Nina Mikkelsen

Nina Mikkelsen received her Ph.D. in English from Florida State University and has completed postdoctoral work in children's literature and literacy at Ohio State University with Charlotte Huck, at Columbia University Teachers College with Lucy Calkins, and at Columbia University School of Library Science with Brian Anderson and Roiger Sutton. She has taught at universities in Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, in both English and Elementary Education Departments. Her research interests...See more

Nina Mikkelsen received her Ph.D. in English from Florida State University and has completed postdoctoral work in children's literature and literacy at Ohio State University with Charlotte Huck, at Columbia University Teachers College with Lucy Calkins, and at Columbia University School of Library Science with Brian Anderson and Roiger Sutton. She has taught at universities in Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, in both English and Elementary Education Departments. Her research interests include cultural contexts of children's literature, multicultural/cross-cultural/multi-ethnic literature, children's story making processes, children's responses to literature, literacy through literature as a classroom teaching approach, and portfolio assessment in the literature class. She has published articles and essays in Language Arts, The Reading Teacher, English Journal, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, African American Review, Canadian Children's Literature; and she is the author of Virginia Hamilton (Twayne, 1994) and Susan Cooper (Twayne, 1998). See less