Terri Doughty – Research Profile
I have delivered conference papers and published on nineteenth-century girl culture, the New Woman, women in nineteenth-century journalism, children’s literature, fantasy literature, and literary fairy tales. Past publications include Selections from the Girl’s Own Paper 1880-1907 (Broadview 2004) and Knowing Their Place? Identity and Space in Children’s Literature (Cambridge Scholars 2011), co-edited with Dawn Thompson.
Recent Publications:
Children’s Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: Multidisciplinary Entanglements, co-edited with Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Janet Grafton. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
"Gumnuts, Plant-Human Hybridity, and the Issue of Belonging." Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Edited by Melanie Duckworth, and Annika Herb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 131-148.
"A Relational Poetics of Plant–Human Interactions: Contrasting the Picture Books of Cicely Mary Barker and Elsa Beskow." Plants in Children's and Young Adult Literature, edited by Melanie Ruth Duckworth and Lykke Harmony Alara Guanio-Uluru. Routledge, 2021, pp. 19-30.
“From Juxtaposition to Interweave: Intergenerational Collaboration in the Works of Brian Selznick.” Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film, edited by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Zoe Jaques. University Press of Mississippi, 2021, pp. 58-69.
Current Projects:
I am continuing work on plant-human hybrids in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century illustrated books for children, working within a Critical Plant Studies framework. I also continue to work as an editor for Climate.Lit.org.
I am happy to respond to questions about my areas of interest and can be reached at Terri.Doughty@viu.ca.