Publications
Books - Click on photos for contents
 | Peter Pan. Broadview Scholarly Edition. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2011. |
| Arousing Delight: Arthur Rackham, Artist and Illustrator. Central Michigan University, 2006. |
| Little Women. Broadview Scholarly Edition. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2001. |
- Selected Articles
| "Educating the Next Generation." On-line essay discussing the Clarke Historical Library's Children's Literature exhibit of the same name. Central Michigan University, 2010. http://clarke.cmich.edu/resource_tab/information_and_exhibits/educating_the_next_generation/01_introduction.html. |
| "Playing the Genre Game: Generic Fusions of the Harry Potter series." Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter. Ed. Elizabeth E. Heilman. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2008. 199-233. |
| "P.L. Travers." New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004. |
| "Generic Fusion and the Mosaic of Harry Potter." Harry Potter’s World: Multidisciplinary Critical Perspectives. Ed. Elizabeth Heilman. Routledge, 2003. 141-62. |
| "The Hockey Sweater: A Canadian Cross-Cultural Icon." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 12:2 (August 2002): 5-13. |
| "'Bring the child in you out to play!': Canadian Children’s Culture and the 1997 Calgary International Children’s Festival." Canadian Children's Literature 90 (1998): 17-27. |
| "Changing the World: A Profile of Writer JoAnne James." Canadian Children's Literature 85 (1997): 31-40. |
| "Books in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë." Brontë Society Transactions 21:7 (1996): 265-74. |
| "Education in Victorian Fact and Fiction: Kay-Shuttleworth and Dickens's Hard Times." Dickens Quarterly 9:2 (1992): 67-80. |
Keynote Addresses
| “Transformation: From Influence to Inspiration." Keynote address for Phoenix Rising, an academic conference focusing on the Harry Potter books in New Orleans, Louisiana. May 2007. |
| “Presenting Arthur Rackham.” Opening address for the Arthur Rackham, Artist and Illustrator exhibition at the Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University, February 2006 |
| “Desiring Dragons:
Fantasy for the 21st Century." Keynote address for the Michigan
Library Association Annual Conference being held in Lansing, Michigan.
September 2006. |
- Selected Conference Papers
| "Mere Entertainment or Art for the Ages?: The Genius of Harry Potter.” Paper for panel entitled The Ethos of Harry Potter: Art, Influence, Delight at the Midwestern Modern Language Association Annual Conference in Chicago (November 2006) |
| "Life in London and Other Pastimes: Cultural Representation(s) in 19th Century Table Games" for Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London conference held at the Tate Britain in London, England (June 2004) |
|
“Here’s
.... Harry!: The Popular Genres of Harry Potter” for the Popular
Culture
Association of America Conference in Toronto, Canada (March 2002) |
| "The Hockey Sweater: A Canadian Cross-Cultural Icon" for "Reading Pictures: Art, Narrative, and Childhood" International Symposium on Children's Literature at Homerton College, Cambridge University, England (September 2000) |
| "Finding themselves 'more truly and more strange': Unlikely Heroes in George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit" for NCTE Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado (November 1999) |
| "Portrayals of War in Children's Fiction: L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside and Kate Seredy’s The Singing Tree" for IRSCL Biannual Conference in York, England (August 1997) |
| Books including an edited collection of essays on Terry Pratchett and a critical monograph on fantasy |
| Articles on Harry Potter, Arthur Rackham, portrayals of childhood in Peter Pan, 19th century table games and cultural identity, and current trends in contemporary Children's and Young Adult fantasy |
| Entries on Victorian childhood for Monuments and Dust: An Electronic Archive of Victorian London, an electronic archive under construction by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia and the University of London and published on Cambridge University Press’s website |
Research & Teaching Interests
Authors: Diane Duane, Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett, J. M. Barrie, J. K. Rowling, Anthony Browne, Maurice Sendak, P. L. Travers, E. L. Konigsburg, L. M. Montgomery, John Marsden, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Brontës, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charles Dickens
Children's Literature
Resources