Reading and Assignment Schedule:
Feb 2nd :
Lori Gruen, “Introduction” to Critical Terms for Animal Studies. University of Chicago, 2018: 1-14.
Lisa Rowe Fraustino, “The Rights and Wrongs of Anthropomorphism in Picture Books,” in Ethics in Children’s Literature, ed. Claudia Mills. Taylor & Francis, 2014: 145-162.
Feb 9th:
Leslie Bow, “Racial Abstraction and Species Difference: Anthropomorphic Animals in ‘Multicultural’ Children’s Literature,” American Literature 191 (2) (June 2019): 323–356.
“The CCBC’s Diversity Statistics: A Conversation with Kathleen T. Horning,” The Horn Book (March 27, 2017).
Feb 16th:
Keywords exercise, with Critical Terms for Animal Studies. In partnership with Karl Steel’s class “Little Beasts” (via zoom during our regular class time).
Feb 23rd [in-person]:
Tess Cosslett, “Animal Autobiographies,” in Talking Animals in British Children’s Fiction, 1786-1914. Ashgate, 2006: 63-93.
Ursula K. LeGuin, “Cheek by Jowl: Animals in Children’s Literature” [2004 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture, April 2, 2004]. Children and Libraries (Summer/ Fall 2004): 20-30.
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions: The Autobiography of a Horse. Translated from the Original Equine by Anna Sewell. London: Jarrold and Sons, 1877:
March 2nd [in-person]:
Saunders, Beautiful Joe, ed Chez, with attention to the appendices and introduction as well.
Articles from Childhood and Pethood: New Perspectives on Childhood Studies and Animal Studies, edited by Anna Feuerstein, Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo (Routledge, 2017):
Monica Flegel, “Children and Animal ‘Pets,’” xiii-xix.
Kenneth Kidd, “On Childhood Studies and Human Exceptionalism,” xix-1.
Anna Feuerstein and Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo, “Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Childhood and Pethood,” 1-20.
Roxanne Harde, “’Doncher be too sure of that!’: Children, Dogs, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Early Posthumanism,” BookBird 53.1 (2015): 10-23.
March 9th [in-person]:
Brigitte Fielder, “’No Rights That Any Body is Bound to Respect:’ Pets, Race, and African American Child Readers,” Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s Literature before 1900, ed. Katharine Capshaw. University of Minnesota Press, 2017: 164-181.
Brigitte Fielder, “’As the Crow Flies’: Black Children, Flying Africans, and Fantastic Futures in The Brownies’ Book.” The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 14. 3 (Fall 2021): 413-436.
March 16th:
Hugh Lofting, The Story of Doctor Doolittle:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/501/501-h/501-h.htm
Sara L. Schwebel and Jocelyn Van Tuyl, “The Newbery Medal is 100. It’s Smuggled Some Real Duds Onto Our Library Shelves” (January 22nd, 2022):
https://slate.com/culture/2022/01/newbery-award-100-racism-childrens-books.html
John Clement Ball, “Max’s Colonial Fantasy: Rereading Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are,” Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 28.1 (January 1997): 167-179.
March 23rd:
Rescheduled to meet with Karl Steel’s class: Derrida, The Animal That Therefore I Am. Details pending.
March 30th:
E. B. White, Charlotte’s Web [any edition will do].
Amy Ratelle, “Ethics and Edibility in Charlotte’s Web,” The Lion and the Unicorn 38.3 (September 2014): 327-341.
April 6th [in-person]:
Roxanne Harde, “’He called their namesakes, the animals, from each direction’: Kinship and Animals in Indigenous Children’s Literature,” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 46.3 (Fall 2021): 230-243.
Van Camp and Littlechild, A Man Called Raven.
“Trickster: Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection,” various contributors, edited by Matt Dembicki.
April 13th [in-person]:
Pennypacker, Pax.
Gail Melson, “Reaching across the Divide,” Why the Wild Things Are (Harvard UP, 2001): 22-44.
Carmen Kynard, “Black Girlhood Stories: Outsmarting Every Fox!”
http://carmenkynard.org/tag/flossie-and-the-fox/
McKissack and Isadora, Flossie and the Fox.
April 20th: Spring Recess
April 27th:
Works in Progress Session I
May 3rd (date may change based on availability of Karl Steel’s seminar participants):
Academic and professional opportunities in critical animal studies [journals, fora, conferences, etc]
May 11th:
Works in Progress Session II
