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Elected co-president for 2007 and 2008 of the American Names Society. My teaching area is English Education, which means that I work with students planning to teach English in junior or senior high schools. I supervise student teachers and conduct classes dealing with young adult literature and with effective ways of mastering language skills and managing the complications of teaching in today’s middle schools or high schools. One of my most enjoyable classes is ENG 470: Symbols and Archetypes in Children’s Literature, which we offer every fall. Graduates take the class under a 504 Cross Cultural Studies number. They investigate and bring to the rest of us information about children’s literature from different countries and different perspectives. I also enjoy working with doctoral students in English Education, especially helping them prepare articles for publication. We have an active Ph.D. program with between fifteen and twenty students, about equally divided between local teachers working while they teach (but everyone has to have at least one year full-time on campus) and students who have moved here to be full-time doctoral students. It was fun this summer for two books that I worked on last year to arrive in the mail all finished. First came Joan Bauer, which I wrote as part of the series that Professor Jim Blasingame is editing for Greenwood press. It is a “Teen Reads: Student Companions to Young Adult Literature” series. Next came Names and Naming in Young Adult Literature that I wrote with Don Nilsen for Scarecrow Press's "Studies in Young Adult Literature Series.". Writing energies this year will be devoted to co-editing with Don a special issue of the Names journal devoted to Names and Ethnicity, and also finishing up the revision with Ken Donelson of the eighth edition of Literature for Today’s Young Adults. When I finish those two obligations, I plan to take a deep breath and sit back and read the books that I’ve stacked on my “To Read” shelf. Download a C.V. (.doc)
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