{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:12:34","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/paula-connolly\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tm-content-container\">\n<div id=\"node-86\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/paula-connolly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/297\/2012\/10\/Connolly-photo-2010SM_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/paula-connolly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/297\/2012\/10\/Connolly-photo-2010SM_0.jpg\" alt=\"Connolly-photo-2010SM_0\" width=\"100\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst<\/li>\n<li>M.A., B.A., Boston College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research and Writing Interests <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American and British Children&#8217;s Literature<\/li>\n<li>Film, Visual Semiotics, and Popular Culture<\/li>\n<li>Suspense and Genre Fiction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications (selected)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><b>\u00a0 \u00a0 Books<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Slavery in American Children\u2019s Literature, <\/i><i>1790-2010. <\/i>(University of Iowa Press, 2013).<\/p>\n<p><i>Winnie-the-Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner: Recovering Arcadia<\/i>. (Twayne\u2014Macmillan, 1995).<\/p>\n<p><b><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 Articles\u00a0<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Metafictive Playgrounds of Disney\u2019s <em>Winnie the Pooh<\/em>: the movie <em>is<\/em> a book.\u201d <em>Walt Disney, From Reader to Storyteller: Essays on the Literary Inspirations<\/em>.\u00a0 Eds. Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark I. West. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 179-194.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurviving the Storm: Trauma and Recovery in Children\u2019s Books about Natural Disasters.\u201d <i>Bookbird: A Journal of International Children\u2019s Literature<\/i>. 50.1 (January 2012): 1-9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRetelling 9\/11: How Picture Books Re-Envision National Crises.\u201d <i>Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children\u2019s Literature <\/i>(Johns Hopkins UP) 32.3 (Sept 2008): 288-303.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m working on a mystery set in academia. I&#8217;m also continuing to work on a critical anthology of stories that were published in the early nineteenth century for children. The stories have been culled from rare book collections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Courses Taught\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Disney and Children\u2019s Literature\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Literature for Young Children\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Building Suspense in Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Mystery\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Visual Narratives in Children&#8217;s\/YA Literature<\/li>\n<li>Classics in British Children&#8217;s Literature<\/li>\n<li>Classics in American Children&#8217;s Literature<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to Children&#8217;s Literature and Culture\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Visual Semiotics in Children\u2019s Literature\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editorial Boards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Children&#8217;s Literature in Education: An International Quarterly<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>R.I.S.E. (Reading Inspires Success in Education): A Children\u2019s Literacy Journal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>External Funding<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boston Athen\u04d5um. Caleb Loring, Jr. Fellow, 2014-2015<\/p>\n<p>American Antiquarian Society. Invited Visiting Scholar, 2013-2014<\/p>\n<p>Children\u2019s Literature Association. Faculty Research Grant, 2013<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst M.A., B.A., Boston College &nbsp; Research and Writing Interests American and British Children&#8217;s Literature Film, Visual Semiotics, and Popular Culture Suspense and Genre Fiction &nbsp; Publications (selected) \u00a0 \u00a0 Books Slavery in American Children\u2019s Literature, 1790-2010. (University of Iowa Press, 2013). 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