Rate My Professor Amy Pattee

Amy Pattee is a Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University, holding a joint appointment in the Department of Children’s Literature. She serves as Director of the MS in Library and Information Science Degree Program and Co-coordinator of the Dual Degree MA/MS Program in Children’s Literature and Library Services to Children. Pattee joined Simmons University in 2004 as an Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010, and advanced to full Professor in 2023. Prior to her academic career, she worked as a children’s and young adult librarian at public libraries in Ocean County and Burlington County, New Jersey, from 1998 to 2001. She earned her Ph.D. in Library and Information Science with a Cultural Studies certificate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004, her M.L.S. from Rutgers University in 1999, and her B.A. in Film Production from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1996. During her doctoral studies, Pattee received the Margaret Ellen Kalp Fellowship for 2001-2004, the UNC-Chapel Hill Teaching Fellowship for 2002-2004, and the H. Gilbert Kelley Scholarship for 1998-1999.

Pattee’s research interests encompass youth librarianship, young adult literature, popular and series fiction, magazines for teenage girls, girls’ studies, and the intersections of reading and culture. She is the author of *Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel* (Routledge, 2011), *Developing Library Collections for Today’s Young Adults* (Scarecrow Press, 2013; second edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020), and editor of *Critical Survey of Young Adult Literature* (Salem Press, 2016). Her peer-reviewed articles include “A story about a child is scarier than one about an adult roughly 80% of the time”: Creepypasta, children’s media, and the child in discourse (*Childhood*, 2022), “Accounting for diversity: Measuring change in the proportion of African American young adult literature” (*Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults*, 2021), and “Between youth and adulthood: Young adult and new adult literature” (*Children’s Literature Association Quarterly*, 2017). Pattee has contributed to professional journals such as *School Library Journal* and *The Horn Book Magazine*. She was appointed Co-President of the Children’s Literature Association in 2022 and has delivered presentations at conferences including the Children’s Literature Association Annual Conference.