A. Waller Hastings
Professor of English
Department of English and Linguistics
Northern State University
Aberdeen, SD 57401
E-mail: mailto:hastingw@wolf.northern.edu

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• “One Hundred Years of a Wonderful Wizard and His Legacy.” (Review of Suzanne Rahn, L. Frank Baum’s World of Oz) Children’s Literature 34 (2006) 227-30.

   
• “Great Plains: A Bibliography.” The Five Owls 13:1 (2004) 8-10.

• “Oz, Before and Beyond.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 25:1 (Spring 2000) 173-75.

• "Instruction and Delight: Letters from a Father to His Children." [Review of Hugh T. Keenan's Dearest Chums and Partners: Joel Chandler Harris's Letters to His Children: A Domestic Biography] Children's Literature 27 (1999) 218-22.

• [Meena Khorana, Ed., Critical Perspectives on Postcolonial African Children's and Young Adult Literature] Lion & Unicorn 23, 3 (1999) 452-55.

• [Murray Knowles and Kirsten Malmkjaer, Language and Control in Children's Literature]. Lion and Unicorn 22:2 (April 1998) 266-29.

• "Ethnic and Gender Stereotyping in Recent Disney Animation."  In Daphne Muse, Ed.,  The New Press Guide to Multicultural Resources for Young Readers.  New York: New Press, 1997.  349-53.

• Entries in Ready Reference: Censorship. Salem Press, Fall 1997: "Books, Children's" I: 86-88; "Disney Films" I: 220-21

• "PTV: The Poetry Video Project." California English 2:4 (Summer 1997) 8-10.

• "Worshiping at the Altar of Oz." [Review of Paul Nathanson's Over the Rainbow] Lion and Unicorn 21:2 (April 1997) 281-83.

• "Silver Anniversary Party." [Review of Geoff Fox's Celebrating Children's Literature in Education] Children's Literature Association Quarterly 21:4 (Winter 1996-97) 203-04.

• Entries in Masterplots. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1996: "The Countess Cathleen" [W.B. Yeats] 1331-34; "Death and the King's Horseman" [Wole Soyinka] 1534-37; "The Jungle Books" [Rudyard Kipling] 3377-81; plus revisions of bibliographies for the Arabian Nights, James Barrie's Peter Pan, and Felix Salten's Bambi.

• "The Enchanted Castle." [E. Nesbit] In A.J. Sobczak, Ed., Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press,  1996. 301-302.

• "Walt Disney and the Roots of Children's Popular Culture in the 20th Century." [Review of three books] Lion and Unicorn 20:2 (December 1996) 264-71.

• "Internet Resources on Children's Literature — Part I: Discussion Lists and Web Guides" Iowa Reading Journal 9:1 (October 1996) 7-10. "Part II: Useful Web Sites." 11-15.

• "Bambi and the Hunting Ethos." Journal of Popular Film and Television 24:2 (Summer 1996) 53-59.

• Entries in the Dictionary of Literary Biography 163: British Children's Writers II. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996: "Robert Browning." Pp. 30-36; "Emma Marshall." 202-209.

• "Ramona and the Raw Egg: Some Thoughts on Cleary and Television." Oregon English Journal 17:1 (Spring 1995) 68-69.

• "'We're Not in Bombay Any More.'" [Review of Salman Rushdie's Wizard of Oz] Lion and Unicorn, 18:2 (December 1994) 231-35.

• "Home's Douglas as Patriotic Mythopoiesis." In John H. Laflin, Ed., Proceedings of the Second Dakotas Conference on Earlier British Literature. Aberdeen: Northern State University Press, 1994. 146-152.

• "Moral Simplification in Disney's The Little Mermaid." Lion and Unicorn 17:1 (June 1993) 83-92.

• "Stone Walls, Iron Bars, and Liberal Political Theory: Lovelace's 'To Althea, from Prison.'" In Jay Ruud, Ed. Proceedings of the First Dakotas Conference on Earlier British Literature. Aberdeen: Northern State University Press, 1993. 74-85.

• "Social Conscience and Class Relations in MacDonald's 'Cross Purposes'." In Roderick McGillis, Ed., For the Childlike: George MacDonald's Work for Children. Metuchen, NJ: Children's Literature Association/Scarecrow Press, 1992. 75-86.

• "Large Group Collaborations in Introductory Literature: Evolution of a Drama Unit." [ABSTRACT] In Kris Bosworth, Candice Schilz, and James Flannery, Eds. Case Studies of Collaborative Learning in College Classrooms. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Center for Adolescent Studies, 1991. 5.

• “Against Elegy.” Paper Street 1:2 (Fall 2004) 56-57.

• “Christmas Lights.” Story Friends (December 2004) 16.

• "After 9-11." [Poem]  South Dakota Review 40:3 (Fall 2002) 142.

• “Dakota Sky: A Fragment.” [Poem] South Dakota Review 38:2 (Summer 2000) 20.

• "18-Year-Old Poetry." [Poem] California English 3:2 (Winter 1997) 28.

• "Dakota Sky: Sunset." [Poem] South Dakota Review 35:1 (Spring 1997) 72.

• "Dakota Sky with Jets." [Poem] Briar Cliff Review 8 (Spring 1996) 59.

• "I rock and it is cold"; "Here and There." [Poems] Pen and Ink Magazine 2:1 (Fall/Winter 1995-96) 17-18.

• Film and theatre reviews, Aberdeen American News. 2003-Present.

• Occasional sports and general reporting, Aberdeen American News, 1996-97.

• "Being Able to Disagree Is the Essence of Our Freedom." Aberdeen American News, January 22, 1991.

• “Black Beauty and the Aestheticization of the Horse.”  Sixth Biennial Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature, Nashville, April 1, 2005.

• “The Animal Dæmon as Human Soul in Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy.” Children’s Literature Association, Fresno, CA, June 10, 2004.

• "Cobble’s Knot: Reconciling Public and Private in Maniac Magee.” Fifth Biennial Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature, Nashville, April 11, 2003.

• “An Orthographic Interpretation of the First 18 Lines of the Prologue to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.”  Dakotas Conference on Early British Literature.  Spearfish, SD, 2001.

• "Disney Writes the Land: The Americanization of the Fairy Tale in Disney Animation."  International Conference on Comparative Children's Literature, Worcester, England, June16, 1999.

• "Toward a Theory of Historical Fiction for Children." Third Biennial Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children's Literature, Nashville, March 25, 1999.

• "Disney's Appropriation of the Twain Canon." Second Biennial Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children's Literature, Nashville, April 10, 1997

• "Disney's Pocahontas: Folklore, History, and the Culture Industry." Great Plains Popular Culture/American Culture Regional Conference, Sioux City, IA, October 12, 1995

• "PTV: The Poetry Video Project." Wyoming Conference on English, Laramie, WY, June 20, 1995

• "Bambi and the Hunting Ethos." Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Pittsburgh, October 8, 1994

• "Home's Douglas as Patriotic Mythopoiesis." Dakotas Conference on Earlier British Literature, Madison, SD, April 29, 1994

• "Teaching in the Country of the Blind: On a First Attempt at a Postcolonial Survey." Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, November 5, 1993

• "Making Old Boys and New Women: Gendering in Children's Literature, 1890-1920." Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, November 5, 1992

• "Stone Walls, Iron Bars and Political Philosophy." Dakotas Conference on Earlier British Literature, Aberdeen, SD, October 16, 1992

• "Moral Simplification in Disney's The Little Mermaid." Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 29, 1991

• "Escaping the Past in Tess of the d'Urbervilles." Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, November 16, 1991

• "Objective/Subjective: An Essay on Journalism and Literature." National Conference on Journalism and the Humanities, Aberdeen, SD, June 14, 1991

• "The Borrowers and the Decline of Empire: A Suggestive Reading." Midwest Modern Language Association, Kansas City, November 3, 1990

• "Fairy Tale as Heuristic Device in Middlemarch." Midlands Conference on Language and Literature, Blair, NE, April 27, 1990

• "Introductory Literature Students as Teachers in a Drama Unit." Northwest Regional Conference, National Council of Teachers of English, Billings, MT, April 6, 1990

• "Where Ideas Come From: The Computer and Collaborative Learning about Literature." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Seattle, March 17, 1989

• "Charlotte Brontë's Strategy of (Non)Containment." International Conference on Narrative Literature, Columbus, OH, April 9, 1988

• "Social Myth and Fictional Reality: The Rejection of Fairy-Tale Thinking in the Mid-Victorian Novel." International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, March 19, 1988

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