Alida Allison, Professor

Office: AL-257
Phone: (619) 594-5443
e-mail: allison@mail.sdsu.edu

Publications:

• From My Land to Yours: Chinese Nursery Rhymes, English-language editor
  
• The Grad Student's Guide to Getting Published, Simon and Schuster
  
• Isaac Bashevis Singer: Children's Stories and Childhood Memoirs
  
• Russell Hoban: Forty Years: Essays on His Writing for Children

Current Research:

• "A Few Words on the Neuroscience of Dreaming," ChLA conference, Manhattan Beach CA, 2006
  
• "Fantasy and Fantasizing: An Interdisciplinary Look at What Children's Minds Are up to," Keynote Speech, Children's Literature Association of India, Kerala, India, 2007
  
• "Fantasy and Fantasizing: An Interdisciplinary Look at What Children's Minds AREN'T up to," MLA, Chicago, 2007
  
• "The Freudian Complex, or, Why Do Children's Literature Scholars Love Freud?" Keynote Speech, Children's Literature Association of India, Tamil Nadu, India, 2008
• Manuscript and Metaphor: Translating I.B. Singer's Children's Stories, in Grace Farrell, ed. Critical Essays on I.B. Singer, Boston: G.K. Hall
• Russell Hoban: Major Works
• The Toddler's Potty Book, new board book and bilingual board book editions, NY; Putnam, 2003

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