Dr. Minslow is Associate Professor of Children's and Young Adult Literature. She is also acting Internship Supervisor in the Department of English.
She teaches Children's Literature; Adaptations; British Literature; Psychology of Fairy Tales and Fantasy; and War, Genocide, and Human Rights.
Dr. Minslow's research focuses on war and genocide in children's literature, human rights education, and Holocaust & Genocide studies. Her latest book publication is Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide? (Routledge, 2021).
She recently published a chapter on Angeline Boulley's Firekeeper's Daughter in Liminal Spaces in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between edited by Mark I. West, and a chapter on Teaching Asian American Exclusion in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom using Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese.
Dr. Minslow was a Faculty Fellow of the American Communities Program: TIME for 2022-2023 and worked on a project titled Time, Temporality, and Memory in Holocaust Children's & YA Literature.
She is also a member of two grant-funded project teams:
Contemporary Approaches to 21st Century Holocaust Literature (Rothschild Foundation)
Art of Peace: New perspectives in visual art on peacekeeping from the 1990s (Australian Research Council)
Dr. Minslow is a member of the Board of the Children's Literature Association and regularly is invited to facilitate workshops for K-12 educators on teaching the Holocaust and Genocide in ELA Classrooms.