About
A former elementary school teacher, James Hunt Smith (he/they) holds master’s degrees in Teaching and Children’s Literature from Simmons University and in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language from the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. James is currently a PhD student in the Joint Program in English and Education, where their research revolves around questions of how children’s literature – including picturebooks, graphic novels, and film – might be used by readers and educators to explore the crises of childhood. Their recent work appears or is forthcoming in Boyhood Studies, The Lion and the Unicorn, and The Journal of Popular Culture, with book chapters forthcoming in Literacies for Earthlings (Brill) and the Handbook of Research on Diversity in Children's and Young Adult Literature (Routledge, chapter co-written with Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas).
