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Liberal arts faculty Paige Gray

Paige Gray

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • Ph.D., English, University of Southern Mississippi
  • M.A., English, University of Southern Mississippi
  • M.A., journalism, Columbia College Chicago
  • B.A., English, Indiana University

Credentials

  • Professor of liberal arts, 2018–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
  • Visiting assistant professor, 2016–18, Department of English, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
  • Visiting assistant professor, 2015–16, Department of English and Philosophy, United States Military Academy at West Point, NY

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Honorable Mention for the Research Society for American Periodicals Article Prize, 2016–17
  • Teaching Empowerment Team, Fort Lewis College, 2016
  • Nominee, Graduate Assistant of the Year, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2015
  • Helen Bahr Graduate Research Award, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2013, 2015
  • Lillian Gary Taylor Fellowship in American Literature, The University of Virginia, 2014
  • Nomination for 2014 University of Southern Mississippi Graduate Student Innovation Award, 2013
  • Children's Literature Association Graduate Student Honor Essay Award, 2013
  • James Sims Essay Award, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2013
  • Alternate for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Program, 2013
  • AAUW Hoffman Scholarship, 2012–13
  • First-place English Graduate Organization Essay Award, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2012
  • English Graduate Organization Travel Grant Award, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2011–15
  • Teaching assistantship, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2010–15

Organizations

  • Children's Literature Association Publicity Committee Chair, 2018–21
  • Children's Literature Association Publicity Committee Member, 2015–18
  • Research Society for American Periodicals
  • American Periodics Society
  • Modern Language Association
  • Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing

Publications and presentations

Books

  • Children of the Black Press: How African American Young People Helped Create an African American Youth Literature (Forthcoming from The Ohio State University Press)
  • Cub Reporters: American Children's Literature and Journalism in the Golden Age (SUNY Press, 2019)

Journal articles

  • "'I Am Eleven Years Old and I Want to Be an Author': Encouraging and Validating Writing by Black Young People in The Brownies' Book," Black History Bulletin (2026)
  • "Join the Club: African American Children's Literature, Social Change, and the Chicago Defender Jr.," Children's Literature Association Quarterly 42.2 (2017)
  • "'A Different Sunshine': Writing Jamaican National Identity Through the Girl's Coming-of-Age Story in Paulette Ramsay's Aunt Jen," Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature 53.2 (May 2015)
  • "'Bloom in the Moonshine': Imagination as Liberation in Anne of Green Gables," Children's Literature 42 (2014)

Chapters

  • "'Certainly No Story for Children': Anne of Ingleside and the Enigma of Montgomery's Ageless Audience," Anne for Everyone: Green Gables, Children of Color, and Global Childhoods, eds. Sarah Park Dahlen and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, University Press of Mississippi (forthcoming)
  • "'Bizarre Creatures' and the Fans Who Love Them: The Dark Crystal as Alternative Children's Culture," Alt Kid Lit: What Children's Literature Has Been, Never Was, and Might Yet Be, eds. Kenneth B. Kidd and Derritt Mason, University Press of Mississippi, April 2024
  • "A Living Thing: The Very American Invention of Jack Pumpkinhead," The Characters of Oz, eds. Dina Massachi and Mark West, McFarland, 2023
  • "Let Us Make the World Know that We