Jill S. Ratzan


Here's me with a Wild Thing at the Philadelphia Book Festival on April 19, 2009.

Click to view my curriculum vitae or resume.
Course I've taught in the MLIS program, Rutgers SCILS:
17:610:548 Materials for Children, Fall 2007 and 2008 (also see Materials for Children class blog)
17:610:548 Materials for Young Adults, Spring 2007, 2008, and 2009 (also see Materials for Young Adults class blog)
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Talks I've given:
"Manga and Libraries: Exploring and Promoting a Rising Medium." With Chris Centofanti. Rutgers Association of School Librarians (RASL), Rutgers SCILS, April 2009.

"The Magic of Love: LGBTQ Characters in YA Fantasy." New Jersey Library Association (NJLA) Annual Conference, Long Branch, NJ, May 2008.

"Specialis Revelio: Harry Potter and Reader-Text Interactions at Your Library." New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL) Annual Conference, Long Branch, NJ, Nov. 2007.

"Designing a Syllabus." Teaching Assistant Project, Rutgers University, Aug. 2007.

"Creating a Website." With Corinne Dalelio and David Dragos. Doctoral student workshop, Rutgers SCILS, April 2007.
Note that the handout for this workshop was created in landscape layout, so the PDF appears sideways.

"Beyond Madam Pince: Harry Potter and Your Library." Library and Information Science Student Association (LISSA), Rutgers SCILS, March 2007.

"Booktalking." Guest lecture, 17:610:585 Reading Interests of Adults, March 2007.

"Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Speculative Fiction for Children." Guest lecture, 17:610:547 Materials for Children, Oct. 2006.

"Fantasy Crossover Games: Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings." Service and Achievement in the Library (SAIL) Teen Summer Program, Ocean County (NJ) Library, Berkeley Branch, July 2006.

"Why Should I Hire You? Why Would I Want to Work Here? A Guide For Both Sides of the Interview." With Sheila Anderson, Charlene Holly, Erica Klein, and Elisa Topper. New Members Round Table (NMRT) President's Program, American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 2006.


A messy table at LISSA's Divination Party, July 18, 2007. To promote community discussions surrounding the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I collaborated with LISSA to post 75 unique questions, predictions, and quotations around the SCILS building (some are visible at the top right; see more here).

Other resources:
LISSA Harry Potter Summer Programs, Rutgers SCILS, July 2007.

My work on Junie B. Jones was cited in "Is Junie B. Jones Talking Trash?" by Anna Jane Grossman, The New York Times, July 26, 2007, p. G1.

All materials by Jill S. Ratzan may be copied, modified, shared, remixed, or used for non-profit or educational purposes. If you create a particularly interesting reuse of any of these materials, I'd love to hear about it! Syllabi are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States Licenses.

Email me at jratzan@gmail.com.

This page last updated on August 13, 2010.