Directory

Courses
Composition I
Composition II
Introduction to Literature
Education
PhD, English, St. John's University
MA, Liberal Studies & Childhood and Youth Studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY
BA, English, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Selected Publications and/or Other Resources
Publications
“Growing and Writing Up: Teaching First-Year Writing through the Theme of ‘Growing Up.’” St. John’s University Humanities Review, vol. 21, 2024.
“Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne.” The Literary Encyclopedia. Spring 2024.
“My Adventures in the Alice Archive.” WORDY by Nature Blog, Sigma Tau Delta, Spring 2024.
Nathanael, Tanja, Lasana D. Kazembe, Carla Plieth, Subhayan Basu, Stephanie Montalti, et al. “Islands in Children’s and YA Literature.” ChLA International Committee Blog, Summer 2023.
“Emancipating the Imagination: A Review of Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’ The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games.” St. John’s University Humanities Review, vol. 19, 2022.
“Teaching Der Struwwelpeter: Power Dynamics, Authority, & Responsibility.” ChLA International
Committee Blog, Fall 2022.
Reitz, Caroline, Beth Sherman, Sean Nortz, Emily Foster, Stephanie Montalti, & Christian Lewis. “Dickens Matters? A Collaborative Story About Our Spring 2019 Dickens Seminar Told in Six Parts.” Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 50, no. 2, 2019, pp. 363-388.
“To be as Innocent as the Tiger and as Experienced as the Lamb: The Paradoxical Nature of Innocence and Experience.” NCUR Proceedings, 2018, pp. 377-388.
Selected Presentations
“Timeless Illustrations: Historicizing Fantasy Literature of the Golden Age.” Children’s Literature Association. Virtual. Summer 2025.
“Playing Beyond Borders: Textual and Visual Play in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Princeton-Rutgers Victorian Symposium. Spring 2024.
“Walter Crane’s Picture Book Experimentations.” Lecture for the Antrim Literature Project. Virtual, 2023.
“Illustrating Cinderella as a Reader: Experimental Front Matter in Walter Crane’s Cinderella’s Picture Book.” Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing Symposium. University of Reading, U.K. Virtual. Summer 2023.
“Colonial Ambiguity and the ‘Probletunities’ of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Alitji in Dreamland.” Children’s Literature Association. Atlanta, GA. Summer 2022.
“Children’s Literature Museums: Exhibiting Reading Beyond Books.” Children’s Literature Association. Virtual. Summer 2021.
“Parenting Gone Wrong: The Untimely Lives of Children in the Fin de Siècle.” North
                        East Modern
Language Association. Virtual. Spring 2021.
“Growing or ‘Reading Up’ in Bibliomemoirs.” Young Adult Studies Association. Virtual. Fall 2020.
“‘Cardinal Events Are Not to Be Forgotten:’ De Quincey’s Fragmented Self and Childhood Trauma.” International Conference on Romanticism. Manchester, U.K. Summer 2019.
“Reconceptualizing Innocence & Experience in Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an
                        English 
Opium Eater.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Chicago, IL. August
                        2019.
Institutional Affiliations/Professional Societies
Curriculum Revision Committee, Kingsborough CC
Literature Committee, Kingsborough CC
Edited Book Award Committee, Children’s Literature Association
Awards Recognition, Distinctions and Grants
Faculty Achievement Recognition Certificate, Kingsborough Community College, 2024
Certificate of Academic Excellence, St. John’s University, 2024
Sigma Tau Delta Scholarly Paper Award, 2023
Sigma Tau Delta Lambda Iota Tau (LIT) Research Grant, Spring 2023
Research Interests
Children's Literature
Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Writing Studies