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Blog Creator & Editor
Tanja Nathanael
Tanja Nathanael currently teaches Children’s Literature and Fantasy & Science Fiction Literature online for San Jose State University. An alumni of SJSU, she earned her Bachelor's in 2005 and Master's in 2010. She received her doctorate from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2019. Her study of global children’s literature has taken her to Iceland, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Poland, Sweden, England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. She formerly served on the international committee for the Children's Literature Association (2015-2018) and continues to support its goals as co-editor of the ChLA Global Committee Blog to encourage interest in global children’s literature. She co-edited Global Children’s Literature in the College Classroom (2023) with Dr. Sara Austin (Kentucky Wesleyan College) and is a managing editor for Climate Literature in Education at ClimateLit.org. Her research examines borders and peripheries in children’s literature, climate literature, fantasy & science fiction literature, and nineteenth-century British literature.
Blog Creator & Editor
Olivia Bushardt
Olivia Bushardt serves as co-editor of the ChLA Global Committee’s blog and has presented her research at global children's literature conferences including the Children’s Literature Association and The Child and the Book Conference in Croatia. Working on the blog has enabled her to create connections with children’s literature scholars, authors, illustrators, and teachers around the world. We are always looking for more stories, and if you would like to contribute to the blog, please email us your ideas chlainternational@gmail.com.