Simon Fraser University
Elizabeth Marshall

Elizabeth Marshall Faculty Photo

Assistant Professor

 

Research Interests: Children's and young adult literature, girls' studies, critical literacy, feminist and literary theories, and popular culture. Marshall's research on the representation of girls and girlhoods in children's and young adult literature, popular culture, and women's memoir has been published in Gender and Education, The Alan Review, Reading Research Quarterly, The Lion and the Unicorn, College English, and Children's Literature Quarterly.

 

Email: beth_marshall@sfu.ca

 

2001 Ph.D. (Education) The Ohio State University
1992 M.A. (Education) The Evergreen State College
1990 B.A. (English/Political Science) The Evergreen State College

Publications

 

 

Refereed Articles

Marshall, E. & Sensoy, Ö. (Forthcoming, 2009). The same old hocus-

pocus: Pedagogies of gender and sexuality in Shrek 2. Discourse: The

Cultural Politics of Education, 30, 2.

 

Marshall, E. (2007).  “Schooling Ophelia: Hysteria, memory and feminine adolescence.” Gender and Education 19, 6, 707-728.

 

Rogers, T., E. Marshall & C. Tyson. (2006). “Dialogic narratives of literacy, teaching, and schooling: Preparing literacy teachers for diverse settings.” Reading Research Quarterly, 41, 2, 202-223.

 

Marshall, E. (2006). “Borderline girlhoods: Mental illness, adolescence, and femininity in Girl, Interrupted.” The Lion and The Unicorn, 30, 1, 117-133. (Download PDF version; 128KB)

 

Marshall, E. & T. Rogers. (2005). “Writing back: Rereading adolescent girlhoods through women’s memoir.” The Alan Review, 33, 1, 17-22.

 

Marshall, E. (2004).  “Stripping for the wolf: Rethinking representations of gender and sexuality in children’s literature.” Reading Research Quarterly, 39, 3, 256-270.

 

Marshall, E. (2004). “The daughter’s disenchantment: Incest as pedagogy in fairy tales and Kathryn Harrison’s The Kiss.” College English, 66, 4, 395-418. Copyright 2004 by the National Council of Teachers of English. Used with permission. (Download PDF version; 2.8MB)

 

Marshall, E. (2002).  “Red, white, and Drew: The All-American girl and the case of gendered childhood.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, 27, 4, 203-211.

 

Rogers, T., C. Tyson, C., & E. Marshall (2000).  “Living dialogues in one neighborhood: Moving toward understanding across discourses and practices of literacy and schooling.” Journal of Literacy Research, 32, 1-24.

 

 

Chapters in Books

Marshall, E. (2007). “ ‘The random brushing of birds’: Representations of African American women in biographies for children and young adults. In McNair, J. and W. Brooks (Eds.). Embracing, Evaluating and Examining African American Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.

 

 

Review Articles

The following publications are the result of a two-year (1998-2000) position as a co-editor of The New Advocate’s quarterly book review column, “Connecting Children with Literature in Classrooms and Communities.”

 

Marshall, E., Rogers, T., Tyson, C. & Enciso, P. (2000). “Navigating the elusive boundaries of children’s literature.” New Advocate, 13, 4, 397-408.

 

Enciso, Pat., Jenkins, C., Rogers, T. Tyson, C. & Marshall, E. (2000).  “Historical facts and fictions: Representing and reading diverse perspectives on the past.”  New Advocate, 13, 3, 279-96.

 

Tyson, C., Enciso, P., Marshall, E., Rogers, T. & Jenkins, C. (2000).  “Moving forward—looking back: Re-reading the world of children’s literature.”  New Advocate, 13, 2, 177-90.

 

Rogers, T., Tyson, C. Enciso, P., Marshall, E. & Jenkins, C. (2000). “Technology, media and the book: Blurring genres and expanding the reach of children’s literature.” New Advocate, 13, 1, 79-90.

 

Marshall, E., Rogers, T., Tyson, C., Enciso, P. & Jenkins, C. (1999).  “Reading narratives of childhood: The worlds we create for young readers.” New Advocate, 12, 4, 383-93.

 

Enciso, P., Rogers, T., Marshall, E., Jenkins, C. (1999). “Gender Representations: Reaching beyond the limits we make.” New Advocate, 12, 3, 285-97.

 

Enciso, P. Rogers, T., Marshall, E., Jenkins, C., Tyson, C. (1999).  “Social justice and social action in everyday worlds: Literature bridging history, hope, and action.” New Advocate, 12, 2, 191-207.

 

Enciso, P., Rogers, T. Marshall, E. & Jenkins, C. (1999).  “Reading the word and the world within a literature curriculum.” Enciso, P., Rogers, T., Marshall, E. & Jenkins, C. New Advocate, 12, 1, 89-103. 

 

 

Monographs, Reports, and Extension Publications

Bertelson, C., S. Epling, I. Larison, E. Marshall, & M. Melragon. Cultural Mosaics: An annotated bibliography of multicultural resources for the K-12 classroom.  Columbus, OH: M.L. King Center Educational Reports, 1997.

 

 

Book Reviews, Other Articles, Notes

Marshall, E. (Invited, 2007). Review of American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture by Ilana Nash. H-Childhood, H-Net Reviews, URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=325761195414382.

 

Marshall, E. (Invited, 2007). “Girls and Fairy Tales.” In Mitchell, C. & J. Reid-Walsh (Eds.). Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

 

Marshall, E. (Invited, 2007). “Coming-of-age Memoirs.” In Mitchell, C. & J. Reid-Walsh (Eds.). Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

 

Marshall, E. (Invited, 2007) N“Girls and romance texts.” In Mitchell, C. & J. Reid-Walsh (Eds.). Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.


Marshall, E. (Invited, 2006). “Girl.” In Zipes, J.  (Ed.). Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. New York: Oxford University Press.


Marshall, E. (Invited, 2006). “Janet Hickman.” In Zipes, J. (Ed.). Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Marshall, E. (Invited, 2004). Review of Getting ready for Benjamin: Preparing teachers for sexual diversity in the classroom. Edited by Rita M. Kissen. Theory into Practice, 43, 2, 160-162.

 

Marshall, E.  (2003).  Review of The birth of pleasure by Carol Gilligan. The Lion and The Unicorn, 27, 2, 288-292.

 

Marshall, E. (1999). Review of Sometimes I can be anything: Power, gender and identity in a primary classroom by Karen Gallas. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 14, 579-582. 

 

 

 

Public Presentations/Conferences

 

Invited Talks

“Sex, violence and ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’ Critical Literacy and Children’s Literature Symposium, American University, Washington DC, December 2005.

 

“Red, white, and Drew: The case of the all-American girl.” Nancy Drew and Friends: The World of Girl’s Series Books Symposium, University of Maryland, College Park, October 2005.

 

“Fairy tale girlhoods in Emma Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch.” Women’s Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, April 2005.

 

“Runaway daughters: Incest as pedagogy in fairy tales and Kathryn Harrison’s The Kiss.” Women’s Studies Forum. College Park, MD, May 2004.

 

“Re-reading fairy tales: Poststructural feminist theory as critical literacy practice.” Critical Literacy Symposium, American University, Washington DC, April 2004.

 

 

Refereed Conferences

 

“Re-envisioning girlhood: Young women, femininities and American Girl.” Children’s Literature Association conference. Normal, IL, June, 2008.

 

“Disputed Boundaries: The figure of the girl in women’s autobiography.” With Leigh Gilmore. Candian Women’s Studies Association/ /l’association canadienne des etudes sur les femmes. Vancouver, BC., May 2008.

“It’s better than Barbie: Resistance, femininities and American Girl.” American Educational Association, New York, New York, March, 2008.

 

“Girlhood, disrupted: Reading women’s memoir as young adult literature.” American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, April, 2007.

 

“Surviving Ophelia: Hysterical schoolgirls, memory and adolescent femininity.” American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, April, 2007.

 

“Diagnosing girlhood: Representations of madness and femininity in young adult fiction. Critical Perspectives on Children’s Literature, Nashville, TN, April 2007.

 

“Ophelia, interrupted: Reading women’s memoir as young adult literature.” National Reading Conference, Miami, Florida, December 2005.

 

“Making race visible in young adult fiction.” Respondent, National Council of Teachers of English, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2005.

 

“’Maybe I’ve read too many fairy tales’: Sexuality, violence and adolescent girlhood in Francesca Lia Block’s ‘Wolf.’” American Educational Research Association, Montréal, Canada 2005.

 

“Reading girlhoods: Feminist poststructural literary theory as critical literacy practice.” National Reading Conference, San Antonio, Texas, December 2004.

 

“Transforming fairy tales: Representations of adolescent girlhood in Francesca Lia Block’s Wolf.” International Literacy and Education Research Network Conference on Learning, Havana Cuba, June 2004.

 

“‘Maybe I’ve read too many fairy tales: Rethinking adolescent girlhood in Francesca Lia Block’s ‘Wolf.’” Children’s Literature Association Conference, Fresno, Ca, June 2004.

 

“Red, white and Drew: The case of gendered childhood.” National Reading Conference. Phoenix, AZ, Dec. 2003.

 

“Citizen Drew: Nancy Drew and the case of the All-American girl.” Critical Perspectives on Children’s Literature Conference.  Nashville, TN, April, 2003.

 

“Mourning Ophelia: Adult women’s representations of adolescent girlhood.” Modern Language Association Conference, New York, NY, December 2002.

             

“Incestuous Lessons: The daughter’s education in Charlotte Huck’s Princess Furball, Francesca Lia Block’s The Rose and The Beast, and Emma Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch.”  Children’s Literature Association Conference, Wilkes-Barre, PA, June, 2002.

 

"The daughter's disenchantment: Incest as pedagogy in fairy tale and women's memoir." Modern Critical Approaches to Children's Literature, Nashville, TN, April, 2001.

 

“Historical representations of girls and women in children's fiction.” The Ohio State University's Children's Literature Conference, Columbus, OH, February, 2000.  Presented with Theresa Rogers and Cynthia Tyson.

 

“A study of 'storying' in the context of a family literacy project.” The NCTE annual convention, Denver, CO, November, 1999.  Presented with Theresa Rogers.

 

“Multiple approaches to community-based literacy programs.” The NCTE spring convention, Cincinnati, Ohio, March, 1999.  Presented with Theresa Rogers and Cynthia Tyson.

 

 

 

Leadership, Faculty Service, Community Service
Department
2003-2005 Graduate Research Education Committee, University of Maryland
   
   
College
2005-2006 College Master’s Committee, University of Maryland
2003-2004 Dean’s Strategic Focus Committee, University of Maryland
2001-2003 Faculty, Bladensburg Project. Co-developed and taught reading course for teachers at Templeton and Rogers Heights elementary schools
   
   
University
2006-2007 Senate Representative, University of Maryland
2004-2007 Member, Library Science Advisory Board, University of Maryland
   
   

Scholarly Community

Offices and Committee Memberships

2003-2004 International Reading Association Subcommittee on Research Publications
   
   
Editorships, Editorial Boards, and Reviewing Activities Journals
2006-Present Editorial Board Member, Language Arts
2006 Guest reviewer, Canadian Journal of Education
2004 Guest reviewer, The Lion and the Unicorn
2002 Guest reviewer, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly
2002 Guest reviewer, Feminist Studies
2001 Guest reviewer, Research in the Teaching of English
   
   
Professional Organizations
2005

Proposal reviewer, American Educational Research Association

Literature SIG

Research on Women in Education SIG

2005

Proposal reviewer, National Reading Conference

Adolescent Literacy

Literacy and Diversity

2004

Proposal reviewer, American Educational Research Association

Literature SIG

2002

Proposal reviewer, American Educational Research Association

Research on Women in Education SIG

   
   
Teaching and Professional Positions
09/07-Present Faculty, Education, Simon Fraser University
09/02-08/07 Faculty, Reading Education, The University of Maryland
09/01-06/02 Visiting Faculty, The University of Maryland
09/00-01/01 Graduate Assistantship, The Ohio State University
09/99-08/00 Research Assistant, The Ohio State University
08/99-12/99 Adjunct Faculty, Ohio Dominican College
09/97-06/98 Trainer/Supervisor, OSU AmeriCorps for Literacy and Math
09/96-06/97 Teaching Assistant, L.E.A.D.S., The Ohio State University
09/92-06/96 Public School Teacher (K-3), Ardmore Elementary
   
   

Research Grants

 

Co-author. Improvement of Instruction Grant, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland. Project Title: “Studying girlhoods: Intersections of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality in literary and material cultures.” (3,000.00).

 

 

 

Awards, Honours, Scholarships, Fellowships

  • Curriculum and Instruction Nominee for the College of Education Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Maryland, 2006

     

  • Elizabeth Gee Dissertation Completion Award in Women's Studies, 2000

     

  • Presidential Fellowship Nominee from The College of Education, 2000

     

  • School of Teaching and Learning Graduate Associate Research Award, 2000

     

  • Martha King Scholarship, 1999

     

  • AERA/Spencer Pre-Dissertation Research Fellow, Jul 98 – Aug 99

     

  • Emerson S. and Lucy J. Zuck Scholarship, 1998

 

 

 

Graduate Student Supervision

 

Simon Fraser University

  • New faculty as of September 2007

 

University of Maryland

  • 3 doctoral students (advisor); 12 doctoral students (committee member)             
  • 3 Master’s students (advisor): 1 master’s student (committee member)

 

 

 

 

Last Updated November 25, 2008 FOE