University of Connecticut

Contact Info
Charles Mahoney - Director of Graduate Studies

charles.mahoney@uconn.edu

(860) 486-2282

Office: Austin 231

Mailing Address:

University of Connecticut

Department of English

215 Glenbrook Road, U-4025

Storrs, CT 06269-4025

Website

Program Info
Offers MA and PhD with concentrations in Children's Literature

Regular Faculty
Katharine Capshaw - capshaw@uconn.edu

Jean Marsden - jean.marsden@uconn.edu

Victoria Ford Smith - victoria.f.smith@uconn.edu

Course Info
Recently offered courses include:
 * ENGL 5200-01 (class #11998) CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: (Capshaw): This survey of Children’s Literature focuses on field formation and introduces students to its major critical methodologies. […] The course invests deeply in three major critical sites for the study of children’s literature: archival work, debates around child agency, and word/image study.
 * ENGL 6200-01 (class #22595) SEMINAR IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: (Capshaw):  This course will focus on the history and theory of graphic novel.
 * Children's Literature (Fall 2014)
 * Seminar in Children's Literature: Ethnic American Children's Literature (Spring 2015)
 * Seminar in Children's Literature (Spring 2014)