Main Resources Events Potterversity
This bibliography is organized by subject to assist new, or seasoned, Potter scholars in their research. The list is extensive, but not exhaustive, and intended to provide potential starting points – or branching-out points – in a variety of disciplines. Many of these works fall under multiple categories, but they have been grouped under a primary subject to aid research. To suggest additions, send us an email at submissions@staff.mugglenet.com.
Anatol, Giselle Liza, editor. Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays. Westport, CT, Praeger, 2003.
Bell, Christopher E., editor. From Here to Hogwarts: Essays on Harry Potter Fandom and Fiction. Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2016.
Berndt, Katrin, and Lena Steveker, editors. Heroism in the Harry Potter Series. London, Routledge, 2011. Taylor & Francis Group, doi:10.4324/9781315586748.
Blake, Andrew. The Irresistible Rise of Harry Potter. New York, Verso, 2002.
Firestone, Amanda, and Leisa A. Clark, editors. Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse. Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2018.
Hallett, Cynthia J., and Peggy J. Huey, editors. J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Hallett, Cynthia Whitney, editor. Scholarly Studies in Harry Potter: Applying Academic Methods to a Popular Text. Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 2005.
Heilman, Elizabeth E., editor. Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter. London, Routledge, 2003.
Jarazo-Álvarez, Rubén, and Pilar Alderete-Diez, editors. Cultural Politics in Harry Potter: Life, Death and the Politics of Fear. London, Routledge, 2019. Taylor & Francis Group, doi:10.4324/9780429322792.
Konchar Farr, Cecilia, editor. A Wizard of Their Age: Critical Essays from the Harry Potter Generation. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2015. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/book/38246.
Konchar Farr, Cecilia, editor. Open at the Close: Literary Essays on Harry Potter. University Press of Mississippi, 2022. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/book/99615.
McDaniel, Kathryn N., and Travis Prinzi, editors. Harry Potter for Nerds II: Essays for Fans, Academics, and Lit Geeks. Oklahoma City, Unlocking Press, 2015.
Patterson, Diana. Harry Potter's World Wide Influence. Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
Prinzi, Travis, editor. Harry Potter for Nerds: Essays for Fans, Academics, and Lit Geeks. Oklahoma City, Unlocking Press, 2011.
Tucker, Nicholas. "The Rise and Rise of Harry Potter." Children's Literature in Education, vol. 30, 1999, pp. 221-234. SpringerLink, doi:10.1023/A:1022438704330.
Whited, Lana A., editor. The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon. University of Missouri Press, 2002.
Whited, Lana A. The Ivory Tower, Harry Potter, and Beyond. University of Missouri Press, 2024.
Whited, Lana A. and M. Katherine Grimes, eds. Critical Insights: The Harry Potter Series. Salem Press, 2015.
Beasley, Garland D. "Harry Potter and The Castle of Otranto: J. K. Rowling, Hogwarts, and the Eighteenth-Century Gothic Novel." Popular Culture Review, vol. 25, no. 1, 2014, pp. 65-82, https://joom.ag/igrp/p68.
Byler, Lauren. "Makeovers, Individualism, and Vanishing Community in the Harry Potter Series." Children's Literature, vol. 44, 2016, pp. 115-146. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chl.2016.0008.
Dendle, Peter. "Cryptozoology and the Paranormal in Harry Potter: Truth and Belief at the Borders of Consensus." Children's Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, 2011, pp. 410-425. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chq.2011.0048.
Freier, Mary P. "The Librarian in Rowling's Harry Potter Series." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 16, no. 3, 2014. CLCWeb, doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2197.
Groves, Beatrice. Literary Allusion in Harry Potter. London, Routledge, 2017.
Haas, Heather A. "The Wisdom of Wizards-and Muggles and Squibs: Proverb Use in the World of Harry Potter." The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 124, no. 492, 2011, pp. 29-54. JSTOR, doi:10.5406/jamerfolk.124.492.0029.
Hall, Jordana. "Embracing the Abject Other: The Carnival Imagery of Harry Potter." Children's Literature in Education, vol. 42, 2011, pp. 70-89. SpringerLink, doi:10.1007/s10583-010-9123-y.
Harrison, Jen. "Posthuman Power: The Magic of Hybridity in the Harry Potter Series." Children's Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3, 2018, pp. 325-343. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chq.2018.0037.
Harvey, Kate. "'I Need to Disillusion You': J.K. Rowling and Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Fantasy." Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction, edited by Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2017, pp. 136-146.
Jacobs, Kathryn. "Harry — Is that Potter, Percy or Plantagenet? A Note on Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV in the Transitional Novels of J. K. Rowling." Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, vol. 2, no. 1, 2006, www.openjournals.libs.uga.edu/borrowers/article/view/2218/2127.
Lavoie, Chantel. "Rebelling against Prophecy in Harry Potter and The Underland Chronicles." The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 38, no. 1, 2014, pp. 45-65. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/uni.2014.0003.
Le Lievre, Kerrie Anne. "Wizards and Wainscots: Generic Structures and Genre Themes in the Harry Potter Series." Mythlore, vol. 24, no. 1, 2003, pp. 25-36, www.dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol24/iss1/2. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26814225.
Lucy, Andrew. "Dark Marks, Curse Scars and Corporal Punishment: Criminality and the Function of Bodily Marks in the Harry Potter Series." Tattoos in Crime and Detective Narratives: Marking and Remarking, edited by Kate Watson and Katharine Cox, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2019, pp. 219-246.
Manlove, Colin. The Order of Harry Potter: Literary Skill in the Hogwarts Epic. Cheshire, Winged Lion, 2010.
Mendlesohn, Farah. "Crowning the King: Harry Potter and the Construction of Authority." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 12, no. 3, 2001, pp. 287-308. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43308531.
Natov, Roni. "Harry Potter and the Extraordinariness of the Ordinary." The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 25, no. 2, 2001, pp. 310-327. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/uni.2001.0024.
Pennington, John. "From Elfland to Hogwarts, or the Aesthetic Trouble with Harry Potter." The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 26, no. 1, 2002, pp. 78-97. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/uni.2002.0008.
Pons, Auba Llompart. "Escape and Consolation: Narrative Voice and Metafiction in the Harry Potter Series." Atlantis, vol. 41, no. 1, 2019, pp. 125-141, doi:10.28914/Atlantis-2019.41.1.
Pugh, Tison. Harry Potter and Beyond: On J. K. Rowling's Fantasies and Other Fictions. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 2020. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/book/75829.
Pugh, Tison. "Sobbing over Severus Snape? Sentimentalism and Emotional Ethics in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Novels." The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 45, no. 1, 2021, pp. 46-61. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/uni.2021.0003.
Sas, Katherine. "A Sense of Darker Perspective: How the Marauders Convey Tolkien's 'Impression of Depth' in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature, vol. 38, no. 1, 2019, pp. 155-176, www.dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol38/iss1/9.
Saunders, Samuel. "'No More Detective Work, or I'll write to Mum!': Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Popular Detective Fiction." The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 53, no. 1, 2020, pp. 148-169. Wiley Online Library, doi:10.1111/jpcu.12886.
Sedlmayr, Gerold. "Orphans, Myth, and Contemporary Fantasy: Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, A Song of Ice and Fire." The Orphan in Fiction and Comics Since the 19th Century, edited by Marion Gymnich, et al., Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, pp. 242-307.
Strand, Emily. "Dobby the Robot: the Science Fiction in Harry Potter." Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature, vol. 38, no. 1, 2019, pp. 177-200, www.dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol38/iss1/10.
Westman, Karin E. "Perspective, Memory, and Moral Authority: The Legacy of Jane Austen in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter." Children's Literature, vol. 35, 2007, pp. 145-165. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chl.2007.0021.
Westman, Karin E. "'The Weapon We Have Is Love'." Children's Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2, 2008, pp. 193-199. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chq.0.0012.
Winters, Sarah Fiona. "Bubble-Wrapped Children and Safe Books for Boys: The Politics of Parenting in Harry Potter." Children's Literature, vol. 39, 2011, pp. 213-233. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chl.2011.0016.
Wolosky, Shira. The Riddles of Harry Potter: Secret Passages and Interpretive Quests. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Zimmerman, Virginia. "Harry Potter and the Gift of Time." Children's Literature, vol. 37, 2009, pp. 194-215. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chl.0.0814.
Children's Literature
Billone, Amy Christine. "The Boy Who Lived: From Carroll's Alice and Barrie's Peter Pan to Rowling's Harry Potter." Children's Literature, vol. 32, 2004, pp. 178-202. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chl.2004.0005.
Black, Sharon. "The Magic of Harry Potter: Symbols and Heroes of Fantasy." Children's Literature in Education, vol. 34, 2003, pp. 237-247. SpringerLink, doi:10.1023/A:1025314919836.
Cecire, Maria Sachiko. "Harry Potter and the Poetics of Paranoia in the Oxford School of Children's Literature." The Journal of Children's Literature Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2008, pp. 88-109, www.academia.edu/22475265.
Cecire, Maria Sachiko. Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Chappell, Drew. "Sneaking Out After Dark: Resistance, Agency, and the Postmodern Child in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter Series." Children's Literature in Education, vol. 39, 2008, pp. 281-293. SpringerLink, doi:10.1007/s10583-007-9060-6.
Ezra, Elizabeth. "Becoming Familiar: Witches and Companion Animals in Harry Potter and His Dark Materials." Children's Literature, vol. 47, 2019, pp. 175-196. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chl.2019.0009.
Galway, Elizabeth A. "Reminders of Rugby in the Halls of Hogwarts: The Insidious Influence of the School Story Genre on the Works of J. K. Rowling." Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, 2012, pp. 68-85. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chq.2012.0011.
Hutcheon, Linda. "Harry Potter and the Novice's Confession." The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 32, no. 2, 2008, pp. 169-179. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/uni.0.0012.
Kittredge, Katharine, and Carolyn Rennie. "Old-School Bullies at Hogwarts: The Pre-Victorian Roots of J. K. Rowling’s Depiction of Child-on-Child Violence." Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures, edited by Monica Flegel and Christopher Parkes, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. SpringerLink, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-72275-7_5.
Manlove, Colin. From Alice to Harry Potter: Children's Fantasy in England. Christchurch, NZ, Cybereditions, 2003.
Mills, Alice. "Harry Potter: Agency or Addiction?" Children's Literature in Education, vol. 41, 2010, pp. 291-301. SpringerLink, doi:10.1007/s10583-010-9115-y.
Mills, Alice. "Harry Potter and the Terrors of the Toilet." Children's Literature in Education, vol. 37, 2006, pp. 1-13. SpringerLink, doi:10.1007/s10583-005-9451-5.
Robertson, Judith P. "What Happens to Our Wishes: Magical Thinking in Harry Potter." Children's Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 4, 2001, pp. 198-211. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chq.0.1632.
Rollin, Lucy. "Among School Children: the Harry Potter Books and the School Story Tradition." The South Carolina Review, vol. 34, no. 1, 2001, pp. 198-208.
Strimel, Courtney B. "The Politics of Terror: Rereading Harry Potter." Children's Literature in Education, vol. 35, 2004, pp. 35-52. SpringerLink, doi:10.1023/B:CLID.0000018899.06267.11.
Trites, Roberta Seelinger. "The Harry Potter Novels as a Test Case for Adolescent Literature." Style, vol. 35, no. 3, 2001, pp. 472-485. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/style.35.3.472.
Winters, Sarah Fiona. "Bubble-Wrapped Children and Safe Books for Boys: The Politics of Parenting in Harry Potter." Children's Literature, vol. 39, 2011, pp. 213-233. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chl.2011.0016.
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Medieval Literature
Arden, Heather, and Kathryn Lorenz. "The Harry Potter Stories and French Arthurian Romance." Arthuriana, vol. 13, no. 2, 2003, pp. 54-68. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/27870516.
Groves, Beatrice. "Arthurian Education in Harry Potter." The Use of English, vol. 71, no. 1, 2019, pp. 50-60.
Jamison, Carol. "Blood Ties, Blood Sacrifice, and the Blood Feud in Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur and J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series." Children's Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 4, 2020, pp. 308-327. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chq.2020.0041.
Jamison, Carol. "J. K. Rowling's Own Book of Chivalry: Incorporating the Harry Potter Series in an Arthurian Literature Course." Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, vol. 23, no. 1, 2016, pp. 53-70, www.researchgate.net/publication/313508721.
Ward, Renée. "Harry Potter and Medievalism." Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture, edited by Gail Ashton, London, Bloomsbury, 2015, pp. 263-275.
Barratt, Bethany. The Politics of Harry Potter. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. SpringerLink, doi:10.1057/9781137016546.
Bryfonski, Dedria. Political Issues in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series. Detroit, Greenhaven Press, 2008.
Chevalier, Noel. "The Liberty Tree and the Whomping Willow: Political Justice, Magical Science, and Harry Potter." The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 29, no. 3, 2005, pp. 397-415. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/uni.2005.0041.
Gierzynski, Anthony, with Kathryn Eddy. Harry Potter and the Millennials: Research Methods and the Politics of the Muggle Generation. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Lacassagne, Aurélie. "War and Peace in the Harry Potter Series." European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 19, no. 4, 2016, pp. 318-334. SAGE Journals, doi:10.1177/1367549415592895.
Maza, Luisa Grijalva. "Deconstructing the Grand Narrative in Harry Potter: Inclusion/Exclusion and Discriminatory Policies in Fiction and Practice." Politics & Policy, vol. 40, no. 3, 2012, pp. 424-443. Wiley Online Library, doi:10.1111/j.1747-1346.2012.00358.x.
McEvoy-Levy, Siobhan. “Reading War and Peace in Harry Potter.” Peace and Resistance in Youth Cultures: Reading the Politics of Peacebuilding from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 121-142. SpringerLink, doi:10.1057/978-1-137-49871-7.
Mutz, Diana C. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Donald.” PS: Political Science & Politics, vol. 49, no. 4, 2016, pp. 722-729. Cambridge Core, doi:10.1017/S1049096516001633.
Nelson, John S. Defenses Against the Dark Arts: The Political Education of Harry Potter and His Friends. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 2021.
Nexon, Daniel H., and Iver B. Neumann, editors. Harry Potter and International Relations. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
Schott, Christine. "The House Elf Problem: Why Harry Potter is More Relevant Now Than Ever." The Midwest Quarterly, vol. 61, no. 2, 2020, pp. 259-273. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A614987831/AONE?u=nysl_oweb&sid=googleScholar&xid=fef1c269.
Curthoys, Ann. "Harry Potter and Historical Consciousness: Reflections on History and Fiction." History Australia, vol. 8, no. 1, 2011, pp. 7-22. Taylor & Francis Online, doi:10.1080/14490854.2011.11668354.
Reagin, Nancy R., editor. Harry Potter and History. Hoboken, Wiley, 2011.
Cohen, Signe. "A Postmodern Wizard: The Religious Bricolage of the Harry Potter Series." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, vol. 28, no. 1, 2016, pp. 54-66. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/article/632074.
Cohen, Signe. "The Two Alchemists in Harry Potter: Voldemort, Harry, and Their Quests for Immortality." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, vol. 30, no. 3, 2018, pp. 206-219. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/article/716143.
Dunne, John Anthony. "Harry Potter and the Aims of Transhumanism: A Magical Critique of Technological Immortality." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, vol. 35, no. 2, 2023, pp. 55-71. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/article/901483.
Feldt, Laura. "Contemporary Fantasy Fiction and Representations of Religion: Playing with Reality, Myth and Magic in His Dark Materials and Harry Potter." Religion, vol. 46, no. 4, 2016, pp. 550-574. Taylor & Francis Online, doi:10.1080/0048721X.2016.1212526.
Feldt, Laura. "Harry Potter and Contemporary Magic: Fantasy Literature, Popular Culture, and the Representation of Religion." Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol. 31, no. 1, 2016, pp. 101-114. Taylor & Francis Online, doi:10.1080/13537903.2016.1109877.
Griesinger, Emily. "Harry Potter and the 'Deeper Magic': Narrating Hope in Children’s Literature." Christianity & Literature, vol. 51, no. 3, 2002, pp. 455-480, SAGE Journals, doi:10.1177/014833310205100308.
Hennequin, M. Wendy. "Harry Potter and the Legends of Saints." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, vol. 25, no. 1, 2013, pp. 67-81. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/article/505975.
Šarić, Julia. "A Defense of Potter, or When Religion Is Not Religion: An Analysis of the Censoring of the Harry Potter Books." Canadian Children’s Literature, no. 103, 2001, pp. 6-26, www.ccl-lcj.ca/index.php/ccl-lcj/article/view/3795.
Strand, Emily. "Harry Potter and the Sacramental Principle." Worship, vol. 93, 2019, pp. 345-365, www.academia.edu/44183453/Harry_Potter_and_the_Sacramental_Principle.
Crysel, Laura C., et al. “Harry Potter and the Measures of Personality: Extraverted Gryffindors, Agreeable Hufflepuffs, Clever Ravenclaws, and Manipulative Slytherins.” Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 83, 2015, pp. 174-179. ScienceDirect, doi:/10.1016/j.paid.2015.04.016.
Freeman, Louise M. “Harry Potter and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual: Muggle Disorders in the Wizarding World.” Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature, vol. 1, no. 1, 2015, pp. 156-214, doi:10.15763/issn.2376-5275.2015.1.1.156-214.
Markell, Kathryn A., and Marc A. Markell. The Children Who Lived: Using Harry Potter and Other Fictional Characters to Help Grieving Children and Adolescents. New York, Routledge, 2008. Taylor & Francis Group, doi:10.4324/9780203927533.
Mulholland, Neil, editor. The Psychology of Harry Potter. Dallas, BenBella Books, 2007.
Noctor, Colman. "Putting Harry Potter on the Couch." Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, vol. 11, no. 4, 2006, pp. 579-589. SAGE Journals, doi:10.1177/1359104506067879.
Stening, Rowena Y.Z., and B.W. Stening. "'Magic and the Mind': The Impact of Cultural and Linguistic Background on the Perception of Characters in Harry Potter." Children's Literature in Education, vol. 51, 2020, pp. 285-308. SpringerLink, doi:10.1007/s10583-018-9380-8.
Vezzali, Loris, et al. "The Greatest Magic of Harry Potter: Reducing Prejudice." Journal of Applied Social Psychology, vol. 45, no. 2, 2015, pp. 105-121. Wiley Online Library, doi:10.1111/jasp.12279.
Baggett, David, and Shawn Klein, editors. Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts. Chicago, Open Court, 2004.
Bassham, Gregory, editor. The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles. Hoboken, Wiley, 2010.
Cantrell, Sarah K. "'I solemnly swear I am up to no good': Foucault's Heterotopias and Deleuze's Any-Spaces-Whatever in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series." Children's Literature, vol. 39, 2011, pp. 195-212. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chl.2011.0012.
King, Lisa A. "Difference as Intersectional in the Harry Potter Universe." Power and Marginalization in Popular Culture, Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2020, pp. 104-121.
McCauley, Patrick. Into the Pensieve: The Philosophy and Mythology of Harry Potter. Atglen, PA, Schiffer, 2015.
McLaughlin, Ian. "Giving Wands Their Due: Harry Potter, Speculative Realism, and the Power of Objects." Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 33–50, www.journal.finfar.org/articles/giving-wands-their-due.
McWilliams, Susan. "The Problem of Slavery in Harry Potter." Damned If You Do: Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture, edited by Margaret S. Hrezo and John M. Parrish, Lexington Books, 2010, pp. 137-162.
Pond, Julia. "A Story of the Exceptional: Fate and Free Will in the Harry Potter Series." Children's Literature, vol. 38, 2010, pp. 181-206. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/article/380767.
Wolosky, Shira. "Harry Potter's Ethical Paradigms: Augustine, Kant, and Feminist Moral Theory." Children's Literature, vol. 40, 2012, pp. 191-217. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chl.2012.0021.
Olechowska, Elżbieta. "J.K. Rowling Exposes the World to Classical Antiquity." Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults, edited by Katarzyna Marciniak, Leiden, Netherlands, Brill, 2016, pp. 384-410, doi:10.1163/9789004335370_026.
Panoussi, Vassiliki. "Harry's Underworld Journey: Reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows through Vergil's Aeneid." The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 43, no. 1, 2019, pp. 42-68. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/uni.2019.0003.
Rogers, Brett M. "Orestes and the Half-Blood Prince: Ghosts of Aeschylus in the Harry Potter Series." Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy, edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens, New York, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 209-232.
Spencer, Richard A. Harry Potter and the Classical World: Greek and Roman Allusions in J.K. Rowling's Modern Epic. Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2015.
Walde, Christine. "Graeco-Roman Antiquity and Its Productive Appropriation: The Example of Harry Potter." Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults, edited by Katarzyna Marciniak, Leiden, Netherlands, Brill, 2016, pp. 362-383, doi:10.1163/9789004335370_025.
Brenner, Lisa S., editor. Playing Harry Potter: Essays and Interviews on Fandom and Performance. Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2015.
Cheshire, Cynthia. "Meaning Making, Sacred Reading, and Political Engagement in the 'Harry Potter and the Sacred Text' Podcast." Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 31, 2009, doi:10.3983/twc.2019.1791.
Fowler, Megan Justine. "Rewriting the School Story through Racebending in the Harry Potter and Raven Cycle Fandoms." Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 29, 2019, doi:10.3983/twc.2019.1492.
Hall, Catherine. "'Reading and [w]rocking': Morality and Musical Creativity in the Harry Potter Fandom." The Journal of Fandom Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 2016, pp. 193-208. Ingenta Connect, doi:10.1386/jfs.4.2.193_1.
Hampton, Darlene Rose. "Bound Princes and Monogamy Warnings: 'Harry Potter,' Slash, and Queer Performance in LiveJournal Communities." Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 18, 2015, doi:10.3983/twc.2015.0609.
Hinck, Ashley. "Theorizing a public engagement keystone: Seeing fandom's integral connection to civic engagement through the case of the Harry Potter Alliance." Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 10, 2012, doi:10.3983/twc.2012.0311.
Jenkins, Henry. "'Cultural acupuncture': Fan activism and the Harry Potter Alliance." Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 10, 2012, doi:10.3983/twc.2012.0305.
Martens, Marianne. The Forever Fandom of Harry Potter. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Parry-Giles, Trevor. "Harry Potter and the Paradoxical Critique of Celebrity Culture." Celebrity Studies, vol. 2, no. 3, 2011, pp. 305-319. Taylor & Francis Online, doi:10.1080/19392397.2011.609338.
Thomas, Paul A. I Wanna Wrock!: The World of Harry Potter-Inspired "Wizard Rock" and Its Fandom. Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2018.
Tosenberger, Catherine. "Homosexuality at the Online Hogwarts: Harry Potter Slash Fanfiction." Children's Literature, vol. 36, 2008, pp. 185-207. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chl.0.0017.
Tosenberger, Catherine. "'Oh my God, the Fanfiction!': Dumbledore's Outing and the Online Harry Potter Fandom." Children's Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2, 2008, pp. 200-206. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chq.0.0015.
Tresca, Don. "Spellbound: An Analysis of Adult-Oriented Harry Potter Fan-fiction." Fan CULTure: Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century, edited by Kristin M. Barton and Jonathan Malcolm Lampley, Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2013, pp. 36-46.
Belcher, Catherine L., and Becky Herr Stephenson. Teaching Harry Potter: The Power of Imagination in Multicultural Classrooms. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Bixler, Andrea. "What We Muggles Can Learn about Teaching from Hogwarts." The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, vol. 84, no. 2, 2011, pp. 75-79. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41149871. Taylor & Francis Online, doi:10.1080/00098655.2010.507825.
Chan, Aaron Yu Kwan. "Surveillance in Hogwarts: Dumbledore’s Balancing Act Between Managerialism and Anarchism." Children's Literature in Education, vol. 50, 2019, pp. 417-430. SpringerLink, doi:10.1007/s10583-017-9333-7.
Cole, Joshua. "Lupin’s First Lesson: An Example of Excellent Teaching." Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature, vol. 38, no. 2, 2020, pp. 127-132, www.dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol38/iss2/10.
Frankel, Valerie E., editor. Teaching with Harry Potter: Essays on Classroom Wizardry from Elementary School to College. Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2013.
McQuillan, Jeff. "Harry Potter and the Prisoners of Vocabulary Instruction: Acquiring Academic Language at Hogwarts." Reading in a Foreign Language, vol. 32, no. 2, 2020, pp. 122-142. ScholarSpace, www.hdl.handle.net/10125/67377.
Rovan, Marcie Panutsos, and Melissa Wehler, editors. Lessons from Hogwarts: Essays on the Pedagogy of Harry Potter. Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2020.
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