Contributors and Editors
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Ada Bieber teaches and researches at Humboldt-University, Berlin. She focuses on picture books, spatial studies, and East German culture. Her current research appears in the Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies (2017), The Lion and the Unicorn (2019), and International Research in Children's Literature (2020).
Jill Coste is a PhD candidate at the University of Florida. Her research areas include fairy-tale retellings, dystopian YA fiction, and twentieth-century youth cultures. Her recent work has appeared in Girlhood Studies and in the edited collection Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction (UP of Mississippi, 2020).
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.
Ellen Butler Donovan teaches courses in children's and YA literature at the undergraduate and graduate level at Middle Tennessee State University. Her research focuses on nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American children's literature.
Željka Flegar is an associate professor at the University of Osijek, Croatia, where she teaches and researches children's literature, media, and drama in English. Her areas of interest include literary discourse, children's media and adaptations, and cognitive approaches to children's literature and culture.
Amanda M. Greenwell, assistant professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, teaches courses in literature for young people and English education. Among other topics, she investigates children's fantasy literature and narrative techniques in US children's literature. Greenwell's work has appeared in numerous journals, most recently in African American Review.
Amy Harris-Aber is a lecturer at Middle Tennessee State University, where she specializes in teaching first-year writing classes. Her article "Claiming a Piece of Tradition: Community Discourse in Russian Mennonite Community Cookbooks" is forthcoming in Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies.
Kristina Hermansson is senior lecturer in comparative literature at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, specializing in children's fiction. Her latest article, "Revolution or Diversity? Aesthetic and Political Manifestations of Class in Three Swedish Radical Picturebooks from the 2000s and 2010s," appears in The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, no. 60 (2020).
Elizabeth Massa Hoiem, assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's School of Information Sciences, teaches courses in the history of children's literature, fantasy, and youth literacies. Her children's literature publications address Robinsonades, radical working-class literature, and nineteenth-century nonfiction. Her most recent article appears in Children's Literature in Education.
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer is a professor in the German department at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany. Recent books include The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks (editor; Routledge, 2018) and Challenging Picturebooks in Education (coedited with Åse Marie Ommundsen and Gunnar Haaland; Routledge, 2021).
Katy Lewis is a doctoral student at Illinois State University, where she studies and teaches children's and young adult literature. She focuses on the ideological implications of narrative forms and theories, researching portrayals of rape culture ideologies in YA texts as well as how food is tied to diversity in children's and young adult literature.
Margaret Mackey is professor emerita in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta. She researches and publishes widely on the topic of young people's print, media, and digital literacies. Her most recent book is One Child Reading: My Auto-Bibliography (U of Alberta P, 2016).
Joelle Mann teaches in the writing program at Binghamton University. Her research monograph, Mixed Media in Contemporary American Literature, is forthcoming from Routledge in 2021. She is on the executive board for the SUNY Council on Writing and has published or forthcoming articles in Critique: Studies...
