Karen Coats

Karen Coats is professor of English at Illinois State University. She is author of The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children?s and Young Adult Literature; Looking Glass and Neverlands: Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity in Children?s Literature; and Children?s Literature and the Developing Reader and coeditor of Handbook of Research on Children?s and Young Adult Literature and The Gothic in Children?s Literature: Haunting the Borders.