Lecturer, Arts and Ideas in the Humanities Program
About
Lecturer IV, received a MAT and PhD from Harvard University and has taught at Harvard, Claremont McKenna, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Michigan’s Residential College, School of Education, and School of Information. Her edited volumes include Infant Tongues: The Voice of the Child in Literature (1994), The Lion & the Unicorn on Children's Literature and Violence (2000), Secret Spaces of Childhood (2003) and Under Fire: Childhood in the Shadow of War (2008). For the award-winning PBS documentary, Where Do the Children Play? she produced A Study Guide to the Film (2007) and A Place for Play (2008). In 2025 Rowman & Littlefield published her co-edited volume, What the Presidents Read: Childhood Stories and Family Favorites launched on Presidents Day, 2025.
