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TRANSCRIPT: Monsters of Adultism: Boogeymen, The Trunchbull, and President Snow
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpxETG4PlK4 INTRODUCTION: THE BOOGEYMAN Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! My name is Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this video is The Monsters of Adultism. We are going to explore how we can understand children as a marginalized demographic in our society, some of…
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The Monster & The Child; or, Aieeee Starting New Ventures Is Scary
I’ve learned many things in the last few years. Chief among them: an eighty-mile commute is way too long. I stuck it out for two years, though, because a full-time lectureship straight out of grad school — especially one in which I got to teach essentially whatever I wanted for half of the year —…
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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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