About
James Hunt Smith (he/they) earned his BA in English and Linguistics from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Since then, James has found that they are unable to escape schools and schooling. As an educator, he has worked as an English teaching assistant in Canarias and Madrid, Spain, a preschool math and literacy interventionist in Springfield, Massachusetts, and, most recently, a fourth grade general education teacher in Brookline, Massachusetts. James is also a serial student, having earned a master propio in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language from the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, an MAT in Elementary Education from Simmons University, and an MA in Children’s Literature also from Simmons. Their interests range broadly, but generally James's work centers on how contemporary global children’s literature—especially picturebooks, graphics, and film—can be used by readers and educators to explore the intersections of queerness and childhood in today’s world.
