Dan Hade
Daniel Hade
ddh2@psu.edu
(B.A., B.S., M.A., Ph.D.) Associate Professor, Language and Literacy
He has taught in elementary schools and junior high schools, colleges and universities in Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. He is active in the Children's Literature Association and the International Research Society for Children's Literature. Currently on the editorial board of The Lion and the Unicorn and past editor of the Journal of Children's Literature and has lectured internationally in countries such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Sweden, Poland, Denmark, Ukraine, Korea, and Taiwan. His research and teaching is focused upon the study of children's literature, particularly upon children's literature as a cultural artifact. Currently, he is looking at how poverty is constructed in children's books and how it is used as an aesthetic. Past research has looked at the nature and quality of the experiences readers have with children's literature, the social contexts (especially classrooms) within which readers read and interpret literature and the interpretive stances children and teachers assume towards a piece of literature, ideological differences among advocates of literature-based instruction, and how children's reading is shaped by the manners in which writers produce, scholars critique, and teachers mediate children's literature and the assumptions about children as readers held by these adults. Dr. Hade direct's Penn State's World Campus Children's Literature program
