Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author, co-author, or editor of thirteen books, including the forthcoming critical memoir, Creep: A Life, a Theory, an Apology.
Valerie Bright holds degrees in English and library studies. She is currently a lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she teaches courses on children’s literature, western history, and writing.
Paula Gallant Eckard is an associate professor of English and director of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she teaches courses in American and Southern literature. Her books include Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith (U of Missouri P, 2002) and Thomas Wolfe and Lost Children in Southern Literature (U of Tennessee P, 2016).
Laura Hakala is an assistant professor of English at Shawnee State University, where she teaches courses in composition, American literature, and children’s literature. Her research interests include children’s and young adult literature about the American South and girlhood studies.
Tina L. Hanlon is a professor of English at Ferrum College and the Hollins University Summer Graduate Programs in Children’s Literature. She has written essays about folktales, fantasy and other children’s stories in a variety of media. She is director of the website AppLit: Resources for Readers and Teachers of Appalachian Literature for Children and Young Adults (www2.ferrum.edu/AppLit), and co-editor of Crosscurrents of Children’s Literature: An Anthology of Texts and Crit icism (Oxford UP, 2006). She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Appalachian literature, including the English course within an interdisciplinary program called the Appalachian Cluster, where study of literature and writing is combined with sociology and environmental science.
Joanne Joy earned her MA in English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she formerly taught in the honors college. Her research interests include the intersection between food and Southern culture. She is currently working on a project to document and preserve the cultural history of family recipes across North Carolina.
Joli Barham McClelland works as instructional designer at Queens University of Charlotte and holds an MA in English with a concentration in children’s literature from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, as well as a master’s degree in library and information studies from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
Jan Susina is a professor of English at Illinois State University where he teaches courses in children’s and adolescent literature. He spent his high school and college years in the Birmingham, Alabama, area. He regularly teaches Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird in his adolescent literature course; the novel is frequently selected by the students as their favorite text from the course.
Anita Tarr is a professor of English, retired, from Illinois State University where she taught children’s and young adult literature, poetry, women’s literature, and science fiction. A visit to [End Page 180] Cross Creek, Florida, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s home, inspired her dissertation and several articles; other publications studied Virginia Woolf, Thomas Carlyle, Robert Cormier, Scott O’Dell, and especially J. M. Barrie. She now resides in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.
Eric L. Tribunella is an associate professor of English at The University of Southern Mississippi, where he teaches children’s and young adult literature. He is the author of Melancholia and Maturation: The Use of Trauma in American Children’s Literature (U of Tennessee P, 2010), the co-author of Reading Children’s Literature: A Critical Introduction (Bedord/St. Martin’s, 2013), and the editor of Edward Prime-Stevenson’s Left to Themselves (Valancourt, 2016).
New York Times best-selling author Carole Boston Weatherford has dozens of books, including Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King Award and Honor, and NAACP Image Award winners. Her latest titles include The Legendary Miss Lena Horne (Atheneum, 2017), Freedom in Congo Square (Little Bee, 2016), Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America (Whitman & Co., 2015), Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression (Whitman & Co., 2017), You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen...
