Department of English
Office: Thomas Hall 208
Phone: 308.865.8563
E-mail: honeymanse@unk.edu
(Quentin Blake)
Education Background
Ph.D. in English, Wayne State University, Detroit. December 2001
M. A. in English, University of Kansas, Lawrence. September 1993
Film and Comparative Literature, University of Hull, England. August
1989-July 1990
B. A. in English, University of Kansas, Lawrence. May 1989
Professional Experience
Professor, University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2002-present.
Research
interests: Childhood Studies, Youth Literature and Politics, Cultural Studies,
Folklore, and Comics.
Classes taught: Children's Literature, Literature for Adolescents,
Principles of Literary Criticism, Introduction to Women's Studies, and the
Graphic Novel
Books
Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales, Childlore, and Folkliterature. Routledge,
2010.
Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction. Ohio
State University Press, 2005.
Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews
"Trans(cending)gender."The Children's Table: Interdisciplinary
Childhood Studies. Ed. Anna Mae Duane. University of Georgia Press (2013).
Book Review of Elisabeth Young-Breuhl's Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against
Children in Children's Literature Association Quarterly 38:1 (2013)
126-129.
Book Review of Charles Hatten's The End of Domesticity: Alienation from
the Family in Dickens, Eliot, and James in The Henry James Review (2011)
97-99.
"Footnotes in Gaza" and "The Fixer." Graphic
Novels. Salem Press (2011).
"Youth Voices in the War Diary Business" International Research
in Children's Literature. 4.1 (2010) 73-86.
"Gastronomic Utopias and the Legacy of Political Hunger in African
American Folktales" Children's Literature. 38 (2010) 44-63.
"Consumerism, Sweets, and Self-determined Choice," The
International Journal of Children's Rights 18 (2009) 253-265.
"Transforming Segar's Progressive Everyman into Fleischer's
Depression-Era Supersalesman: the Power of Popeye's Spinach," International
Journal of Comic Art 10.2 (2008) 437-450.
"Trick or Treat? Halloween Lore, Passive Consumerism, and the Candy
Industry" The Lion and the Unicorn 32.1 (January 2008) 81-108.
"Gingerbread Wishes and Candy(land) Dreams" Marvels and Tales
21.2 (December 2007) 195-215.
"Manufactured Agency and the Playthings who Dream it for Us" Children's
Literature Association Quarterly 31.2 (Summer 2006) 109-131.
"Mutiny by Mutation: Uses of Neoteny in Science Fiction. Children's
Literature in Education 35.4 (December 2004) 347-66.
"Childhood Bound--In Maps and Pictures." Mosaic: A Journal for
the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature (June 2001) 117-132.
"What Maisie Knew and the Impossible Representation of Childhood."
Henry James Review 22.1 (Winter 2001) 67-80.