Dr. Niall Nance-Carroll

INTRODUCTION

Education & Training

Ph. D. Illinois State University                                                        May 2016

English Studies: Children’s and Young Adult Literature

• Dissertation: “The Stuff of Everyday Life: A Bakhtinian Reading of the Prosaic Worlds     of A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, and David Lodge’s Souls and Bodies”
• Committee: Jan Susina (chair), Roberta Trites, and Mary Jeanette Moran

M.A.   Illinois State University                                                        May 2011

English Studies

• Thesis: Leaving the Hundred Acre Wood: Anti-Nostalgic Themes in Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner              
• Committee: Jan Susina and Roberta Trites

B.A.    Illinois State University                                                        May 2009

English magna cum laude     

Conference Presentations

2021: “Whose streets? The flâneuse/ flâneur in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” Children’s Literature Association, Atlanta, Georgia (held virtually)

[Conference Cancelled] 2020: “Deforestation, Genocide, and Survival: Intergenerational Indigenous Activism in Margarito’s Forest/El bosque de don Margarito” Children’s Literature Association, Bellevue, Washington

2020: “Exploding the Canon for Fun and Profit” Modern Language Association, Seattle, Washington

2019: “Ungrateful Exiles? Beyond the Performance of Gratitude in Naomi Iizuka’s Anon(ymous) and Antonio Skármeta’s No pasó nada/Chileno!” Children’s Literature Association, Indianapolis, Indiana

2019: “Finding Neutral Territory in the Culture Wars? Disney’s Fan Art Borrowings as a Balancing Act” The Louisville Conference on Literature after 1900, Louisville, Kentucky

2018: “‘The Chorus of Refugees’: Individuated versus Collective Experience in Naomi Iizuka’s Anon(ymous)” Children’s Literature Association, San Antonio, Texas

2018: “Latecomers to the Hundred Acre Wood: The Tension between Nostalgia and Updating in Return to the Hundred Acre Wood and The Best Bear in All the World” The Louisville Conference on Literature after 1900, Louisville, Kentucky

2017: “From Cuba to Miami to Living Rooms around the Nation: Qué Pasa, U.S.A.? and 1970s Optimistic Views of a Multicultural US Future” Children’s Literature Association, Tampa, Florida

2017: “Prosaics of Marriage and Religion in David Lodge’s Souls and Bodies” The Louisville Conference on Literature after 1900, Louisville, Kentucky

2016: “Consequence-Free? Sex and Desire in Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl,” Midwest Popular Culture Association, Chicago, Illinois

2016: "'Wouldn't it make us nicer...if we had to switch every day?'" Embodiment and Ethics in David Levithan's Every Day / Another Day" Children's Literature Association Columbus, Ohio

2015: "Borrowing Back: The Influence of Fanfictional Structures on Fangirl." South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Durham, North Carolina​

2014: “The Diverse Individual: The Draw of Universality and Elision of Difference in David Levithan’s Every Day” Children’s Literature Association, Columbia, South Carolina

2013: “Tolkien’s Tweens: The End of Childhood in Letters from Father Christmas” Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

2013: “I Know You, I’ve Been You: Ethics and Perspective Taking in David Levithan’s Every Day” Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

2013: “How Young are these Adults? The Rise of Young Adult Literature in the Adult Market” Reception Studies Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin​

2013: “‘The end result of that advice was me riding an express taxi towards death’: Adolescence and Politics in Antonio Skármeta’s No pasó nada/Chileno!” Children’s Literature Association, Biloxi, Mississippi

2012: “A Gentle Debt: Obligations in the Hundred Acre Wood” Midwest Modern Language Association, Cincinnati, Ohio

2012: “History, Not Personal Trauma: Exploring Corroborated Subjectivity in Maus” Midwest Modern Language Association, Cincinnati, Ohio

2012: “A Prosaics of the Hundred Acre Wood: Ethics in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner” Ethics and Children’s Literature, The Janet Prindle Institute of Ethics Greencastle, Indiana

2012: “Ignorance is No Defense: Politicized Childhood in Antonio Skármeta’s La composición /The Composition” Children’s Literature Association, Boston, Massachusetts 

2011: “A.A. Milne’s Behind the Lines: Comic Poetry as War Propaganda” Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, Missouri

2011: “A ‘Teenage Dream’? Constructions of Adolescence in Glee” Midwest Popular Culture Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Community

In 2022, I gave the Lois Lenski Children's Literature Lecture at Illinois State University on the “The First Hundred Years of Winnie-the-Pooh" and I was interviewed about the topic for The 21st on WILL radio. Click here for the radio interview

Publications

“Latecomers to the Hundred Acre Wood: The Tension between Nostalgia and Updating in Return to the Hundred Acre Wood and The Best Bear in All the World.” Positioning Pooh. Ed. Jen Harrison. University Press of Mississippi. June 2021

"Children and Young People as Activist Authors." International Research in Children's Literature. Vol. 14 Issue 1 pp. 6-21. Feb. 2021

Review of The Big Smallness by Michelle Ann Abate. Children’s Literature Vol.46, pp.235-238. 2018

"Not Only, But Also: Entwined Modes and the Fantastic in A.A. Milne's Pooh Stories." The Lion and the Unicorn. January 2015
 
"Innocence is No Defense: Politicized Childhood in Antonio Skármeta's La composición/The Composition." Children's Literature in Education. December 2014.
 
"A Prosaics of the Hundred Acre Wood: Ethics in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner." Ethics and Children's Literature. Ed. Claudia Mills. Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to Present Series. November 2014
 
"'So, is this the part where you judge me?' Adolescent Sexuality in Glee." Queer in the Choir Room. Ed. Michelle Parke. MacFarland. October 2014 

Research & Creative Interests

My research interests include children's and adolescent literature, ethics, politics, narrative theory, popular culture, and everyday life.