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Program Director
 Amanda
Cockrell is a graduate of Hollins, where
she also earned her M.A. in English and creative
writing. In addition to directing the children’s
literature program, she is the author of The
Legions of the Mist, The Moonshine Blade, The
Deer Dancers trilogy, The Horse Catchers trilogy
and Pomegranate Seed. In 1998 she received
a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
in fiction.
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Michelle Ann Abate, assistant professor of English, and assistant editor of Children's Literature: (Johns Hopkins University Press); B.A., Canisius College; M.Phil. and Ph.D., City University of New York. Her research and teaching interests include children's literature, LGBTQ studies, U.S. literature and culture, U.S cinema, American women's writing, and cultural studies. Michelle is the author of the book, Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History (Temple University Press, 2008). In addition, she has published critical essays on a wide range of topics, including William Faulkner, Louisa May Alcott, Zona Gale, E. D. E. N. Southworth, Elizabeth Stoddard, Secunda Pastorum, and the genres of lesbian pulp fiction and young adult novels. In the photo (left), Abate is at Ollantaytambo in Peru, where she took a group of students in January 2007 in connection to her Short Term course on travel writing.
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Karen Adams, M.A., Children's Literature, Hol lins University; M.A., English and Creative Writing, Hollins University. She writes historical fiction and mysteries for children. Her stories, The Mystery of Roanoke, Adventure on Ocracoke Island, The Dark Road to Freedom, Ghost Train Journey, Secrets on the Wind, Spirits of Olde Virginia, and Distant
Mountains, Distant Sea, and Across Two Oceans have
been serialized in newspapers across the country. The
Mystery of Roanoke also has been published
as a book.
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 Brian
Attebery, professor of English and director
of American studies, Idaho State University;
Ph.D., Brown University. He is coeditor, with
Ursula K. Le Guin, of The Norton Book of Science
Fiction and author of Decoding Gender
in Science Fiction, Strategies of Fantasy,
The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature:
From Irving to Le Guin, and the Teachers
Guide to the Norton Book of Science Fiction.
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Rhonda Brock-Servais,
associate professor of English, Longwood University;
Ph.D., University of South Carolina. Her work has
appeared in Children’s Literature in Education, and The Encyclopedia
of American Children’s Literature. Besides
children’s literature, her interests include
literary horror, Romantic and Victorian literature,
and fairy tales.
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 Lisa
Rowe Fraustino, assistant professor of English,
Eastern Connecticut State University; Ph.D., Binghamton
University. Her most recent books include The
Hickory Chair, a picture book; and the edited
collections Soul Searching: Thirteen Stories
of Faith and Belief and the forthcoming Don’t
Cramp My Style: Stories About That Time of the
Month. She is also the author of Grass and
Sky, a Junior Library Guild selection; Ash,
a 1995 ALA Best Book for Young Adults; and editor
of Family Secrets, an anthology of short
stories.
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Tina Hanlon, associate professor of English, Ferrum College; Ph.D., Ohio State University. Her publications on children’s literature, folk and fairy tales include entries in The Cambridge Guide to Children’s Books and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature, as well as essays in The Lion and the Unicorn, Children’s Literature, and the book Tales, Tellers, and Texts. She is co-editor of Crosscurrents of Children’s Literature: An Anthology of Texts and Criticism, and director of the Web site AppLit: Resources for Readers and Teachers of Appalachian Literature for Children and Young Adults.
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Hillary Homzie, M.A.
Hollins University; M.Ed.,
 Temple
University. She is the author of the chapter book series Alien Clones From Outer Space. Titles include: Two Heads Are Better
Than One, Who Let the Dogs Out?, The Baby-sitters
Wore Diapers, and Food Fight! All were named Children’s-Book-of-The-Month Club Best Books for Children, and are being developed into an animated television series by Suppertime Entertainment and Telescreen. Her short stories have been published in anthologies and numerous children’s magazines.
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Len Hatfield, associate professor of English,
Virginia Tech; Ph.D., Indiana University. He is the
former president of the International Association
for the Fantastic in the Arts, founder and editor
of the Virginia Tech Online Speculative Fiction Project,
associate director of the Virginia Tech Center for
Applied Technologies in the Humanities, and the co-director
of the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture.
Besides the fantastic in literature, his interests
include literary theory, postmodernism, and humanities
computing.
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 Alexandria
LaFaye, M.F.A., University of Memphis; M.A.
in children’s literature, Hollins College.
She is currently on leave from California State
University, San Bernadino for a year of writing
and speaking. Her latest book, Worth, won
the 2005 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.
Her next book Up River will be serialized
in newspapers through Breakfast Serials, a serialized
novel company. She is also the author of The
Year of the Sawdust Man, Edith Shay, Strawberry
Hill, and Nissa's Place.
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 William
Miller, associate professor of English, York
College; Ph.D., Binghamton University. He is the
author of two collections of poetry and numerous
books for children, including numerous books for
children, including Night Golf which won
the Parents' Choice Gold Medal Award, Zora Hurston
and the Chinaberry Tree, Frederick Douglass: the
Last Day of Slavery, The Knee-High Man, Madame
Zina and the Conjure Woman, A House by the River, Richard
Wright and the Library Card, The Bus Ride, Tituba, and Rent-Party
Jazz.
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 Han
Nolan, 1997 winner of the National Book Award
for Dancing on the Edge, and author of other
acclaimed novels for young adults, including Send
Me Down a Miracle (a 1996 National Book Award
nominee), If I Should Die Before I Wake, A
Face in Every Window, Born Blue, When We Were Saints, and A Summer of Kings. In 2002 she was our writer-in-residence.
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Julie Pfeiffer,
associate professor of English; Ph.D., University
of Connecticut; editor of the annual of the Children’s
Literature Association, Children’s Literature (Johns
Hopkins University Press). She has published on Charlotte
Bronte, gender and children’s literature, and
on nineteenth-century revisions of Paradise Lost for
children.
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 Candice Ransom, M.F.A. Vermont Colllege,
M. A. Hollins University, is the author of over 100 books for children of all ages, including the novels Finding Day’s Bottom and Seeing Sky-Blue Pink; picture books including Tractor Day, I Like Shoes, Liberty Street, and The Promise Quilt; and the Time Spies books, among dozens of others.
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Kimberly Rhodes, associate professor, 19th- and 20th-century European and American art, women's studies;
B.A., St. Lawrence University; M.A., Ph.D, Columbia University. Rhodes is an art historian who writes and teaches about modern and contemporary visual culture. Before coming to Hollins in 1998 she worked at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY. Her scholarly work on nineteenth-century British and American art has been published by Yale University Press and Hudson Hills Press, among others, and she has presented papers at conferences, museums and universities around the U.S. Her book Ophelia and Victorian Visual Culture: Representing Body Politics in the Nineteenth Century is forthcoming from Ashgate Publishing. At Hollins she teaches classes that reflect her feminist, interdisciplinary and transhistorical engagement with visual culture including "Feminism and Contemporary Art," "Art and Literature in Britain" and "Art History and Fiction."
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Joe Sutliff Sanders, assistant professor of English at California State University in San Bernardino; Ph.D., University of Kentucky. He has published work on topics including girls' fiction, women writers, comic books, and queer theory in The Children's Literature Association Quarterly, The Sandman Papers, Foundation, The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and elsewhere. He is the graphic novels columnist for Teacher Librarian.
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 Ruth
Sanderson, author and illustrator, is a graduate
of Paier College of Art. Among her many books for
children are The Nativity, The Enchanted Wood,
The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Papa Gatto, Rose
Red and Snow White, The Night Before Christmas, and Tapestries:
Stories of Women From the Bible. In 1997 she
was writer-in-residence.
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 J.
D. Stahl, professor of English, Virginia Tech; Ph.D, University of Connecticut. His specialties are myth and fairy tale, the works of Mark Twain, and children's books in translation. He is the author of Mark Twain, Culture and Gender: Envisioning America Through Europe and many articles in children's literature journals, as well as the picture book Climbing Daddy Mountain. He is co-editor, with Tina Hanlon and Elizabeth Keyser, of Crosscurrents of Children's Literature: An Anthology of Texts and Criticism (Oxford UP, 2007).
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Morag Styles, senior
lecturer in English and curriculum studies, faculty
of education, University of Cambridge, and reader
in children's literature at Homerton College, Cambridge,
England. She is the author of numerous books including From
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Garden to the Street: Three Hundred Years of Poetry
for Children, and the editor of Opening
the Nursery Door: Reading, Writing and Childhood
1600-1900 and many poetry anthologies for children.
She is poetry editor of the Cambridge Guide to
Children's Books in English, and the Routledge
Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Her most
recent book is Reading
Lessons From the Eighteenth Century (2006).
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C. W. Sullivan III,
professor of English, East
 Carolina
University; Ph.D., University of Oregon. He is
a full member of the Welsh Academy, author of Fenian Diary: Denis B. Cashman on board the Hougoumont, 1867-1868, and Welsh
Celtic Myth in Modern Fantasy; and editor of numerous books including The Mabinogi: A Book of Essays, Science Fiction for Young Readers, and Young Adult Science Fiction.
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Lisa Updike, visiting assistant professor, Roanoke College; Ph.D. Virginia Tech. She taught high school English before leaving public schools and her research interests include social justice as it relates to education and/or women, feminist theory, and children’s literature.
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Ashley Wolff, B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design.
She is the author and/or illustrator of over 40 children’s picture books including Baby Beluga, Stella and Roy Go Camping, Me Baby, You Baby, Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?, Mama’s Milk, and the beloved Miss Bindergarten series. Her books have won numerous state and national awards. She lives and works in San Francisco.
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Sharon Dennis Wyeth is the author of over 50
 books for young readers, including Tomboy
Trouble, the Underground Railroad diaries of Corey Birdsong, and Orphea Proud, which was a 2005 LAMBDA Literary Award finalist. The Granddaughter Necklace will be published in the near future by Arthur A. Levine Books, and she is a Cave Canem Poetry Fellow.
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Ernest Zulia, associate professor of theatre, Hollins University; B.A., SUNY-Genesco; M.F.A. Northwestern University. Ernie has directed more than 100 productions of plays, musicals, operas, and world premieres in theatres around the United States and internationally. His stage adaptation of Robert Fulghum's international best-selling book, All I Really Need To Know I
Learned In Kindergarten, has been produced around
the world. Along with collaborator David Caldwell,
he has created the sequel, Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas.
Zulia also created and directed the musical revue
of the songs of Academy Award-winning composer Stephen
Schwartz, titled Magic to Do. He served as
associate artistic director at Virginia's Mill Mountain
Theatre and is currently an artistic associate at
Apple Tree Theatre in Chicago, where he has been
nominated for Chicago's prestigious Joseph Jefferson
Award as best director.
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