Sounding ChildhoodMain MenuPart 1: Hymns & Religious SongsPart 2: Songs for School and PlayPart 3: Political Songs (Bands of Mercy Songs)Part 4: Christmas CarolsChristmas Carol choir December 2023Part 5: Folk SongsWorks CitedAbout the Author
12023-06-16T08:23:02-07:00About the Author6plain2023-06-22T17:38:28-07:00Alisa Clapp-Itnyre received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1996. She is now Professor of English at Indiana University East, Richmond, Indiana where she teaches Children's Literature, Young-Adult Literature, and Victorian literature, among others. There, she helped establish (2005) and was Director of the Honors Program (2010-18). Her scholarship explores interdisciplinary music-literature connections in Victorian culture as well as feminist concerns in children’s literature. She is author of Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs: Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel (Ohio UP, 2002) and co-editor, with Julie Melnyk, of "Perplext by Faith:" Essays on Victorian Beliefs and Doubts (Cambridge Scholars, 2015). She has also published in Victorian Poetry, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorians Institute Journal, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, and Children’s Literature and Education, among others.
Her next project is an exploration of children’s diaries of the Victorian and Edwardian English-speaking world, based on research in major archives in the U.K., U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.