Contributors and Editors
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Lauren Byler is an assistant professor of English at California State University North-ridge, where she teaches nineteenth-century British literature as well as a course titled “Girls’ Books?,” from which her essay on the Harry Potter series is derived. Her work also appears in Novel, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Texas Studies in Literature and Language.
Katharine Capshaw is author of Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks and Children’s Literature of the Harlem Renaissance. A professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Capshaw is the former editor of the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly.
Karen Coats is a professor of English at Illinois State University, where she teaches courses in children’s and young adult literature. She publishes widely on the intersections of youth literature and contemporary cultural and literary theory.
Amanda Cockrell is director of the Graduate Programs in Children’s Literature at Hollins University, where she is also managing editor of The Hollins Critic. Her most recent book is the young adult novel What We Keep Is Not Always What Will Stay
R.H.W. Dillard, editor-in-chief of Children’s Literature and editor of The Hollins Critic, is the Susan Gager Jackson Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University and academic adviser to the director of the Hollins Graduate Programs 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, a professor at Montana State University-Billings, has published recent articles on Irish literature, World War I literature, and, in Children’s Literature, review essays on To Kill a Mockingbird.
Clare Echterling is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on evolution, empire, and environmental issues in late Victorian literature and postcolonial ecocritical approaches to children’s literature. She is working on a dissertation titled Evolution, Degeneration, and the Environment in late Victorian Fiction.
Rachel Falconer is a professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Lausanne. Her principle areas of research interest are in contemporary English and European literatures, and the reception of Virgil and Dante in English literature. She has contributed many chapters on children’s literature to edited collections, and her books include Hell in Contemporary Literature: Western Descent Narratives since 1945 (2005); The Crossover Novel: Contemporary Children’s Fiction and Its Adult Readership (2009); and as contributing editor, Kathleen Jamie: Essays and Poems on her Work (2014).
Brian Gibson is an associate professor of English literature and film at Université Sainte-Anne in Nova Scotia. Previous publications on children’s literature include an essay linking Dickens’ Oliver Twist and Mordecai Richler’s Jacob Two-Two Meets The Hooded Fang and the essay entitled “Murdering Adulthood: Lost Girls, Boy Soldiers, and Child Killers in Saki’s Fiction.”
Marah Gubar, an associate professor of Literature at MIT, is the author of Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children’s Literature (2009). Her second book, tentatively entitled Age and Agency, attempts to generate a theoretical account of children’s voice and agency by drawing on a double archive: twentieth-century children’s texts that young people had a hand in creating and work by childhood studies scholars from the sciences as well as the humanities. [End Page 293]
Cristina Herrera holds a PhD in English from Claremont Graduate University and is an associate professor of Chicano and Latin American studies at California State University, Fresno. She is the author of the 2014 study, Contemporary Chicana Literature: (Re)Writing the Maternal Script and co-editor of Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text: Essays on Caribbean Women’s Writing (2015).
Angela Hubler is associate professor and interim head of Women’s Studies at Kansas State University, where she teaches courses on the literature and culture of girlhood, gender, and class. Most recently, she edited Little Red Readings: Historical...
