Contributors
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP- Contributors
Frances M. Clarke is a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney in Australia. In 2011, she published War Stories: Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North, which jointly won the Australian Historical Association's biennial prize for best work of history for a first-time author. Currently, she is co-writing with Rebecca Jo Plant a book on the use of underage soldiers and debates over youth and militarism during the American Civil War.
Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak is associate professor of Literature and Director of the Center for Young People's Literature and Culture at the Institute of English Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland. She has recently published Yes to Solidarity, No to Oppression: Radical Fantasy Fiction and Its Young Readers (2016). Her research focuses on speculative fiction, cognitive poetics, and participatory and child-led approaches.
Lincoln Geraghty is reader in Popular Media Cultures in the School of Media & Performing Arts at the University of Portsmouth. He is senior editor for the online open access journal from Taylor Francis, Cogent Arts and Humanities. Major publications include Living with Star Trek: American Culture and the Star Trek Universe (IB Tauris, 2007), American Science Fiction Film and Television (Berg, 2009) and Cult Collectors: Nostalgia, Fandom and Collecting Popular Culture (Routledge, 2014). His research interests center on the relationship between popular media, memory, and fandom.
Michael Grossberg is the Sally M. Reahard Professor of History and a professor of law at Indiana University. He has written a number of books and articles on American legal and social history and has been involved in several family policy research projects. He is currently working on a study of child protection in the United States. Grossberg also edited the American Historical Review from 1995 to 2005 and recently completed a term as president of the American Society for Legal History.
Helle Strandgaard Jensen is associate professor in history, Aarhus University. Her research focuses on contemporary childhood and media history in Scandinavia, Europe, and the US after 1945. Jensen is the author of Superman to Social Realism: Children's media and Scandinavian childhood (2017) as well as [End Page 145] articles on childhood history, children's media culture, and digital archives' impact on historiography. She is currently working on a comparative project about the reception of Sesame Street in 1970s' Europe.
Vanessa Joosen is associate professor of english literature and children's literature at the University of Antwerp. She is the author of, among others, Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales (2011), as well as the co-editor of the Dutch history of children's literature Een land van waanenwijs (2014, with Helma van Lierop and Rita Ghesquiere) and Grimm's Tales Around the Globe (2014, with Gillian Lathey). In 2018, her new edited volume, Connecting Childhood and Old Age, will appear with the University Press of Mississippi.
Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer is a professor of children's literature at Tilburg University in the Netherlands (Department of Culture Studies) and chair of the Dutch IBBY-section. She is a member of the editorial board of Literatuurzonderleeftijd (Literature without age) and a member of the advisory board of International Research for Children's Literature, IRCL. Her main research interests are literary socialization, adolescent literature, the history of Dutch children's literature and life writing in children's literature.
Mateusz Marecki is a PhD student at the University of Wrocław and a lecturer at the Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław, Poland. His research interests include empirical and cognitive approaches to studying literature and music.
Rebecca Jo Plant is associate professor at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America and co-editor of Maternalism Reconsidered: Motherhood, Welfare, and Social Policies in the Twentieth Century. Along with Frances M. Clarke, she won the 2015 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize and Berkshire Conference of Women Historians' Prize for the best article in the field of the history of women, gender or sexuality for "'The Crowning Insult': Federal Segregation and the Gold Star Mother and Widow Pilgrimages of the Early 1930s," which appeared in the Journal of American History.
Chelsea Sambells began in communication...
