Dr. Jan Susina
Emerita Professor
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Biography
Jan Susina teaches and researches children's and adolescent literature and culture, and Victorian literature and culture. His book, The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature (Routledge 2009), examines how the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland significantly changed literature for children as well as publishing.
Teaching Interests & Areas
Adolescent Literature and Culture. Children's Literature and Culture. Picture Books and Illustrated Texts. Folk Tales and Literary Fairy Tales. Victorian Literature and Culture. Graphic Novels. 1960s California Renaissance Literature. Lewis Carroll. Charles Dickens. Jane Austen.
Research Interests & Areas
Adolescent Literature and Culture. Children's Literature Picture Books and Illustrated Texts. Folk Tales and Literary Fairy Tales. Victorian Literature and Culture. Victorian Children's Literature. Visual Culture. Lewis Carroll & Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Children's Film & Digital Media. Charles Dickens. Jane Austen. Comics and Graphic Novels.
MA Arts Administration
Indiana University
Bloomington
Ph D English
Indiana University
Bloomington
MA English
Indiana University
Bloomington
BA English & American Literature
Samford University
Birmingham
Book Review
Susina, J. Lewis Carroll By the Numbers” Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life. An Agony in Eight Fits. By Robin Wilson. New York: Norton. 2008. Children’s Literature 40 (2012): 256-259.
Susina, J. Enchanted Ideologies: A Collection of Rediscovered Nineteenth-Century Moral Fairy Tales. By Marilyn Pemberton. Lambertville, NJ: True Bill Press, 2010. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly.. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. 36.3 (2011): 346-348.
Susina, J. Raising Your Kids Right: Children’s Literature And American Political Conservatism. By Michelle Ann Abate. Teachers College Record (2011)
Susina, J. Alice Eats Wonderland: An Irreverent Annotated Cookbook Adventure in Which a Gluttonous Alice Devours Many of the Wonderland Characters. By August A. Imholtz and Alison Tannebaum. Carlisle, MA: Applewood Books. 2009.. The Lewis Carroll Review (2005)
Book, Authored
Susina, J. The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children’s Literature. Routledge (2011)
Book, Chapter
Susina, J. Essay on Chapter Eleven: Hiss. Christine Chettle (EDs), George MacDonald’s The Light Princess in Subverting Laughter: Re-Imaginging George MacDonald's Victorian Fairy Tale ‘The Light Princess.’ (2013)
Susina, J. Teletubbies and the Conflict of the Romantic Concept of Childhood and the Realities of Postmodern Parenting.. James Holt McGavran, Jr (EDs), Time of Beauty, Time of Fear: The Romantic Legacy in the Literature of Childhood.. University of Iowa Press (2012)
Susina, J. “Teletubbies and the Conflict of the Romantic Concept of Childhood and the Realities of Postmodern Parenting.”. James Holt McGavran, Jr (EDs), Time of Beauty, Time of Fear: The Romantic Legacy in the Literature of Childhood. (2012): 184-99.
Susina, J. Possibilities for Globalizing Childhood Through Children’s New Media. Marina Balina and Vitaly Bezrogov (EDs), Constructing Childhood: Literature, History, and Anthropology. Russian State University for the Humanities (2011): 491-511.
Susina, J. “Possibilities for Globalizing Childhood Through Children’s New Media.”. Marina Balina and Vitaly Bezrogov (EDs), Constructing Childhood: Literature, History, and Anthropology.. Russian State University for the Humanities (2011): 491-511.
Presentations
“An Un-Birthday Present: The Publication and History of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”. Lewis Carroll Society of North American conference. LCSNA and University of Michigan. (2020)
“The Political Creatures of Wonderland: John Tenniel’s Punch Cartoons.”. Rites of Reading: Elephant Donkey, Bull Moose and Others lecture series. University of Michigan. (2020)
Sendak Goes to the Dogs: Maurice Sendak's Empathetic View of Dogs. Children's Literature Association Conference. ChLA. (2019)
“ ‘You’ve brought us the wrong Alice’: Tim Burton’s Dystopic Alice in Wonderland.”. Modern Language Association 2015 conference. (2015)
“Grimm Tales: An Artistic Perspective.”. “Grimm Tales: An Artistic Perspective.”. ISU College of Fine Arts. (2014)
“Lewis Carroll and the Creation of the Alice Industry.”. Friends of Milner Library. (2010)
“What Your Grandchildren (and Children) Should be Reading”. Mornings with the Professors. Illinois State University. (2010)
“Knucklehead in Wonderland: Jon Scieszka Adapts Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”. South Atlantic Modern Language Association. (2009)
“Private Pete Meets The Cat in the Hat: John Hersey and the Creation of The Cat in the Hat”. Children's Literature Association Conference. (2009)