Portrait of Dr. Nithya Sivashankar

Dr. Nithya Sivashankar

  • Assistant Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • Jackson, S. E., Sivashankar, N., & Degener, R. M. (2025). Critical Peritextual Analysis: Critical Possibilities of Peritext in Books for Young Readers. Research on Diversity in Youth Literature, 6(2). Retrieved from https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/rdyl/article/view/1607

2024

  • Sivashankar, N. (n.d.). Beyond Research: Sharing Stories from Diverse Communities. In Ethics, Practicing Children’s Literature Studies: Conducting Research and Building a Career. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.

2022

  • Jackson, S., Degener, R. M., & Sivashankar, N. (2022). “The Roots Beneath the Fruit: Reading for Justice and Action in Picturebooks about Food. Journal of Children’s Literature, 48(1), 7–18.

2021

  • Sivashankar, N., & Viswanath, T. (2021). Beyond Bollywood: Identifying and Analyzing Problematic Stereotypes in Indian American Young Adult Novels. The ALAN Review, 48(2), 51–63.

2019

  • Sivashankar, N., Jackson, S. E., & Degener, R. (2019). Centering  the Margins: Investigating Relationships, Power, and Culture through Critical Peritextual Analysis. Children’s Literature in Education, 51, 490–501.
  • Sivashankar, N. (2019). Religion, Riots and Rift: Representations of the Partition of 1947 in English-Language Illustrated Books. Research on Diversity in Youth Literature, 1(2). Retrieved from https://sophia.stkate.edu/rdyl/vol1/iss2/3