Contributors and Editors
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malin alkestrand, an assistant professor in comparative literature at Linnæus University, Sweden, explored fantasy literature's didactic potential regarding democracy, human rights, and multiculturalism in her dissertation. She has published "A Cognitive Analysis of Characters in Swedish and Anglophone Children's Fantasy Literature" (IRCL, vol. 11, no. 1, 2018), with Christopher Owen.
rhonda brock-servais is professor of English at Longwood University and visiting associate professor of children's literature at Hollins University. At both places, she teaches the history of children's literature, YA, and special topics. At Longwood, she also teaches nineteenth-century British literature. She is the Associate North American Editor for Children's Literature in Education.
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. Her most recent book is The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature.
sara k. day is an assistant professor of English at Truman State University, author of Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature, and coeditor of two essay collections. Her research and teaching interests include adolescent womanhood, narrative theory, and fandom studies. She recently assumed the editorship of Children's Literature Association Quarterly.
r.h.w. dillard, editor-in-chief of Children's Literature and editor of The Hollins Critic, is 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 a Signet Classic edition of Treasure Island.
elizabeth ezra, originally from California, is a professor in the Division of Literature and Languages at the University of Stirling in Scotland. She has published a number of academic books on film, literature, and culture, most recently The Cinema of Things (Bloomsbury, 2017), and is currently writing a book about witches and alterity in children's literature and cinema. She is also an award-winning children's author.
maude hines is an associate professor of English at Portland State University. Her teaching and research focuses on Anglo-American children's literature, African American literature, and cultural studies. She is completing a manuscript on citizen formation in late nineteenth-century American children's literature.
wesley jacques is a doctoral candidate at Illinois State University. He is currently working on a dissertation concerned with race, gender, and power in the context of children's and adolescent literature.
marilisa jiménez garcía is an assistant professor of English and Latinx Studies at Lehigh University. Her forthcoming book is on Puerto Rico and US Empire with UP of Mississippi.
lydia kokkola is a professor of English and education at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. Her current two projects are on reading in English as a foreign language and literature for and about Sweden's national minorities. Together with Roxanne Harde, she edited the Routledge collection, The Embodied Child: Readings in Children's Literature and Culture (2018).
yeojoo lim is a lecturer at Hansung University in South Korea. She received her doctorate degree in Library and Information Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on diversity in children's literature, reading engagement, media literacy, youth services librarianship, and library services for underserved populations.
angel daniel matos is an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in young adult literature, adolescent media and culture, and queer studies. His research examines how queer narrative and aesthetic practices foster emotional frameworks that complicate current understandings of young adult literature and culture.
carl f. miller is an assistant professor of English at Palm Beach Atlantic University, where he teaches courses on children's literature and comparative literature. He has previously published on the Newbery Medal and the Young Reader's Choice Award.
claudia mills is an associate professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Colorado and...
