Faculty Profiles

Sivashankar, N. (n.d.). Rethinking the Application of Narrative Theory in Children’s Literature. In The Routledge Handbook of Research on Diversity in Children’s and YA Literature.

Sivashankar, N. (2026). Beyond Research: Sharing Stories from Diverse Communities. In A Practical Companion to Children’s Literature Studies: Conducting Research and Building a Career. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.

Degener, R. M., Sivashankar, N., & Jackson, S. E. (n.d.). Love, Land, and Restoration: Prioritizing Peritext in Picturebooks about the Natural World. In Engaging Young People with the Climate Emergency through Literature. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Publishers.

Viswanath, T., & Sivashankar, N. (2025). “I’d really really like a boyfriend”: Adolescence, Ideology, and Subjectivity in Indian/Indian American YA Netflix Romances. Journal of Popular Romance Studies.

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

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.

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.

Sivashankar, N. (2020, January). Research on Diversity in Youth Literature. Champaign, IL: Illinois Open Publishing Network. Retrieved from https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/rdyl/article/view/1543/1268

Sivashankar, N. (2020, January). 2020 CaldeNotts. The Horn Book Magazine. Retrieved from https://www.hbook.com/story/2020-caldenotts

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

Sivashankar, N. (2019, September). The Lion and the Unicorn. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Sivashankar, N. (2019, April). WOW Review: Reading Across Cultures. Tucson, AZ: Center for Global Literacies and Literatures (University of Arizona). Retrieved from https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/review/xii-2/13

Sivashankar, N. (2019, January). WOW Review: Reading Across Cultures. Tucson, AZ: Center for Global Literacies and Literatures (University of Arizona). Retrieved from https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/review/volume-xi-issue-2/3

Sivashankar, N. (2014). Sami Culture. In Life Beneath the Northern Lights. Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom: UcLAN Publishing.