Selected Publications:

"The Illustrator's Notebook: An Introduction to the Realm of Arabic Picture Books." Sankofa: A Journal of African Children's and Young Adult Literature 6 (2007) 90-94.

"Bambi and the Hunting Ethos." Journal of Popular Film and Television 24:2 (Summer 1996) 53-59.

"Ramona and the Raw Egg: Some Thoughts on Cleary and Television." Oregon English Journal 17:1 (Spring 1995) 68-69.

"Moral Simplification in Disney's The Little Mermaid." Lion and Unicorn 17:1 (June 1993) 83-92.

Social Conscience and Class Relations in MacDonald's 'Cross Purposes'." In Roderick McGillis, Ed., For the Childlike: George MacDonald's Work for Children. Metuchen, NJ: Children's Literature Association/Scarecrow Press, 1992. 75-86.

Selected Conference Presentations:

“History, Fiction, and Myth in Children’s Versions of Pocahontas.” Children’s Literature Association, Newport News, VA, June 16, 2007.

“Black Beauty and the Aestheticization of the Horse.”  Sixth Biennial Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature, Nashville, April 1, 2005.

“The Animal Dæmon as Human Soul in Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy.” Children’s Literature Association, Fresno, CA, June 10, 2004.

“Cobble’s Knot: Reconciling Public and Private in Maniac Magee.” Fifth Biennial Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature, Nashville, April 11, 2003.

“The Americanization of the Fairy Tale: Disney Writes the Land.”  International Conference on Comparative Children’s Literature: Text, Culture, and National Identity, Worcester, England, June 16, 1999.

“Toward a Theory of Historical Fiction for Children.” Third Biennial Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature, Nashville, March 24,1999.

Current Projects:

The Historicity of Children's Versions of the Pocahontas Story.

L. Frank Baum's Editorials on the Sioux People.

Heteronorming the Young Adult Novel.