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323F Stevenson Hall Department of English Office Phone:309-438-3740 Campus Box 4240 FAX: 309-438-5414 Illinois State University Email: kscoat2@ilstu.edu Normal, IL 61790-4240 [Education] [Teaching] [Publications] [Presentations] [Service] [Honors] [Professional Memberships] Ph.D., Human Sciences, May 1998 M.A., English, June 1991 B.A., English, June 1985 [top] Professor of English, Illinois State University, 2009-present. Associate Professor of English, Illinois State University, 2004-2009. Assistant Professor of English, Illinois State University, 1998-2004. Lecturer in English, The George Washington University, 1993-1996. Writing Center Tutor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990-91. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989-1991. English Teacher, Jones County Public Schools, North Carolina, 1988-89. English Teacher, Chesapeake Public Schools, Virginia, 1985-88. [top] Books: Handbook of Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Co-edited with Shelby A. Wolf, Patricia Enciso, and Christine A. Jenkins. New York: Routledge, 2011 The Gothic in Children's Literature: Haunting the Borders, co-edited with Anna Jackson and Roderick McGillis, New York: Routledge, 2007. Looking Glasses and Neverlands: Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity in Children's Literature. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004.
Articles: “Teoreticheskie voprosy w izuchenii detskoj literatury. (Theoretical Approaches to Children's Literature.)” Co-authored with Roberta Seelinger Trites. Konstruiruia detskoe: philologiia, istoriia, antropologiia (Constructing Childhood: literature, history, and anthropology.) Ed. by Marina Balina. Moscow- St. Petersburg: RGGU, 2011: 53-73. “Identity.” Keywords for Children’s Literature. Ed. by Philip Nel and Lissa Paul. New York, NY: NYU Press, 2011: 109-112. “Young Adult Literature: Growing Up, In Theory.” Handbook of Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Ed. by Shelby A. Wolf, Karen Coats, Patricia Enciso, and Christine A. Jenkins, New York: Routledge 2011: 315-329. “’If It Rhymes, It’s Funny”: Humor in Children’s Poetry.” Poetry and Childhood. Ed. by Morag Styles, David A. Whitley, and Louise Joy, Trentham Books, 2010: 121-129. Print. “Fantasy.” The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature. Ed. by David Rudd. New York, NY: Routledge 2010: 75-86. Print. "Wet Work and Dry Work: Notes from a Lacanian Mother."
in A Narrative “The Watsons Go to NRC – 2007: Crossing Academic Boundaries in the Study of Children’s Literature.” Co-authored with Patricia Enciso (lead), Christine Jenkins, and Shelby Wolf. 57th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference. Oak Creek, WI: National Reading Conference, Inc., 2008: 219-230. “Postmodern Picturebooks and the Transmodern Self.” In Postmodern Picturebooks: Play, Parody, and Self-Referentiality. Ed. by Lawrence R. Sipe and Sylvia Pantaleo. New York: Routledge, 2008: 75-88. “Pippi Longstocking and the Father of Enjoyment.” Barnboken: Tidskrift for barnlitteraturforskning (Journal of Children’s Literature Research) Nr 1-2 2007 Årgång 30: 15-23. “Saving the World Before Bedtime: The Puer Aeternus as a New Paradigm for Selfhood,” to be published by GRAAT (Groupe de Recherches Anglo-Américaines de Tours) “Between Horror, Humour, and Hope: Neil Gaiman and the Psychic Work of the Gothic,” The Gothic in Children’s Literature: Haunting the Borders, Ed. by Anna Jackson, Karen Coats, and Roderick McGillis. New York: Routledge, 2007. “Fantastic Interventions: The Therapeutic Uses of Contemporary Canadian Fantasy for Children,” Canadian Children’s Literature 32.2 (Fall 2006) "Where Culture Meets Biology." with Robert Seelinger Trites. Canadian Children's Literature 32.1 (Spring 2006): 148-154 "The Role of Love in the Development of the Self: From Freud and Lacan to Children's Stories." The Self: Beyond the Postmodern Crisis. Paul C. Vitz and Susan M. Felch, eds. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2006: 45-61. “Child-Hating: Peter Pan in the Context of Victorian Hatred.” J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan In and Out of Time: A Children’s Classic at 100, C. Anita Tarr and Donna R. White, eds. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006: 3-22. “Keepin’ It
Plural: Children’s Studies in the Academy.” Children’s Literature
Association Quarterly 26.3 (Fall 2001): 140-150. "The Mysteries of Postmodern Epistemology: Stratemeyer, Stine, and Contemporary Mystery for Children." Secrets and Solutions: Encounters with Mystery in Literature for Children. Ed. by Adrienne Gavin and Chris Routledge. London: Macmillan, 2001. 184-201. “The Reason for
Disability.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s
Literature 39.1 (2001): 11-16. "Abjection and Adolescent Fiction." Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. 5.2 (Fall 2000): 291-301. “P is for Patriarchy: Re-Imaging the Alphabet.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 25.2 (Summer 2000): 88-97. "Lacan with Runt Pigs." Children's Literature 27. Edited by Elizabeth Lennox Keyser. New Haven:Yale UP, 1999: 105-28. "Underwriting the Uncanny: The Role of Children's Literature in the Economy of the Subject." Para*doxa. Vol. 3, No. 3-4, Fall 1997. 489-97. "Reclaiming 'Mrs. Wife.'" Winesburg Eagle: The Newsletter of the Sherwood Anderson Society. Vol. XVI, No. 2, 1991. Review Articles and
Nonrefereed Pieces: Review of Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers, by Maria Nikolajeva. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 36.3 (Fall 2011): 338-341. Print. “Children’s Literature: Standing in the Shadow of Adults.” Co-authored with Patricia Enciso(lead), Shelby Wolf, and Christine Jenkins. Reading Research Quarterly 45.2 (April/May/June 2010): 252-263. Print. “Schools of Thought.” Co-authored with Patricia Enciso, Christine A. Jenkins, Roberta Seelinger Trites, and Shelby Wolf. The Horn Book Magazine. 84.5 (September/October 2008): 523-536. 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. [top] Invited Lectures: “What Your Grandchildren (and Children) Should be Reading.” with Roberta Seelinger Trites and Jan Susina. Mornings with the Professors, ISU, October 29, 2010. “What’s So Funny about Children’s Literature?” 5th Annual Gryphon Lecture, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, March 6, 2009. “Stylish Papas, Indeed: Astrid Lindgren’s Fathers of Enjoyment,” Keynote address at “A Woman for All Seasons: Astrid Lindgren at 100,” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, November 14, 2007. “Postmodern Picture Books and the Transmodern Child,” Great Lakes Faculty Forum Series. Central Michigan University, October 16, 2007. “Pippi Longstocking and the Father of Enjoyment,” Keynote address at the Astrid Lindren Centennial Conference, Stockholm, May 30-31, 2007. “Homogenizing Ethics and Aesthetics in Disney Films.” The George Washington University ROOTS Program, November 6, 1997. "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.
Peer Reviewed National and International Conferences: “Transforming Children’s Minds: Cognitive Poetics and Children’s Poetry.” Paper presented at Transforming Childhood: Discourses and Practices, a conference held at the Russian Humanities University and the Saint Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, September 30, 2011. “Theoretical Approaches to Children’s Literature.” with Roberta Seelinger Trites, Paper presented at Childhood and Globalization, an International Colloquium sponsored by IWU, ISU, and the Russian Humanities University, Moscow, IWU, September 13, 2010. “’My Life Would Suck Without You’: Music in Young Adult Literature and Culture.” Paper presented at The Emergent Adult, Homerton College, Cambridge University, UK, September 3, 2010. “Our Avatars, Our Selves.” Paper presented at the Children’s Literature Association Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2010. Wolf, S. A., Heath, S. B., Campano, G., Ghiso, M., Coats, K., Enciso, P., & Jenkins, C. (2010, May). New directions for research in children’s literature. Presentation for the annual Literature SIG Business Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Denver, CO. (Invited) “Pleasure and Pain in Weetzie Bat’s Lover Current.” Paper presented at the Children’s Literature Association Conference, Charlotte, NC, June 2009. “’If it Rhymes, It’s Funny’: Humour and Children’s Poetry, Paper presented at Poetry and Childhood at the British Library, London, April 2009. “Eva and the Body/Body Problem.” Paper presented at the Children’s Literature Conference. Normal, IL, June 2008. “Children’s Gothic and the Christian Imagination,” paper presented at Children’s Literature Association conference, Newport News, Virginia, June 2007. “Memory and the Blurring of Genre,” paper presented at Children’s Literature Association conference, Newport News, Virginia, June 2007. “Postmodern Picture Books and the Transmodern Subject.” Paper presented at Modern Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature Conference, Nashville, TN, March 2007. “Children’s Gothic and the Christian Imagination,” Paper presented at the Lilly Fellows Program National Research Conference, “The World and Christian Imagination,” Baylor University, Waco, Texas, Nov. 9-11, 2006 “Forum: Examining the Critical Pedagogy of Young Adult Literature,” with Mike Cadden and Roberta Seelinger Trites, Children’s Literature Association Conference, Manhattan Beach, June 2006 “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. "'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. Pedagogical Presentations: “Of Theories, Tape Recorders, and Texts: Untangling Methods of Interdisciplinary Study in Children’s Literature.” Invited Session to be presented at National Reading Conference, Orlando, FL, December 3, 2008. “Literature in English: A Gibbon’s Tale.” Panel Session at National Council for Teachers of English. San Antonio, TX, November 21, 2008. “Same Books, Different Disciplines: What’s “Normal” about Teaching Children’s Literature in the Academy?” Panel presented at the Children’s Literature Association Conference. Normal, IL, June 2008. “Three Disciplines, One Text: The Watsons Go to NRC 2007,” Alternative Format Session, National Reading Conference, Austin, TX, November 29, 2007. “YA Literature on the Edge,” IATE, Oak Brook, IL, October 16, 2004. “YA Literature on the Edge,” co-presented with Jim Meyer, CITE, ISU, April 2004. "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. [top] Editorial
and Review Work: Reviewer, The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, March 2003-present. Book Review Editor,
JPCS,
1999-2003
Chair, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Nomination Committee, 2007-2009. [top] Honors, Fellowships, and Awards:
Advisement: Director of Master’s thesis committees: Advisor to the following Master’s students: Reader on dissertation committees: External Examiner:
Administrative Experience: Director of English Education, Illinois State University, 2007-2011) 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. [top]
International Children's
Literature Association [top]
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