Gwen Athene Tarbox, an Associate Professor of English at Western Michigan University, specializes in literary history, youth culture, and women’s studies. Her graduate degrees were earned at Purdue University and at the University of London, Queen Mary College. Dr. Tarbox is author of The Clubwomen’s Daughters: Collectivist Impulses in Progressive-era Girls’ Fiction (2000) and of various articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century adolescent literature. Her current scholarly project, Angry Young Women: Essays on Girls’ Culture in Contemporary America, explores the ways in which female adolescents have been portrayed in books, films, and the plastic arts during the last thirty-five years. In the fall, she will teach an upper-level course in Harry Potter – a course which filled to capacity four days into the registration cycle.