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Dr.
Lynne Vallone (Professor of Childhood Studies) is author
of Disciplines
of Virtue and Becoming Victoria, and co-editor
of The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature,Virtual
Gender: Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment, and The
Girl's Own, Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American
Girl, 1830-1915.
Dr. Vallone joined the Rutgers-Camden Childhood Studies
Department from Texas A&M
University in College Station, Texas in September 2007.
BOOKS:
The
Norton Anthology of Children's Literature, Jack
Zipes, general editor; Lissa Paul and Lynne Vallone,
associate general editors; Peter Hunt, Gillian Avery,
sub-editors, 2005. 2,471 pp.
Becoming
Victoria. Yale University Press, 2001. 256
pp.
Virtual
Gender: Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment.
Co-editor, with Mary Ann O'Farrell. University
of Michigan Press, 1999. 255 pp.
Disciplines
of Virtue: Girls' Culture in the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries. Yale University Press,
1995. 230 pp.
The
Girl's Own: Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American
Girl, 1830-1915. Co-editor, with Claudia
Nelson. University of Georgia Press, 1994. 296
pp.
ARTICLES:
“Nazaj
h kanonu: nastajanje nortonove antologije mladinske
književnosti”/ “Back to the Canon: The
Making of the Norton Anthology of Children’s
Literature.” Otrok in knjiga 65
(2006): 15-24. [The Journal of Issues
Relating to Children’s Literature, Literary Education
and the Media Connected With Books, Slovenia]. Commissioned.
“Reading
Girlhood in Victorian Photography.” The
Lion and Unicorn 29.2 (April 2005): 190-210.
Commissioned.
“True
Stories: Feminism and the Children’s Literature
Classroom.” Journal of Children’s Literature 28.2
(Fall 2002): 10-18. Commissioned.
“Queen
Victoria” History Today (London) 52.6. (June
2002): 46-53. Commissioned.
“’What
is the meaning of all this gluttony?’: The Victorians,
C.S. Lewis, and a Taste for Fantasy.” Papers: Explorations
into Children’s Literature 12.1 (April 2002):
47-54. Refereed.
“Children’s
Literature Within and Without the Profession.” College
Literature 25.2 (1998): 137-145. Refereed.
Introduction:
Forgotten Authors. The Lion and the Unicorn 21.1
(1997): v-vii.
Introduction:
Children’s Literature and New Historicism. Children’s
Literature Association Quarterly 21.3 (1996): 102-104.
"'A
humble Spirit under Correction': Tracts, Hymns, and the
Ideology of Evangelical Fiction for Children, 1780-1820." The
Lion and the Unicorn 15 (1992): 72-95. Refereed.
"In
the Image of Young America: Girls of the New Republic." The
Image of the Child: Proceedings of the 1991 International
Conference of the Children's Literature Association Conference. Battle
Creek, Children's Literature Association (1991): 300-306. Refereed.
"Laughing
With the Boys and Learning With the Girls: Humor
in Nineteenth-Century American Juvenile Novels." Children's
Literature Association Quarterly 15 (1990): 127-130. Refereed.
"Gender
and Mothering in The Yearling." The Marjorie
Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature 2
(1989-1990): 35-56. Refereed.
"The
Crisis of Education: Eighteenth-Century Novels for Girls." Children's
Literature Association Quarterly 14 (1989): 63-67. Refereed.
BOOK
CHAPTERS:
“Women
Writing for Children.” Women and Literature
in Britain, 1800-1900. Edited by Joanne Shattock. Cambridge
University Press (2001): 277-303. Commissioned.
"Grrrls
and Dolls: Feminism and Female Youth Culture" in Girls,
Boys, Books, Toys: Gender in Children's Literature and
Culture. Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R.
Higonnet, eds. Johns Hopkins University Press (1999):
196-209. Refereed.
"'The
True Meaning of Dirt': Putting Good and Bad Girls
in Their Place(s)." The Girl's Own: Cultural
Histories of the Anglo-American Girl, 1830-1915. Claudia
Nelson and Lynne Vallone, eds. University of Georgia
Press (1994): 259-283.
Editing
Work:
Biographical
note for The Wind in the Willows. Modern
Library Classics (Random House), 2005: v-viii. Commissioned.
Biographical
note for Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie. Modern
Library Classics (Random House), 2004: pp. v-viii. Commissioned.
Explanatory
notes for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through
the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, by
Lewis Carroll. Modern Library Classics (Random
House), 2002: pp. 245-262. Commissioned..
Popular
Press:
“The
Young Victoria.” BBC History website.<http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/history/>. May
2002. Commissioned.
“Queen
of Hearts.” TV Guide Ultimate Cable (October
13-19, 2001): 19-20. Commissioned.
Review
Essay:
"Fertility,
Childhood, and Death in the Victorian Family." Victorian
Literature and Culture (2000): 217-226.
Reviews:
John
Plunkett. Queen Victoria: First Media
Monarch. History. 89. 294 (April
2004): 311-312.
Jane
H. Hunter. How Young Ladies Became Girls: The
Victorian Origins of American Girlhood. New
York History 85.2 (Spring 2004): 191-192.
Christine
Doyle. Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Brontë:
Transatlantic Translations. New England
Quarterly 75.1 (March 2002): 162-164.
Alison
A. Case. Plotting Women: Gender and Narration in the
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel. Victorian
Studies 43.4 (2001): 659-661.
U.
C. Knoepflmacher. Ventures in Childland: Victorians,
Fairy Tales, and Femininity. College Literature 27.3
(Fall 2000): 175-77.
Margaret
Homans and Adrienne Munich, editors. Remaking Queen
Victoria. Albion 30.4 (Winter 1998): 711-12.
Mary
Hilton, et. al., editors. Opening the Nursery
Door: Reading, Writing and Childhood 1600-1900 and
Gretchen R. Galbraith, Reading Lives: Reconstructing
Childhood, Books, and Schools in Britain, 1870-1920. Victorian
Studies 41.4 (Summer 1998): 645-48.
Suzanne
L. Bunkers and Cynthia A. Huff, editors. Inscribing
the Daily: Critical Essays on Women’s Diaries. Nineteeth-Century
Prose 25 (Fall 1998): 166-168.
Suzanne
Rahn. Rediscoveries in Children=s Literature. The
Lion and the Unicorn 21.3 (1997): 446-448.
Daniel
Shealy, ed. Freaks of Genius: Unknown
Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott and Alcott's Fairy
Tales and Fantasy Stories. Legacy: A
Journal of American Women Writers 11 (1994): 179-81.
Richard
Hauer Costa. Alison Lurie. South
Central Review 10 .4 (Winter 1993): 97-98.
Ann
Messenger. Gender at Work and Mary Anne
Schofield. Masking and Unmasking the Female Mind. South
Central Review 9.2 (Summer 1992): 82-83.
James
Holt McGavran, ed. Romanticism and Children's
Literature in Nineteenth-Century England. Victorian
Studies 35.3 (Spring 1992): 328-329.
Betsy
Hearne. Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions
of an Old Tale. Kritikon Litterarum 18
(1991): 85-86.
Encyclopedia
Entries:
“Queen
Victoria” (Vol. 4, pp. 155-160), “Louisa
May Alcott” (Vol. 1, pp. 35-6), “Charlotte
Mary Yonge” (Vol. 4, pp. 206-08) for Pendergast,
Tom and Sara Pendergast, The Encyclopedia of the Victorian
Era. 4 vols. Danbury, CT: Grolier Academic
Press, 2004.
"Advice
Books." Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia. Miriam
Forman-Brunell, ed. Santa-Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio
Publishers. (2001): 22-26.
"Children." Encyclopedia
of Feminist Literary Theory. Beth Kowaleski
Wallace, ed. Garland. (1997): 72-73.
Editorial
Artwork:
“Late
for School; Or, Why There is No Children’s Book
in this Class.” Collage. CREArTA: The
International Journal of the Centre for Research and
Education in the Arts. Vol. 4 southern winter
2003, southern summer 2003-2004, p. 49. Commissioned.
Solicited
Letter:
Forum
on “Interdisciplinarity.” PMLA 111
(March 1996): 297-98.
UNDER
CONSIDERATION:
“Re-Membering
Mary, Queen of Scots: 18th and 19th-century Girls
Reading and Girls Writing” at Children’s
Literature (35 manuscript pages)
“Rema(r)king
Death: Photography and the Image of the Child” at Mosaic (32 manuscript
pages)
IN
PROGRESS:
Book-length
project on the conflict between big and small in literary
and cultural practices from the 18th to 21st centuries,
tentatively titled “Big and Small: Literary
and Cultural Tales of Size and Scale.”
| Presentations |
Invited
keynote speech at the 18th and 19th Century British
Women Writers Conference, Gainesville, Florida,
March 2005. Topic: “Remembering
Mary Queen of Scots: 18th and 19th century
Girls Reading and Girls Writing”
Invited
talk at the University of Newcastle. February
2006. Topic: “Questioning Beauty: Images
of Childhood in Contemporary Photography.”
Invited
keynote speech at the Histoire d’enfant/Histoire
d’enfance—Stories for Children/Histories
of Childhood conference to be held in Tours,
France, November 2005. Topic: “Uncanny
Visitors: The Child Ghost in ‘Haunted’ Children’s
Literature.”
“Beyond Innocence: Displaying Childhood
in Late-Twentieth and Early-Twenty-First Century
Photography, International Research Society for Children’s
Literature conference, Dublin, Ireland, August 2005.
Invited
talk at at East Carolina University, Greenville,
North Carolina. April 2005. Topic: “Images
of Africa in 20th-Century Children’s Literature
and Culture.”
“Reimagining
Beatrice,” lecture delivered at the George
Bush Presidential Library, College Station, TX, August
5, 2004.
“Sleeping Beauty, Little Eva and the ‘Pygmy’ in
the Zoo: Africa in Early 20th-Century Children’s
Literature and Culture.” IBBY. London,
England. November 2004.
“Balancing Acts: The Children’s
Literature Scholar at Home,” Children’s
Literature Association conference, Fresno, California,
June 2004.
“Reading Girls’ Writing,” Women’s
Writing in Britain, 1660-1830 conference, Winchester,
England, July 2003.
Chair
and facilitator of roundtable discussion, “Children’s
Literature and the Academy,” MLA, New York,
NY, December 2002.
“Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and
the Construction of the (White) American Girl.” Lecture
delivered to post-graduate students at the University
of Cardiff, Wales. November 18, 2002.
“The Miniature in Children’s Literature” and “A
History of Exaggeration from Tom Thumb to The
Man. Two lectures delivered to post-graduate
students and interested faculty at the University
of Reading. November 20, 2002.
Invited
talk: “The Transformative Power of
the Miniature in Lynne Reid Banks’s The
Indian in the Cupboard.” Lecture
delivered to post-graduate students and interested
faculty at the University of Surrey, Roehampton (London). November
22, 2002.
“Staging Race and Gender: The Place of Anglo-American
Girls in the Traditions of Recitation and Minstrelsy,” International
Board on Books for the Young conference (IBBY), London,
England, November 2002.
Moderator, panel at Curious Things conference,
TAMU, October, 2002.
“Historiography and the Victorian Girl Reader,” The
Child Reader, 1740-1840 conference, Leicester,
England, July 2002.
Invited
talk: "Becoming Victoria," Locating
the Victorians conference, London, England, July
2001.
“Bread and Butter: Creating Community in
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Fantasy Literature.” Children’s
Literature Associate conference. Buffalo, NY, June
2001.
Invited
talk: “’What is the
meaning of all this gluttony?’: The Victorians,
C.S. Lewis, and a Taste for Fantasy.” The
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Fifty Years Later:
C.S. Lewis and Victorian/Edwardian Children’s
Literature Conference, London, England, December
2000.
“It Takes a Village: Graduate Curriculum
and Professional Development at TAMU.” SCMLA,
San Antonio, TX, November 2000.
"Travels with Princess Victoria," 18th
and 19th-Century Women Writers Conference, Albuquerque,
NM, September 1999.
“Everything Old is Young Again: Miniaturization,
Childhood, and the Culture of Adults,” Out
of Bounds: Danger and Delight in Children’s
Literature Conference, Luton, England, July 1998.
“The Princess and the Authoress: Queen Victoria’s
Childhood Imitation of Maria Edgeworth,” 18th
and 19th-Century Women Writers Conference, Chapel
Hill, NC, March 1998.
Invited
talk: “Becoming Victoria:
Children’s Literature and the Production
of Girlhood.” Lecture delivered at
the Staff Graduate Seminar at King’s College,
London, November 1997.
Invited
talk: “Queen Victoria for
Children.” Lecture delivered at Roehampton
Institute, University of Surrey, London, December
1997.
“Queen Victoria For Girls,” International
Research Society for Children’s Literature,
York, England, August 1997.
“Inspired by Edgeworth: Princess Victoria’s
Construction of Middle-Class Childhood,” American
Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Nashville,
TN, April 1997.
"Frances Burney for Girls: Biographies
of Girlhood from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," Children's
Literature Association Conference, Charlotte, NC,
June 1996.
Chair: "Forgotten Authors: Challenges
to Literary History," Modern Language Association,
Chicago, IL, December 1995.
Chair: "Children's Literature," South
Central Modern Language Association, Houston, TX,
October 1995.
"What Do We Talk About When We Talk About
Children's Literature Criticism?" Children's
Literature Association Conference, Durham, NH,
June 1995.
Chair: "Children's Literature and
the New Historicism," Modern Language Association,
San Diego, CA, December 1994. Session sponsored
by the Children's Literature Association.
"Can Feminism Speak Inter-Generationally?," Modern
Language Association Conference, Toronto, Ontario,
December 1993.
"Kissing Cousins: Post-Literate Culture
and the Teen Romance," Children's Literature
Association Conference, Fredericton, New Brunswick,
June 1993.
Chair
and presenter, "Materialist Girls" Special
Session, Modern Language Association Conference,
New York, NY, December 1992.
"American 'Bad' Girls and Their Institution:
Kate Waller Barrett's Rescue Home," Children's
Literature Association Conference, Hartford, CT,
June 1992.
Chair, "Women and Print Culture" panel, "Textual
Technologies: Text, Image and History" conference,
College Station, TX, March 1992.
"In the Image of Young America: Girls
of the New Republic," Children's Literature
Association Conference, Hattiesburg, MS, May 1991.
Chair, "Eighteenth Century Women Writers" panel,
South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Conference, College Station, TX, February 1991.
"Pamela Abridged:
From Conduct Novel to Moral Tale," North Eastern
Modern Language Association Conference, Toronto,
Canada, April 1990.
"Barbauld's Richardson: Anna Laetitia Barbauld
as Biographer and Critic," South Eastern American
Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference,
Athens, GA, March 1990.
"The Pastoral Child and the Industrial Child:
Religious and Educative Reform in Eighteenth Century
Children's Literature," North Eastern American
Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference,
Worcester, MA, October 1989.
"Gender
and Mothering in The Yearling," lecture
given at the Second Annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Society meeting, St. Augustine, FL, April 1989.
"Sexual
Orientation and Symbol Formation in Samson
Agonistes," Mid-Hudson Modern Language
Association Conference, Poughkeepsie, NY, November,
1988. "A
Paradise Lost: Authorial Inconsistency in Scott
O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins," Mid-Western
Modern Language Association Convention, Columbus,
OH, November, 1987.
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| Honors
and Awards |
2006 |
Awarded
a Texas A&M University
Association of Former Students Distinguished
Achievement Award for Research ($4,000) |
2006 |
Selected as Internal Faculty Fellow of the
Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
at TAMU, two-course release plus $1,000 |
2004-2007 |
Elected
to Board, Children’s
Literature Association |
2000-2005 |
University Faculty Fellow, TAMU ($100,000) |
2003-2005 |
Invited instructor for second and third bi-annual
CLISS (Children's Literature International Summer
School for graduate students) at the University
of Surrey, Roehampton (London) |
2000-2002 |
College of Liberal Arts Faculty Fellow, TAMU
($5,000) |
2001 |
Invited instructor for the first bi-annual
CLISS (Children's Literature International Summer
School for graduate students) at the University
of Surrey, Roehampton (London) |
1998 |
Association of Former Students Teaching Excellence
Award, College of Liberal Arts |
1996-99 |
Elected
to Board, Children’s
Literature Association |
1995 |
Phi
Beta Delta, International Scholars Honor Society,
Texas A&M University |
1994-98 |
Faculty
Fellow, IGHLS/IGHS/CHR, Texas A&M
University |
1993-98 |
Elected to MLA Division Executive Committee for
Children's Literature (chair 1998) |
1993 |
"'A humble Spirit Under Correction'" (Lion
and the Unicorn 15) selected as a finalist
for the Children's Literature Association Literary
Criticism Award |
1992 |
Undergraduate
Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Professor
(Spring 1992), Department of English,
Texas A&M University |
1983 |
Phi Beta Kappa, William Smith College |
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