University of Florida

Contact Info
Leah Rosenberg - Graduate Coordinator

rosenber@ufl.edu

(352) 294-2848

John Cech  - Director of UF Center for Children's Literature and Culture

jcech@ufl.edu

(352) 294-2861

4008 Turlington Hall

P.O. Box 117310

Gainesville, FL 32611-7310

Ph: (352) 392-6650

Fax: (352) 392-0860

Website

Program Info
Offers MA and PhD in children's literature

Home of the Center for Children's Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Collection of Historical Children's Literature

Regular Faculty
John Cech  - jcech@ufl.edu

Kenneth Kidd - kbkidd@ufl.edu

Anastasia Ulanowicz - aulanow@english.ufl.edu

Course Info
Multiple courses are offered in Children's Literature. There is at least one course in children's literature offered almost every semester; however, many of these courses appear to be "special topics in" style courses, as many of them have the same course number (LIT 6934).

Some examples of courses over the last two academic years include:
 * LIT 6855
 * Comparative Children’s Literature
 * Kenneth Kidd
 * This seminar considers comparative children’s literature both historically and in our globalized moment.  … We’ll consider the ongoing tussle of comparative literature in relation to “world literature” as well as literary nationalisms, with particular focus on the role of children’s materials.
 * LIT 6934
 * Maurice Sendak: The Artist, the Art of the Picture Book, the Golden Age of American Children’s Literature, and the Archetypes of Childhood
 * John Cech
 * LIT 6934
 * Poetry and Childhood
 * John Cech
 * Through a broad range of readings, many from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, the seminar will explore many of the essential ways in which poetry is folded into the rhythms of childhood.
 * LIT 6934
 * Writing Childhood
 * John Cech
 * This course offers an opportunity to explore a number of the familiar genres of writing for young people—poetry, the picture book, realistic and fantasy fiction, biography, and non-fiction—as well as more experimental and innovative forms, like moveable and artist’s books and the graphic novel.
 * LIT 6934
 * Children’s Literature and the Nation
 * Anastasia Ulanowicz
 * In this course, we will theorize two distinct categories—the “child” and the “nation”—in order to consider the various ways they have been yoked together and deployed by works of theory, political discourse, and literature for young people. How, we will ask, do both theories of the nation, generally, and national narratives, more specifically, use the figure of the child—and how in turn are various culturally- and historically-contingent notions of the child inflected by these concepts and narratives