Karen Chandler

M.A. & Ph.D. (English), University of Pennsylvania

[with Michelle Martin, J. Elizabeth Mills, Breanna McDaniel, Nadia Mansour, and Roxana Loza.] “Many Hands Make Rich Work: Mentorship and Collaboration in a Diverse Scholarly Space.” Research on Diversity in Youth Literature (RDYL), vol. 3, no. 1, 2021.

“Reading for Success: Booker T. Washington’s Pursuit of Education in Two Children’s Books.” Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods. Edited by Rachel Conrad
and Brown Kennedy. Palgrave, 2020, pp. 129-145.

“Uncertain Directions in Black Children’s Literature.” The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 43, no. 2, Apr. 2019, pp. 172-181.

"Playing to Girls: Folktales about Selfhood and Community in Virginia Hamilton’s Her Stories and Patricia McKissack’s Porch Lies," The Looking Glass 17 (2014).

“Creative Defiance in Juan Francisco Manzano’s The Autobiography of a Slave and Margarita Engle’s The Poet Slave of Cuba,” Sankofa 10 (2011).

“Partial Measures.” Saraba 8 (2011).

“Preserving ‘that Racial Memory’: Figurative Language, Sonnet Sequence, and the Work of Remembrance in Marilyn Nelson’s A Wreath for Emmett Till,” Southern Quarterly 45 (2008).

“Paths to Freedom: Literacy and Folk Ways in Recent Children’s Narratives about Slavery,” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 31 (2006).

“‘Wonderful Dealings’: Making African-American Selfhood Speak through Colonial Literary Conventions in John Marrant’s Conversion and Captivity Narrative,” MAWA Review 16 (2001).

“Charles Chesnutt’s Cultural Exchange: Race and the Reading of Melodrama in ‘Her Virginia Mammy,'” South Central Review 17 (2000).