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CV:
Annette
Wannamaker
Current positions:
Associate Professor of Children's Literature at EMU
Coordinator of the Children's Literature Program in the Department of English Langauge and Literature at EMU
North American Editor-in-Chief of Children's Literature in Education: An International Quarterly
Education:
Ph.D. English, Bowling Green State University, 1997.
M.A. English, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1992.
B.A. Communications Studies, Virginia Tech, 1987.
Books:
Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture: Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Reviews of Boys in:
The Children's Literature Quarterly
Editor.
Mediated Boyhood: Boys, Teens, and Young Men in Popular Culture and Media. New York: Peter Lang, 2011
Currently editing, with Michelle Ann Abate:
Global Perspectives on Tarzan: From King of the Jungle to International Icon
(forthcoming from Routledge, 2012).
Journal editing:
North America Editor-in-Chief of Children's Literature in Education: An International Quarterly (Summer 2011-Present)
Editor, with Ian Wojick-Andrews. “Children’s Literature and Media,” a Special Forum for the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. 35.4 (Winter 2010).
Journal articles and chapters in collections:
“ ‘Now, Tarzan make war!’: World War II ‘B’ Movies, Profits and Propaganda.” Global Perspectives on Tarzan: From King of the Jungle to International Icon. Ed. Annette Wannamaker and Michelle Ann Abate. (forthcoming from Routledge, 2012).“ ‘Missing everybody’: Language and Identity in The Catcher in the Rye.” Critical Insights: Coming of Age. Ed. Kent Baxter. Salem Press. Forthcoming 2012.“’Salvation is just words too’: Addie Bundren and the Language of Motherhood.” Approaches to Teaching As I Lay Dying. Ed. Chris O’Donnell. New York: Modern Language Association, 2011, 113-122. http://www.mla.org/store/CID39/PID423"'The Attack of the Inedible Hunk!': Food, Language and Power in Captain Underpants." Food in Children's Literature: Critical Approaches. Eds. Kara Keeling and Scott Pollard. New York: Routledge, 2009. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415808910/"Reading in the Gaps and Lacks: (De)Constructing Masculinity in Holes." Children's Literature in Education 37.1 (March 2006) 15-33:"Men in Purple Cloaks, Men Wielding Pink Umbrellas: Witchy Masculinities in the Harry Potter series.” The Looking Glass: Alice's Academy 10.1 (January 2006) http://www.the-looking-glass.net/rabbit/v10i1/alice4.html."Marking Time: Bertolt Brecht's Antigone as tragedy of Revolution and Exile." The Brecht Yearbook 31 (2006) 337-352."Present(ing) Historical Memory: Beah Richards' 'A Black Woman Speaks,' Performance, and a Pedagogy of Whiteness." Theatre Topics 14.1 (March 2004) 339-352: "Present(ing) Historical Memory."Specters of Potters: Inheritance in the Harry Potter Series." Elsewhere: Selected Essays from the "20th Century Fantasy Literature: From Beatrix to Harry" International Literary Conference. Edited by Deborah Bice. UP of America, 2003, 45-57: Elsewhere."'Memory Also Makes a Chain': The Performance of Absence in Griselda Gambaro's Antigona Furiosa." Fall 2000/Winter 2001 Journal of The Midwest Modern Language Association, 73-85. Journal of The Midwest Modern Language Association.Introduction to Joan Schenkar's The Lodger, with Vivian Patraka, in Amazon All Stars: Thirteen Lesbian Plays. Edited by Rosemary Keefe Curb. Applause Books, 1996, 395-400. Review."Viewing Addie Bundren Through a Feminist Lens." Teaching Faulkner. No. 7 (Spring 1995), 5-6: Viewing Addie Bundren Through a Feminist Lens.
Book Reviews:
Review of Radical Children’s Literature: Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations in Juvenile Fiction, Kimberley Reynolds. The Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 34.3 (2009).Review of Mark Twain for Kids: His Life and Times, R. Kent Rasmussen. The Mark Twain Annual No. 4 (2006) 149-151.Review of The Divided Home/Land: Contemporary German Women's Plays. Ed, Sue-Ellen Case. Theatre InSight. Issue No. 15 (7:1, Spring 1996), 59-60.
Presentations:
Invited Presentations:Lecture: “‘But what is a man, if he cannot change to meet changed times?’: Contemporary Masculinity in M. T. Anderson’s Y.A. novels.” Knox College, April 2010.Keynote address: “Battling Boys: The State of Masculinity in Popular Texts for Children." Keynote speaker at “Battleground States 2007: Intersections of Poetics & Politics,” An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at Bowling Green State University, March 30-31, 2007.Conference Papers:“Inanimate Alice, Internet Aesthetics and Genre Insurrection.” Children’s Literature Association 38th Annual Conference, Roanoke, VA, June 22-25, 2011.
“Exile in Guyland: Contemporary Masculinity in Five Novels by M. T. Anderson.” Children’s Literature Association 36th Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, June 11-14, 2009.
“Girls are quite different from you”: Marketing Gender to Dangerous Boys and Daring Girls.” Modern Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature Conference, Nashville, Tenn., March 26-28, 2008.“The Abject American Boy: Postmodern subjectivity, multiculturalism and masculinity in Monster, American Born Chinese and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian.” Children’s Literature Association 35th Annual Conference, Normal, Illinois, June 12-14 2008."Vicky/Victoria: The Colonized/Colonizing Child on the Stage." Children's Literature Association 34th Annual Conference, Newport News, Virginia, June 14-16 2007."Me Tarzan, You Other: Transformations of a Cultural Icon." Children's Literature Association 33rd Annual Conference, Manhattan Beach, California. June 8-11 2006.“Books and Boys: Masculinity in Contemporary Children’s and Adolescent Literature.” 14th Annual Conference on Men and Masculinities, Ypsilanti, Michigan. April 7-9, 2006.“’The Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy’: Gender Performance and Abjection in the Captain Underpants Series.” Children’s Literature Association 32nd Annual Conference. Winnipeg, Canada, June 9-12, 2005.“And Majin Buu said, ‘I’ll Eat You Up!’”: Grotesque Bodies, Hard Bodies, and Devouring Bodies in ‘Dragonball Z’” and panel participant in “Genres of Film” panel discussion. Fantastic Genres Conference. SUNY New Paltz, May 30-April 2, 2004."Specters of Potters: Inheritance in the Harry Potter series." 20th Century Fantasy from Beatrix to Harry: Interdisciplinary Contributions to 20th Century Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults. Kent State University, Ashtabula. March 22-23, 2002."'The Potter Wars': Harry Potter and the Cyber Battle." Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Louisville, KY. February 20-23, 2002."Translating the 'Ungeheur': Bertolt Brecht's Ambivalent Antigone." Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Cleveland, OH, Nov 1-3, 2001."'A thing Apart': Constructions of Gender, Race, and History in Beah Richard's 'A Black Woman Speaks.'" Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Louisville, KY. February 22-24, 2001."Dangerous Thinking: Challenging Developmental Writers." Michigan College Education Association annual meeting. Kalamazoo, Mich. October 20-21, 2000."Working Workers' Theatre into the Literature Classroom." Michigan College Education Association annual meeting. Flint, Mich. September 24-25, 1999."Playing the Text: New Approaches for Teaching Dramatic Literature in the English Classroom." National Conference of Teachers of English annual meeting. Detroit, Mich. November 20-25, 1997."'Like a Mad Girl Circling': Antigona Furiosa and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo." Modern Language Association annual meeting. Washington, D.C. December 27-30, 1996."Performing Gender/Resisting Nation: Gambaro's Antigona Furiosa, Argentina's Dirty War, and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo." American Society for Theatre Research annual meeting. Pasadena, CA. November 17-19, 1996."Recovering the Political in The Island: Performing Postcolonial Identity and Splitting the Humanist Subject." Association for Theatre in Higher Education annual meeting. New York, NY. August 7-10, 1996."Inoculating Ourselves Against Guilt: Angels in America and AIDS within Dominant Discourse." Buying (In) Selling (Out), Cincinnati Graduate Student Conference on Literature and Culture. Cincinnati, OH. April 13, 1996."Agency in Antigone: Literalizing Myth in South African Apartheid." Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Louisville, KY. February 22-24, 1996"Diffused Power: An Alternative Feminist Reading of Susan Glaspell's Trifles." East Central Theatre Conference. Alexandria, VA. February 16-18, 1996."Western Myth in a South African Prison: Performing the Materiality of Antigone." Southern Comparative Literature Association Conference. Richmond, VA. September 29 - October 1, 1995."Through the Speculum: Annie Sprinkle's Adventures in Bowling Green Land." Culture is Ordinary, American Culture Studies Graduate Student Conference. Bowling Green, OH. April 28- 29, 1995."Looking Objectivism in the Face: Feminist Performance and Representation of the Female Body." Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Louisville, KY. February 23-25, 1995."Susan Glaspell's Trifles: Shifting Power/Knowledge in a Diffused Patriarchy." Graduate Student English Studies Conference. Columbia, MO. February 17-18, 1995."Faulkner's ecriture feminine: Addie Bundren as Subversive." Twenty-First Annual Conference of The Midwest Popular Culture and the Midwest American Culture Associations, Pittsburgh, PA, October 7-8, 1994."Political Performance, Ventriloquism, and the Abortion Debate." Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Midwest Popular Culture and the Midwest American Culture Associations, Pittsburgh, PA, October 7-8, 1994.
Academic Appointments, Teaching Experience and Service:
Eastern Michigan University
Associate Professor, 2010-Present
Assistant Professor, 2005-2010
Lecturer, 1998-2005
Courses taught at EMU (1998 to present):
CHL137: Harry Potter: Literary Allusion, Popular Culture and Children’s Literature
CHL207: Introduction to Children’s Literature
CHL208: Introduction to Multicultural Children’s Literature
CHL455: Adolescent Literature
CHL516: Major Genres of Children’s Literature
CHL518: History of Children’s Literature
CHL583: Illustrated Texts
CHL584: Adolescent Literature
CHL585: Children’s Literature: Criticism and Theory
CHL587: Children’s Media
LITR100: Introduction to Literature
LITR101: Introduction to Fiction
LITR103: Introduction to Drama
LITR210: Introduction to Shakespeare
LITR443: Women’s Literature
LITR480: Harry Potter and Cultural Theory
LITR592: Harry Potter and Cultural Theory
ENG120 and 121: First-year Writing
ENG225: Argumentative Writing
ENG323: Writing in the Professional World
WS200: Introduction to Women’s Studies
Instructor, Henry Ford Community College, 2000
ENG246: Introduction to Children’s Literature
ENG131: College Composition
Instructor, Washtenaw Community College, 1999
ENG101: College Composition
Instructor, Southern Oregon University, 1997 - 8
ENG104: Introduction to Literature: Poetry and Novels
ENG105: Introduction to Literature: Drama and Short Fiction
ENG107: World Literature: Ancient
ENG108: World Literature: Modern
ENG121 and 122: First-year Composition
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Bowling Green State University, 1993—6
ENG110: Developmental Writing
ENG111 and 112: First-year Writing
ENG200: Women in Literature
ENG335: Contemporary Drama
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1992—3
ENG001: Basic Writing
ENG101 and 102: First-year Composition
Tutor for the VCU Office of Academic Support Summer program, 1992.
Tutor in VCU Writing Center, Fall 1991 and Spring 1992.
Service to National/International Organizations and Journals:
Hosted and organized the Children’s Literature Association 37th Annual Conference: “Children’s Literature and Media” held in Ann Arbor, June 9-12, 2010: 2010 Children's Literature Association Conference.Member of the Children’s Literature Association Executive Board, 2009-12.Member of the Children’s Literature Association Edited Book Award Committee, 2011-2014.Member of the Children’s Literature Association Book Award Committee, 2007-9.Reviewer for Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, 2006-present.Reviewer for Children’s Literature Annual, 2007-present.Reviewer for The Journal of Narrative Theory, 2004-present.Reviewer for Theatre Topics, 2005-2010.
Campus Service and Professional Development at EMU:
Coordinator of the Children’s Literature Program, 2006-present.English Department Committees:Faculty Search Committee Chair, 2009-10 and 2010-11
Personnel Committee, 2010-present
Coordinating Committee, 2005-present
Children’s Literature Committee, 2005-present.
Curriculum Committee, 2006—2009.
Literature Committee, 2005-7.
University Committees and Service:
Discussion leader at freshmen orientation: 2010 and 2011.General Education Advisory Committee: 2009-presentGeneral Education Seminars – Pilot Program, fall 2010 and 2011Interviewing students for Presidential Scholarships: 2008-present
Awards:
2011 C.A.S. Dean’s Initiative Grant for “Global Children’s Literature in the Classroom.”Boys in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture listed as a “Children’s Literature Association Recommended Book,” 2010.EMU Provost’s New Faculty Research Support Award, 2006.EMU Josephine Nevins Keal Professional Development Award, 2006.EMU Outstanding Lecturer of the Year Award, 2004
