He is the co-editor of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden: A Children's Classic at 100 (Scarecrow, 2011) and the author of Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story (Johns Hopkins UP, 2011). He is the recent recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to study children's nonfiction and a Fulbright fellowship to Luxembourg. Course of study