Contributors and Editors
Brianna Anderson is a Marion L. Brittain Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her PhD in English from the University of Florida. Her research examines representations of environmental issues, social justice, and youth activism in children's literature.
Dainy Bernstein is a visiting lecturer in literature at the University of Pittsburgh. Eir edited collection, Artifacts of Orthodox Childhoods, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in 2022. Ey studies Haredi Jewish children's literature and is working on a short introduction to the development of this literature in America.
George Bodmer is Emeritus Chancellor's Professor of English at Indiana University Northwest. His research on illustration and American children's books has been published in the Children's Literature Association Quarterly, The Lion and the Unicorn, Marvels and Tales, and PMLA.
Hilary Brewster is an associate professor of English and the director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Marshall University. Previous publications are with Palgrave Macmillan, Sense, Two Cities Review, Cargo Literary Magazine, Bookbird, and the 2022 Anthology of Appalachian Writers; an article is forthcoming in the Journal of American Popular Culture.
Rhonda Brock-Servais is co-editor of Children's Literature in Education. A professor of English at Longwood University, her most recent essays can be found in Horror Literature and Dark Fantasies: Challenging Genres (Brill, 2018) and Ouija and American Popular Culture: Conjuring the Occult (forthcoming from Routledge).
R. H. W. Dillard, editor-in-chief of Children's Literature and editor of The Hollins Critic until his death on April 4, 2023, was a professor of English at Hollins University. A novelist and poet, he is also the author of two critical monographs, Horror Films (Monarch, 1976) and Understanding George Garrett (U of South Carolina P, 1988), 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 is Professor Emerita in the English Department at Middle Tennessee State University. She most recently co-edited a special issue of College Literature, "Children, Too, Sing America."
Chloe Flower is assistant professor of literatures in English on the Helen Taft Manning Professorship in British History at Bryn Mawr College. Her focus is childhood studies and material culture. Flower is writing a monograph titled The Object of the Child: Material Histories of Childhood in the Long Nineteenth Century.
Lisa Rowe Fraustino directs the Graduate Programs in Children's Literature at Hollins University. Her article "The Rights and Wrongs of Anthropomorphism" won the 2016 ChLA Article Award, and a volume of essays she co-edited with Karen Coats, Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism (UP Mississippi, 2016), won the 2018 ChLA Edited Book Award.
Kathryn Strong Hansen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Teaching and Learning at Colby College. Her writing has previously appeared in ChLA Quarterly, English Journal, Configurations, and other outlets. She is currently working on a project that analyzes technology and gender in young adult novels.
Ann F. Howey, a professor of English at Brock University (Canada), researches post-Victorian Arthuriana and teaches Arthurian and young people's literatures. Her Afterlives of The Lady of Shalott and Elaine of Astolat (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) won the Dhira B. Mahoney Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book in Arthurian Studies.
Jessica R. McCort is an associate professor in the Literature, Culture, and Society Department at Point Park University. She is the editor of Reading in the Dark: Horror in Children's Literature and Culture (UP Mississippi, 2016), which focuses on the intersection of the horror genre and children's and young adult literature and culture.
Julia L. Mickenberg is professor of American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States (Oxford UP, 2005; winner of the ChLA Book Award) and co-editor of Tales for Little Rebels.
Kai Mikkonen is professor of comparative literature at the University of Helsinki and the author of The Narratology of Comic Art (Routledge, 2017). His research interests include 19th and early 20th century French and British literature, travel writing, comics and picture books, narrative theory, and theory of fiction.
Anne K. Phillips is Donnelly Professor of English at Kansas State University, specializing in American children's literature. With Gregory Eiselein, she publishes on Louisa May Alcott. She has served as President of the ChLA and the Louisa May Alcott Society.
M. Tyler Sasser is an assistant professor of Honors at the University of Alabama where he teaches and researches children's literature, African American children's literature, and multicultural children's literature, as well as Shakespeare, great books, the King James Bible, film, and gender and race studies.
Anna Smol is a professor of English at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, with research interests in Tolkien, medievalism, and Old English literature, including children's adaptations. She is on the editorial board of Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society.
Barbara Tannert-Smith is associate professor of English at Knox College. She has published articles on children's literature in ChLA Quarterly and International Research in Children's Literature.
Clayton Carlyle Tarr is an assistant teaching professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he specializes in nineteenth-century British literature. His book, Personation Plots: Identity Fraud in Victorian Sensation Fiction (SUNY UP, 2022), studies identity theft in Victorian sensation novels, and his current project tackles the science and sexuality of Victorian legs.
Laureen Tedesco, associate professor of English at East Carolina University, has been reading Little Women since age eight, when Alcott's novel captured her heart. In teaching the novel now, she has found rich resources in the Alcott research and textual editions of the scholars represented in Little Women at 150.
Stephen M. Zimmerly is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Indianapolis, where he teaches early and modern American, young adult, and popular literatures. He is the author of The Sidekick Comes of Age: How Young Adult Literature Is Shifting the Sidekick Paradigm (Lexington Books, 2019).
