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Lorinda Cohoon

Lorinda Cohoon

Associate Professor

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lcohoon@memphis.edu
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Patterson 110
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Education

B.A., 1992, West Chester University
M.A., 1994, Simmons College
Ph.D., 2001, University of Southern Mississippi

Academic Summary

Dr. Cohoon's specialty is children's literature, with a research focus on nineteenth century U.S. children's literature. Her related research and teaching interests include periodical literature, boyhood and girlhood, literature and the law, domestic fiction, and women and literature.

Select Publications

  • "'A Woman's Serious Foot': Feet and Shoes in Delta Wedding, 'Asphodel,' and 'The Winds.' Eudora Welty Review 3 (Spring 2011): 33-49.
  • "Doughnuts and Gingerbread, Apples and Pears: Boyhood Food Economies in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals for Children." In Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Eds. Monika Elbert and Marie Drews. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 125-138.
  • "'Unmoveable Relics': The Farr Family and Revisions of Position, Direction, and Movement in Eudora Welty's 'Clytie.'" Eudora Welty Review 1 (Spring 2009): 47-52. Invited reprint for inaugural issue.
  • "A highly satisfactory Chinaman': Orientalism and American Girlhood in Louisa May Alcott's Eight Cousins." Children's Literature: An Annual 36 (2008): 49-71.
  • "'A Just, a Useful Part': Lydia Huntley Sigourney and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Contributions to The Youth's Companion." Enterprising Youth: Social Values and the Project of Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century American Children's Literature. Ed. Monika Elbert. NY: Routledge Press, 2008. 3-17.
  • "Transgressive Transformations: Representations of Maid Marian in Robin Hood Retellings." Lion and the Unicorn 31.3 (Fall 2007): 209-231.
  • "The Hero's Journey in Collodi's Pinocchio." Co-authored with Jacqueline L. Gmuca. Approaches to Teaching Collodi's Pinocchio and Its Adaptations. Ed. Michael Sherberg. NY: MLA. 2006. 63-67.
  • "Festive Citizenships: Representations of Independence Celebrations in Children's Periodicals and Series Books of the 1840s and 1850s." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 31.2 (Summer 2006): 132-53.
  • Serialized Citizenships: Periodicals, Books, and American Boys, 1840-1911. Lanham,MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006.
  • "Pirate Parenting in Margaret Mahy's Middle-Grade Readers." Marvellous Codes: The Fiction of Margaret Mahy. Eds. Elizabeth Hale and Sarah Fiona Winters. Victoria: Victoria UP, 2006. 84-109.