Dr. Elaine Ostry

• Children’s literature
• Young Adult literature
• Nineteenth-century British literature
• Shakespeare
• Literary history
• Canadian Literature

Every year I take students to the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada!

• Children’s literature
• Young Adult literature
• Nineteenth-century British literature
• Charles Dickens
• Ecocriticism, environmental education
• Posthumanism

I’m currently writing a book on children turning into animals!

Working title: Changing Places: Metamorphosis in Children’s and Young Adult Literature 1775-2020

Books

• Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults, co-edited with Dr. Carrie Hintz. Routledge, 2003.
• Social Dreaming: Dickens and the Fairy Tale, Routledge, 2002

Articles

• “Billions of Lives Weighed Against the Ethics of Six ‘Kids . . .’”: The Moral Universe of the Animorphs” (forthcoming in Children’s Literature Association Quarterly)
• “On the Brink: The Role of Young Adult Culture in Environmental Degradation” (Chapter 6). Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers, edited by  Balaka Basi, Katherine R. Broad, and Carrie Hintz. Routledge, 2013, pp. 101-14.
• “Clones and Other Formulas in Science Fiction for Young Readers,” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, vol. 1, number 1, 2009, pp. 184-202.
• “’Is He Still Human? Are You?’ The Posthuman Age in Young Adult Science Fiction,” The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 28, no. 2, 2004, pp. 222-46. 
• “Magical Growth and Moral Lessons; or, How the Conduct Book Informed Victorian and Edwardian Children’s Fantasy” The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 27, no. 1, 2003, pp. 27-56.
• “Accepting Mudbloods: The Ambivalent Social Vision of J. K. Rowling’s Fairy Tales” in Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays, edited by Giselle Anatol. Praeger, 2003, pp. 89-102.
• “’Social Wonders’: Fancy, Science and Technology in Dickens’s Periodicals” Victorian Periodicals Review, vol. 34, 2001, pp. 54-78.