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Dr. Martha P. Hixon 519 Peachtree St., Murfreesboro, TN 37129 615-848-9028(h) / 615-898-2599(o) email: [email protected]

Education May 1997

Ph.D. in Literature, University of Southwestern Louisiana (now University of Louisiana, Lafayette). Major field: children's and young adult literature. Other areas: nineteenth-century British and American literature, folktales and literature, medieval literature. DISSERTATION: Awakenings and Transformations: Re-Visioning the Tales of "Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White," "The Frog Prince," and "Tam Lin." An analysis of how modern authors of children's literature and fantasy reinterpret the core motifs inherent in the classic literary versions of these three fairy tales and one ballad story.

Aug. 1980

M.A. in English, Northeast Louisiana University (now University of Louisiana, Monroe)

May 1977

B.A. in English Education/Library Science, Northeast Louisiana University

TEACHING / RELATED EXPERIENCE Aug 1999-current

English Department, Middle Tennessee State University. Courses include various graduate and undergraduate courses in children’s literature: 3600/3740 (the general survey course); 6305/7305 (Special Topics in Children’s Literature, graduate level, varying topics);6760/7760 (Special Topics in Film Studies: Children’s Film); 4750 (Special Topics in Children’s Literature, varying topics); and 3755 (Folk and Fairy Tales), as well as several graduate directed readings courses on various topics. Also, freshman composition (English 1010 and 1020, both Honors and non-Honors sections); sophomore literature (English 2030, The Experience of Literature, and 2020, Themes in Literature and Culture); and University Honors Seminar 3500 (focus topic is Folktales and Literature) and UH 3900: Honors Research Seminar, a course designed in 2013 specifically for the new Honors Transfer Scholarship students (I was the inaugural professor for this class).  Tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in August 2004; promoted to Professor in August 2009  named to Honors Faculty in Spring 2000 and Graduate Faculty in Fall 2000

Aug 1998-May 1999

Adjunct instructor (Children’s Literature), Louisiana State University at Eunice. Survey course in children’s literature for elementary education majors.

Aug 1997-May 1999

Adjunct English/Education instructor, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette. Various composition and literature courses in the English Department, including freshman composition and literature, honors composition, remedial composition, advanced composition (a junior-level course), a graduate composition course for non-English majors, and sophomore surveys in American Literature to 1900 and British Literature from 1800 to the Present, in addition to Introduction to Children’s Literature for the College of Education.

May 1997-June 1999

Technical Editor/Writer and Education Specialist, National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA. Edited various government publications and multimedia productions, wrote informational pamphlets on local environmental research projects,

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and contributed to projects designed for use in the local classrooms, including compiling a teacher’s guide to a CD-ROM on coastal wetlands. Jan 1993-Dec 1996

Graduate teaching assistant, University of Southwestern Louisiana. Freshman Composition, freshman literature, developmental composition, and American literature (a sophomore survey).

Jan 1991-Dec 1992

Instructor, Pima Community College, Tucson, Arizona. Taught freshman composition, freshman literature, developmental composition.

PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH PROJECTS Books and articles: “’Whose Woods These Are I Think I Know’: Narrative Theory and Diana Wynne Jones’s Hexwood.” Telling Children Stories: Narrative Theory and Children’s Literature. Ed. Mike Cadden. U of Nebraska P, 2011. 251-67. “Power Plays: Paradigms of Power in The Pinhoe Egg and The Merlin Conspiracy.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 21.2 (2010): 12-29. “’The Lady of Shalott’ as Paradigm in Patricia McKillip’s The Tower at Stony Wood.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 16.3 (Fall 2005): 191-205. “Under the Sea – American Adolescent Female Desire in The Little Mermaid.” Synsvinkler 32 (2005): 90-106. publication of the Center for Nordic Studies, Syddansk University. (Special issue on H. C. Andersen). “Tam Lin, Fair Janet, and the Sexual Revolution: Traditional Ballads, Fairy Tales, and Twentieth-Century Children’s Literature.” Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies 18.1 (Spring 2004): 67-92. Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom. Ed. Teya Rosenberg, Martha P. Hixon, Sharon M. Scapple, and Donna R. White. Studies in Children’s Literature Series. General Editor William Moebius. Peter Lang, 2002. “The Importance of Being Nowhere: Narrative Dimensions and Their Interplay in Fire and Hemlock.” In Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom. 96-107. "Images of Louisiana in Children's Literature." Louisiana English Journal 6.1 (1999): 71-74.

Book reviews and encyclopedia entries: Review of The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre by Jack Zipes (Princeton UP, 2012). Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 38.2 (Summer 2013): 243-246. Review of The Myth of Persephone in Girls’ Fantasy Literature by Holly Virginia Blackford (Routledge, 2012). Children’s Literature 41 (2013): 255-261. Review of Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children’s Literature, by Marah Gubar. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 36.2 (Summer 2011): 240-42. “Rewriting History” (Review Essay on Ruth Bottigheimer’s Fairy Tales: A New History, SUNY P, 2009). Children’s Literature 38 (2010): 231-236.

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Review of Red Riding Hood for All Ages by Sandra Beckett (Wayne State UP, 2008). Lion and Unicorn 33.3 (Sept 2009): 422-425 Review of Folklore and the Fantastic in 19th Century British Fiction, by Jason Marc Harris (Ashgate, 2008). Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 34.1(Spring 2009): 73-75. Review of Four British Fantasists by Charles Butler (Scarecrow, 2006). Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 32.3 (Fall 2007): 273-275. “The Child as Father of the Man: American Childhood and Walt Disney.” (Review Essay of Nicholas Sammond’s Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960, Duke UP, 2005). Children’s Literature 35 (2007): 239-242. Review of Folktales Retold: A Critical Overview of Stories Updated for Children by Amie Doughty (McFarland, 2006).The Lion and the Unicorn 31.2 (April 2007): 196-199. “Tale with a Thousand Faces: ‘Beauty and the Beast.’” (Review Essay of Jerry Griswold’s The Meanings of “Beauty and the Beast”: A Handbook, Broadview P, 2004). Children’s Literature 34 (2006): 214-17. “New Wine in Old Bottles.” (Review Essay of Elizabeth Wanning Harries’ Twice Upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale, Princeton, 2001). Children’s Literature 32 (2004): 216-221. Review of Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale by Catherine Orenstein (Basic Books, 2002). Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 29.1-2 (Spring/Summer 2004): 129-31. Review of In Cold Fear by Pamela Hunt Steinle (Ohio State UP, 2000). ChLA Quarterly 27.3 (Fall 2002): 167. Entries on Donna Jo Napoli, Patricia Wrede, Charles de Lint, Terri Windling, and William Brooke in The St. James Guide to Children’s Writers/Young Adult Writers. Ed. Tom and Sara Pendergrast. St. James Press, 1999. Entries on Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, Uncle Remus, Angela Carter, and Joseph Jacobs in The Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature, Ed. Bruce Rosenberg and Mary Ellen Brown. Garland Press, 1998.

Conference presentations and invited presentations “Growing Up Is Risky Business: Innocent Persecuted Heroines in Classic Fairy Tales.” Presented at the 35th Children’s Literature Association Conference in Biloxi, MS, June 13-15, 2013. “A Neverending Story: Revisions, Retellings, and Adaptations in Folktales and Children’s Literature.” Invited keynote lecture for MTSU’s EGSO (English Graduate Student Organization) conference September 22, 2012. “Fighting Snow with Fire: Power Paradigms in the Grimms’ ‘Snow White’ and Modern Retellings.” Presented at the Children’s Literature Association Conference at Simmons College, Boston MA, June 14-16, 2012. “Conservatively Subversive: J.K. Rowling, Diana Wynne Jones, and Social Ideologies.” Presented at the Children’s Literature Association Conference at Hollins University, Roanoke, VA, June 23-25, 2011. “Power Dynamics in Diana Wynne Jones’ The Pinhoe Egg and Black Maria.” Presented at the Children’s Literature Association Conference in Ann Arbor, MI, June 10-12, 2010.

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“Power Plays: Paradigms of Power in Two Novels by Diana Wynne Jones.” Presented at the Diana Wynne Jones Conference, hosted by the University of the West in Bristol, England, July 2-6, 2009. “Power in the Land: Three Paradigms of Magical Geography.” Presented at the Children’s Literature Association Conference in Charlotte, NC, June 11-14, 2009. “ChLA: Entering the Third Generation.” Presidential Address presented to the Children’s Literature Association General Membership during the annual conference in Bloomington/Normal, IL, June 14, 2008. “The Presence of the Past: Bridging Time in Twentieth Century British Fantasy for Children.” Presented at the Children’s Literature Association Conference in Newport News, VA, June 14-16, 2007. “Story, Time, and Timelessness: Narrative Transformations in Diana Wynne Jones’s Hexwood.” Presented at the Children’s Literature Association Conference in Manhattan Beach, CA, June 6-8, 2006. “Under the Sea: American Adolescent Female Desire in Walt Disney’s The Little Mermaid.” Presented at the “Hans Christian Andersen: A Celebration and Reappraisal” conference hosted by the British Library, the University of Newcastle, and the Institute of English Studies at the University of London in London, England, August 8-10, 2005. “Utopian Visions in Animal Land: Brian Jacques’ Redwall Novels and Their Debt to Kenneth Grahame.” Presented at the Children’s Literature Association Conference in Fresno, CA, June 10-12, 2004. “Mirrors, Towers, Dragons, and Wise Women: “The Lady of Shalott” as Paradigm in Patricia McKillip’s The Tower at Stony Wood.” Presented at Mythcon 34, Conference of the Mythopoetic Society, Nashville, TN, July 25-28, 2003. “The Postmodern Fairy Tales of Donna Jo Napoli.” Presented at the Children’s Literature Association Conference in El Paso, TX, June 5-8, 2003. “Inner World and Other World: The Use of Folklore in the Fantasies of Mollie Hunter.” Presented at the Children’s Literature Association Conference in Wilkes-Barre, PA, June 12-16, 2002. “The Hero’s Journey: Brian Jacques’s Redwall.” Presented at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 20-24, 2002. “Bridging Traditions: Turning Fairy Tale into Fantasy Story—Robin McKinley’s Spindle’s End.” Presented at the Children’s Literature Association Conference in Buffalo, NY, June 6-10, 2001. “A Close Look at the Narrative Structure of Fire and Hemlock.” Part of a panel on Diana Wynne Jones at the Children’s Literature Association Conference in Roanoke, VA, June 21-23, 2000. “Bayou Belles and Sons of the Swamp: Images of Acadiana in 20th Century Children’s Fiction.” Presented at the Children’s Literature Association Conference in Roanoke, VA, June 21-23, 2000. “Sex and the Schoolgirl: The Fairy-Tale Patterns of Adele Geras’ Tower Room Trilogy.” Presented at the 3rd Biennial Modern Approaches to Children’s Literature Conference, MTSU, March 24-27, 1999. "Sir Galahad and the Victorian Spiritual Ideal: The Opposing Views of Tennyson and Morris." Presented to the Christianity and Literature Section of the South Central Modern Languages Association Conference in Dallas, TX, October 30-November 1, 1997. "Sleeping Beauty Awakens: Modern Revisions of an Old Tale." Presented to the Children's Literature Association Conference at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, June 19-22, 1997. "Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the Land of Faery." Presented to the Folklore Section of the South Central

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Modern Languages Association in San Antonio, TX, October 31-November 1, 1996. "Myth, Magic, and Missing Parents: Fantasy and the Problem Novel." Presented to the Children's Literature Section of the South Central Modern Languages Association in Houston, TX, October 26-28, 1995. "Of Enchanted Frogs and Princesses: Re-visioning 'The Frog Prince.'" Presented at the Children’s Literature Association Conference at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, June 1-4, 1995. "Traditional Ballad and Plot Structure, or When Is a Ballad Not a Ballad?" Presented at the American Folklore Society Conference in Lafayette, LA, October 12-15, 1995. "Samuel G. Goodrich, American Romancer?" Presented at the Children's Literature Association Conference at Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, June 2-5, 1994.

In progress: Book manuscript: Awakenings and Transformations: A Comparative Study of the Innocent Persecuted Heroine Cycle from Perrault and the Grimms to Today, a study of a specific group of fairy tales that are female initiation stories, featuring a young girl who must endure various trials that test her “womanly” virtues. (Updated and expanded version of the dissertation).

UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE Mentoring Current

Director for Ph.D. students Philip Shafer for a dissertation on the film adaptations of the Harry Potter novels and Jennifer Cain for her dissertation on Epic Child Heroes, and for M.A. student Sara Kern for a thesis on children’s television shows. Also directing theses for Honors students Carly Davis on female hero paradigms in YA fantasy, Jay Voorhies on the fairy tale Rapunzel, and Bridget Carlson on T.S. Eliot as a children’s poet. Serving as a reader for doctoral student Sue Cho, expected defense in spring 2015.

2013-2014

Directed Pamela Davis for her dissertation on Mildred Taylor’s African American historical fiction for children (successfully defended in fall 2013) and M.A. student Lauren Price for a thesis on fairy tales, successfully defended in June 2014. Directed an Honors thesis for Kelsey Rogers for a modern retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood” (defended in fall 2013). Served as a reader for a dissertation by doctoral student Shiloh Carroll and for Honors thesis student Fernando Ramos.

2012-2013

M.A. thesis director for David LeDoux for “Lands of Escape: The Manipulation of Adult Linear Time in British Children’s Fantasy,” successfully defended in May 2013. Served as reader for a master’s thesis by Victoria Warenik and one by Jessica Evans, both successfully defended in May 2013, and for Sarah Crotzer, plus a doctoral dissertation by Agapi Theodorou, both successfully defended in June 2013. Served as Honors thesis director for Rachel Nutt for a thesis examining Hispanic-English language books for children, “Investigating and Augmenting Bilingual Children’s Literature in the United States,” successfully defended in December 2012, and as reader for Honors thesis by Trevor Sitler (philosophy), successfully defended in May 2013.

2011-2012

M.A. thesis director for Ariel Dingus for “Drawing on Nature: Environmental Themes in animated Films,” successfully defended in April 2012, and for Alyssa Dawson for “Purpose and the Upward Journey: The Hero’s Quest of Becoming in George MacDonald’s Fantasy and

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Historical Fiction,” successfully defended in June 2012. Honors thesis director for Joseph Quarles, for “Snow White: A Comprehensive Literary and Cinematic Study,” an examination of versions of Snow White plus an original short novel retelling of the fairy tale, successfully defended in April 2012. Also served as reader for M.A. student Lisa Connor for “We Can Build You: Science Fiction, Textism, and the Making of a Literary Identity—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and Philip K. Dick,” directed by David Lavery and successfully defended in June 2012. 2010-2011

M.A thesis director for Sarah Bryant, for “Fighting to Fly: Swan Maidens Struggling for Autonomy in Contemporary Adolescent Literature,“ successfully defended in Spring 2011; Honors thesis director for Casey Gaddis for “’Tam Lin’: A Retelling” and Laura Wilbanks for “’East of the Sun, West of the Moon’: A Retelling,” both successfully defended in Spring 2011.

2009-2010

M.A. thesis director for Linda Selby for “The Elderly Woman as Portrayed in Children’s Literature,” successfully defended in Summer 2010; Honors thesis director for Samantha Egbers for “Threaded Together,” on contemporary retellings of Sleeping Beauty and Rumplestiltskin, successfully defended in Spring 2010. Also served as reader for dissertations by James Francis (directed by David Lavery) and Lisa Brown (directed by Ted Sherman), both successfully defended in the summer of 2010.

Summer 2009 McNair Scholar mentor to Joseph Quarles, directing work on the fairy tale “Snow White” and and 2010 various contemporary retellings. 2008-2009

M.A. thesis director for James Curtis for “Empowering Children: The Orphan Hero in 20th Century Children’s Fantasy Fiction,” successfully defended in Spring 2009.

2007-2008

M. A. thesis director for Jennifer Connor for “The Uses of Medievalism in British Children’s Fantasy,” successfully defended in Spring 2008. Also served as reader for Leah Mittelmeier on her M.A. thesis, "Charles Dodgson, Victorian: The Cultural and Biographical Significance of Charles Dodgson's Serious Poetry," directed by Bob Petersen and successfully defended in June 2008.

2005-2007

M.A. thesis director for Karen Austin for “The Education of Alice,” successfully defended in Fall 2007.

2004-2005

M.A. thesis director for Rachel Robinson for “Searching for Elsewhere: Utopias and Distopias in Lois Lowry’s The Giver Trilogy,” successfully defended in 2005.

Fall 2004

Reader for Vickie Knierem, for M.A. thesis, “Louisa May Alcott’s Moody Little Women and the Fashioning of Female Adolescence in 19th Century America,” defended in 2004.

2001-2002

Honors thesis advisor for Ruth Anderson, for “The Heroic Journey in Children’s Fantasy Fiction: J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Cycle.” Successfully defended in May 2002.

2005, 2006

McNair Scholar mentor to MTSU undergraduate student Linda Selby, directing work on the fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast (2005) and on similarities between the British panatomime and American circus performances (2006).

2004-2007

Faculty mentor to Dr. Jennifer Marchant in the English Department’s Mentoring Network Program.

2002-2003

Faculty mentor for Professor Allison Boldt in the English Mentoring Network Program.

2001-2004

CUSTOMS advisor for English majors for various summer CUSTOMS sessions.

Summer 2003 McNair Scholar advisor for a student at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas (this university has no resident children’s literature scholar, so they searched for a McNair mentor outside of their own faculty).

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MTSU Committee Work /Service 2012-2015

Honors Council member representing Liberal Arts

2014

Appointed to the Student Centered subcommittee of the MTSU Academic Master Plan 20152025 Committee; this committee is charged with evaluating current and future efforts towards student success on campus.

2012-2013

Walker Library Education Librarian faculty search committee (successful search).

2013

Honors Transfer Scholars Fellowship Committee

2005-2011

Served on the Collage Advisory Board as English liaison. The Advisory Board is the overseeing agency for the campus publication Collage, now housed in the Honors College.

2008, 2011

Poster judge for Scholar’s Week

2001-2007

Co-director, Modern Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature Conference. This was a biennial scholarly conference hosted by MTSU and held in Nashville, attended by national and international children’s literature scholars. The conference went on hiatus after 2007.

Summer 2006 Honors Freshman Scholarship Committee. Spring 2005, Fall 2006

Lecturer for Raider Book Club discussion groups (I led discussions of the Harry Potter series).

Summer 2005 Honors Buchanan Scholarship Committee. Fall 2004

Chair, Ad hoc committee for Collage. This committee was formed by Interim Honors Dean Phillip Mathis to develop guidelines for the Collage as it became an Honors College publication, upon the demise of MTSU’s Student Publications division.

2003-2004

Chair, Faculty Senate Student Affairs Committee B. The charge for this committee for this year was to work with John Dickerson in Judicial Affairs regarding dealing with academic dishonesty on campus.

2002-2003

Faculty Senate Academic Appeals Committee. Served as secretary for 2003.

2002

Ad Hoc Foundation Grant advisory committee. This committee was formed by English professor Margaret Ordoubadian as part of a faculty grant initiative to develop alumni support for the children’s library collection housed at MTSU. I served as secretary.

2000

Ad Hoc Library committee. This committee was formed by Dean Gloria Bonner to provide input advocating moving the Curriculum Library Collection from the old Todd Library basement to Walker Library.

Spring 2000

Future of the Midlander Task Force. This committee was charged with developing future guiding principles for publication of the yearbook, including format, funding, and distribution.

Departmental Committee Work /Service 2006-current

regularly write and evaluate doctoral preliminary exams for Area XI, Children’s and Adolescent Literature. At least one student takes this exam every year, and often there are more.

2011-current

Upper Division English Committee. This committee oversees the activity of the department regarding the junior and senior level English courses.

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2011-current

Peck Award Committee. This committee is responsible for reviewing nominations and choosing the winners for the English department’s annual Peck Award for outstanding students majoring in English.

2011-2012

English Department Advisory Committee. This is the Promotion and Tenure Review Committee for the department. Serving as chair of this committee.

2007-2011

English Graduate Admissions Committee. This committee reviews graduate student applications to the department and makes recommendations for admittance.

Spring 2011, 2013

William Connelly Writing Award Committee. This committee selects outstanding Upper Division English essays in two categories. 2011 was the inaugural year for this award.

2007-2008

Chair, departmental search committee for new faculty member in folklore (successful search)

2006-2007

English Department Advisory Committee (Promotion and Tenure Review Committee).

Summer 2004 Freshman Writing Awards Committee. This departmental committee reviews and selects outstanding freshman essays for two categories from those submitted each year by English faculty members for students enrolled in English 1010 and 1020. 2002-2003, 2005-2006

Department of English Search Committee. This committee selected finalists for three tenuretrack positions for the English Department in 2003 and one position in 2006.

2000-2003

University Writing Center Committee. During my time on this committee we held a search for and chose an Associate Director for the Writing Center.

Public Service/Outreach 2000-current

Linebaugh Public Library’s Penpals Program Committee. The Penpals program hosts a children’s author each year to speak to various elementary schools in Rutherford County as well as to education majors in Children’s Literature classes at MTSU.

2006-2008

Organized annual summer lecture series for Linebaugh Library (“Bookends”), featuring English faculty members presenting public lectures on books on varying topics.

October 1999

Co-led an afternoon workshop session on children’s books on the Holocaust for In-service teachers in Rutherford county, organized by Lon Nuell from MTSU.

Professional Memberships and Service Children's Literature Association, 1994-current Past President, 2008-2009 President, 2007-2008 Vice President/President Elect, 2006-2007 Board of Directors, 2003-2006 Anne Devereaux Jordan Award Committee, 2010-2012, committee chair 2013-2015 Publicity Committee, 2002-2006, chair 2004-2006 Co-Editor, ChLA Newsletter, 1998-2004 2001-2014

Peer reviewer for articles submitted to Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, The Lion and the Unicorn, The Looking-glass, and The Comparatist

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2009, 2010, 2011

Outside reviewer for promotion applications for faculty in children’s literature at Nippissing University (Ontario, Canada), Missouri State, and Indiana University East.

Summer 2004 Volunteer judge for the annual Francelia Butler Conference at Hollins University (to select the best graduate paper submitted to the conference) Member, Sigma Tau Delta Member, Phi Kappa Phi South Central Modern Languages Association, 1995-1998 Secretary of the Children's Literature Section, 1995-96 Chair of Children’s Literature Section, 1996-97

AWARDS, HONORS, GRANTS Teaching Awards/Honors August 2012

MTSU Outstanding Teacher Award (Was also nominated for this same award in 2009)

April 2003

Outstanding Honors Faculty Teaching Award

Faculty Research and Creative Activity Committee (FRCAC) grants Summer 2010 /Spring 2011 Spring 2008

FRCAC grant (internal MTSU grant) for release time to continue work on the book project described below. NIA (Non-instructional Assignment) to work on the book project described below. Work was also done on the article that will be included in the U of Nebraska P anthology in 2011.

Summer 2004 Received a summer research grant to work on a book project based on my research into contemporary retellings of fairytales for children and young adults. Three chapters of a possible book, Awakenings and Transformations, were the result. Spring 2002

Received release time from one course, which allowed me to help co-edit Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom (Peter Lang, 2002) and to contribute an essay for this anthology.

Fall 2000

Received release time from one course to develop an article for publication based on a conference paper on “Images of Acadiana in Children’s Fiction.”

Faculty Development Grants Spring 2000 and 2003 Received Faculty Development Grants for funding to attend the annual Festival of Children’s Books at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, which is a three-day series of workshops and presentations by children’s authors, illustrators, and educators on various topics.

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