ESSAYS (listed according to the most recent)

Classics, True Lovers, and Texts in Nancy Garden’s Annie on My Mind
Classics in Rainbow Rowell’s Simon Snow Trilogy
Persephone and the Phoenix in Ami Polonsky’s Gracefully Grayson
Myth and David Almond’s My Name is Mina
Rescuing or Punishing Procne and Philomela
Articulating the Identity of Wonder Woman Through Myth
Collage, Hybridity, and Sara Fanelli’s Mythological Monsters of Ancient Greece
“Atalanta” by Betty Miles and Moving Past Patriarchy
The Judgment of Paris and Please Share, Aphrodite!
The Myth of Io and Julie Berry’s All the Truth That’s in Me
Uses of Classics in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

READING LISTS FOR COURSES TAUGHT AT HENDRIX COLLEGE

Myth and Percy Jackson (taught spring 2019 and spring 2022)
Myth in Children’s and Young Adult Literature – seminar course (taught fall 2017) 
Myth and Picturebooks (taught fall 2015)
Myth in Children’s and Young Adult Literature – survey course (taught spring 2013)
Anthologies of Classical Myth for Children (taught spring 2011)

CONFERENCE PAPERS (within each post there is a link to a PDF of the paper)

Integrating Children’s Literature into an Undergraduate Classics Curriculum (2023)
Post-Patriarchal Pandoras for Very Young Readers (2021)
Midas, Mixed Messages, and the “Museum” of Dugald Steer’s Mythology (2018)
When Beauty and the Beast Know Latin and Greek (2017)
Midas and the Value of Animate Others (2016)
Midas in Massachusetts: Hawthorne, Dickinson, and the Aesthetics of the Golden Touch (2015)
Playing (with) Persephone in Ibbotson’s Dragonfly Pool and Company of Swans (2013)
Gender, Agency, and Authorship in Voigt’s Orfe and Block’s “Orpheus” (2012)
The Education of the Spirit in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Wonder Book (2011)
Painting the Statues: Subversion and Authority in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Wonder Book (2011)
Revising Pandora (and Re-writing Eve) in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Wonder Book (2009)