Faculty and Staff
Marah Gubar
Director of Children's Literature Program
Assistant Professor of English
Phone: 412-624-6132
Email: mjg4@pitt.edu
Fax: (412) 624-6639
Office: CL 517-B
Curriculum Vitae
Marah Gubar teaches and writes about children's literature from a variety of periods, but she is especially interested in Victorian and Edwardian representations of childhood. She is the author of Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children’s Literature (forthcoming in 2009 from Oxford University Press). She has also published articles on Lewis Carroll, Lucy Maud Montgomery, E. B. White, and Jack Gantos in journals such as Children’s Literature and Texas Studies in Literature and Language. Her new book project is focused on the Anglo-American cult of the child.
Troy Boone
Associate Professor of English
Phone: (412) 624-6549
Email: boone@pitt.edu
Fax: (412) 624-6639
Office: 529 D (interior office of CL 526)
Troy Boone teaches and writes on children's literature in the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature and culture. He has published articles on Bram Stoker, Daniel Defoe, the Marquis de Sade, the Titanic disaster, the Salvation Army, Nancy Drew, tourist literature, Kenneth Grahame and E. Nesbit. His book Youth of Darkest England: Working-Class Children at the Heart of Victorian Empire (New York: Routledge) was published in 2005.
Courtney Weikle-Mills
Assistant Professor of English
Phone: 412-624-6558
Email: cweikle@yahoo.com
Fax: (412) 624-6639
Office: CL 628 G
Courtney Weikle-Mills specializes in early American children’s literature and culture. Her interests include readership and literacy, theories of citizenship, the novel, transatlanticism, childhood studies, and the history of the book. She has written an article, forthcoming from Early American Literature, on child readers and the eighteenth-century imagination of citizenship as “affectionate.” Her current book project, which traces the child reader from the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, considers how and why children came to be central figures in the formation of the American reading public, instigating larger shifts in the cultural understanding of literature and citizenship.
She teaches courses on children’s literature and culture from a variety of periods, as well as classes on eighteenth and nineteenth-century American literature.
Amy Murray Twyning
Visiting Lecturer
Phone: 412-624-5559
Email: murraytwyning@gmail.com
Fax: (412) 624-6639
Office: CL 617-K
Lori Campbell
Professor
Phone: 412-6248754
Email: lmc5@pitt.edu
Fax: (412) 624-663
Office: Cl 526
With emphases on Children's Literature, Literary Fantasy, and the Gothic, Dr. Lori Campbell teaches courses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature and Cultural Studies, as well as in Composition. Her publications include articles on J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Frances Hodgson Burnett, J.M. Barrie, William Morris, and Thomas Hardy. She is presently finishing a book manuscript for McFarland and Company Publishers entitled Portals of Power: Magical Agency in Literary Fantasy from the Victorian to the Contemporary, which includes chapters on E. Nesbit, Oscar Wilde, Edith Wharton, Neil Gaiman, Alan Garner, and Susan Cooper. Her next project is a study of race in children's literature, starting with the expansion of an article on Mildred D. Taylor's Logan family saga that she presented at the Children's Literature Association conference in 2007.
Valerie Krips
Professor of English (Emeritus)
Phone: 412-624-6522
Email: vkrips@pitt.edu
Fax: (412) 624-663
Office: CL 509E
Valerie Krips is an Associate Professor of English. She teaches and writes on children's
literature and literary theory. Her book The Presence of the Past:
Memory, Heritage and Childhood in Postwar
