Mavis Reimer - Such a Simple Little Tale: Critical Responses to L.M. Montgomerys Anne of Green Gables

Temma F. Berg is assistant professor of English at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, where she also teaches in the Womens Studies program. She has published extensively on the subject of reading and reader-response theory and is editor of Engendering the Word: Feminist Essays in Psychosexual Poetics, published by the University of Illinois Press. She is currently researching the work of early women theorists.

Susan Drain is a visiting professor at the University of Toronto. Her academic home is Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she is able to combine and pursue many of her critical and research interests: childrens literature, womens studies, Victorian studies, composition, and hymnology.

Carol Gay was professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies in English at Youngstown State University, Ohio. She published widely in colonial American literature, the Transcendentalists, womens studies, and childrens literature, and was a charter member and the first archivist of the Childrens Literature Association. She died in December 1985.

Nancy Huse teaches English at Augustana College, Illinois, where she is involved in both womens studies and family life studies. She has published articles on a variety of topics in childrens literature and is at work on developing a feminist approach to the criticism of childrens literature.

Susan Jackson earned an A.B. in History and American Studies from Princeton University in June 1986. She is currently working as an editor and journalist in New York and Japan.

Eve Kornfeld is an associate professor of history at San Diego State University, California. She has published a series of interdisciplinary articles on feminism and gender relations in American culture, and has a special interest in the intersection of history and literature.

T. D. MacLulich is both a poet and a scholar. His history of Canadian literature, Between Europe and America: The Canadian Tradition in Fiction, appeared in 1988. In 1967 he was awarded the University of Torontos E. J. Pratt Medal for Poetry. He has taught English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.

Perry Nodelman, a former editor of the Childrens Literature Association Quarterly, has written articles and papers on all aspects of childrens literature. He has published Words About Pictures: The Narrative Art of Childrens Picture Books, with the University of Georgia Press and The Pleasures of Childrens Literature with Longman. He is professor of English at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Mavis Reimer is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Calgary, Alberta. For her dissertation, she is studying the girls school story in late Victorian and Edwardian England. She has taught and published articles in childrens literature.

Catherine Ross is associate professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Western Ontario. She teaches Canadian literature, childrens literature, and reference and research methods, and has published articles in Canadian studies and childrens literature.

Mary Rubio is editor of Canadian Childrens Literature and a member of the English department at the University of Guelph, Ontario. She is joint editor of L. M. Montgomerys journals, published by Oxford University Press.

Marilyn Solt is an associate professor of English, emerita, of Bowling Green State University, Ohio. She is the joint author of Newbery and Caldecott Medal and Honor Books, published by G. K. Hall.

Gillian Thomas has taught childrens literature at the University of Victoria, California State University, and Dalhousie University. She is a professor of English at Saint Marys University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the author of Harriet Martineau, published by G. K. Hall. A Position to Command Respect: Women Contributors to the Eleventh Britannica is forthcoming from Scarecrow Press.

Janet Weiss-Townsend, when not studying literature at the University of Winnipeg, acts as Technical Services Co-ordinator for a large Canadian consulting engineering firm.

Muriel A. Whitaker is Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Alberta. Internationally known as a medievalist, she has also published in the areas of childrens literature and the illustration of childrens books.