Paula
Connolly, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Undergraduate Coordinator
Education
• Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• M.A., B.A., Boston College
Personal Interests
• Multicultural Children’s Literature
• American and British Children’s Literature
• Visual Images and Children’s Literature
• 19th Century American Literature
• Images of Slavery in Literature
• Film and Popular Culture
Selected Publications and Presentations
Connolly, Paula. “Telling Secrets and the Possibilities
of Flight in I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This,”
in Exploring Culturally Diverse Literature for
Children and Adolescents: Learning to Listen in
New Ways. Ed. Darwin L. Henderson and Jill P.
May. Boston: Pearson Education Inc-Allyn and Bacon,
2005. 205- 215.
---. “Narrative Tensions: Telling Slavery, Showing
Violence,” in The Presence of the Past in Children’s
Literature. Ed. Anne Lawson Lucas. Westport, CT:
Praeger-Greenwood Press, 2003. 107-112.
---. “Crossing Borders from Africa to America,”
in Transcending Boundaries: Writing for a Dual
Audience of Children and Adults. Ed. Sandra Beckett.
Children’s Literature and Culture Series. General
Editor Jack Zipes. New York: Garland Publishing
Co., 1999. 149-164.
---. “The Marketing of Romantic Childhood: Milne,
Disney, and A Very Popular Stuffed Bear,” in Literature
and the Child: Romantic Continuations, Postmodern
Contestations. Ed. James Holt McGavran. Iowa City,
IA: University of Iowa Press, 1999. 188-207.
---. “Still a Slave: Legal and Spiritual Freedom
in Julius Lester’s ‘Where the Sun Lives.’” Children’s
Literature. Vol. 26. Annual of the MLA Division
on Children’s Literature and The Children’s Literature
Association. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1998. 123-139.
---. Winnie-the-Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner:
Recovering Arcadia. Twayne’s Masterwork Studies
Series. Robert Lecker, General Editor. New York:
Twayne--Macmillan Publishing Co., 1995. (Also
available as part of Twayne’s Masterwork Studies
on CD-ROM. June 1996.)
Current Projects
Responsive Voices: Images of American Slavery
in Children's Literature, 1800-2000. (a book-length
manuscript).
Stories of Slavery, Stories for Children, 1800-1865.
(edited collection of stories about slavery culled
from rare book collections).
Courses Taught
• ENGL 2090: Disney and Children’s Films
• ENGL 3050: African-American Children’s Literature
• ENGL 3102: Literature for Young Children
• ENGL 3103: Children's Literature
• ENGL 3104: Adolescent Literature
• ENGL 3142: American Literature, 1870-1920
• ENGL 4102/5102: Classics in British Children's
Literature
• ENGL 4103/5103: Classics in American Children's
Literature
• ENGL 4104/5104: Multiculturalism in Children's
Literature
• ENGL 6070: Award-Winning Children's Books
• ENGL 6070: Slavery and Race in American Literature
• ENGL 6103: Juvenile Literature
• ENGL 6685: Nineteenth-Century American Women
Writers
Selected Professional Service
Editorial Board, Children's Literature in Education:
An International Quarterly.
Scholarship Committee, Children's Literature Association.
Board of Directors, Chapel of Christ the King
Weekday School (an accredited, non-profit, 4-star
rated and licensed pre-K, K school for underprivileged
children in Charlotte.
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