Miranda Green-Barteet
Associate Professor
MA, PhD
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies & English and Writing Studies
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext 84661
mgreenb6@uwo.ca
Prof. Green-Barteet is joint-appointed in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and English and Writing Studies. She teaches courses in girlhood studies, gender studies, US literature, and young adult literature. She has recently designed courses titled “The Feminist Romance Novel” and “Banned and Challenged Literature.”
Research
She has two primary research areas: 19th-century U.S. literature written by women and contemporary young adult literature. She is most interested in the ways in which women and girls resist and transgress societal and familial expectations. She has published on Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Sarah Pogson, and Laura Ingalls Wilder as well as young adult dystopian fiction.
Along with Prof. Alyssa MacLean, she is co-investigator on The Black Londoners Project, a digital humanities project that recovers the histories of formerly enslaved individuals who fled the US and settled in London, Canada West in the mid-nineteenth century. The Black Londoners is a SSHRC funded project.
Books
Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction, edited by Green-Barteet and Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, University Press of Mississippi, 2021. *Received the Best Edited Collection Award, Children’s Literature Association, 2023
Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond, edited by Green-Barteet and Anne K. Phillips, University Press of Mississippi, 2019.
Female Rebellion in Young Adulted Dystopian Fiction, edited by Green-Barteet, Sara K. Day, and Amy L. Montz, Ashgate, 2014.
Recent Publications
Academic Articles
“Persist and Resist: Resistance in Girlhood Studies’ and Girls’ Literature,” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 52, no. 6, 2023, pp: 611-626, co-authored with Amanda K. Allen.
“Nevertheless, She Persisted: Girls, Literature for Girls, and the Politics of Persistence,” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 52, no. 5, 2023, pp: 475-489, co-authored with Amanda K. Allen.
“Non-Normative Bodies, Queer Identities: The Marginalization of Queer Girls in YA Dystopian Literature,” Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 2019, pp: 82-97, co-authored with Jill Coste.
Editing, Journals
“’Nevertheless, she persisted’: Girls, Girls’ Literature, and the Politics of Persistence: Part 1,” Women’s Studies, vol. 52, no. 5, 2023, co-edited with Amanda K. Allen
“’Nevertheless, she persisted’: Girls, Girls’ Literature, and the Politics of Persistence: Part 2,” Women’s Studies, vol. 52, no. 6, 2023, co-edited with Amanda K. Allen.
Chapters in Books
“Censorship,” Children’s Literature and Culture, edited by Rebecca R. Rowe, Invited Contribution, Routledge University Press, 2025, pp. 117-124.
“Non-Normative Girlhood in Young Adult Science Fiction,” Cambridge Companion to Young Adult Literature, edited by Victor Malo-Juvera and Crag A. Hill, Invited Contribution, Forthcoming 2025 with Cambridge University Press.
"Empowering Girls: The Liminal Spaces of Schools in 19th-Century Trans-Atlantic Literature for Girls,” co-authored with Sonya Sawyer Fritz, Containing Childhood: Space and Identity in Children’s Literature, edited by Danielle Russell, under contract with University Press of Mississippi.
“Introduction.” Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction, edited by Green-Barteet and Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, University Press of Mississippi, 2021, pp. 1-16.
"Charlotte Corday's Gendered Terror: Femininity, Violence, and Domestic Peace in Sarah Pogson's The Female Enthusiast." Beyond 1776: Globalizing the Cultures of the American Revolution, edited by Maria O'Malley and Denys Van Renen, University of Virginia Press, 2019, pp. 122-144.
“Introduction.” Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond, edited by Green-Barteet and Anne K. Phillips, University Press of Mississippi, 2019, pp. 3-15. Co-authored with Anne K. Phillips.
Popular Articles
“Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale Casts Canada as a Racial Utopia,” Co-Authored with Alyssa Maclean, The Conversation, Nov. 23, 2021.
Books in Progress
“’She is too fond of books’: Girls who Read in 19th-century Transatlantic Books for Girls,” edited collection, Co-edited with Sonya Sawyer Fritz, in-progress
Articles in Progress
“Benjamin Drew: Abolitionist or Opportunist?,” co-authored with Alyssa MacLean and David Mitteraurer
“’You’re a dear, and nothing else’: Beth, Aging, and Non-normative Girlhood in Little Women”
“Even Katniss Deserves a Childhood: The Adultification of Girls in Young Adult Speculative Fiction”
“Defining Young Adult Speculative Fiction”
