Faculty Profile

Professor of English
Indiana University East
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
264 Whitewater Hall
Phone: (765) 973-8531
aclappit@indiana.edu

Children’s hymns, children's diaries of nineteenth-century Britain

British Hymn Books for Children, 1800-1900: Re-Tuning the History of Childhood. Ashgate's Studies in Childhood Series: 1700-Present series. Surry, UK:Ashgate Publishers, January 2016. http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409454304
“Perplext by Faith:” Essays on Victorian Beliefs and Doubts, Co-edited with Julie Melnyk. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2015.
Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs: Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel. Ohio University Press, Nov. 2002. 226pp. with music illustrations.

“Children’s Hymn Singing in Victorian Culture and Scholarship.” Literature Compass. Vol. 15, Issue 3. 19 February 2018. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/lic3.12442
“O, Come, All Ye Children: Christmas Carols in Victorian Children’s Hymnbooks.” The Hymn: A Journal of Congregational Song. Vol. 68. No. 1 (Winter 2017). Pp. 16-23.
“Writing for, Yet Apart: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Contentious Status as Hymn Writers and Editors of Hymnbooks for Children.” Victorian Literature and Culture. Vol. 40. Issue 1. (March 2012): Pp. 47-81.
“The Contentious ‘Figure’ of Music in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy.” The Hardy Society Journal. Vol. 2, No. 2 (Summer 2006): 26-34.
“Indecent Musical Displays: Feminizing the Pastoral in Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss.” in The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction. Ed. Sophie Fuller and Nicky Losseff. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2004. 129-149.
“Marginalized Musical Interludes: Tennyson’s Critique of Conventionality in The Princess.” Victorian Poetry. Volume 38. Number 2 (Summer 2000): 227-248.
“Dinah and the Secularization of Methodist Hymnody in Eliot’s Adam Bede.” Victorians Institute Journal. Volume 26 (1998): 40-68.

“Nineteenth-Century British Children’s Hymnody: Re-Tuning the History of Childhood with Chords and Verses.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. Vol. 35, Issue 2 (Summer 2010): 144-175.
“Help! I’m a Feminist but My Daughter is a ‘Princess Fanatic’! Disney’s Transformation of Twenty-First-Century Girls.” Children's Folklore Review. Vol. 32 (2010): 7-22.
“Battle on the Gender Homefront: Depictions of the American Civil War in Contemporary Young-Adult Literature.” Children’s Literature in Education. On-line and Vol. 38, Number 2 (June 2007): 153-161.
“The Power of Women, the Power of Teens: Re-visioning Gender and Age in the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Mystery Series.” in Exploring Culturally Diverse Literature for Children and Adolescents: Learning to Listen in New Ways.” Ed. Darwin L. Henderson & Jill P. May. Boston: Pearson and Allyn/Bacon, 2005. 286-299.

2011 Winner, Herman Frederic Lieber Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence, IU-system
2009 Winner, All-Campus Helen Lees Teaching Award, Indiana University East.
2002 Winner, Horizon Teaching Award, Indiana University East.

2014 Recipient, Indiana University East Research Grant
2014 Recipient, New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Exploratory Travel Fellowship, IU System-wide
2012 Recipient, Excellence in Research Award, IU East
2010 Recipient, New Frontiers Grant in the Arts and Humanities, IU-system-wide grant
2009 Recipient (1 of 3 nationally), Children’s Literature Association Faculty Research Award.
2006 Recipient, New Frontiers/Arts & Humanities Exploration Traveling Fellowship, IU System
2003 Membership to the Faculty of the Indiana University Graduate School with Full Status

Co-Chair, Conference Planning Committee. Children’s Literature Association 2019 annual conference, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Executive Secretary, 2004-2014.
Children’s Literature Association, Carol Gay Undergraduate Writing Award, 2006, 2007;Phoenix Picture Book Award Committee, 2010-present.