Dr. Victoria de Rijke is Professor in Arts & Education at Middlesex University in London and co-chief Editor of Children’s Literature in Education Journal. Her research and publication is transdisciplinary, across the fields of literature and the arts, children’s literature, play and animal studies, through the associations of metaphor.
Bio forthcoming!
Sara Austin is an Assistant Professor at Kentucky Wesleyan College. Her interest in race, gender, and childhood identity has yielded articles in International Research in Children’s Literature, Transformative Works and Cultures, The Lion and the Unicorn, The Looking Glass: New Perspectives in Children’s Literature, and The Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. Her first monograph, Monstrous Youth, explores monstrosity as a cultural metaphor for child identity.
David M. Higgins is associate professor of English and chair of the Department of Humanities and Communication at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide, and he is a senior editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. David is the author of Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood.
Terri Doughty teaches children’s literature at Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Canada. She has published on girl culture, YA fantasy literature, and picturebooks, and currently works with Critical Plant Studies in children’s literature. Photo credit: Vancouver Island University.
