Gwen Athene Tarbox Editor

Michelle Ann Abate, Columbus, Ohio, is associate professor of literature for children and young adults at The Ohio State University. She is author of The Big Smallness: Niche Marketing, the American Culture Wars, and the New Children’s Literature.

Gwen Athene Tarbox, Kalamazoo, Michigan, is associate professor of English and an affiliate in gender and women’s studies at Western Michigan University. She is author of The Clubwomen’s Daughters: Collectivist Impulses in Progressive-era Girls’ Fiction, 1890–1940 and of a forthcoming volume on children’s comics.