# overview
My areas of specialization are Victorian literature and culture, with particular emphasis on gender, family, and childhood; I have also published work on American texts, particularly those of the nineteenth century.

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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Translations Of Chinese Children's Texts

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5002 History And Philosophy Of Specific Fields

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Indiana University System - (Bloomington, Indiana, United States)

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Bryn Mawr College - (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States)

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Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

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Mass Media Meets Childrens Literature, 1899: E. Nesbits The Story of the Treasure Seekers

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The Convergence of the Twain: Representations of Asians in St. Nicholas Magazine, 1888-1910

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Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction Palimpsests, Maps, and Fractals

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Nontraditional Adoption in Progressive-Era Orphan Narratives

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Invisible Men Fatherhood in Victorian Periodicals, 1850-1910

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Can You Hear My Cry? Representing War and Trauma in Picturebooks for Peace from China, South Korea, and Japan

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Sex and the Single Boy: Ideals of Manliness and Sexuality in Victorian Literature for Boys

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Phallus and Void in Kiplings The Vampire and Its Progeny

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Care in Feeding: Vegetarianism and Social Reform in Alcott's America

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Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children's Literature

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Alienated Girlhood in Works by Christabel Coleridge

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That other eden: Adult education and youthful sexuality in the pearl, 18791880

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Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England

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"In These Days of Scientific Charity": Orphanages and Social Engineering in Dear Enemy

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Drying the Orphan's Tear: Changing Representations of the Dependent Child in America, 1870-1930

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The "It" Girl (and Boy): Ideologies of Gender in the Psammead Trilogy

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Precocious children and childish adults: Age inversion in Victorian literature

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David and Jonathanand SaulRevisited: Homodomestic Patterns in British Boys' Magazine Fiction, 1880-1915

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Navigating Between Home and Empire: Mobility and Male Friendship in Tom Brown's Schooldays and The Three Midshipmen

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Under the Guidance of a Wise Mother: British Sex Education at the Fin de Sicle

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Adult Childrens Literature in Victorian Britain

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Ethel Turner and the 'voices of dissent': Masculinity and fatherhood in The cub and Captain cub

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School of Communication and Creative Arts -- Deakin University

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Playing Patients: The Medico-Moral Context of The Heavenly Twins

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Little Strangers Portrayals of Adoption and Foster Care in America, 1850-1929

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Writing the Reader: The Literary Child in and Beyond the Book

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Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children's Literature

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The unheimlich maneuver : uncanny domesticity in the urban waif tale

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Masked Kidnappers: Representing Adoptive Mothers, 19392010

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Adapting Chinese Children's Texts for U .S .ReadersThree Case Studies

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The Secret Sharer: The Child in Neo-Victorian Fiction

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"A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers": Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson Series and America's Culture Wars

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Art for Man's Sake: Frances Browne's Magic and Victorian Social Aesthetics

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Youth Ecoagency in Two Chinese Science Fiction Films on Environmental Disasters

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Mixed Messages: Authoring and Authority in British Boys' Magazines

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Transmitting Ethics through Books of Golden Deeds for Children

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A Wealth of Fatherhood: Paternity in American Adoption Narratives

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Performance and Adoption in Noel Streatfeild's Children's Fiction

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Maternal Instincts Visions of Motherhood and Sexuality in Britain, 1875-1925

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Deconstructing the Paterfamilias: British Magazines and the Imagining of the Maternal Father, 18501910

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Orphans, Money and Marriage in Sensation Novels by Wilkie Collins and Philip Pullman

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Boys will be girls: The feminine ethic and British children's fiction, 1857-1917

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Wives and Mothers. British Family Life, 1780-1914

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Asserting Stability? American Girl Magazine in the Nixon Era

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Cross-Species Kinship Dilemmas: Adoption and Dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park Franchise

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Fantasies de Siecle: Sex and Sexuality in the Late-Victorian Fairy Tale

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The Story of the Treasure Seekers and The Wouldbegoods

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Sexual pedagogies: Sex education in Britain, Australia, and America, 18792000

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The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture

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The Girl's Own Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American Girl, 1830-1915

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Texas A&M University; English; 4227 TAMU

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Incorporating Liberal Arts Into Your Child's Education

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Fritz, Sonya Sawyer (2010-12). Girlhood Geographies: Mapping Gendered Spaces in Victorian Literature for Children. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Ashie, Christina Anne (2008-05). Model minority mothering: biculturalism in action. Master's Thesis.

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Day, Sara K. (2010-08). Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Fiction for Adolescent Women. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Talafuse, Elizabeth (2014-08). I Am the Monster: Self and the Monstrous Feminine in Contemporary Young Adult Literature. Doctoral Dissertation.