Dr. Julie Pond

Educational Background:

• Ph.D. Illinois State University (2012)
• M.A. Georgia State University (2008)
• B.A. University of Georgia (2004)

Selected Courses Taught:

• Foundations in Children’s Literature
• Adolescent Literature
• Early American Literature
• Late American Literature
• Southern Literature
• The Storytelling of Disney, Honors Seminar
• Literature for Young Readers
• Literature for Middle Grades
• Composition I
• Composition II

Selected Publications:

• “No One Likes to Feel Like an Adolescent: Genre Resistance in Harper Lee’s Novels.”
  Mississippi Quarterly 70/71.1 (2019).
• “Treading Water: Considering Adolescent Characters in Moratorium.”
  Children’s Literature in Education 49.2 (2018): 87-100.
• “’The earth which had bred his bones’: Narrative Representations of Southern Identity.”
  Southern Studies 22.1 (2015): 72-99. Print.
• “The Rub between Fact and Fiction: Ideology in Lois Lenski’s Regional Maps.” Children’s Literature in Education 42.1 (2011): 44-55. Print.
• “A Story of the Exceptional: Fate and Free Will in the Harry Potter”
  Children’s Literature 38.1 (2010): 181-206. Print.

Selected Academic Appointments:

• Associate Professor, English Department
  Shorter University, Rome, Georgia. April 2021-present.
• Assistant Professor, English Department
  Shorter University, Rome, Georgia. August 2013-April 2021.
• Postdoctoral position, English Department
  Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois. January 2013-May 2013.
• Instructor, English Department
  Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois. August 2008-December 2012.
• Instructor, English Department
  Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. August 2007-May 2008.
• Internship with South Atlantic Modern Language Association

Selected Conference Presentations:

• “A Cultural Opportunity for Children: Margaret Wise Brown’s Picture Books.” Presenter. Children’s Literature Association Annual Conference. Indianapolis, Indiana, June 1-15, 2019. Session 12A.
• “The Timeless Book: The Past, Present, and Future of Margaret Wise Brown.” Presenter. Children’s Literature Association Annual Conference. Tampa, Florida, June 22-24, 2017. Session 7D.
• “No One Likes to Feel Like an Adolescent: Genre Resistance in Harper Lee’s Novels.” Presenter and Moderator. Children’s Literature Association Annual Conference. Columbus, Ohio, June 9-11, 2016. Session 16A.
• “The All-White World of Contemporary Southern Adolescent Fiction.” Presenter. Children’s Literature Association Annual Conference. Columbia, South Carolina, June 18-21, 2014. Session 6G.
• “Regional Identities Advertised through Adolescent Literature.” Presenter. Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference. Chicago, Illinois, May 22-26, 2013.
• “Moratorium and Morality: The Adolescent Character’s Search for Identity.” Presenter. Ethics and Children’s Literature Symposium. Greencastle, Indiana, September 13-16, 2012. Session 8.
• “Horatio Alger’s Slumdog Millionaire: American Capitalism and Nationalism Abroad.” Presenter. Children’s Literature Association 39^thAnnual Conference. Boston, Massachusetts, June 14-16, 2012. Session 12.4.
• “Reading the South: Teaching Adolescents to Identify with Regional Land.” Presenter. 127^th Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Seattle, Washington, January 5-8, 2012. Session 681.