Tison Pugh is Pegasus Professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He is author or editor of over twenty books, including Harry Potter and Beyond: On J. K. Rowling's Fantasies and Other Fictions; The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom; and Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature.
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The queer resonances of Baum and Oz are frequently acknowledged, but no one has explored this topic more extensively or intelligently than Tison Pugh.--Ryan Bunch, author of Oz and the Musical: Performing the American Fairy Tale [A] thoughtful exploration of trans and queer themes in children's literature, tempered by Pugh's acknowledgment of the incongruity of applying 21st-century theories of gender and sexuality to books written in the early 20th century. . . . Pugh's detailed analys1is of Baum's writing provides much to think about and consider.--P. J. Kurtz "CHOICE" Queer Oz will be an extremely valuable and frequently used book on Baum and his representation of gender and sexuality.--Eric L. Tribunella, coeditor of A de Grummond Primer: Highlights of the Children's Literature Collection