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curriculum vitae

Areas of Teaching
Children's literature

Areas of Research/Publication
The History of Children's Literature
Nonsense Literature
The carnivalesque / Mikhail Bakhtin
Second World Fantasy
Fairy Tales and Culture


Select Publications
Forthcoming: "The Cat in the Hippie: Dr. Seuss and the 60s Rebel.” The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature. Lynne Valone and Julia Mickenberg, Eds. Oxford University Press: 2009.

Forthcoming: "Nonsense." Keywords in Children's Literature. Edited by Philip Nel and Lissa Paul.  New York University Press, 2009. (Coauthored with Dr. Michael Heyman)

Review: The Tenth Rasa: An Anthology of Indian Nonsense. Edited by Michael Heyman with Sumanyu Setpathy and Anushka Ravishankar. New York: Penguin Global, 2008." The Children's Literature Association Quarterly. Fall 2008, Volume 33, Number 3. pp: 336-338.

“Isaiah Thomas,” “Yankee Doodle,” “Ernest Thayer,” “Lawson Wood,” “Turkey,” “Children’s Literature Association,” and “Radio Shows for Children.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Jack Zipes, Ed. (forthcoming), New York, Oxford: OUP, 2006.

“The Wonderful World of the Depression: Disney, Despotism and the 1930s”
The Lion and the Unicorn, Johns Hopkins University Press, V.28, N.1, January 2004. pp: 1-30
(Summarized in the online version of The Chronicle of Higher Education, February, 25, 2004).

“Edward Gorey, Children’s Literature and Nonsense Verse,”
Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. V.27, N.1, Spring 2002. pp 27-39.