title The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein. Selected works As author The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein. (Unbound, 2019) Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction (London: Cambridge University Press, 2016) with Michael Levy A Short History of Fantasy (London: Middlesex University Press, 2009) with Edward James The Inter-galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy 14) (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009). . Rhetorics of Fantasy (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008) Diana Wynne Jones: Children's Literature and the Fantastic Tradition (Oxford: Routledge, 2005) Quaker Relief Work in the Spanish Civil War (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002) As editor The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) with Edward James On Joanna Russ (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2009) Glorifying Terrorism, Manufacturing Contempt: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction (London: Rackstraw Press, 2006) Polder: A Festschrift For John Clute and Judith Clute (Baltimore: Old Earth Books, 2006) The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) with Edward James The True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod (Reading: Science Fiction Foundation, 2003) with Andrew Butler The Parliament of Dreams: Conferring on Babylon 5 (Reading: Science Fiction Foundation, 1998) with Edward James References Source External links Farah Mendlesohn blog about archive of earlier home page, archived 2014-04-05) 1968 births Living people British speculative fiction critics Academics of Middlesex University Alumni of the University of York Cultural historians Historians of the United States Hugo Award-winning editors Religion academics Science fiction academics Science fiction critics British women historians