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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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  August 3, 2025

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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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  July 25, 2025

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