Amy Ratelle, Animality and Children’s Literature and Film

Amanda Monteleone is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she currently teaches undergraduate writing courses. Holding a bachelor's degree in Biology, she worked in the sciences for several years before entering graduate school. She has presented papers on multimodal sound ecologies and ethnomusicology and on the poetry of nineteenth-century Cherokee writer John Rollin Ridge.