Eric Tribunella
Professor
Bio
Eric L. Tribunella's most recent book, The Young Uranians: Male Homosexuality in Children's Literature, 1867-1918, is now available from Routledge's "Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present" series (2023, paperback 2024).
He is also the co-author of Reading Young Adult Literature: A Critical Introduction (2024) and Reading Children's Literature: A Critical Introduction (2013 & 2019), co-editor of A de Grummond Primer: Highlights of the Children's Literature Collection (2021), and author of Melancholia and Maturation: The Use of Trauma in American Children's Literature (2010).
His article "Between Boys: Edward Stevenson's Left to Themselves (1891) and the Birth of Gay Children's Literature" received the Children's Literature Association Article Award in 2014. His essay on sexuality in children's and young adult literature appeared in the Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature (2014). He also edited an edition of Edward Prime-Stevenson's 1891 novel Left to Themselves (2016).
- PHD - CUNY Graduate School and University Center (2005)
- MA - University of Florida (2000)
- BS - University of Florida (1998)
- BA - University of Florida (1997)
Introduction to Children鈥檚 and Young Adult Literature
Introduction to Young Adult Literature
The Golden Age of Children鈥檚 Literature
The Early History of Children's Literature to 1865
British Children's Literature
The Junior Novel
Lesbian and Gay Literature
New York City in American Literature
Literary Theory and Criticism
The American South in Literature for and about Children
Trauma and Children鈥檚 Literature
Children鈥檚 Picture Books
- Melancholia and Maturation: The Use of Trauma in American Children鈥檚 Literature, 2010
- Left to Themselves: Being the Ordeal of Philip and Gerald (1891, 2016
- Reading Children's Literature: A Critical Introduction, Second Edition, 2019
- The Children's Literature Association