Teaching Equity Through Children’s Literature in Undergraduate Classrooms

Teaching Equity through Children’s Literature in Undergraduate Classrooms offers answers to the central question of current children’s literature scholarship and practice is how to effectively address contemporary questions of social justice.

Gayatri Devi is Professor of English at Savannah College of Art and Design. She coedited Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema (2014), Myths Shattered and Restored (2016), and the special issue on transnationalism (2017) for the North Dakota Quarterly where she serves as a contributing editor. Fluently trilingual in English, Malayalam and Hindi she does translation and subtitling work for Indian films and does literary translation from Malayalam to English. Her articles and book chapters on South Asian, Middle Eastern and indigenous literatures and films have been published both in the US and India.

Philip Smith is the author of Reading Art Spiegelman (Routledge 2015), Shakespeare in Singapore (Routledge 2020), and co-author of Printing Terror: American Horror Comics as Cold War Commentary and Critique (Manchester UP, 2021). He served as co-director of the Shakespeare Behind Bars program at The Correctional Facility at Fox Hill, Nassau, Bahamas, fight choreographer for the Shakespeare in Paradise festival, and executive board member for the Comics Studies Society. He is Chair of Liberal Arts and Professor of English at Savannah College of Art and Design. He is editor in chief of Literature Compass. He is level 47 in Pokémon Go and has a perfect Mewtwo, (which, if you play Pokémon Go, you will know is pretty impressive).

Stephanie J. Weaver, Ph.D., is the Assistant Director for Academics at the Forman School in Litchfield, Connecticut and an adjunct professor at St. John’s University in New York. Her most recent publication is an essay in Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene, published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2022. She is currently working on developing an anthology on teaching Fantasy literature based on her various experiences in education.