Scholarly studies in Harry Potter: applying academic methods to a popular text

Preface / Debbie Mynott

Introduction : serious scholarship and academic hocus pocus : conjuring Harry Potter into the canon / Cynthia Whitney Hallett

Educating Harry Potter : a Muggle's perspective on magic and knowledge in the wizard world of J. K. Rowling / Sarah E. Maier

Harry Potter and the temporal prime directive : time travel, rule-breaking, and misapprehension in Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban / Ron W. Cooley

If yeh know where to go : vision and mapping in the wizarding world / Jonathan P. Lewis

basilisk, a phoenix, and a philosopher's stone : Harry Potter's myths and legends / Peggy J. Huey

Death and rebirth : Harry Potter & the mythology of the phoenix / Sarah E. Gibbons

harlequin in the Weasley twins : jesters in the court of Prince Harry (and J. K. Rowling) / Rebecca Whitus Longster

Lessons in transfiguration : allegories of male identity in Rowling's Harry Potter series / Casey Cothran

Reading J. K. Rowling magically : creating C. S. Lewis's "good reader" / Ernelle Fife

problem of identity in Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone / Leigh A. Neithardt

Of young magicians and growing up : J. K. Rowling, her critics, and the "cultural infantilism" debate / Steve Barfield

High-brow Harry Potter : J. K. Rowling's series as college-level literature / Laura Baker Shearer

Hogwarts vs. "the 'values' wasteland" : Harry Potter and the formation of character / William Wandless

Metaphor and metafantasy : questing for literary inheritance in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone / Evelyn M. Perry.