well as articles on Ellen Glasgow, Vladimir Nabokov, Federico Fellini, and others, and the introduction to the Signet Classic edition of Treasure Island.
Brian Dillon is a professor of English at Montana State University-Billings, where he teaches a wide range of literature courses. His recent publications are on World War I literature and twentieth-century Irish literature.
Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario is a lecturer at Monash University, teaching fairy tale, children’s, and fantasy literature. She has published on a variety of topics, including Australian fairy tale, Harry Potter, and Disney animation.
Christine Doyle is a professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, where she teaches courses in children’s literature, storytelling, and nineteenth-century women writers.
NaToya Faughnder is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Florida, where she is writing her dissertation on paradigmatic constructions of the child.
Leona W. Fisher teaches children’s and young adult literature as well as Victorian fiction and nonfiction at Georgetown Univesity. She has published on narratology and children’s fiction.
Rebekah Fitzsimmons is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Florida, where she recently completed her MA in English. In addition to her concentration in children’s literature, her interests include cultural studies, canonicity, American literature, consumer culture, and science fiction.
Meni Kanatsouli was a professor at the University of Athens (Greece) and now at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she teaches children’s literature. She has written and published on versions of tales (Folktales from Greece. A Treasure of Delights [End Page 321] [Libraries Unlimited, 2002]), on Greek identity and its relationship to multiculturalism in Greek children’s books, and on the issue of gender in texts for children.
Kara K. Keeling is a professor of English at Christopher Newport University, where she teaches children’s and young adult literature. She coedited, with Scott Pollard, Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature (Routledge, 2009) and coauthored, with Marsha Sprague, Discovering a Voice: Engaging Adolescent Girls with Young Adult Literature (International Reading Association, 2007). She and Scott Pollard are engaged in a book-length study of food and children’s literature.
Adrienne Kertzer received the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Scholarship on a Jewish Subject and ChLA Honor Book Award for My Mother’s Voice: Children, Literature, and the Holocaust (Broadview, 2002). Her current research is on cultural trauma and young adult literature.
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