Mark I. West is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he teaches courses on children”s and young adult literature. He also holds the title of Bonnie E. Cone Professor in Civic Engagement. He has written or edited nineteen books, including Theodore Roosevelt and His Library at Sagamore Hill (2022). His articles have appeared in various national publications, such as the New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Americana, and British Heritage, as well as many academic journals. He has published several articles on Theodore Roosevelt including “Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Children’s Literature, ” which appeared in The Journal of American Culture, and “Preserving a Presidential Persona: A Bibliophile President Created a Well-Traveled Library” which appeared in New York Archives. He recently gave an invited lecture titled “Theodore Roosevelt and the Makings of an Activist Reader” as part of the Rites of Reading Lecture Series at the University of Michigan.
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Mark I. West: Japanification of Children’s Popular Culture
Godzilla stomped his way into American movie theaters in 1956, and ever since then Japanese trends and cultural products have had a major impact on children’s popular culture in America. This can be …
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Jackson Kathy Merlock Jackson & West Mark I. West: Walt Disney, from Reader to Storyteller
Walt Disney, best known as a filmmaker, had perhaps a greater skill as a reader. While many would have regarded Felix Salten’s Bambi and Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio as too somber for family-oriented fi …
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Jackson Kathy Merlock Jackson & West Mark I. West: Shapers of American Childhood
The experience of growing up in the U.S. is shaped by many forces. Relationships with parents and teachers are deeply personal and definitive. Social and economic contexts are broader and harder to q …
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Mark I. West: Theodore Roosevelt and His Library at Sagamore Hill
President Theodore Roosevelt called himself a ’;book lover’ and for good reason. From his boyhood days in the 1860s to the very end of his life in 1919, Roosevelt had a deep-seated passion for readin …
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Mark I. West: Theodore Roosevelt on Books and Reading
President Theodore Roosevelt had a passion for reading books, and he did not keep this passion to himself. He often wrote about his experiences as a reader and collector of books. He wrote scholarly …
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Mark I. West: Liminal Spaces in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Scholars in the field of children’s literature studies began taking an interest in the concept of ’;liminal spaces’ around the turn of the 21st century. For the first time, Liminal Spaces in Children …
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