Leaving the Hundred Acre Wood
Niall Nance-Carroll
Instructor
Eastern Illinois University
My research interests include children's and adolescent literature, ethics, politics, narrative theory, popular culture, and everyday life.
Child Activist Literature at the Turn of the 2020s: From the Kids You Read About to the Kids You Read is now available from Lexington Press. This is my first book and it focuses on the ways in which young activists write and are written about by others. Click here for a link to the publisher's site for the ebook or hardback.
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
I was awarded the Judith Plotz Emerging Scholar Award by the Children's Literature Association and the Children's Literature in Education Emerging Scholar Award; the winning article "Innocence is No Defense: Politicized Childhood in Antonio Skármeta La composición/The Composition" appeared in the December 2014 issue of Children's Literature in Education.
In 2016, I defended my dissertation, "The Stuff of Everyday Life: A Bakhtinian Reading of the Prosaic Worlds of A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, and David Lodge’s Souls and Bodies."
After completing my studies at Illinois State University, I taught at University of Southern Indiana and at Auburn University at Montgomery. In 2021, I started at Eastern Illinois University.