Kathleen Kellett

storytelling and scholarship for young adults and children

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  • TRANSCRIPT: ANIMORPHS: The Monster and the Child at War

    INTRODUCTION             Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this video is all about Animorphs. If you have only a passing familiarity with this series, you may be thinking, oh, how fun! If you know this series well, then you…

    kathleenmkellett

    December 14, 2025
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    Animorphs, childhood studies, K.A. Applegate, monster studies, The Monster & The Child, The Monster and The Child, transcripts
  • TRANSCRIPT: Children with No Future: The Child Vampire in “Let the Right One In” and “Interview with the Vampire”

    INTRODUCTION             Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this video is all about the child vampire. This is, in many ways, the final video in my little trilogy on queer child monsters; the first two were both about shapeshifters.…

    kathleenmkellett

    November 30, 2025
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    childhood studies, Interview with the Vampire, Let the Right One In, monster studies, monsters, The Monster & The Child, video essays
  • TRANSCRIPT: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters and I Saw the TV Glow: The Queer Child Shapeshifter, Part 2

    INTRODUCTION             Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this is – finally – part two of the queer child shapeshifter. Part 1 was all about Nimona by N.D. Stevenson – I love that character so much that I couldn’t…

    kathleenmkellett

    November 16, 2025
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    childhood studies, I Saw the TV Glow, monster studies, monsters, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, The Monster & The Child, transcripts, video essays
  • TRANSCRIPT: The Kids of Conspiracy Stories: The Spectacle of Victimhood from Blood Libel to the X-Files

    INTRODUCTION             Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and I am excited to be back after taking a very brief hiatus to go get married. Thank you so much for all of your kind wishes people left on my last…

    kathleenmkellett

    November 2, 2025
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    childhood studies, conspiracy theories, monster studies, Orphan Black, The Monster & The Child, The Monster and The Child, The X-Files, transcripts, video essays
  • TRANSCRIPT: Nimona: The Queer Child Shapeshifter, Part 1

    INTRODUCTION             Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and I am extremely excited to welcome you to my first video about childhood, monstrosity, and queerness. This is a particular favorite subject of mine, for, I assume, obvious reasons, but it…

    kathleenmkellett

    October 12, 2025
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    book recs, childhood studies, monster studies, movie recs, ND Stevenson, Nimona, queer literature reading list, queer studies, The Monster & The Child, transcripts, video essays
  • TRANSCRIPT: Good Nature, Bad Nurture: Frankenstein, Dark Water, and The Sixth Sense

      Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! My name is Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and today we are continuing my series on the monsters of childhood innocence by discussing what happens when that innocence is not nurtured. How badly do adults have to drop the ball…

    kathleenmkellett

    September 28, 2025
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    childhood innocence, childhood studies, Dark Water, Frankenstein, Hideo Nataka, M. Night Shyamalan, Mary Shelley, monster studies, monsters, The Monster & The Child, The Monster and The Child, The Sixth Sense, transcripts, video essays
  • TRANSCRIPT: The Trope of the Disabled Imposter Child in The Brood, Orphan, and the Works of Ari Aster

    INTRODUCTION Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! My name is Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this is part three of my Monsters of Childhood Innocence series, and part two of my monstrosity, childhood, and disability analysis. There’s just too much to talk about for one video…

    kathleenmkellett

    September 14, 2025
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    Ari Aster, childhood studies, Cronenberg, disability studies, film reviews, Hereditary, horror reviews, Midsommar, monster studies, monsters, Orphan (2009), The Brood, The Monster & The Child, transcripts, video essays
  • TRANSCRIPT: The Monsters of Childhood Innocence: Eugenics in Old Hollywood … and Today

    INTRODUCTION: MONSTERS AND MARVELS Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this is the second video in my series on the monsters of childhood innocence. Once again, we’re going to ask the question of which children are allowed to be…

    kathleenmkellett

    August 31, 2025
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    childhood innocence, childhood studies, disability studies, eugenics, Freaks (1932), monster studies, The Black Stork, The Monster & The Child, The Monster and The Child, video essays
  • When the Angels Left the Old Country: A Really Mushy Review

    I keep written lists of the books that I read every year, both to keep track of the number (my goal is always 50, but I rarely achieve it) and to mark how much I liked it. I give each book a letter grade that is partially based on my evaluation of its quality, but…

    kathleenmkellett

    August 22, 2025
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    book recs, book review, egregiously earnest and lacking in subtlety, queer literature reading list, Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country, YA fantasy, YA lit, young adult literature articles
  • TRANSCRIPT: The Monsters of Childhood Innocence: Devils, Darkness, and White Supremacy

    Part 1: Childhood Innocence in the Western World Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and today we’re going to talk about the monsters of childhood innocence. That may sound like a contradiction in terms, but I actually have a whole…

    kathleenmkellett

    August 17, 2025
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    Attack the Block, childhood innocence, childhood studies, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Karen J. Renner, King Kong, monster studies, monsters, Robin Bernstein, Rousseau, The Monster & The Child, The Omen, transcripts, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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