Roderick McGillis is a professor of English at the University of Calgary. He is the author of the award-winning "The Nimble Reader" (1996), "A Little Princess: Gender and Empire" (1996), and "Les Pieds Devant" (2007), and the editor of "George MacDonald: Literary Heritage and Heirs" (2007). He is a former editor of "The Children's Literature Association Quarterly", and former president of the Children's Literature Association.