Online lecture invitation
The Centre for Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the University of Wrocław, Poland has the honor to invite you to the 25th lecture in the series “International Voices in Children’s Literature Studies”:
Prof. Philip Nel, Kansas State University
Getting Personal: Unlearning Objectivity, Anti-Racism, and Stories We Love
Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 18:00 (UTC+2)
This talk is the first draft of the first chapter in The Misuses of Enchantment: Childhood, Nostalgia, and Who We Are. The book itself — under contract with Oxford UP — considers how the American authoritarian movement is using children’s literature and children’s education to further its aims. (For more information please click on the link below).
Philip Nel is University Distinguished Professor of English at Kansas State University. He is the author or co-editor of fourteen books, including the forthcoming How to Draw the World: Harold and the Purple Crayon and The Making of a Children’s Classic (Oxford UP, November 2024), the first in the Children’s Classics, Critically series he is co-editing with Melanie Ramdarshan Bold.