Welcome! 

I am currently Assistant Professor at Kent State University's School of Library & Information Science.

My interdisciplinary research, grounded in Library & Information Science and Media Studies, converges at the intersection of books and technology in new literary formats, from picture book apps to multiplatform books, and includes:

• Young people's participation via their affective and immaterial labor, and the ensuing user-generated content and “remix” books;
• Multiliteracies required to interpret non-linear, multimodal, digital-age books;
• Publishing for young readers, genre construction and the commodification of books, international children’s literature, and transnational publishing;
• Youth services librarianship, reviews, awards, the literary canon and arbiters of taste;
• Children’s information seeking behavior in everyday settings; 
• History of children's publishing and librarianship, and the gendered professions that emerged within

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   Available from 
Palgrave Macmillan, 
​Springer, and Amazon.com 

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