	CURRICULUM VITAE: JERRY GRISWOLD Note: This is an abbreviated c.v. If for some reason you need a complete version, please email your request.
Office Address	Dept. of English & Comp Lit. San Diego State University. San Diego, CA 92182. U.S. Tel (messages) +619-594-5307; fax: 619-594-4998. Email: jgriswol@mail.sdsu.edu
Areas of Teaching Interest	American Literature & Culture Studies, Children's Literature, Folklore, and Postcolonial Irish Literature & Film.
Education	Ph.D. (English), University of Connecticut
Employment	Professor, San Diego State University. Senior Fulbright Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway. Visiting Professor, University of California, San Diego. Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles.

BOOKS	Amazon Profile
	Feeling Like a Kid: Childhood and Children's Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press, Fall 2006). From Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter, this book examines classic and popular works for children and and identifies themes and childhood sensations conspicuous in the genre (Snugness, Scariness, Smallness, Lightness, and Aliveness).
	The Meanings of "Beauty and the Beast" (Broadview Press, 2004). Using Beaumont’s classic tale as a touchstone, this work explores the manifold meanings of "Beauty and the Beast" in terms of its sources, related tales, contemporary retellings, critical interpretations, illustrations, and film versions. Finalist for Mythopoeic Society Scholarship Award (2005, 2006, and 2007).
	The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (New York: Signet Books, 2000). New edition based on original text, with Introduction and Bibliography.
	Is History Real? A Multimedia Meditation on "Sleeping Beauty" (Campanile Press, 2000). An hour-long, multimedia CD-ROM that employs the methods of cognitive science to explain how children are acculturated and taught to believe in history. Perrault's "Sleeping Beauty" is examined as an example of this process of acculturation.
	The Prince and the Pauper , by Mark Twain. Penguin Books, December 1997. Completely new edition of text created from U.S., Canadian and British first editions; Introduction, and other materials. As an E-Book.
	Audacious Kids: Coming of Age in America's Classic Children's Books . Oxford University Press (New York, 1992). Ie-naki-ko no Monogatari (Japanese translation/edition); A Un Sha (Kyoto, 1995). The Classic American Children's Story: Novels of the Golden Age (revised paperback edition. Viking/Penguin Books (New York, 1996). The work examines changing American attitudes towards the child through investigations of famous juvenile characters in childhood classics of the "Golden Age" (1865-1914): The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Little Lord Fauntleroy , The Secret Garden, The Prince and the Pauper, Tarzan of the Apes, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Toby Tyler, Little Women , Pollyanna, and Hans Brinker. "Outstanding Book of the Year Award": Children's Literature Association (1995). Review by Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times.
	The Children's Books of Randall Jarrell . Introduction by Mary Jarrell. Pictures by Garth Williams and Maurice Sendak. University of Georgia Press, 1988. The work appraises the themes and illustrations that appeared in Jarrell's four children's books: The Gingerbread Rabbit, The Bat-Poet , Fly by Night, and The Animal Family. Children's Literature Assoc. Book Award finalist.

SELECTED ESSAYS & REVIEWS (from several hundred)
	"The Mother of All Rhymes" [Mother Goose books] New York Times Book Review (11 Nov 2007).
	*Roddy Doyle's "Wilderness," New York Times Book Review* (16 Sept 2007).**
	*"Reviving the Love of Poetry." Rev. of Camille Paglia's Break, Blow Burn. Los Angeles Times* (11 June 2005).**
	*"A World Without Soup." Rev. of Kate Dicamillo’s The Tale of Despereaux. New York Times Book Review* (16 Nov. 2003), 47.**
	*"The Original Ugly Duckling" [rev. of Jens Andersen's Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life]. Los Angeles Times Book Review, (3 Apr. 2005), R9.*
	*"Burdening Kids With Innocence," Los Angeles Times* (28 Aug. 2002), B13. [on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and recent cases of child abduction]**
	*"Fee Fi Ho Hum" [on the fortunes of scariness in children’s stories], Los Angeles Times* (28 October 2002), B11.**
	*“Can Little Mary Learn if Teacher’s in the Dark?” Los Angeles Times* (27 October 2003), B11. [on teacher education programs]**
	*"The News from Elsewhere." Rev. of Antarctica, by Clare Keegan. Los Angeles Times Book Review, (8 Jul. 2001), 10.*
	"Chasing Irish Ancestors" SDSU Universe (17 March 2003).

Selected Awards and Honors	Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies
	Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities
Selected Positions	Director of National Center for Study of Children’s Literature
	Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Institute ("Children's Literature & Literary Criticism") for lead California K-8 educators
Selected Profiles & Interviews	Conversation about Pollyanna with Lianne Hansen, "Weekend Sunday," National Public Radio (Jan. 27, 2008); for audio file, click here.
Selected Seminars & Lectures	*April 2007: American Comparative Literature Assoc., Puebla (Mexico)*
	*June 2003: Doctoral seminar, University of Leon (Spain)*
	*August 2002: International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, São Paolo (Brazil)*
	*March 2001: keynote, American Studies Institute, Seoul National University (Korea)*
	*July 2000: Travel Literature Studies, University of Brest (France* )**
	*May 2000: Åbo Akademi University (Finland)*
	*May 2000: Children's Books of Ireland, Dublin (Ireland)*

Columns for Parents' Choice		*Parents' Choice* (Feb 2008) "Discovering Michael Sowa"	Philip Pullman, Nicole Kidman, and "The Golden Compass"	Nursery Rhymes
How Picture Books Work	Origami: A Day with Robert Lang	Fantasylands	Aesop	Latino/a Books About Immigration
Moveable Feasts (Pop-Up Books)	International Children's Films 2007	Whale Watching	Pirates & Pretending	Mary Poppins on Broadway
Bears	The Pop Y.A. Novel	An Interview with Juan Felipe Herrera	April's Fools	Ireland & Irish Children's Stories
Island Dreams	Busing & Flying (Two Recent African-American Storybooks)	In Praise of the Grinch	Living Toys	Monsters at Halloween
Back to School	Storybook Travel	Mothers in Children's Books	Books for Gardening with Children	Hans Christian Andersen
Variable Winds in the Willows (illustrated editions)	The Wind in the Willows (the DVD)	Jules Verne	Patriotic Biographies