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Social Dreaming: Dickens and the Fairy Tale. NY: Routledge, 2002. Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults, essay collection co-edited with Dr. Carrie Hintz (Queens College, CUNY). NY: Routledge, 2003."On the Brink: The Role of Young Adult Culture in Environmental Degradation" (Chapter 6) in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers. Eds. Balaka Basi, Katherine R. Broad, and Carrie Hintz. New York: Routledge, 2013. 101-14. “Clones and Other Formulas in Science Fiction for Young Readers,” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 1.1 (Summer 2009): 184-202 (I was invited to write this book review essay, which was refereed by a panel.) “’Is He Still Human? Are You?’ The Posthuman Age in Young Adult Science Fiction,” The Lion and the Unicorn 28.2 (April 2004): 222-46. “Magical Growth and Moral Lessons; or, How the Conduct Book Informed Victorian and Edwardian Children’s Fantasy” The Lion and the Unicorn 27.1 (January 2003): 27-56. “Accepting Mudbloods: The Ambivalent Social Vision of J. K. Rowling’s Fairy Tales” in Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays. Ed. Giselle Anatol. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 89-102. “’Social Wonders’: Fancy, Science and Technology in Dickens’s Periodicals” Victorian Periodicals Review 34 (2001): 54-78.