Correction to issue 95/96.The following was inadvertently left out of the "About the Contributors" section of our previous issue. Our apologies to Dr. Fife, who contributed the article "Wise Warriors in Tolkien, Lewis, and Rowling." ERNELLE FIFE received an MS in Cellular Immunology from Northwestern University Northwestern University, mainly at Evanston, Ill.; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1855 by Methodists. In 1873 it absorbed Evanston College for Ladies. before attending Georgia State University History Georgia State University was founded in 1913 as the Georgia School of Technology's "School of Commerce." The school focused on what was called "the new science of business. in Atlanta, where she received her MA and PhD in English literature. Her dissertation is a rhetorical analysis of 18th-century illness narratives, and she continues research in the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of Narrative Medicine. Her article "Gender and Professionalism in 18th-century Midwifery midwifery (mĭd`wī'fərē), art of assisting at childbirth. The term midwife for centuries referred to a woman who was an overseer during the process of delivery. In ancient Greece and Rome, these women had some formal training. " was in a recent issue of the British journal Women's Writing, and "A Narratological Analysis of Healers in Nineteenth-Century American Popular Literature" appeared in Proceedings of the 37th International Congress on the History of Medicine. Dr. Fife has also presented numerous papers in medicine and literature and in children's literature, particularly in the fantasies written by C. S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, and J. K. Rowling Joanne "Jo" Murray née Rowling OBE (born 31 July 1965),[2] who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling,[3] is an English writer and author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. . Dr. Fife's article "Reading J. K. Rowling Magically: Creating C. S. Lewis's 'Good Reader'" appeared in the recent Harry Potter, Academically Speaking: A Collection of Critical and Pedagogical ped·a·gog·ic also ped·a·gog·i·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of pedagogy. 2. Characterized by pedantic formality: a haughty, pedagogic manner. Essays, edited by Cynthia Hallett and published by Edwin Mellen. She has also created a course in Juvenile Fantasy Literature and in C. S. Lewis. |
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