| Biography:
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Annette Wannamaker started teaching at EMU as a Lecturer in 1998 and was named EMU Lecturer of the Year in 2003. In 2005, she was hired as an Assistant Professor in Children’s Literature and she currently serves as Coordinator of the Children’s Literature Program.
Over the past several years, she has designed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses focused on children’s and adolescent literature, children’s literary theory and criticism, multicultural children’s literature, and the Harry Potter novels. Her research interests focus on issues of gender in literature for children and adolescents and youth culture. She has published articles about boys’ books and boy culture, and on masculinity in the Harry Potter series, Louis Sachar’s novel Holes, and comic books for younger readers. Her book, Boys in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture: Masculinity, Abjection and the Fictional Child, was published by Routledge in 2008. She is currently editing a collection of essays titled Mediated Boyhood: Boys and Teens in Popular Culture and Media, and is working with her colleagues to organize the 2010 meeting of the Children’s Literature Association, which will be hosted by the EMU Children’s Literature Program.
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| CHL 137: Harry Potter |
| CHL 207: Introduction to Children's Literature |
| CHL 208: Multicultural Children's Literature |
| CHL 455 and CHL 584: Adolescent Literature |
| CHL 585: Children’s Literature: Criticism and Theory |
| CHL 516: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Children’s Literature |
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Recent Publications: |
Book:
Boys in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture: Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Selected Articles:
"'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. Routledge. Forthcoming October 2008.
"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).
"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.
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