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Monsters 102: Monster, Victim, Hero … and Child: Transcript
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEfOfntB3Xs&t=4s 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 Monsters 102: Monster, Victim, Hero – and Child. If you haven’t yet watched my Monsters 101 video, which was about understanding monstrosity as the antagonistic…
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Monsters 101: Monstrosity vs. Humanity: Transcript
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edt-nvHqoWs&t=23s INTRO Hello and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where Childhood Studies and Monster Studies collide! I’m Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this video is Monstrosity 101: Monsters vs. Humans. A lot of people have spent a lot of time trying to define what it means to be a “monster,”…
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Welcome to The Monster & The Child: Transcript
(NB: I have started a YouTube channel! I will be hosting transcripts here, along with other blog posts. I hope you enjoy!) Hello there! My name is Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this is The Monster & The Child. I am incredibly excited to bring this new venture into the wide world of YouTube. This channel…
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Christina Soontornvat: Casually Renewing My Faith in Middle-Grade
I have recently become acquainted with the work of Christina Soontornvat, and I’m so glad that I have. I haven’t felt such a high level of enthusiasm for contemporary middle-grade fantasy in a while. I don’t intend that to sound quite as shady as it does; there are certainly a lot of great things happening…
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The Monster Resurfaces
Hey, remember when I had a blog? Well, it turns out I still do, since I kept paying the annual fee to WordPress, because hope springs eternal, I suppose. In my defense, a lot has happened in the last three years: I think all of that justifies my absence from this space, though I am…
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A Cup of Kindness
Why, hello! I haven’t blogged since August! This semester has truly been the most exhausting and hectic academic term of my life. I started off with back-to-back illnesses (food poisoning followed immediately by an interminable chest cold), then had a perfect storm of time consuming coursework and travel (a really fun Monday night Camden/Tuesday morning…
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We’re Gonna Sing It Again
So I rounded out the summer by having a full on religious experience in a theater. In other words, I saw Hadestown with my family a week and a half ago, and it was incredible. I loved it; I ugly-cried. When I was younger, I cried all the time at media, but now it takes more to…
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A Breath
Not a lot of people read this blog. Transparently speaking, it more or less exists to prove to any publishing professionals who might go looking someday that I’m a real person who thinks seriously about this whole storytelling thing. It’s also often fun to blather about whatever’s on my mind that month to the handful…
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On Such a Timeless Flight
As far as forms of storytelling go, I’m pretty one-note. I’m a novelist. Honestly, I’ve never really tried my hand at anything else. Sure, in college I had to write short stories for workshops, but I mostly cheated and used pieces of longer ideas that I had. Some forms don’t really personally interest me; others…
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