Katherine Magyarody, PhD, teaches at the Masters level in the Department of Children’s Literature. Her research interests include nineteenth-century British literature, the history of Scouting, diasporic Scouting and Eastern European folklore. Her work appears in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Marvels and Tales, and PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017. Dr. Magyarody has been a monthly reviewer for the School Library Journal (SLJ) since 2017. Her debut novel, The Changeling of Fenlen Forest, was longlisted for the 2020 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic in the Young Adult division.
Dr. Magyarody is the recipient of the 2018 Children’s Literature Association Judith Plotz Emerging Scholar Honor Award and the 2017 PEN America/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.
Prior to joining the Simmons faculty, Dr. Magyarody taught at Fairfield University. She received her PhD from the University of Toronto and pursued a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship at Texas A&M University.
Education
- PhD, English Literature, from University of Toronto
- MA, English Literature and Diaspora and Transnational Studies, from University of Toronto
- BA, English Specialist, from University of Toronto
Courses
- CHL414 Fantasy and Science Fiction (required course)
- CHL427A Folk and Fairy Tales (elective)
- CHL427B The Americanization of the Fairy Tale (elective)
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
| 2018 | “Awkward and Awry: Novel Directions for Female Growth in Charlotte Yonge’s The Daisy Chain.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 14.3 (2018): https://www.ncgsjournal.com/issue143/PDF/magyarody.pdf. |
| 2017 | “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. |
| 2016 | “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. Winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s Judith Plotz Emerging Scholar Honor Award. |
| 2016 | “‘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. |
| 2015 | “Hungarian Scouting in Exile: Frame Narratives and the Creation of a Diasporic Community.” Hungarian Studies Review 42 (2015): 135-162. |
| Chapters | |
| 2021 | “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. |
| 2020 | “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. |
| 2020 | “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. |
| Fiction | |
| 2019 | The Changeling of Fenlen Forest. Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 2019. Young adult novel. · Longlisted for the 2020 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Young Adult category. |
| 2016-2017 | “Goldhawk.” Malahat Review 194 (Spring 2016): 15-19. · Winner of the 2017 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and the Open Season Award. · Rpt. in PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017. Ed. Yuka Iragashi. New York: Catapult, 2017. · Rpt. in The Rumpus. 5 Sept. 2017. http://therumpus.net/2017/09/rumpus-exclusive-goldhawk/. |
| 2016 | “Past Imperfect.” Hart House Review 25 (2016): 58-64. · Winner of the Hart House Prose Competition. |