Monographs

Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the US. Ohio State University Press. 2022.

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Peer Reviewed Articles

Co-written with Emily Midkiff “The Disneyfication of the Climate Crisis: Frozen, Frozen II, and Moana Through the Lens of Global Warming.”

The Lion and the Unicorn. 45.2 (2021), pp. 154-171.

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Co-written with Ann Wainscott “Children’s Literature as a Front in the War on Terror: Ineffective Literature, Ineffective Policy.”

International Research in Children's Literature. 14.1 (2021), pp. 52-66.

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"Consuming Girls: Valuing Queer Identity in Monster High Doll Fandom." Transformative Works and Cultures. 22 (2016), Online. 

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“Two Separate Hearts: Virginia Hamilton and the Black Arts Movement.”

The Lion and the Unicorn ,40.3 (September 2016), pp. 262-279.

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“Sita, Surpanakha and Kaikeyi as Political Bodies: Representations of Female Sexuality in Idealised Culture.”

Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics 5.2 (2014), pp. 125-36.

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“Performative Metafiction: Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler and

The End Of A Series of Unfortunate Events.”

The Looking Glass: New Perspectives in Children’s Literature 17.1 (2013), Online.

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Book Chapters

"Be Who You Are, I Am Jazz, and Sam!: Picturing Trans Childhoods" Reading LGBTQ+ Chidlren's Picture Books. edited by Jennifer Miller. University Press of Mississippi. (2022).

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"Child Cosplayers: Embodying Potentialities" Discipline and Freedom: Social Norms, Social Identity, and Financial Implications of Cosplay. edited by Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols and Amy Lewis. Routledge. (2022).

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"When the Magc Mirror Lies: Gender, Vanity, Body Dysmorphis, and the Wicked Queen" Gender and Female Villains in 21st Centry Fairy Tale Narratives: From Evil Queens to Wicked Witches. edited by Janelle Vermaak and Natalie Le Clue. (2022), pp. 47-60.

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“Panels of Innocence and Experience: Reading Sexual Subjectivity Through Horror Comics.”  The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies. Ed. Frederick Aldama. Routledge. (2020), pp. 169-180.

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“Children of Queer Bodies: The Legacy of the Sea Witch in Disney’s Descendants 2” Kids Inc. to Andi Mack: The Disney Channel’s Tween Programming. Ed. Christopher Bell. McFarland and Company. (2020), pp. 255-270.

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“‘“Real Men Don’t Smash Little Girls”: Inter-Hero Violence, Families, and Masculinity in Contemporary Superhero Comics and Animation.” Performance in the Gutter: Cultural Construction and the Graphic Novel. Ed. Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw and Leigh Anne Howard. Routledge. (2019), pp. 103-117.

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“Cold, Tactless, Brave, Heroic, Technowizards: The New Feminine of Mattel’s Fashion Dolls.” Heroes, Heroines and Everything in Between: Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children’s Entertainment Media. Ed. CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and Christopher J. Olson. Rowman & Littlefield (2017), pp. 123-138.

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Edited Volumes

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Co-editor. Global Children's Literature in the College Classroom. Lexington Books. (2025).

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Co-editor, “Expanding the Archive,” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Special Issue 31.2 (Winter 2020).

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Co-editor, “African American Children’s Literature and Genre,” Children's Literature Association Quarterly Special Issue 41.4 (Winter 2016).

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Encyclopedia Entries

“The Green Lantern.” Aliens in Popular Culture: A Guide to Visitors from Outer Space. Ed. Farah Mendlesohn. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. (2019), pp. 137-139

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“Martian Manhunter.” Aliens in Popular Culture: A Guide to Visitors from Outer Space. Ed. Farah Mendlesohn. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. (2019), pp. 173-175

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“Star Trek.” Aliens in Popular Culture: A Guide to Visitors from Outer Space. Ed. Farah Mendlesohn. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. (2019), pp. 240-243

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