Personal profile
Contact Information
Office: 3060 - Coleman Hall
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://niallnancecarroll.wixsite.com/hundred-acre
Research interests
My research interests include children's and adolescent literature, ethics, politics, narrative theory, popular culture, and everyday life.
Publications
“Latecomers to the Hundred Acre Wood: The Tension between Nostalgia and Updating in Return to the Hundred Acre Wood and The Best Bear in All the World.” Positioning Pooh. Ed. Jen Harrison. University Press of Mississippi. June 2021
"Children and Young People as Activist Authors." International Research in Children's Literature. Vol. 14 Issue 1 pp. 6-21. Feb. 2021
Review of The Big Smallness by Michelle Ann Abate. Children’s Literature Vol.46, pp.235-238. 2018
"Not Only, But Also: Entwined Modes and the Fantastic in A.A. Milne's Pooh Stories." The Lion and the Unicorn. January 2015
"Innocence is No Defense: Politicized Childhood in Antonio Skármeta's La composición/The Composition." Children's Literature in Education. December 2014.
"A Prosaics of the Hundred Acre Wood: Ethics in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner." Ethics and Children's Literature. Ed. Claudia Mills. Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to Present Series. November 2014
"'So, is this the part where you judge me?' Adolescent Sexuality in Glee." Queer in the Choir Room. Ed. Michelle Parke. MacFarland. October 2014
External Affiliations
In 2022, I gave the Lois Lenski Children's Literature Lecture at Illinois State University on the “The First Hundred Years of Winnie-the-Pooh" and I was interviewed about the topic for The 21st on WILL radio. Click here for the radio interview