Dr. Jan Susina
Emerita Professor
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- About
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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
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
Jan Susina.
(2012), 40, 256-259, Children’s Literature
Enchanted Ideologies: A Collection of Rediscovered Nineteenth-Century Moral Fairy Tales. By Marilyn Pemberton. Lambertville, NJ: True Bill Press, 2010
Jan Susina.
(2011), 36.3, 346-348, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly., Children’s Literature Association Quarterly.
Raising Your Kids Right: Children’s Literature And American Political Conservatism. By Michelle Ann Abate
Jan Susina.
(2011), Teachers College Record
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.
Jan Susina.
(2005), The Lewis Carroll Review
Book, Authored
The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children’s Literature
Jan Susina.
(2011), Routledge
Book, Chapter
Essay on Chapter Eleven: Hiss
Jan Susina.
(2013), George MacDonald’s The Light Princess in Subverting Laughter: Re-Imaginging George MacDonald's Victorian Fairy Tale ‘The Light Princess.’
Teletubbies and the Conflict of the Romantic Concept of Childhood and the Realities of Postmodern Parenting.
Jan Susina.
(2012), Time of Beauty, Time of Fear: The Romantic Legacy in the Literature of Childhood., University of Iowa Press
“Teletubbies and the Conflict of the Romantic Concept of Childhood and the Realities of Postmodern Parenting.”
Jan Susina.
(2012), 184-99, Time of Beauty, Time of Fear: The Romantic Legacy in the Literature of Childhood.
Possibilities for Globalizing Childhood Through Children’s New Media
Jan Susina.
(2011), 491-511, Constructing Childhood: Literature, History, and Anthropology, Russian State University for the Humanities
“Possibilities for Globalizing Childhood Through Children’s New Media.”
Jan Susina.
(2011), 491-511, Constructing Childhood: Literature, History, and Anthropology., Russian State University for the Humanities
The Brotherhood Between George MacDonald and Arthur Hughes’: Arthur Hughes’s Illustrations to George MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind.
Jan Susina.
(2011), 369-381, Broadview Press Critical Edition of George MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind, Broadview Press
“Reptar: The Rugrats Meet Godzilla.”
Jan Susina.
(2009), The Japanification of Children’s Popular Culture, Scarecrow Press
Other
Alice in Wonderland. Director Tim Burton. Screenplay by Linda Woolverton. Performers Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter, and Anne Hathaway
Jan Susina.
25.1, 181-183, (2011)
Presentations
“An Un-Birthday Present: The Publication and History of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
Jan Susina.
Lewis Carroll Society of North American conference, online, October, 2020
“The Political Creatures of Wonderland: John Tenniel’s Punch Cartoons.”
Jan Susina.
Rites of Reading: Elephant Donkey, Bull Moose and Others lecture series, online, October, 2020
Sendak Goes to the Dogs: Maurice Sendak's Empathetic View of Dogs
Jan Susina.
Children's Literature Association Conference, Indianapolis, June, 2019
“ ‘You’ve brought us the wrong Alice’: Tim Burton’s Dystopic Alice in Wonderland.”
Jan Susina.
Modern Language Association 2015 conference, Vancouver, January, 2015
“Grimm Tales: An Artistic Perspective.”
Jan Susina.
“Grimm Tales: An Artistic Perspective.”, Milner Library, February 26, 2014
“What Your Grandchildren (and Children) Should be Reading”
Roberta Trites, Karen Coats, Jan Susina.
Mornings with the Professors, Normal, IL, October 29, 2010
“Lewis Carroll and the Creation of the Alice Industry.”
Jan Susina.
Milner Library. Illinois State University, March 30, 2010
“Knucklehead in Wonderland: Jon Scieszka Adapts Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
Jan Susina.
South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November 6, 2009
“Private Pete Meets The Cat in the Hat: John Hersey and the Creation of The Cat in the Hat”
Jan Susina.
Children's Literature Association Conference, Charlotte, NC, June 10, 2009