Knowledge Commons | Gillian Lathey | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/gillian732/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Gillian Lathey is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:14:28 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 c5771d55b1e48310389e91200fd99f6c Vanessa Joosen deposited ‘What's the point of grandpa?’ Grandparents in Children's Literature in the group Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879777/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 03:02:06 -0400 This chapter discusses grandparent figures in contemporary Western children’s literature by reflecting on their functions in the plot and on their construction in relationship to discourses on old age in society at large. The case studies draw from Flemish, Dutch and British children’s literature, and the analyses are framed with theories from age…[Read more]

]]> 0 176caf2f3a70c05663b368a70eaf73bc Mike Rifino started the topic CFP! The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) - Due date 12/1 in the discussion Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/childrens-literature-and-digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-the-journal-of-interactive-technology-and-pedagogy-jitp-due-date-12-1-2/ Thu, 05 Oct 2023 09:47:54 -0400 The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

Issue 24: General Issue
Issue Editors:
Elizabeth Alsop, CUNY School of Professional Studies
Cen Liu, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Sarah Silverman, University of Michigan-Dearborn

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) seeks scholarly work at the intersection of…[Read more]

]]> 05e15f2711d8d698d256937b1f99a5ad Vanessa Joosen deposited Age in David Almond’s Oeuvre: A Multi-Method Approach to Studying Age and the Life Course in Children’s Literature in the group Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1854294/ Wed, 09 Aug 2023 01:08:48 -0400 In recent decades, age studies has started to emerge as a new approach to study children’s literature. This book builds on that scholarship but also significantly extends it by exploring age in various aspects of children’s literature: the age of the author, the characters, the writing style, the intended readership and the real reader. Mor…[Read more]

]]> 0 03edfbd9d038eedc0e7382c1a8bb173e Mike Rifino started the topic Due Date Extended! (6/15) CFP: Liberatory Legacy of bell hooks JITP Themed Issue in the discussion Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/childrens-literature-and-digital-humanities/forum/topic/due-date-extended-6-15-cfp-liberatory-legacy-of-bell-hooks-jitp-themed-issue/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 20:39:24 -0400 The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

Themed Issue 23: The Liberatory Legacy of bell hooks: Pedagogies and Praxes that Heal and Disrupt

Issue Editors:

Nikki Fragala Barnes, University of Central Florida

Summer L. Hamilton, Pennsylvania State University

Asma Neblett, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Kush Patel, Manipal Academy of…[Read more]

]]> 76b35e5b130a82fd63f8be02d36ba36f Vanessa Joosen deposited Encounters of a Dreamy Kind: Dreams as Spaces for Intergenerational Play and Healing in Dutch Children's Literature in the group Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846885/ Tue, 23 May 2023 02:23:49 -0400 Dreams can function in children’s books as a means to connect young characters and
older figures in the story. This article presents three methods to study intergenerational
encounters in and through dreams in a selection of contemporary Dutch children’s
books. First, a digital analysis of a corpus of 81 books shows that the older the cha…[Read more]

]]> 0 c1931452a4235982ecae0b9d486b9f03 Vanessa Joosen deposited Connecting Childhood Studies, Age Studies, and Children’s Literature Studies: John Wall’s Concept of Childism and Anne Fine’s The Granny Project in the group Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846884/ Tue, 23 May 2023 02:23:44 -0400 Diverging definitions and uses of concepts such as “ageism,” “aetonormativity,” “adultism,” and “childism” point at the relative separateness of the fields of childhood studies, age studies, and children’s literature studies, while also highlighting their shared interest in questions of age, prejudice, and agency. This article uses John Wall’s…[Read more]

]]> 0 cea3842cb3943fe3733444c14bacfcb5 Lindsey Geybels deposited Shuffling Softly, Sighing Deeply: A Digital Inquiry into Representations of Older Men and Women in Literature for Different Ages in the group Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1835295/ Fri, 24 Feb 2023 02:23:38 -0500 When gender is brought into concerns about older people, the emphasis often lies on stereotypes connected to older women, and few comparative studies have been conducted pertaining to the representation of the intersection between older age and gender in fiction. This article argues that not only children’s literature, traditionally considered t…[Read more]

]]> 0 312309e2e6274a98aed7ddbaeea9a046 Vanessa Joosen started the topic CFP LIon and the Unicorn - Special issue on children's literature and DH in the discussion Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/childrens-literature-and-digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-lion-and-the-unicorn-special-issue-on-childrens-literature-and-dh/ Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:47:04 -0500 Call for PapersChildren’s Literature and Digital HumanitiesSpecial issue The Lion and the Unicorn In recent years, Digital Humanities has had a big impact on the field of literary studies as a whole and digital approaches are now also making their way to children’s literature studies. Moreover, various large digitisation projects have made mor…[Read more]

]]> f6fcd229626d72e017ce2f1c1fc2d7ee Andreia Nunes started the topic Article from John Stephens in the discussion Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/childrens-literature-and-digital-humanities/forum/topic/article-from-john-stephens/ Tue, 08 Nov 2022 14:05:57 -0500 Hi everyone!

Could anybody help me get John Stephens' article: Gender, Genre and Children's Literature?

Stephens, John. Signal; Stroud, Glos. Vol. 79,  (Jan 1, 1996): 17.

It is available for download through ProQuest but unfortunately my university doesn't have access to it ;(

Gender, Genre and Children's Literature - ProQuest

Thank you in ad…[Read more]

]]> 14197da09332d462f07b0648fa2e588f Mike Rifino started the topic Join the JITP Collective! Apply by Nov 30th in the discussion Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/childrens-literature-and-digital-humanities/forum/topic/join-the-jitp-collective-apply-by-nov-30th-5/ Sun, 30 Oct 2022 23:12:21 -0400 Call for Participation

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy seeks new members to join our Editorial Collective. We invite applications from graduate students, scholars, and practitioners in all fields who critically and creatively engage with digital technology in their teaching, learning, and research. We will be appointing bo…[Read more]

]]> cb4329861d1334f00db590a0722b7ef6 Andreia Nunes replied to the topic Suggestions on programs to analyse data from children's books in the discussion Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/childrens-literature-and-digital-humanities/forum/topic/suggestions-on-programs-to-analyse-data-from-childrens-books/#post-61745 Mon, 19 Sep 2022 10:15:34 -0400 Hi Meredith!

Thank you so much 🙂 I have chosen some categories I would like to analyze like physical characteristics (hair, beard), adjectives, professions, household tasks, etc. to see how male/female characters are represented. But they are still very open - to see what I will find in the books. Some will repeat itself so I use numbers as…[Read more]

]]> 74102933365669e8e8ee5bf79e917874 Meredith Hale replied to the topic Suggestions on programs to analyse data from children's books in the discussion Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/childrens-literature-and-digital-humanities/forum/topic/suggestions-on-programs-to-analyse-data-from-childrens-books/#post-61699 Thu, 15 Sep 2022 13:50:10 -0400 This sounds like a great project. Good programs depend a little on how your data is formatted, but I'd recommend seeing if OpenRefine might be a good fit for your project - https://openrefine.org/download.html

]]> c7ce2a903590e3f6335d3e109aa84799 Andreia Nunes started the topic Suggestions on programs to analyse data from children's books in the discussion Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/childrens-literature-and-digital-humanities/forum/topic/suggestions-on-programs-to-analyse-data-from-childrens-books/ Tue, 13 Sep 2022 14:11:39 -0400 Hi everyone! My name is Andreia Nunes and I am doing my Phd in sociology, investigating about gender stereotypes in Portuguese contemporary children's literature. I've been working on my analysis grid and my categories and I have around 100 books to analyse! I am wondering about the best program to use to insert data! Anyone working on something…[Read more]

]]> 0b6183abaa9704a8ca48cae2bdd74de1 Vanessa Joosen deposited Constructing Age in Children’s Literature: A Digital Approach to Guus Kuijer’s Oeuvre in the group Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773096/ Fri, 25 Feb 2022 02:24:50 -0500 This article applies digital methods to gain more insight into the role of age in the oeuvre of the Dutch author Guus Kuijer. The concept of “age” is relevant to Kuijer’s oeuvre in various ways: he is a crosswriter who has authored fiction for children, adolescents, and adults, and intergenerational relationships are a recurrent thematic featu…[Read more]

]]> 0 8afe5ddcca04b35bf387c8d80d6c5285 Vanessa Joosen deposited A style for every age: A stylometric inquiry into crosswriters for children, adolescents and adults in the group Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1768310/ Wed, 19 Jan 2022 02:23:38 -0500 In the field of children’s literature studies, much attention has been devoted to investigating differences between children’s and adult literature. Works of crosswriters, authors who write for both readerships in different works, are an excellent source for this research. This article applies stylometry, the computational method of analysing sty…[Read more]

]]> 0 c70f56e6888dbfd60e028fbfe33c091d Vanessa Joosen deposited Writing when Young: Bart Moeyaert as a Young Adult Author in the group Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760807/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 02:37:45 -0500 Duet met valse noten (1983) started as a diary when Bart Moeyaert was twelve years old. After it was disclosed by an older brother, Moeyaert rewrote it during his teenage years as a novel about first love. This article studies the genesis and early reception of Moeyaert’s novel to reflect on young authors who fictionalize real-life experiences a…[Read more]

]]> 0 198f6a6b023097b8a6ca5f839d695b44 Vanessa Joosen deposited Rewriting the Grandmother’s Story: Old Age in “Little Red Riding Hood” and Gillian Cross’ Wolf in the group Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744583/ Fri, 02 Jul 2021 02:23:38 -0400 Abstract: Feminist perspectives have strongly influenced the fairy-tale rewritings of the past decades, but the intersection of gender with other identity markers deserves more attention. This article applies the conclusions of Sylvia Henneberg’s critical examination of age and gender in fairy tales to Gillian Cross’s Wolf (1990),
an awa…[Read more]

]]> 0 1975e6bb7968721c8263358e160b414b Lindsey Geybels deposited Putting the Sorting Hat on J.K. Rowling’s Reader: A digital inquiry into the age of the implied readership of the Harry Potter series in the group Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739568/ Wed, 26 May 2021 02:28:25 -0400 Compared to the large body of research into gender, race and class in children’s literature, there has been little awareness of the social construction of age in this discourse. Analysing age in contemporary fiction for young readers gives insight in how present-day society models (people of) different ages, and given the decisive role that b…[Read more]

]]> 0 0396154bc0b976ce114264b3121abb3a Lindsey Geybels deposited Over (de) grenzen: Op zoek naar de lezer in het oeuvre van Joke van Leeuwen in the group Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739567/ Wed, 26 May 2021 02:28:21 -0400 In the field of children’s literature studies much attention has been devoted to analysing differences between children’s and adult literature. Works by crosswriters, authors who write for both readerships in different works, are an excellent source for this research. This article adds to the debate by building upon previous studies which have use…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ff98a868e102c8735fb1622b5437099 Justin Wigard deposited Now THIS is Podracing! Ludic and Narrative Friction in Star Wars Episode 1: Racer in the group Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1737979/ Wed, 12 May 2021 02:23:38 -0400 Abstract: In Star Wars Episode I: Racer (1999), players choose between several different podracers (including Anakin Skywalker and Sebulba), and compete in racing tournaments on several planets. While the game currently holds the Guinness record as the best-selling sci-fi racing game of all time and was re-released for Nintendo Switch in 2020,…[Read more]

]]> 0 33d94e25f33af6400db03ad721b33a0e Julie Blake commented on the doc Digital Archives in the group Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1716054/ Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:13:40 -0500 The New York Public Library's Digital Collection, The Black Experience in Children's Books: Selections from Augusta Baker's Bibliographies, is here. Be warned: though all of these books represent black lives, many of them are deeply racist. If you want guidance on this, I'm documenting them and can…[Read more]

]]> 218a9e7d0356dee4de55ed117a8c3cfd Anna Cermakova commented on the doc Digital Archives in the group Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1715596/ Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:29:11 -0500 19th century English Children's literature corpus (ChiLit), available at: https://clic.bham.ac.uk
For more info about the corpus see two following blog posts: https://blog.bham.ac.uk/clic-dickens/2017/11/28/the-glare-19th-century-childrens-literature-corpus-in-clic/ and…[Read more]

]]> c432db35f477e8c870b6b4a00b9f98e6 Vanessa Joosen edited the doc Digital Archives in the group Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1714255/ Fri, 23 Oct 2020 08:48:32 -0400 2c03d964c25d768efe56c760f4970e5d Vanessa Joosen created the doc Digital Archives in the group Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1714254/ Fri, 23 Oct 2020 08:47:41 -0400 03a9019521887e21edcc8eb95b40b052 Vanessa Joosen created the group Children's literature and digital humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1714110/ Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:03:22 -0400 0