Review Articles and Nonrefereed Pieces:  

Review of Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction, by Susan Honeyman, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 31.1 (Spring 2006): 87-90.

Review of Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale, by Kenneth B. Kidd, Journal of Children's Literature Studies 2.3 (Fall 2005): 54-56.

“Mothers and Fathers: Two Kinds of Love,” cover story and bibliography for The Five Owls 17.2 (Fall 2003): 25-31.

“Venting the Child: The Limits of a Polemic.” Review of Inventing the Child, by J. Zornado, Children’s Literature 31 (2003): 206-214.

“Dangerous Intersection: Feminists at Work.” Review of Girls, Boys, Books, Toys: Gender in Children’s Literature and Culture, edited by Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R. Higgonet. Children’s Literature 30 (2002): 205-10.

Review of Great Despair Meets Hopeful: Kristevan Readings in Adolescent Fiction, by Margaret Westwater, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 26.4 (Winter 2001-2): 214-15.

“Conventions of Children’s Literature: Then and Now.” Introduction to special issue of Style 35.3 (Fall 2001).

Review of Is It Really Mommie Dearest?: Daughter-Mother Narratives in Young Adult Fiction, by Hilary S. Crew, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 26.2 (Summer 2001): 107-9.

Review of Hysteria: The Splendid Child of Psychoanalysis from Freud to Lacan, by Juan-David Nasio, JPCS 4.2 (Fall 1999): 338-340.

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Presentations: 

Peer Reviewed National and International Conferences:   

“Saving the World Before Bedtime: The Puer Aeternus in Contemporary Culture,” Paper presented at Colloque International organisé par le GRAAT (EA2113): “Histoires d’enfant, histoires d’enfance, Stories for Children, Histories of Childhood,” Université de Tours, France, November 18-19, 2005.

“The Material of Fantasy, The Fantasies of Materialism.” Response Paper presented at “Performing Childhood,” Children’s Literature Association Conference, Winnipeg, June 2005.

“What’s So Funny ‘Bout Poo, Love, and Understanding?: Potty Humor and Beyond in Early Grade Fiction.” Paper presented at Modern Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature Conference, Nashville, TN, April 2005.

"Ophelia Laughs: Girls' Use of Humor in YA Fiction." Paper presented at Children's Literature Association Conference, Fresno, CA June 2004.

"The Neverlands of Jouissance." Paper presented at IAPL conference, Syracuse, NY, May 2004.

"Children's Literature and the Case for a Special Hermenuetics." Paper presented at "Hermeneutics at the Crossroads," a conference of the Calvin College Summer Seminars in Christian Scholarship,  sponsored by the Fieldstead Corporation, May 15-17, 2003.

"Sacrificial Violence and the 'Anthropology of the Cross': A Girardian View of The Chocolate War." Paper presented at the Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children's Literature." Nashville, April, 2003. 

"Amo, Ergo Sum: The Role of Love in the Development of the Self." Paper  presented at Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society conference entitled "Emotions," University of Pennsylvania, October 2002.

                        “Blinded by the White: The Cultural Contents of Whiteness in Tangerine.” Paper presented at International Children's Literature Association Conference, Wilkes-Barre, PA, June 2002.

                        "Maurice Sendak's Theater of the Abject." Paper presented at International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Rotterdam, June 2002.

"'The Greatest "'The Greatest of These": The Role of Love in the Development of the Self." Paper presented at Calvin College Seminars in Christian Scholarship Spring Conference, "The Loss of Self in Postmodern Therapeutic Culture," May 2002.

                        “Inscribing the ""Inscribing the Subject of Desire: A Cross-cultural Exploration of Language Acquisition” Paper  presented at Association for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society Conference, Rutgers University, November 2001.

"The Disabled ""The Disabled Character as Bridge in Contemporary American Children's Fiction." Paper presented at International Children's Literature Association Conference, Buffalo, NY. June 2001.

"Ethics and the Bourgeois Narrative."  Paper presented at the Modern Critical Approaches to Children's Literature Conference, Nashville. April 2001. 

“The Abject Hero in Adolescent Literature and Culture.” Paper  presented at International Children’s Literature Association Conference, Roanoke, VA, June 24, 2000.

 “Passionate Attachments to Subjection.” Paper presented at MLA, Chicago, December 27, 1999.

“The Case of the Mysterious Symptom.” Paper presented at “Social Symptoms,” the annual conference of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Columbia University, New York, October 30, 1999.

“Postmodern Ethics in Young Adult Fiction: Two Views.” Paper presented at the International Children’s Literature Association Conference, Calgary, July 1999.

“’I Never Explain Anything’: What Children’s Literature Knows about Sexual Difference.” Paper presented at Modern Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature conference, Nashville, March 1999.

"'This Will Kill That'": Victor Hugo with Walt Disney." Paper presented at the International Children's Literature Association Conference, Paris, July 1998.

"Homogenizing Ethics and Aesthetics in Disney Films." Invited Lecture for The George Washington University ROOTS Program, November 6, 1997

"Charlotte's Hyphos: A Story of Why We Read and Write."  Paper presented at the International Children's Literature Association Conference, Omaha, NE, June 1997.

"A is for Austin: Performativity in Children's Alphabet Books." Paper presented at the Modern Critical Approaches to Children's Literature Conference, Nashville, TN, April 1997.

"Excluding the Uncanny."  Paper Presented at the International Children's Literature Association Conference, Charlotte, NC, June 1996.

"Violating the Cogito."  Paper presented at the American Comparative Literature Association conference entitled "Literature between Philosophy and Cultural Studies," University of Notre Dame, April 1996.

"Pippi Longstocking Invents Herself."  Paper presented at the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society conference entitled "Psychoanalysis and Postcolonialism," Washington, DC, October 1996.

"Pulsions of Desire: A Lacanian Reading of Through the Looking Glass." Paper presented at the First Biennial Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children's Literature, Nashville, TN, April 1995.

Invited Lectures:

"Texts 'R Us: How Children's Books Help Shape Us."  Invited Lecture for The George Washington University ROOTS Program, September 28, 1996.

"Key Issues in Children's Picture Books."  Invited Lecture for The George Washington University ROOTS Program, September 26, 1995.

Pedagogical Presentations:

"The Good Enough Graduate Program: A Pedagogy of Mourning." Plenary session, presented at English Studies Symposium, Ewing Manor, ISU, April 2002.

“Leisure of Learning.” Panelist, University Teaching Symposium, ISU, Normal, IL, October 29, 1999.

"Designing Effective Writing Assignments." Presentation for the GTA Orientation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, August 1990.

"Developing Your Teaching Style and Managing Your First Day." Presentation for the GTA Orientation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, August 1990.

"Developing Your Grading Style."  Panelist at the GTA Orientation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, August 1990.

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Academic Service:         

Editorial Work:
   Book Review Editor, JPCS,  1999-2003
   Co-Editor, The Human Sciences Review, 1995.
   Head Copy Editor, Campus Quarterly, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1982-3.

Referee:
   Children's Literature 
   Children's Literature Association Quarterly
   Children's Literature in Education
   Pedagogy
   AbLongman Press
   Wayne State University Press

Committee Service:
   External:
      Board Member, Children's Literature Association
      Reviewer, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
      Chair, Article Awards Committee, Children’s Literature Association, 2002-2005
      Member, Article Awards Committee, Children’s Literature Association, 1999-2002.

   Internal:
      University Level:
           Faculty Ethics and Grievance Committee, 2002-2003
           Faculty Technology Advisory Committee, 2000-present
      College Level:
           Advisor, Children's Studies Minor
           Chair, Children's Studies Minor Committee, 2003
           College Curriculum Committee, 2000-2002.
      Department Level:
           Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2003-5
           DFSC, 2002-3.
           Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2001-2.
           Secretary, Technology Committee, 2000-2001.
           Chair, Professional Growth Committee, 1999-2000.
           Member, Graduate Committee, ISU English Department, 1998-99.

Other Professional Service:
   Panel Chair, with June Cummins: “Reviving Ophelia?: Female Adolescent Experience in Young Adult Novels” MLA, Chicago, December 28, 1999.
   Panel Chair and Organizer: "The Limits of Suture." American Comparative Literature Association Conference, University of Notre Dame, April 1996.
    Graduate Student Member, Graduate Council, The George Washington University, 1995-96.
     Member, Composition Committee, English Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990-91.
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Honors, Fellowships, and Awards:  

Fellow, Summer Seminars in Christian Scholarship, "Hermeneutics at the Crossroads," Calvin College, 2002.
Fellow, Summer Seminar in Christian Scholarship, "The Loss of Self in Postmodern Therapeutic Culture," Calvin College, 2001.  
Pre-Tenure Faculty Initiative Grant, 2001. 
State Farm Teaching Technology Faculty Fellowship, 1999.
University Fellowship, The George Washington University, 1997-8.
Distinction on Comprehensive Examinations for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree, 1996.
Columbian Women's Scholarship, 1996-7.
University Fellowship, The George Washington University, 1996-97.
University Fellowship, The George Washington University, 1993-94.
Certificate for Excellence in Teaching as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991.
Sherwood Anderson Foundation Scholarship, 1991.
Phi Kappa Phi, 1984.
Society for Collegiate Journalists, 1983. 

Advisement:

Advisor to the following Master's students:
     Petros Panaou (graduated Spring 2001)
     Julie Fraser (graduated Summer 2001)
     Krista Hutley (graduated Summer 2001)
     Melissa Juvinall (graduated Fall 2001)
     Katie Fiorelli (graduated Summer 2003)
     Caroline Benzing (graduated Spring 2003)
     Rachelle Burgess (graduated Spring 2003)
     Erin Bales (graduated Spring 2006)
     Esther Ntuli (graduated Spring 2006)
     Mindy Mahannah (graduated Spring 2006)
Reader on Master's thesis committee:
     Sue Larkin (graduated Fall 2001)
     Jennifer Witt (graduated Spring 2006)
Advisor to the following Doctoral students:
     Norjuan Q. Austin (defended Summer 2003)
     Preeyaporn Chareonbutra
     Jennifer Miskec (defended Summer 2005)
     Petros Panaou     
     Melody Green
     Laura Meador
     Ji-Yeon Hwang
Reader on dissertation committees:
     Elizabeth Hatmaker (defended Summer 2003)
     Catherine Ross (defended Summer 2003)
     Susan L. Stewart (defended Summer 2004)
     Sue Larkin (defended Summer 2005)

Administrative Experience:

Assistant to the Director of the Program in the Human Sciences, The George Washington University, 1994-96.

Assistant to the GTA Coordinator of the English Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990.

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 Professional Memberships:             

International Children's Literature Association

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