Research Interests
History of youth services librarianship, children's print culture, information inquiry and instruction in school libraries, information seeking and use, media literacy, history of comics, comics readership
Education
Information Science, Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington
Library Science, MLS, Indiana University
Courses Taught
comics reader’s advisory, media literacy, and youth services librarianship.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences
Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
External Links
Recent Publications
Tilley, C. L. (2022). Children's Print Culture: Tradition and Innovation. In D. Lemish (Ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents, and Media (2 ed., pp. 85-92). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003118824-12
Tilley, C. L. (2021). Print. In R. Fawaz, D. Whaley, & S. Streeby (Eds.), Keywords for Comics Studies (pp. 168-170). (Keywords). NYU Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv27ftvj2.42
Graf, A., Fulton, C., Jackson, A., La Barre, K., Walsh, J., Tilley, C., Lucky, S., & Gorichanaz, T. (2018). Everyday documentation of arts and humanities collections. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 55(1), 680-683. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501080
Tilley, C. L. (2018). A regressive formula of perversity: Wertham and the women of comics. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 22(4), 354-372. https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2018.1450001
Tilley, C. (2018). By Sappho’s Stylus! Reading Wonder Woman with Wertham. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 9(6), 555-565. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2018.1540136