“Timing It Right: Intersectionality, Temporality, and Critical Childhood Studies Now”
Maude Hines
Thinking through and about childhood is integral to thinking about identity, systems of power, and possibilities for liberation. Read More
Category Archives: Thinking Through Childhood
“Intersections of Childhood/Slavery and the Invention of Global Children’s Literature”
Courtney Weikle-Mills
Childhood is often aligned with whiteness and innocence, but what other roles can it play? What happens when childhood functions as part of a program of enforcing inequality, dating back to slavery? Read More
“Interrogating Genealogy in Childhood Studies”
Carol J. Singley
How have we excluded the histories of adopted children, and kept children’s identities circumscribed in an ideology of biological essentialism that serves an outdated patriarchal social structure? Read More
“P4C, Children’s Literature, and Fanfiction by Kids”
Kenneth Kidd
I want to keep children’s literature as a priority for childhood studies, and P4C encourages that commitment. Read More
“Charting Hawthorne: Critical Childhood Studies, Children’s Literature, and the Canon”
Laura Laffrado
Hawthorne’s works for children were trivialized as subliterary at the same moment that much of his other work was authorized and endorsed by scholars in central ways. Read More
Welcome to Critical Childhood Studies: A Long 19c Digital Humanities Project
Allison Giffen, Lucia Hodgson
This website is committed to gathering and nurturing the growing community of critical childhood studies scholars; to advancing teaching and scholarship in the field; and to encouraging the professional development of scholars at all stages of their careers, including graduate students, contingent faculty, instructors, and independent scholars. We seek to build an inclusive community where we can support each other. Read More