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  • Contributors and Editors

Catherine Butler is a Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University. Her academic books include Four British Fantasists (Scarecrow/ChLA, 2006), Reading History in Children's Books (with Hallie O'Donovan; Palgrave, 2012), and Literary Studies Deconstructed (Palgrave, 2018), as well as numerous edited volumes. She is editor-inchief of Children's Literature in Education.

Jen Cadwallader is an associate professor of English at Randolph-Macon College. She is the author of Spirits and Spirituality in Victorian Fiction (Palgrave, 2016) and coeditor of Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave, 2017). Her essay on Beatrix Potter in this volume is part of a larger work-in-progress, Economic Child: Capitalism and Agency in the Golden Age of Children's Literature.

Karen Coats is a professor of Education and director of the Centre for Research in Children's Literature at the University of Cambridge. 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.

Sreemoyee Dasgupta is a PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh. Her dissertation project lies in the intersection of children's literature and postcolonial studies, with an emphasis on South Asia. Some of her other interests include Victorian literature, gender studies, popular culture, YA literature, and legislation and public policy about childhood.

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 a Signet Classic edition of Treasure Island.

Anna Mae Duane is an associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Her most recent books include Educated for Freedom: The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation (New York UP, 2020) and Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children's Literature before 1900 (U of Minnesota P, 2017), coedited with Kate Capshaw.

Elisabeth Rose Gruner is an associate professor of English at the University of Richmond and author of Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Her research focuses on adolescent literature, reading, and education, and she teaches children's and young adult literature, Victorian literature, and creative nonfiction writing.

Marah Gubar, associate professor of Literature at MIT, is the author of Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children's Literature (Oxford UP, 2009). She received the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni Teaching Award in graduate school, the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Pittsburgh, and MIT's Levitan Teaching Award.

Michelle Beissel Heath is a professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Kearney, where she specializes in children's literature and nineteenth-century British literature. Her book Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Childhood and the Politics of Play was published by Routledge (formerly Ashgate) in 2018.

Kenneth Kidd is a professor of English at the University of Florida. He is author of Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale (U of Minnesota P, 2005), Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children's Literature (U of Minnesota P, 2011), and the forthcoming Theory for Beginners: Children's Literature as Critical Thought.

Whitney S. May is a doctoral student in the Department of American Studies at the University of Texas and a lecturer in the Department of English at Texas State University. Related work on Tamora Pierce is forthcoming in the Routledge collection (tentatively) titled Displaced: Literature of Indigeneity, Migration, and Trauma.

Megan Jeanette Myers is an assistant professor of Spanish and Latinx Studies at Iowa State University. Myers is the author of Mapping Hispaniola: Third Space in Dominican and Haitian Literature (U of Virginia P, 2019...

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