Academic Essays
“Leading Through Reading in Contemporary Young Adult Fantasy by Philip Pullman and Terry Pratchett” in Frontiers in Spiritual Leadership: Discovering the Better Angels of Our Nature, ed. Allison, Scott; Kocher, Craig; and Goethals, Al. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 127-146.
“Wrestling with Religion: Pullman, Pratchett, and the Uses of Story.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 36.3 (Fall 2011), 276-295. (Article accessible online from UR-networked computers and others subscribing to Project Muse.)
“Education,” in Keywords for Children’s Literature, ed. Philip Nel and Lissa Paul. NY; NYU P, 2011. 70-74.
“Telling Old Tales Newly: Intertextuality in Young Adult Fiction for Girls,” Telling Children’s Stories: Narrative Theory and Children’s Literature, edited by Michael Cadden. U Nebraska P, 2010. 3-21.”
Education and Knowledge in Recent Children’s Fantasy,” Children’s Literature 37 (2009), 216-235. (Article accessible online from UR-networked computers and others subscribing to Project Muse.)
“Short Fiction by Women in the Victorian Literature Survey,” Teaching British Women Writers 1750-1900, Jeanne Moskal and Shannon R. Wooden, eds., New York: Peter Lang, 2005. pgs 101-109.”
Saving Cinderella: History and Story in Ever After and Ashpet.” Children’s Literature 31 (2003), 142-154. (Article accessible online from UR-networked computers and others subscribing to Project Muse.)
“The Mill on the Floss,” entry for Moss, Joyce, ed. Literature and its times. profiles of notable literary works and the historical events that influenced them / Supplement 1. Detroit: Gale Group, 2003.
“Great Expectations,” entry for Moss, Joyce, ed. World Literature and its Times, Detroit: Gale Publishing Group, 2001″Wuthering Heights,” entry for Moss, Joyce, ed. World Literature and its Times III: British and Irish Literature and their Times, Detroit: Gale Publishing Group, 2000
“Born and Made: Sisters, Brothers, and the Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill,” SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 24:2 (Winter 1999), 423-447
“Plotting the Mother: Caroline Norton, Helen Huntingdon, and Isabel Vane,” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature,16:2 (Fall 1997), 303-325″
Cinderella, Marie Antoinette, and Sara: Roles and Role Models in A Little Princess,” The Lion and the Unicorn, 22:2 (Spring 1998), 163-187. (Article accessible online from UR-networked computers and others subscribing to Project Muse.)
“Family Secrets and the Mysteries of The Moonstone,” Victorian Literature and Culture, 21 (1993), 127-145. (Reprinted in Wilkie Collins, ed. Lyn Pykett. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. 221-243)
“Feminists Face the Job Market: Q & A (Questions & Anecdotes),” Concerns, 24:1 (Winter 1994), 15-23. (Revised and reprinted in On the Market: Surviving the Academic Job Search, edited by Christina Boufis and Victoria C. Olsen. New York: Riverhead Books, 1997. 87-100)
“The Bullfinch and the Brother: Marriage and Family in Frances Burney’s Camilla,” JEGP, 93:1 (January 1994), 18-34.
“‘Loving Difference’: Sisters and Brothers from Frances Burney to Emily Bronte,” in The Significance of Sibling Relationships in Literature, ed. JoAnna Stephens Mink & Janet Doubler Ward, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993. 32-46.