J.D. STAHL
J. D. Stahl is Professor of English at Virginia Tech.  He is co-editor, with Elizabeth Lennox Keyser and Tina L. Hanlon, of Crosscurrents of Children’s Literature: An Anthology of Texts and Criticism (Oxford UP, 2007), and the author of Mark Twain, Culture and Gender (U of Georgia P, 1994).  Born in Pennsylvania, he grew up in Luxemburg and Germany, always attending local schools.  He teaches children’s literature, literature and film, and world literature in English, with a particular interest in cross-cultural representations and perceptions.  He is an adjunct professor in the summer M.A. Program in Children’s Literature at Hollins University.  He has served as president of the Children’s Literature Association and has co-organized international conferences on children’s literature at Princeton University and in Roanoke, Virginia.