Kenneth Parille has published essays on Louisa May Alcott and boyhood, the mother-son relationship in antebellum America, graphic novelist Daniel Clowes, cartoonist Abner Dean, and TV bandleader Lawrence Welk. His writing has appeared in Children's Literature, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, New Literary History, Papers on Language and Literature, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Boston Review, Comic Art, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, and The Believer. He has also published a guitar instructional book as well as a number of instructional articles. His monograph Boys at Home: Discipline, Masculinity, and ‘The Boy Problem’in Nineteenth-Century American Literature will by published in the Fall of 2009 by the University of Tennessee Press.

Degrees
B.A. Central Connecticut State University
M.A. The University of Virginia
Ph.D. The University of Virginia

Primary Areas of Research/Teaching
Children's Literature
Cartoons, Comics, and Graphic Novels
Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Courses Taught
6515: Advanced Studies in Children's Literature
4950: Literature for Children
3430: Mystery Fiction
3420: The Short Story
1000: Appreciating Literature

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