Cecilia Konchar Farr is Professor of English and Women's Studies at St. Catherine University. She is the author of Reading Oprah: How Oprah's Book Club Changed the Way America Reads and the coeditor (with Jaime Harker) of The Oprah Affect: Critical Essays on Oprah's Book Club, both published by SUNY Press.

Foreword
Giselle Liza Anatol

Acknowledgments

Notes on Citations

Introduction: Teaching Them to Love What They Have Loved: Harry Potter Goes to College
Daley Konchar Farr and Cecilia Konchar Farr

My Harry Potter Story
Phillip Awayan and Maria Ignacio

Part I. Muggle Studies

1. The Harry Potter Phenomenon: Locating the Boy Wizard in the Tradition of the American Bestseller
Kate Glassman

2. Loading the Canon: Harry Potter and Fanfiction
Kate McManus

3. The Simulated World of Harry Potter
Kyle Bubb

4. The Wizard, the Muggle, and the Other: (Post) Colonialism in Harry Potter
Hannah Lamb

5. The Generation(s) of Harry Potter: The Boy Wizard and His Young Readers
Tréza Rosado

My Harry Potter Story
Lydia Fasteland and Richelle Ilanga

Part II. Defense Against the Dark Arts

6. The Making of a New World: Nazi Ideology and Its In Influence on Harry Potter
Sarah Wente

7. The Nuances of Mastering Death: Murder, Capital Punishment, and Assisted Suicide in Harry Potter
Kalie Caetano

8. The Wickedest of Magical Inventions: The Separable Soul in Harry Potter and Medieval Folklore
Sarah Sutter

9. WWHPD: What Would Harry Potter Do?
Callie Knudslein

10. Doubting Dumbledore
Jenny McDougal

My Harry Potter Story
Marion Basilio and Carrie Matthews

Part III: Transformation

11. Harry Potter and the Wizard's Gene: A Genetic Analysis of Potterworld
Courtney Agar and Julia Terk

12. Give Nature a Wand and It Will Nurture Magic
Kiah Bizal

13. A Nursing Care Plan for Tom Riddle
Kari Newell

14. Literary Arithmancy: An Analysis of Number Symbolism in Harry Potter
Evan Gaydos

15. Sexual Geometry of the Golden Trio: Hermoine's Subversion of Traditional Female Subject Positions
Rachel Armstrong

Afterword: A Conversation with the Contributing Editors

Appendix 1. Harry Potter Course Syllabus
Appendix 2. Annotated Harry Potter Timeline

About the Contributors
Index