Teresa L Michals

Teresa L Michals
Professor
history of children's literature; eighteenth-century British literature; disability studies
Teresa Michals received her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University and teaches courses on the history of children's literature, nineteenth-century and late eighteenth-century literature, and composition. Her research and teaching focus on changing ideas about age, identity, bodies, and fiction. She has published articles in journals such as Nineteenth-Century Literature, Eighteenth-Century Studies, NOVEL, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and Disability Studies Quarterly, as well as essays in the edited collections The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture (Ashgate Press) and Literary Cultures and 18th-Century Childhoods (Palgrave). Her first book is For Adult Audiences: The Child, The Adult, and the English Novel (Cambridge, 2014), and her second, Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Other Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy, (University of VA Press, 2021).
Selected Publications
Books for Children, Books for Adults: Age and the Novel from Defoe to James. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson’s Navy. University of Virginia Press, 2021.
“Other Amputee Officers in Nelson’s Navy,” Journal for Maritime Research. Volume 23, No. 1 (2021).
“Children Are Helpless”: 18th-Century Children’s Literature and Disability,” The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol. 46, No.1, 2022.
“’Infinite Others: Catherine Valente and Middle-Eastern Folklore,” article co-written with Fizza Fatima (undergraduate student). Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Spring 2022.