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Roni Natov

Professor   Department: English   Location: 3416 Boylan Hall   Phone: 718-951-5374   Fax: 718-951-4612   Email:   Roni Natov's Web site

I have lived my entire life, almost, at Brooklyn College, where I was a student and have been a teacher since 1969. Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY - 1975 (LITERATURE, ENGLISH) Areas of Expertise: Children's Literature and the Literature of Childhood; Victorian Fiction; Literature and the Arts. Books and Publications "Childhood and Difference in Contemporary Autobiographical Picture Books," in To See the Wizard: Politics and the Literature of Childhood, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2-40. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007 "Pippi and Ronia, Astrid Lindgren's Light and Dark Pastoral," in The Liberated Child: Childhood in the works of Astrid Lindgren., Barnbroken: Journal of Children's Literature Research, Astrid Lindgren Centennial Conference, 92-100. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007 The Poetics of Childhood, rpt. Routledge, 2003. (Books and Publications: Book) 2005 "Harry Potter and the Extraordinariness of the Ordinary," in The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon, ed. Lana Whited. U of Missouri P, 125-39. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2002 "Listening for Difference," in Dialogue in Writing, ed. G. DeLuca et al. Lawrence Erlbaum, 187-98. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001 Children's Studies. Special Issue of The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature. Johns Hopkins UP, 2001. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2001 "Dickens's David and Carroll's Alice: The Liminality of Victorian Childhood" (with Wendy Fairey), in Australasian Victorian Studies Journal, v.5, 143-55. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1999 Leon Garfield, Twayne. (Books and Publications: Book) 1994 Creative Work Fiction, "Until the Reparations," in Wreckage of Reason: An Anthology of Contemporary Experimental prose by Women Writers, ed. Nava Renek. Spuyten Duyvil. 2008 Fiction, "Sam and Iris," Palimpsest, Vol. 5, Issue 1, Yale Literary and Arts Magazine, 18-20. 2007 Awards, Honors and Fellowships The Brooklyn College Alumni Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (Awards and Honors) 2005 Winner of the International Research Society for Children's Literature Award for outstanding research for The Poetics of Childhood (Awards and Honors) 2005 The First Claire Tow Distinguished Teaching Award (Awards and Honors) 2004 Anne Devereaux Jordan Award of the Children's Literature Association of the Modern Language Association for outstanding contribution to the field of Children's Literature (with Geraldine DeLuca) (Awards and Honors) 1995 Tow Professorship for outstanding teaching and scholarship (Awards and Honors) 1993 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums Conference Presentation, "Imagine: Empathy in Kate DiCamillo's Tale of Despereaux," Relevant across Cultures Conference, Wroclaw, Poland, May 28-May 31, 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 Keynote speaker, "Children's Rights and Children's Literature: The Right to Know and the Right to Hope," Child and the Book Conference, Buffalo State College, Buffalo State University, May 16-18, 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 Keynote speaker, "Pastoral and Healing, the Image in the Imagination," 15th Annual British IBBY/NCRCL Children's Literature Conference, Roehampton Unviersity, London, November 15, 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "Difference in American Contemporary Autobiographical Picture Books," 17th Congress of the International Society for Research in Children's Literature, Dublin. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2005 Keynote speaker at Children's Literature Conference: Quests for Memory and Culture, Monroe Community College, Rochester. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005 Presentation on "Childhood, Memory, and Creativity" at the symposium at the Graduate Center on "Critical Perspectives in Early Childhood: An Interdisciplinary Approach." (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004 "The Literature of Childhood and the Search for Wholeness," National centre for Children's Literature Research, The University of Surrey, Roehampton, UK. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2003