Biography
Susan Honeyman edits the “Cultures of Childhood” series at the University Press of Mississippi, which includes Thomas Minehan’s ethnography of Depression-era youth riding the rails, Boy and Girl Tramps of America, and Michael Kugler’s collection of a Nebraska boy’s comics, Into the Jungle: A Boy’s Comic-Strip History of World War II. https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Series/C/Cultures-of-Childhood
Education
- Ph.D. in English, Wayne State University, Detroit. December 2001
- M.A. in English, University of Kansas, Lawrence. September 1993
- Film and Comparative Literature, University of Hull, England. August 1989-July 1990
- B.A. in English, University of Kansas, Lawrence. May 1989
Research Interests
- Childhood Studies
- Youth Literature and Politics
- Cultural Studies
- Folklore
- and Comics
Books
- Perils of Protection: Shipwrecks, Orphans, and Children's Rights. University of Mississippi Press, 2019.
- Child Pain, Migraine and Invisible Disability. Routledge, 2016.
- Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales, Childlore, and Folkliterature. Routledge, 2010.
- Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction. Ohio State University Press, 2005.
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