Jessie Mae Maimone

Jessie Mae Maimone

Doctoral Student

PhD, Information Sciences, Illinois (in progress)

MS, Library and Information Sciences, Illinois

MS, Publishing, Pace University

BA, English, James Madison University

Pronouns: she/her

Research focus

Experience of Black youth in public libraries

Field Exam Area: Youth services librarianship, Critical Race Theory, Critical Youth Studies

Honors and Awards

  • ALISE Emerging Scholar 
  • Hazel C. Rediger Award
  • G. Edwards Evans Scholarship

Publications & Papers

Stone, S. & Maimone, J.M. (2024). Crafting a pandemic book club. The Library Quarterly, 94(2), 
    202-218.

Maimone, J. M. & Terrones, L. (2023). TAs disrupting the classroom. The ALAN Review, 50(2), 
    60-62.

The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Book. Johns Hopkins University Press. [Reviewer]

Black Cotton Reviews. Maimone, J. M. https://blackcottonreviewers.com/. [Reviewer]

Presentations

Maimone, J.M., & Stone, S. (2022). Crafting a pandemic book club: Knowledge gained [Poster presentation]. ALA Annual.

Felix, I., Maimone, J.M., & Martínez, A. (2022, Nov. 10). The Bulletin Brown Bag: A Discussion with Sensitivity Readers [panel]. Center for Children’s Books.

Park Dahlen, S., Maimone, J.M., & Terrones, L. (2022, Mar. 2). Sensitivity Reading Panel [panel]. Center for Children’s Books.

Maimone, J.M., & Drumright, K. (2019). Podcasting as Storytelling [Conference session]. Colorado Teen Literature Conference. Denver, Colorado, United States.