Melanie J. Fishbane

Melanie J. Fishbane is a PhD candidate at Western University and teaches children’s literature at George Brown College in Toronto. She writes on gender, romance, and Jewish girlhood in children’s and young adult literature. Her most recent articles are, “‘More Like Americans’: Sydney Taylor’s Queering of Historical Fiction Girls’ Series” in Beyond Nancy Drew: U.S. Girls’ Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century and an essay co-written with Dr. Caroline Jones, “Discovering Grace: Research Challenges in Finding the Lost Ingalls Sister.” Her work is published in L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valleys: The Ontario Years 1911–1942 and Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond and the Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies. Her YA novel, Maud: A Novel Inspired by the Life of L.M. Montgomery, was shortlisted for the Vine Awards for the best in Canadian Jewish Literature.