A conversation with Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Presenter Bio
Dr. Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Symposium Chair, edits the scholarly journal Children’s Literature. Her article “The Rights and Wrongs of Anthropomorphism” won the 2016 Article Award of the Children’s Literature Association, and a volume of essays she co-edited with Karen Coats, Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism, won the 2018 ChLA Edited Book Award. Her most recent book is The Velveteen Rabbit at 100. She has also published a wide range of poetry, short stories, essays, and novels for both children and adults.
Dr. Jen Harrison received her PhD in children’s literature from the University of Wales way back in 2009. Since then, she’s researched and taught children’s speculative fiction and non-fiction as a professor at Aberystwyth University, Birkbeck College London, and East Stroudsburg University. She’s served on the editorial board of the Canadian journal Jeunesse and has published two monographs and two edited collections in addition to her work on Positioning Pooh. Since 2020, she has worked outside of formal academia, running a dissertation coaching business that specializes in helping women of color thrive while completing their degrees.
Dr. Sarah E. Jackson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Early, Middle, and Elementary Education at Millersville University. She has a PhD in literature for children and young adults from Ohio State University. She teaches early childhood education courses on creative pedagogy and emergent literacy and, in her research, focuses on dramatic inquiry, opportunities for critical literacy with preschoolers, and the intersections of diverse and anthropomorphic narratives.
Dr. C.W. Sullivan III is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, retired from East Carolina University, and a Full Member of the Welsh Academy for his contributions to the study of medieval Welsh Celtic myth and legend. He is the author of Welsh Celtic Myth in Modern Fantasy, The Mabinogi: A Book of Essays, and several other books. He is a past president of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and his articles on mythology, folklore, fantasy, and science fiction have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals. In 2008, he was a Fulbright scholar at Debrecen University in Hungary.
Session
Keynote Roundtable
Start Date
11-7-2026 7:30 PM
End Date
11-7-2026 8:15 PM
Abstract
Keynote Roundtable
A conversation with Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Keynote Roundtable