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[dr.j...@gmail.com]

Hi everyone,

I'm Joe Sutliff Sanders, a professor of undergraduate and graduate
courses in children's literature and graphic novels at California
State University - San Bernardino.

My big research project right now is a book on turn-of-the-century
girls' novels that were popular in the US from 1870 to 1930. These
are the orphan girl novels that Anne of Green Gables typifies. As you
can see, the book doesn't have to have been written in America, just
very popular at that time, following that formula.

It's good to get to meet the rest of you!

Joe

[Elisabeth Gruner]

I'm Libby Gruner, and I teach children's literature and Victorian literature at the University of Richmond in Richmond VA.  While most of my research right now is on contemporary children's fantasy, I still teach quite a bit of 19th-century material in my courses.

Just this past year I directed a student honors thesis on orphan girls in US girls' fiction around the turn of the century.  My honors student was both heartened and dismayed to see Joe Sutliff Sanders' piece appear in ChLAQ--heartened because it confirmed that she was onto something, dismayed because it made her work seem a little less original!  Ah, well.  It's nice to see you all here.

Libby

Elisabeth Rose Gruner

elisabet...@gmail.com

[Joe Sutliff Sanders]

Libby said,

 

My honors student was both heartened and dismayed to see Joe Sutliff Sanders' piece appear in ChLAQ--heartened because it confirmed that she was onto something, dismayed because it made her work seem a little less original!  Ah, well.  It's nice to see you all here.

 

Ha ha ha!  I suppose it's important that she start learning that feeling now, since it's something that happens to all of us--in fact, every time Claudia Nelson puts out a book or article, I'm afraid to open it for this very reason.

 

[And you can tell your student that her story is lighting a fire under me to get my book contract so I can get done with the subject before she steals my thunder!]

 

Joe