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Alton, Anne

FACULTY

More about Anne Alton

Books

Discworld and the Disciplines: Critical Approaches to the Terry Pratchett Works. Ed. Anne Hiebert Alton and William C. Spruiell. North Carolina: McFarland, 2014.

Peter Pan [by J.M. Barrie]. A scholarly edition. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2011. 

Arousing Delight: Arthur Rackham, Artist and Illustrator. Mt. Pleasant, MI: Central Michigan University, 2006.

Little Women [by Louisa May Alcott]. A scholarly edition. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2001.

Articles & Book Chapters

“Monsters in Harry Potter.” An Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Ashgate Press, 2014.

“Jonathan Swift. Monsters in Gulliver’s Travels.” An Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Ashgate Press, 2014. [Forthcoming].

“Jabberwock.” An Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Ashgate Press, 2014.

“Educating the Next Generation.” Clarke Historical Library, 2011.

“Playing the Genre Game: Generic Fusions of the Harry Potter series.” Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter. Ed. Elizabeth E. Heilman. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2008. 199-223.

“Scott Corbett.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Ed. Jack Zipes. Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2006. 1: 347. 

“Sheila Greenwald.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Ed. Jack Zipes. Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2006. 2:174.

“Norma Klein.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Ed. Jack Zipes. Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2006. 2: 371-72.

“Ron Koertge.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Ed. Jack Zipes. Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2006. 2: 373-74.

“Ruth Nichols.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Ed. Jack Zipes. Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2006. 3: 153-54. 

“Keith Robertson.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Ed. Jack Zipes. Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2006. 3: 349-50.

“Mary Rodgers.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Ed. Jack Zipes. Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2006. 3: 358. 

“Jay Williams.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Ed. Jack Zipes. Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2006. 4: 188-89.

“Helen Lyndon Goff (1899-1996).” Dictionary article. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

“Generic Fusion and the Mosaic of Harry Potter.” Harry Potter’s World: Multidisciplinary Critical Perspectives. Ed. Elizabeth Heilman. New York: Routledge, 2003. 141-62.

The Hockey Sweater: A Canadian Cross-Cultural Icon.” Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature 12:2 (August 2002): 5-13.

“Diane Duane.” Encyclopedia entry. The Cambridge Guide to Children’s Books in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 424.

“‘Bring the child in you out to play!’: Canadian Children’s Culture and the 1997 Calgary International Children’s Festival.” Canadian Children's Literature 90 (1998): 17-27.

“Changing the World: A Profile of Writer JoAnne James.” Canadian Children's Literature 85 (1997): 31-40.

“Books in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë.” Brontë Society Transactions 21:7 (1996): 265-74.

“Education in Victorian Fact and Fiction: Kay-Shuttleworth and Dickens's Hard Times.” Dickens Quarterly 9:2 (1992): 67-80.​

​PhD – University of Toronto
MA – University of Calgary
BA – University of Calgary
Victorian literature
Children’s literature
Fanta​sy
Young Adult literature
The novel
Bronte Society, Children’s Literature Association, MLA

Courses Taught

English 681: Current Issues in Children's Literature

English 635C: Seminar in 19th Century English Literature – The Victorian Novel

English 602: Research Methods and Materials

English 583: The Heroic Tradition in Children’s Literature

English 581: The History of Children’s Literature

English 547: Major British Writers – J. K. Rowling

English 485: Poetry for Youth

English 482: Fantasy for Youth

English 460: Senior Seminar – Interdisciplinarity and Terry Pratchett

English 435: Studies in Texts – The Brontës and Dickens

English 395: Children’s Literature and the Arts

English 381: Children’s Literature

English 339: Victorian Literature and Thought

English 345: Studies in Authors – J. K. Rowling

Honors 321A: The Harry Potter Phenomenon

Honors 321C: Harry Potter in England - Study Abroad class 

English 234: Introduction to Literary Analysis

English 201: Advanced Composition​