What unites these challenges is a professed desire to protect young readers from dangerous content. But attempts to ban books are frequently motivated by misapprehensions about how children consume and process literature.
Author Archives: Trisha Tucker/ University of Southern California
Trisha Tucker is an Associate Teaching Professor of Writing at the University of Southern California, where she also oversees the honors writing program. Trisha holds a Ph.D. in English; her research areas include nineteenth-century British literature, women’s popular writing, children's literature, Evangelicalism, and secularization.