Telling Children's Stories: Narrative Theory and Children's Literature

Contributors

Contributors holly blackford (PhD University of California, Berkeley) is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University–Camden. She teaches and publishes literary criticism on American, children’s, and adolescent literature. She is the author of Out of This World: Why Literature Matters to Girls (Teachers College Press, 2004), editor of 100 Years of Anne with an “e”: The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables (University of Calgary Press, 2009), and chair of the Children’s Literature Association article award committee. mike cadden is a professor of English, the director of childhood studies , and chair of the Department of English, Foreign Languages and Journalism at Missouri Western State University. He is the author of Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults (Routledge, 2005) and was guest editor with Andrea Schwenke Wyile of a special issue of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly on narrative theory and children’s literature. He currently serves as president of the Children’s Literature Association. elisabeth rose gruner is an associate professor of English and women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Richmond. Her research on children’s literature has appeared in The Lion and the Unicorn and Children’s Literature, and she writes a monthly column for LiteraryMama.com, “Children’s Lit Book Group.” She is currently working on a book on contemporary fantasy literature for children. martha hixon is an associate professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, where she teaches courses in children’s literature, folktales, and British literature. She is coeditor of Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom (Peter Lang, 2002), which includes 303 304 } Contributors her essay on Jones’s novel Fire and Hemlock. Her publications have appeared in Marvels and Tales, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Children’s Literature, and Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. dana keren-yaar holds a PhD from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, in Hebrew literature. Her dissertation is a study of historiographical stages in Hebrew children’s literature from 1880 to 1980. She is a frequent contributor of children’s book reviews for Haaretz Books. She is the author of Authoresses Write for Children: Postcolonial and Feminist Readings in Hebrew Children’s Literature (Resling, 2007, in Hebrew). alexandra lewis has completed her PhD at the Faculty of English, Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Her doctoral dissertation uncovers an emergent discourse of mental trauma in nineteenthcentury literature, culture, and psychology. She has published articles and reviews in Women: A Cultural Review, Journal of African Literature and Culture, British Association for Victorian Studies Newsletter , eSharp, and antithesis, and has contributed chapters to two forthcoming volumes: Acts of Memory: The Victorians and Beyond (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) and The Brontës in Context (Cambridge University Press). She has taught post-1930 English literature for Churchill, Gonville and Caius, Robinson, Sidney Sussex, St. Edmund’s, and Trinity Colleges, Cambridge, and is currently a visiting research fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. chris mcgee teaches children’s and young adult literature at Longwood University in Virginia. His interests are children’s mysteries, series fiction, film, horror, and pedagogy. He is an avid Hardy Boys fan and collector. This essay was originally part of his doctoral dissertation on children’s mysteries. maria nikolajeva is a professor of education at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches children’s literature. She is the author and editor of many books on children’s literature, among them Children ’s Literature Comes of Age: Toward the New Aesthetic (Garland, 1996), From Mythic to Linear: Time in Children’s Literature (Scarecrow, 2000), The Rhetoric of Character in Children’s Literature (Scarecrow, 2002), Aesthetic Approaches to Children’s Literature (Scarecrow, 2005), Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers (Routledge, 2009), and in collaboration with Carole Scott, How Picturebooks Work (Garland, 2001). She is the 2005 recipient of the International Brothers Grimm Award for lifetime achievement in children’s Contributors { 305 literature scholarship, presented by the International Institute for Children’s Literature, Osaka and the Kinran-kai Foundation. nathalie op de beeck is an associate professor in the Department of English at Pacific Lutheran University. Her projects include Suspended Animation: American Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming) and a critical facsimile edition of Mary Liddell’s 1926 picture book, Little Machinery (Wayne State University Press, 2009). danielle russell is...