Welcome to Annette Wannamaker, Editor-in-Chief for North America
Children’s Literature in Education is delighted to welcome Annette Wannamaker of Eastern Michigan University as its new Editor-in-Chief for North America. In this role, Dr. Wannamaker follows Lawrence Sipe who died suddenly last March and whose contribution to children’s literature will be celebrated in a special issue of the journal in March 2012. Annette Wannamaker brings a broad range of experience to the position of North American editor. She is an Associate Professor of Children’s Literature at EMU, and is also Coordinator of the Children’s Literature Program in the Department of English Language and Literature. Dr. Wannamaker is well known as a scholar and teacher with a particular interest in gender questions. In 2008, she published Boys in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture: Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child (Routledge), and she recently produced an edited book, Mediated Boyhoods: Boys, Teens, and Young Men in Popular Culture and Media (Peter Lang, 2011). She and Michelle Ann Abate are currently editing Global Perspectives on Tarzan: From King of the Jungle to International Icon, a book that will be published by Routledge in 2012. She has published an extensive list of journal articles and chapters, and made her first appearance in CLE in 2006, with an article on Holes. She has been active in the Children’s Literature Association for many years, and in 2010 she organized a highly successful annual conference for this organization, on the theme of ‘‘Children’s Literature and Media.’’ Dr. Wannamaker has already begun working on CLE with her usual energy and flair. All friends of the journal will be glad to welcome her aboard and wish her a long and successful tenure.