Recent Contributors 2005-2008

Evelyn Arizpe is a Lecturer in Children's Literature at the Faculty of Education, University of Glasgow. She has taught and published widely in the areas of literacies, reader-response to picture books, and children's literature. She is co-author, with Morag Styles, of Children Reading Pictures: Interpreting Visual Texts (Routledge, 2003) and Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: Mothers, Children and Texts (Pied Piper, 2006). She has a particular interest in Mexican children's books and her current research involves immigrant children, picture books, literacy, and culture.

Joyce Bainbridge is a professor in the department of Elementary Education and Associate Dean (Academic) in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. She conducts research into the role of Canadian children's literature in Canada's schools and classrooms.

Historienne et analyste du théâtre, Hélène Beauchamp s'intéresse à l'évolution du théâtre professionnel au Québec et au Canada français. Née à Ottawa, elle est professeure associée à l'École supérieure de Théâtre de l'UQAM. Auteur de nombreux articles et ouvrages, notamment sur le théâtre jeune public, elle a publié en 2005 Les théâtres de création au Québec, en Acadie et au Canada français (VLB éditeur). Elle est commissaire de l'exposition « Le théâtre ados—toute une histoire » qui sera présentée à la Salle Alfred-Pellan de la Maison des Arts de Laval à l'occasion de la Rencontre Théâtre Ados d'avril 2007.

Clare Bradford is Professor of Literary Studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches literary studies and children's literature, and supervises students undertaking MA and PhD programmes. She has published widely on children's literature, with an emphasis on colonial and postcolonial texts and utopian discourses. Her most recent book is Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature (2007).

Lace Marie Brogden est enseignante et doctorante à l'Université de Regina. Elle a une passion pour la littérature enfantine et jeunesse, ayant déjà travaillé comme coordonnatrice de l'évaluation des ressources pédagogiques au Ministère de l'Éducation de la Saskatchewan. Ses champs d'intérêt sont la construction d'identités professionnelles et linguistiques en milieux immersif et minoritaire, le processus d'écriture, et le discours poétique en tant qu'approche méthodologique.

Kathryn Carter is an assistant professor of English and Contemporary Studies at Laurier Brantford, where she specializes in Canadian women's literature, primarily the non-fiction life writing of nineteenth-century women. She edited and introduced The Small Details of Life: Twenty Diaries by Women in Canada, 1830-1996 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002). Recent articles address the 1830 letter journal of Frances Simpson (in Australian-Canadian Studies) and the 1930s diary of Myrtle Gamble Knister (in Journal of Canadian Studies).

Sebastien Chapleau vit et travaille à Londres, en Angleterre. Il est chercheur en littérature enfantine et en théories littéraires à l'Université de Cardiff, au Pays de Galles. Il est membre de l'Association Française de Recherche sur les Livres et Objets Culturels de l'Enfance (Université de Paris XIII), ainsi que de l'International Research Society in Children's Literature. Il est aussi Reviews Editor pour The Journal of Children's Literature Studies. Parmi ses publications sont New Voices in Children's Literature Criticism, ainsi qu'une série d'articles traitant de la critique enfantiste, le plus récent ayant été publié dans L'Esprit Créateur en janvier 2006.

Daniel Chouinard est directeur de l'École des langues et des littératures à l'Université de Guelph depuis 1998. Dix-septiémiste de formation, il a réorienté sa carrière de chercheur dans le domaine de la littérature pour la jeunesse francophone. À ce titre, il a été codirecteur de la revue CCL/LCJ: Canadian Children's Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse de 1992 à 2004.

Karen Coats is an associate professor of English at Illinois State University, where she teaches children's and young adult literature and critical theory. She is the author of Looking Glasses and Neverlands: Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity in Children's Literature (2004) and is currently working on a book on humour in children's literature.

Jean-Denis Côté est chercheur postdoctoral au Département des lettres françaises de l'Université d'Ottawa et boursier du Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC). Il est également membre du Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littérature et la culture québécoises (CRILQC) et du Centre de recherche en civilization canadienne-française (CRCCF).

Peter E. Cumming is Assistant Professor in Children's Literature and Culture in the Children's Studies Program in the Division of Humanities, York University, Toronto. As a children's author and playwright, Peter has conducted numerous writing workshops with young writers.

Virginie Douglas, agrégée d'anglais et maître de conférences au département d'anglais de l'Université de Rouen, France, a consacré sa thèse de doctorat à La subversion dans la fiction non-réaliste contemporaine pour la jeunesse au Royaume-Uni (1945Ð1995). Elle a dirigé l'ouvrage Perspectives contemporaines du roman pour la jeunesse (L'Harmattan, 2003). Auteur d'une vingtaine d'articles et de communications proposant une approche narratologique, théorique ou comparatiste de la littérature britannique pour la jeunesse du XIXe au XXIe siècles, elle a aussi rédigé plusieurs notices pour l'Encyclopedia of Children's Literature dirigée par Jack Zipes (OUP, 2006) et en prépare également pour le Dictionnaire du livre de jeunesse, dirigé par Jean Perrot et Isabelle Nières-Chevrel (à paraître aux Éditions du Cercle de la Librairie).

Debra Dudek received her PhD in literature from the University of Saskatchewan. At present, she works as a Research Fellow at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. She has published internationally on children's literature, postcolonial studies, and comparative literature.

Jean Dufresne fait partie de l'équipe du Bac de l'Université de Regina. Il a enseigné douze ans en immersion française au secondaire. Il a aussi travaillé durant quatre ans au Ministère de l'Éducation de la Saskatchewan où il était concepteur des programmes d'études pour le français en immersion au niveau secondaire. Ses champs d'intérêt sont spécialement liés aux pratiques pédagogiques qui permettent aux élèves d'immersion de vivre des expériences stimulantes en français.

Renée Englot is a professional storyteller from Edmonton, Alberta. She has an M.A. in Children's Literature from Hollins University. She enjoys the study of Canadian historical fiction and is currently pursuing studies in the use of children's literature and storytelling to break down barriers and forge cultural connections.

Elizabeth Galway completed her Ph.D. in English at the University of Exeter. She is now an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Lethbridge in southern Alberta, where she specializes in Children's Literature, Canadian Literature, and Nineteenth-Century literature.

Carole Gerson is a Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. She has published extensively on many early Canadian women writers, including Pauline Johnston, Susanna Moodie, and L.M. Montgomery, and has recently completed the introduction to a reprint of Marshall Saunders's 1901 novel, 'Tilda Jane: An Orphan in Search of a Home (Formac, 2008). Gerson was a member of the cross-Canada editorial team working on The History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada, for which she co-edited Volume 3 (1918-80) with Jacques Michon.

Flore Gervais est professeure titulaire à la Faculté des sciences de l'éducation de l'Université de Montréal. Depuis de nombreuses années, elle y enseigne et poursuit des recherches pour la formation des enseignants, entre autres, en littérature de jeunesse. Elle a publié plusieurs ouvrages sur la diffusion et l'utilisation de la littérature de jeunesse en milieu scolaire dont École et habitudes de lecture, chez Chenelière/McGraw-Hill. Elle travaille actuellement à la préparation d'un ouvrage pour la formation des maîtres en didactique de la littérature de jeunesse.

Henry A. Giroux holds the Global TV Network Chair in Communications at McMaster University in Canada. His most recent books include: The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear (Palgrave, 2003), co-authored with Susan Earls Giroux, Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post Civil Rights Era (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), The Terror of Neoliberalism (Paradigm, 2004) Border Crossings (Routledge, 2005), Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005) and Against the New Authoritarianism (Arbeiter Ring, 2005).

James Greenlaw is an Associate Professor of English Education at St. Francis Xavier University's School of Education. He is the author of the book English Language Arts and Reading on the Internet (Prentice Hall, 2005) and the principal writer and series editor for the ESL series Project English (2004) that is used in middle schools throughout China. He has written extensively about how to teach multicultural literature in grades 7 to 12.

Lisa Grekul is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan. She is the author of Kalyna's Song (Coteau, 2003) and Leaving Shadows: Literature in English by Canada's Ukrainians (University of Alberta, 2005).

Kristen Guest teaches in the English Program at the University of Northern British Columbia. Her research and teaching interests include Victorian literature and children's literature. She currently holds a SSHRC faculty research grant.

Lucie Guillemette est professeure de littérature contemporaine et de théories féministes au Département de lettres et de communication sociale à l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Elle dirige une recherche subventionnée par le Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines (2005-2008) qui examine les régimes d'intertextualité et le discours social à l'œuvre dans le roman québécois pour la jeunesse, produit par des femmes (1950-2000). Elle est membre du Laboratoire de recherche L'Oiseau bleu de l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, qui se consacre à l'étude des littératures francophones pour la jeunesse.

Vicki S. Hallett is a Ph.D. candidate in Women's Stuies at York University in Toronto.

Jackie C. Horne is an Assistant Professor of English and a faculty member in the MA Program in Children's Literature at Simmons College. Her essays have appeared in Women's Studies, Children's Literature in Education, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, and Children's Literature. She is currently at work on a book about changing models of exemplarity in early British children's fiction.

Currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Janette Hughes has been an educator for 18 years in elementary, secondary and post-secondary schools.

Peter Hunt is Professor Emeritus in Children's Literature, Cardiff University, UK. His latest book is a four-volume collection of the ninety-nine most important essays published on Children's Literature in the past fifty years: Children's Literature: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies (Routledge, 2006).

Robert Hurley has been a Professor at Laval University's Faculté de théologie et de sciences religieuses since 1992, where he teaches in the areas of New Testament exegesis and childhood religious education. Affective stylistics figures prominently among the methodological approaches adopted in his analyses of biblical literature and children's illustrated books.

Nancy Huse is Professor of English at Augustana College (IL). She is a past president of ChLA (1995) and has served on the Board of the IRSCL. Her articles have appeared in the Children' Literature Association Quarterly, Children's Literature and The Lion and the Unicorn, and she is the author of Noel Streatfeild, a Twayne World Authors publication.

Anna Jackson lectures in American literature, Gothic literature and Children's fantasy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is the author of several books of poetry, including Catullus for Children and, most recently, The Gas Leak (Auckland University Press). She is currently editing a book of essays on the Gothic in Children's Literature with Karen Coats and Rod McGillis (forthcoming from Routledge in 2006).

Cynthia James is a lecturer at The School of Education, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad where she teaches children's literature, young adult literature and English education. She is also a fiction writer. She is the author of The Maroon Narrative: Caribbean Literature in English across Boundaries, Ethnicities, and Centuries (2002). Her articles on Caribbean children's and young adult literature include "From Orature to Literature in Jamaican and Trinidadian Children's Folk Traditions" (2005) and "Lynn Joseph's Diverse Representations of Childhood in the Caribbean" (2004).

Ingrid Johnston is a professor in the Department of Secondary Education and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. Her research and teaching interests focus on postcolonial literary theories and pedagogies, English education, adolescent literature, and questions of cultural difference and teacher education.

Marlene Kadar is a Professor in the Humanities Division and the School of Women's Studies at York University. She publishes in the field of life writing theory and is the Editor of the Life Writing Series at Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Adrienne Kertzer is Professor of English and Associate Dean (Faculty of Graduate Studies) at the University of Calgary. Awarded the F.E.L. Priestley Prize for "Fugitive Pieces: Listening as a Holocaust Survivor's Child," she won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Scholarship and the Children's Literature Association Honor Book Award for Literary Criticism in Children's Literature for My Mother's Voice: Children, Literature, and the Holocaust (Broadview, 2001).

Dorothy F. Lane is Associate Professor of English at Luther College, University of Regina, where she specializes in postcolonial literatures and theory. She has published most recently on the intersection of Christianity and colonialism in Canadian, Australian, and South-Asian writing. She has been teaching Children's Literature for several years.

Claire Le Brun est professeur titulaire au Département d'études françaises de l'Université Concordia. Elle a publié de nombreux articles sur le roman et le théàtre pour la jeunesse, particulièrement au Québec et au Canada, dirigé des ouvrages collectifs et écrit une monographie sur Raymond Plante (2004). Ses recherches actuelles portent sur les rapports texte-image dans le roman de première lecture et sur la littérarité dans les textes destinés aux très jeunes lecteurs.

Benjamin Lefebvre, an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg and Research Associate at the Centre for Young People's Texts and Cultures, has published extensively on adolescent literature and culture. In August 2007, he will take up a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Alberta, where he will trace L. M. Montgomery's cultural capital and its relationship to the transnational circulation of dominant images of Canada. He is currently preparing Montgomery's unpublished final novel, The Blythes Are Quoted, for publication.

Françoise Lepage a enseigné la littérature pour la jeunesse à l'Université d'Ottawa pendant une dizaine d'années. Elle est l'auteure de nombreux articles en ce domaine et de plusieurs essais : Histoire de la littérature pour la jeunesse (Québec et francophonies du Canada) (David, 2000), qui lui a valu trois prix littéraires, Daniel Mativat (David, 2003) et Paule Daveluy ou la passion des mots (Tisseyre, 2003). Elle est présentement directrice de collections, chercheure autonome et auteure pour la jeunesse.

Margaret Mackey is a Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta. Her most recent books are Mapping Recreational Literacies: Contemporary Adults at Play (Peter Lang, 2007), and an edited four-volume set entitled Media Literacies (Routledge, 2008).

Kerry Mallan is a Professor in the School of Cultural and Language Studies, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She has published widely in children's literature and youth studies. Her most recent publication (with Clare Bradford, John Stephens, and Robyn McCallum) is New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature (Palgrave, 2008).

Jyoti Mangat is a PhD student in the Departments of English and Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. Her area of research is postcolonial literature and multicultural education.

Sidney Eve Matrix (PhD Minnesota 2003) teaches and researches in the areas of cultural studies, media and film.

Roderick McGillis is a Professor of English at the University of Calgary. His recent work includes a study of masculinity in series westerns, in press with Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Catherine McLaughlin recently finished a Ph.D. in children's literature at the University of Calgary.

Lindsey McMaster earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of British Columbia. She is currently at Nipissing University, where she teaches women's writing and Canadian literature.

Professeur titulaire d'études françaises, Kenneth Meadwell enseigne la littérature canadienne d'expression française et la théorie littéraire à l'Université de Winnipeg où il a été Directeur des Départements de français, d'études françaises et d'études allemandes, et des langues et littératures modernes. Il a aussi occupé le poste de professeur invité d'études canadiennes à l'Université Hébraïque de Jérusalem. Il est l'auteur de L'avalée des avalés, L'hiver de force et Les enfantômes de Réjean Ducharme: une fiction mot à mot et sa littéralité (Mellen Press, 1990), d'une quarantaine d'articles portant sur la littérarité, la marginalité, la subjectivité et l'altérité dans la littérature canadienne d'expression française, et d'une soixantaine de recensions.

Kathleen A. Miller is a graduate student at the University of Delaware. She completed her master's degree in May 2007 and is currently working toward her Ph.D. Her major literary interests include nineteenth-century British literature, women's writing, and the gothic imagination. Her recent work includes an essay in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies ("Sarah Waters's Fingersmith: Leaving Women's Fingerprints on Victorian Pornography"). Her forthcoming publications focus on Mary Shelley's Mathilda and children's biographies of Florence Nightingale.

Maria Nikolajeva is a Professor of comparative literature at Stockholm University, Sweden. She is the author and editor of several books of criticism, the most recent Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature (2005). She was one of the senior editors for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature and received the International Grimm Award in 2005.

J.N. Nodelman defended his PhD dissertation, "Reading Engineered Spaces: Bridges as Texts in Modern American Culture," at the University of Alberta Department of English in January of 2005. His studies in the engagements of American Literature with Machine-Age built space have led him to publish articles and give conference papers on such topics as Route 66, the Trans-Canada Highway, T.S. Eliot, Gabrielle Roy, and the blues performer Robert Johnson.

Perry Nodelman's latest book is The Hidden Adult: Defining Children's Literature (Johns Hopkins UP, 2008). The first book of the Ghosthunters trilogy by Perry and Carol Matas, The Proof that Ghosts Exist, appeared in spring 2008, and the second book, The Curse of the Evening Eye, is scheduled for publication in spring 2009.

Monique Noël-Gaudreault enseigne la didactique du français à l'Université de Montréal. Elle s'intéresse à la littérature pour la jeunesse et à la culture. Rédactrice en chef de la revue Québec français et directrice de la Revue des sciences de l'éducation, elle a organisé des colloques en littérature de jeunesse et publié de nombreux articles sur le sujet dont les plus récents sont sous presse: La légende de Rose Latulipe: Transformation pour la jeunesse (avec Denise Adant) et Héros adolescents et mentors (avec Geneviève-Gaël-Vanasse).

Andrew O'Malley is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Winnipeg, where he teaches courses in Children's Literature and the Eighteenth Century. His book, The Making of the Modern Child: Children's Literature and Childhood in the Late Eighteenth Century was published by Routledge in 2003.

François Paré est professeur titulaire et directeur du Département d'études françaises de l'Université de Waterloo (Ontario). En 1993, son livre Les littératures de l'exiguïté lui a valu le prix du Gouverneur général du Canada. La distance habitée (2003) lui a valu le prix Trillium et le prix Victor-Barbeau de l'Académie des Lettres du Québec. Ses publications les plus récentes incluent: Jean Marc Dalpé: ouvrier d'un dire (avec Stéphanie Nutting; 2006); Le fantasme d'Escanaba, un essai sur les cultures de la diaspora québécoise en Amérique (2007); et, avec François Ouellet, un ouvrage sur le romancier Louis Hamelin qui paraîtra chez Nota Bene en 2008.

Christopher Parkes teaches children's literature and eighteenth-century literature at Lakehead University. He has published articles on Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Charlotte Brontë, and Robert Louis Stevenson. He is currently working on a study of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century young adult fiction and career choices.

Lissa Paul is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University. She is also one of two associate general editors of The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature (Norton, 2005), and one of three editors of The Lion and the Unicorn.

Jean Perrot, fondateur de l'Institut International Charles Perrault et du Prix de la Critique, Docteur d'Etat avec une thèse sur l'écrivain Henry James, a publié Jeux et enjeux du livre d'enfance et de jeunesse (Les Editions du Cercle de la Librairie, 1999), Carnets d'illustrateurs (Cercle de la Librairie, 2000), Le secret de Pinocchio (In Press, 2003) et avec Patricia Pochard Guide des livres d'enfants de 0 à 7 ans (In Press, 2001).

E. Holly Pike (Ph.D. SUNY Buffalo) is associate professor of English and Acting Principal at the Sir Wilfred Grenfell College of Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL. She is the author of Family and Society in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell and has previously published on L.M. Montgomery in Harvesting Thistles: The Textual Garden of L.M. Montgomery; L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture; Making Avonlea: L.M. Montgomery and Popular Culture; Storm and Dissonance: L.M. Montgomery and Conflict; and the online philosophy journal Animus.

Professeure titulaire à l'Université de Sherbrooke et cochercheure au Groupe de recherche sur l'édition littéraire au Québec, Suzanne Pouliot a obtenu le Prix Frances Russel (IBBY Canada) pour ses travaux de recherche en littérature de jeunesse. Elle a été conservatrice pour deux expositions (Éditeurs québécois des années 1940 et 1950 pour l'enfance et la jeunesse et Mutations de l'illustration en littérature de jeunesse de 1920 à 2000). Elle a signé des articles, des chapitres de livres, et des livres et dirigé ou codirigé des numéros de revues en plus de corédiger avec Johanne Lacroix, un essai consacré à Michèle Marineau (2005) aux Éditions David.

Rebecca Rabinowitz has a Master's degree from the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College, where she was a Virginia Haviland Scholar. She has published articles on queer theory and children's literature, and on fat characters in contemporary young adult fiction. She is a regular reviewer for Kirkus Reviews. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Suzanne Richard a soutenu en 2004 une thèse de doctorat en didactique portant sur les finalités de l'enseignement de la littérature au secondaire. Elle est conseillère pédagogique au secondaire et chargée de cours à l'Université de Sherbrooke.

Miriam Richter is a Ph.D. candidate at Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Germany, researching the impact of children's literature on Canadian national identity formation. She has taught classes on Canadian children's literature at Heinrich-Heine-University in Duesseldorf, Germany, and has published articles on Canadian children's literature and on the image of Canada in German youth fiction.

Laura Robinson is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Royal Military College. Her academic interests centre on gender and queer studies, particularly in Canadian and children's literature. Focusing on the representation of girlhood, she has published articles on L.M. Montgomery, Ann-Marie MacDonald, and Margaret Atwood, among others. Her short fiction has appeared in Wascana Review, torquere, Frontiers, Her Circle, and EnterText.

Claude Romney est professeure émérite au Département de Français, Italien et Espagnol à l'Université de Calgary. Elle est spécialiste des oeuvres de Gabrielle Roy, de littérature de jeunesse et de traduction.

Rochelle Skogen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education, Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta. She conducts research in the areas of French Immersion education and second language education.

Katharine Capshaw Smith is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut where she teaches courses in Children's Literature and African American Literature. Her monograph, Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance, won the 2006 book award from the Children's Literature Association.

David Rudd teaches Children's Literature in the Department of Cultural and Creative Studies at the University of Bolton, England. He has published some 100 articles on the subject and two books: one on Roald Dahl, A Communication Studies Approach to Children's Literature (1992), and one on Blyton, Enid Blyton and the Mystery of Children's Literature (2000). He is currently working on the issue of animals and toys in children's books for the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature.

Diplômée de l'Université de Winnipeg, de l'Université d'Avignon et de l'Université de Toronto, et boursière du CRSH, Naomi Statkewich-Maharaj est doctorante à l'Université d'Avignon où elle rédige sa thèse en dialectologie sur les frontières dialectales lexicales dans le nord-ouest de la France. Elle a déjà enseigné des cours de grammaire et de phonétique-phonologie à l'Université de Winnipeg et à l'Université d'Avignon.

Margaret Steffler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literature at Trent University, where she teaches Canadian literature and children's literature.

John Stephens is Professor of English and Head of Department at Macquarie University, where his main teaching and research is in children's literature. He is author of Language and Ideology in Children's Fiction and Retelling Stories, Framing Culture (with Robyn McCallum), and editor of Ways of Being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children's Fiction and Film, along with about eighty articles and two books on discourse analysis. He is currently part of a research team writing a book on children's literature and "new world orders" since the end of the Cold War.

Nora Foster Stovel is Professor of English at the University of Alberta, where she teaches twentieth-century literature. She has a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from McGill, Cambridge and Dalhousie Universities. She has published books and articles on twentieth-century writers, specifically D.H. Lawrence, Margaret Drabble, and Margaret Laurence. She is completing Divining Margaret Laurence: A Study of Her Writing, with the assistance of a SSHRCC grant and a University of Alberta McCalla Research Professorship. She has been awarded a SSHRCC grant to pursue her study, "Sparkling Subversion": Carol Shields' "Double Vision."

Jean Stringam, a Canadian citizen, is Associate Professor of English at Missouri State University where, when she is not teaching on MSU international exchange programs (China and London), she teaches courses in Young Adult and Children's Literature.

Morag Styles is a Reader in Children's Literature at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Homerton College. She is the author of From the Garden to the Street: 300 Years of Poetry for Children (1998), co-author (with Evelyn Arizpe) of Children Reading Pictures: Interpreting Visual Texts (2002) and Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: Mothers, Children & Texts (forthcoming 2006), and co-editor (with Eve Bearne) of Art, Narrative & Childhood (2003). She is Poetry Editor of Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English (2001) and other guides to poetry, as well as anthologies for children and teachers.

Danielle Thaler enseigne la littérature à l'Université de Victoria. Elle s'intéresse à la littérature pour la jeunesse depuis nombre d'années et en particulier au roman historique, au roman-miroir et au roman d'aventures. Elle a publié en 1989 un guide thématique de la critique en littérature pour la jeunesse: Était-il une fois? Littérature de jeunesse: panorama de la critique (France-Canada), et, plus récemment en 2002, avec Alain Jean-Bart: Les enjeux du roman pour adolescents.

Dr Judith Thistleton-Martin is a lecturer in children's literature, literacy, and education in the School of Education at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. Her research and teaching interests focus on the construction of Aboriginal childhood in children's literature, visual literacy and picture books, and developing pre-service teachers as reflective practitioners.

Roberta Seelinger Trites is a member of the faculty in the Department of English at Illinois State University, where she teaches children's and adolescent literature. She is the author of Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature (2000) and Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels (1997).

Dr Kiera Vaclavik is Lecturer in French Studies and Comparative Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. She is currently completing a monograph which explores the descent to the underworld (or katabasis) in English and French children's literature. Her other research interests include theories of intertextuality, the ethics of reading, and Caribbean children's literature.

John J. Guiney Yallop is a parent, a partner, and a poet. He is also a Ph.D. Candidate at The University of Western Ontario and a Lecturer in Western's Faculty of Education Pre-Service Program. John, his partner, and their daughter live and read together in Brampton, Ontario.

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