Monica Flegel Editor & Author

Monica Flegel is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Lakehead University, Canada. Her research focuses on cultural studies, specifically addressing children, animals, and pop culture and fandom. She is the author of Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture (2015).

Christopher Parkes is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Lakehead University, Canada. His research focuses on children’s literature. He is the author of Children’s Literature and Capitalism: Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850-1914 (Palgrave, 2012).  His current research focuses on YA fiction and the end of social mobility in America.