MACL at a Glance

Teaching interests and Recent Courses

Posthumanism in YA literature, Representations of the Anthropocene in Writing for Youth, Surveillance in Young Adult Literature, 17th- and 18th-century children’s and YA literature, Theoretical approaches to fairy tales.

MACL-related Courses

ENGL 353: Making Middle-Class Girls: Gender, Class, Education, and Unspoken Anxieties in Eighteenth-Century Writing for Youth

ENGL 392: Posthuman Bodies, Cybernetic Selves: Responses to Technology in Writing for Young Adults

Research Interests
seventeenth- and eighteenth-century children’s literature, fairy tales, adaptation, posthumanism

Selected Publications

“‘We do not have whims on the moon’: A Wrinkle in Time, The Lotus Caves, and the Problem of American Exceptionalism in 1960s Science Fiction for Children.” Forthcoming in The Lion and the Unicorn, 2021.

With Ada Bieber, “Streams of Consciousness: The Downriver Narrative in Young Adult Fiction.” International Research in Children’s Literature 13.1 (2020): 61-75.

“Our Posthuman Adolescence: Dystopia, Information Technologies, and the Construction of Subjectivity in M.T. Anderson’s Feed.” Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase: Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature. Eds. Brett Grubisic, Tara Lee, and Gisèle Baxter. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2014. 111-127.

“Clockwork: Philip Pullman’s Posthuman Fairy Tale.” Children’s Literature in Education 42 (2011): 308 – 324. Winner of Children’s Literature Association Article Award for 2011.

“‘Something Very Old and Very Slow’: Coraline, Uncanniness, and Narrative Form.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 33 (Winter 2008): 390 – 407.

Current Projects

Constructions of posthuman subjectivity in recent YA fiction