About me
Dr. Latrice Ferguson is an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University in the Department of Library Sciences. Within the world of library sciences, she explores the intersections of community literacies, histories, library practices, and literature with children. She spent many years working in school and public libraries, exploring how library materials support community building and youth literacies in local communities. Her work in children’s literature considers the echoes of history in present-day literature and children’s culture. Ferguson’s recent contribution, “The Story in the Silence: Reading Between the Lines in Mildred D. Taylor’s Logan Family Saga,” in Song of the Land: Celebrating the Works of Mildred D. Taylor, examines how Taylor uses character silence to complicate the narrative of history’s upward trajectory, often shared in historical fiction for children.
