I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1978 with a B.A. degree in Film Studies, and received my Ph.D. in 1992 from the English Department at Florida State University, where I specialized in children's literature and women writers before 1900.   I am currently an assistant professor at San José State University, where I teach classes in Victorian literature and culture, children's literature, young adult literature and women's studies.  I have edited a collection of imitations, revisions and parodies of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass called Alternative Alices: Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll's "Alice" Books, which was published by University Press of Kentucky in September 1997. My research interests include children's literature,Victorian Studies, feminist theory, and popular culture.  I have recentlly published an essay on biographies of Lewis Carroll, and am completing a book on the cultural influences of Carroll's Alicebooks.