Giselle Liza Anatol is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. She is the editor of Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays (Praeger, 2003), and has published several journal articles, book chapters, and other publications.

Introduction by Giselle Liza Anatol
Reading Harry Potter through Theories of Child Development
Archetypes and the Unconscious in Harry Potter and Diana Wynne Jones' Fire and Hemlock and Dogsbody by Alice Mills
Harry Potter and the Magical Looking Glass: Reading the Secret Life of the Preadolescent by Lisa Damour
Harry Potter and the Acquisition of Knowledge by Lisa Hopkins
Safe as Houses: Sorting and School Houses at Hogwarts by Chantel Lavoie
Harry and Hierarchy: Book Banning as a Reaction to the Subversion of Authority by Rebecca Stephens
Literary Influences and Historical Contexts
Harry Potter's Schooldays: J. K. Rowling and the British Boarding School Novel by Karen Manners Smith
Accepting Mudbloods: The Ambivalent Social Vision of Rowling's Fairy Tales by Elaine Ostry
Hermione and the Houses Elves: The Literary and Historical Contexts of J. K.Rowling's Anti-Slavery Campaign by Brycchan Carey
Flying Cars, Floo Powder, and Flaming Torches: The Hi-Tech, Lo-Tech World of Wizardry by Margaret J. Oakes
Morality and Social Values: Issues of Power
Cruel Heroes and Treacherous Texts: Educating the Reader in Moral Complexity and Critical Reading in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Books by Veronica Schanoes
Harry Potter and the Rule of Law: The Central Weakness of Legal Concepts in the Wizard World by Susan Hall
The Fallen Empire: Exploring Ethnic Otherness in the World of Harry Potter by Giselle Liza Anatol
Class and Socio-Economic Identity in Harry Potter's England by Julia Park
Cinderfella: J. K. Rowling's Wily Web of Gender by Ximena Gallardo-C and C. Jason Smith
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors