Elizabeth Hale

Assoc. prof. Elizabeth Hale – is Associate Professor of English at the University of New England, Australia, where she teaches children’s literature and fantasy literature. She has published on topics in children’s literature, including edited volumes Marvellous Codes: The Fiction of Margaret Mahy (Victoria University Press, 2005) and Maurice Gee: A Literary Companion. The Fiction for Young Readers (Otago University Press, 2014). She currently leads the Australian wing of the Our Mythical Childhood project, which surveys the reception of Classical Antiquity in global children’s culture. She is also General Editor of the forthcoming six-volume set of Routledge Historical Resources in Children’s Literature, 1789-1914.