Teaching

Katherine teaches at Simmons University’s Graduate Programs of Children’s Literature. Previously, she has taught at Fairfield University, the University of Toronto and Links Academy. She has also been a guest lecturer on Victorian fantasy and narrative at Texas A&M University.

Her most recent courses include:

• CHL414 Fantasy and Science Fiction
• CHL427A Folk and Fairy Tales
• CHL427B The Americanization of the Fairy Tale
• CHL419 Romance in Young Adult and Children’s Literature
• CHL424C Horror Series Fiction
• HUM100 Introduction to the Humanities

Research

Katherine has published articles on awkward female adolescence and makeovers in mid-Victorian family chronicles in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, the group Robinsonade in Nineteenth-Century Literature, the flourishing of “odd” girls in early Girl Guide patrols  in the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, and Soviet folkloric fantasy in Marvels and Tales. She has also written on self-narrativizing practices within diasporic communities in the Hungarian Studies Review.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Awkward and Awry: Novel Directions for Female Growth in Charlotte Yonge’s The Daisy Chain.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 14.3 (2018). You can read “Awkward and Awry” here and read more from the journal here.

“Translating Russian Folklore into Soviet Fantasy in Arkadi and Boris Strugatski’s Monday Begins on Saturday and Catherynne M. Valente’s Deathless.” Marvels and Tales 31.2 (2017): 338-369.

“Odd Woman, Odd Girls: Reconsidering Agnes and Robert Baden-Powell’s How Girls Can Build Up the Empire: The Handbook for Girl Guides.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 41.3 (2016): 238-262.

“‘Sacred Ties of Brotherhood’: The Social Mediation of Imperial Ideology in The Last of the Mohicans and Canadian Crusoes.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 71.3 (2016): 315-342.

“Hungarian Scouting in Exile: Frame Narratives and the Creation of a Diasporic Community.” Hungarian Studies Review 42 (2015): 135-162.

Chapters and Encyclopedia Articles

“The Bittersweet Joys of Teen Miscommunication/A Tinédzserkori félreértések kesernyés örömei.” Fresh Voices from the Periphery: Youthful Perspectives of Minorities 100 Years After Trianon. Ed. Susan M. Papp. Toronto: KD Books, 2021. 158-166.

“Children’s Fantasy by Victorian Women Writers.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing. 29 February 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_248-1.

“Anne Thackeray Ritchie.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing. 19 July 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_270-1.

Book Reviews

Katherine has been a monthly reviewer for School Library Journal since 2017, covering children’s historical non-fiction, historical fiction, and fantasy in 67 reviews and counting. For list, see: https://www.slj.com/author?query=Katherine%20Magyarody

Conference Presentations

2025	“Be Prepared: Representing Eastern European Immigrant Experience in the Graphic Novels of Vera Brosgol” for the Children’s Literature Association Online Conference, June 12, 2025.
2025	“Exceptionalism and the Fairy Tale Protagonist in Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott” for the American Literature Association. Boston, MA. May 21-25, 2025.
2019	“Home Rule(s): Victorian Children’s Anti-Imperial Revisions of Great Britain in Flora Shaw’s Castle Blair (1877)” for the British Women Writers Association. Auburn, Alabama. 25 April 2019.
2018	“Growing Sideways: New Directions for Female Development in Charlotte Yonge’s The Daisy Chain” for the British Women Writers Association. Austin, Texas. 14 April 2018.
2017	“The ‘Natural’ Magic of Unwanted Children in Silas Marner and The Secret Garden” for the North American Victorian Studies Association, Banff, Alberta. 17 November 2017. “Unsightly Futures: The Hobbledehoy and Awkward Adolescence in Little Women” for the Children’s Literature Association Conference, Tampa, Florida. 23 June 2017.
2016	“We want no third—fourth, I mean”: The Narrative Construction of Intimacy and Friendship in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley” for the North American Victorian Studies Association, Phoenix, Arizona. 3 November 2016.
2016	“‘They were my friends’: Bringing Toys to Life in the Brontë Juvenilia” for the Children’s Literature Association Conference, Columbus, Ohio. 10 June 2016.
2016	“Translating Russian Folklore into Soviet Fantasy:from Arkadi and Boris Strugatski’s Monday Begins on Saturday (1977) to Catherynne M. Valente’s Deathless (2011)” for the 2016 Modern Languages Association Convention, Austin, Texas. 8 January 2016.
2015	“‘My western eyes had failed to see’: Breaking the British Imperial Worldview in Under Western Eyes” for the North American Victorian Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii. 9 July 2015.
2015	“‘Hurrah for a Revolution!’: Revolutionary Schoolboys in Tom Brown’s School Days” for the Children’s Literature Association Conference, Richmond, Virginia. 20 June 2015.
2015	“Adventure and Imperial Guides in Agnes and Robert Baden-Powell’s How Girls Can Build Up the Empire: The Handbook for Girl Guides” for the Northeast Modern Languages Association, Toronto, Ontario. 1 May 2015.
2014	“Culture, Anarchy, Organization: Reforming the Public Schoolboy in Tom Brown’s School Days” for the North American Victorian Studies Association, London, Ontario. 14 November 2014.
2013	“Laughter in Lean Seasons: The Story of the Treasure Seekers, A Little Princess, Humour and Class” for the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English,Victoria, British Columbia. 4 June 2013.

 Invited Talks