Andrea Mei-Ying Wu Editor

Claudia Nelson is a professor emerita of English at Texas A&M University. In addition to having coedited multiple essay collections, she is author or coauthor of six monographs, most recently Topologies of the Classical World in Children’s Literature: Palimpsests, Maps, and Fractals, coauthored with Anne Morey (2019). Her book Little Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption and Foster Care in America, 1850–1929 won the Children’s Literature Association’s award for the best scholarly book of 2003.

Elisabeth Wesseling is professor of cultural memory, gender and diversity and director of the Centre for Gender and Diversity at Maastricht University. She has edited two volumes on children’s media (The Child Savage, 1890–2010: From Comics to Games [2016]; Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia: Books, Toys and Games [2017]) and co-edited special journal issues for Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, International Research in Children’s Literature, and BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, in addition to publishing numerous research articles.

Andrea Mei-Ying Wu is director of the Chinese Language Center and a professor of children’s literature and Taiwanese literature at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. She has published widely on children’s literature and culture and is the author of a Chinese monograph, Discourses of Subject, Gender, Place, and (Post)modern Childhood in Postwar Taiwanese Juvenile Fiction (2017). Her recent publication includes a co-edited Chinese monograph, Border-Crossings, Coming-of-Age, and In-Between: Contemporary Trends in Children’s Literature Research (2022).