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Paula Connolly

English
american literature
children's literature
film
images of slavery
multiculturalism
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rare book collections
trauma and recovery
visual semiotics
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Connolly-photo-2010SM_0Education

  • Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  • M.A., B.A., Boston College

 

Research and Writing Interests

  • Images of Slavery in American Literature
  • Multiculturalism in Children’s Literature
  • Film, Visual Semiotics, and Popular Culture
  • Suspense and Genre Fiction

 

Publications (selected)

    Books

Slavery in American Children’s Literature, 1790-2010. (University of Iowa Press, 2013).

Winnie-the-Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner: Recovering Arcadia. (Twayne—Macmillan, 1995).

    Articles 

“The Metafictive Playgrounds of Disney’s Winnie the Pooh: the movie is a book.” Walt Disney, From Reader to Storyteller: Essays on the Literary Inspirations.  Eds. Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark I. West. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 179-194.

“Reframing History: Insider/Outsider Paradigms in Ten Books about Slavery.” Jeunesse: young people, texts, cultures  6.2 (Winter 2014): 134-147.

 “‘Texts like a patchwork quilt’: Reading Picturebooks about Slavery.” Children’s Literature in Education  44.1 (March 2013): 29-43.

“Surviving the Storm: Trauma and Recovery in Children’s Books about Natural Disasters.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature. 50.1 (January 2012): 1-9.

“Retelling 9/11: How Picture Books Re-Envision National Crises.” Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children’s Literature (Johns Hopkins UP) 32.3 (Sept 2008): 288-303.

 

Current Projects

I’m working on a mystery set in academia. I’m also continuing to work on Stories of Slavery for Children, 1790-1865, a critical anthology of stories culled from rare book collections (a companion text to Slavery in American Children’s Literature).

 

Recent Courses Taught 

    Undergraduate:

  • Disney and Children’s Literature (ENGL 2109)
  • Literature for Young Children (ENGL 3102)
  • Building Suspense in Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Mystery (ENGL 4074)
  • Classics in British Children’s Literature (ENGL 4102)
  • Classics in American Children’s Literature (ENGL 4103)
  • Multiculturalism in Children’s Literature (ENGL 4104)

    Graduate:

  • Building Suspense in Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Mystery (ENGL 5074)
  • Classics in British Children’s Literature (ENGL 5102)
  • Classics in American Children’s Literature (ENGL 5103)
  • Multiculturalism in Children’s Literature (ENGL 5104)
  • Introduction to Children’s Literature and Culture (ENGL 6103)
  • Visual Semiotics in Children’s Literature (ENGL 6014)

 

Editorial Boards

Children’s Literature in Education: An International Quarterly

R.I.S.E. (Reading Inspires Success in Education): A Children’s Literacy Journal

 

External Funding

Boston Athenӕum. Caleb Loring, Jr. Fellow, 2014-2015

American Antiquarian Society. Invited Visiting Scholar, 2013-2014

Children’s Literature Association. Faculty Research Grant, 2013

 

 

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