Broadening Critical Boundaries in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture

Amie A. Doughty is Professor of English at the State University of New York, College at Oneonta, USA, where she teaches classes in linguistics, children’s literature, composition, fantasy, and science fiction. She is the Chair of the Children’s and YA Literature and Culture area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, and the author of Folktales Retold: A Critical Overview of Stories Updated for Children and “Throw the book away”: Reading versus Experience in Children’s Fantasy. She is also the editor of Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture: A Mosaic of Criticism.