Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children's Literature

ISBN-10: 1108540325
ISBN-13: 9781108540322
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Language: English
Published: 2018-10-31
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Author: Melissa Terras

Description

How is academia portrayed in children's literature? This Element ambitiously surveys fictional professors in texts marketed towards children, who are overwhelmingly white and male, tending to be elderly scientists. Professors fall into three stereotypes: the vehicle to explain scientific facts, the baffled genius, and the evil madman. By the late twentieth century, the stereotype of the male, mad, muddlehead, called Professor SomethingDumb, is formed in humorous yet pejorative fashion. This Element provides a publishing history of the role of academics in children's literature, questioning the book culture which promotes the enforcement of stereotypes regarding intellectual expertise in children's media. This title is also available, with additional material, as Open Access.

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