Dr. Ellen Donovan
Professor
Member, Graduate Faculty
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B.A., 1978; M.A., 1980, Portland State University; Ph.D., 1988, University of Wisconsin, Madison. (1990) |
Office: PH 337; Phone/Voice Mail: 898-2649
Dr. Donovan teaches courses in children's and adolescent literature. She co-edits Border States , the journal of the Kentucky-Tennessee American Studies Association, and she is the co-founder and co-director (with Drs. Hixon and Marchant) of the biennial Modern Critical Approaches to Children's Literature conference hosted by MTSU. Dr. Donovan is currently working on a project on how circuses are portrayed in 19 th century children's literature and the ways in which children's literature of the 1920s depicts immigrants and foreigners.
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