Kathleen Kellett
Lecturer
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Education
- PhD (2023) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Childhood Studies)
- MA (2014) Simmons University (Children's Literature)
- MFA (2014) Simmons University (Writing for Children)
- BA (2011) Knox College (Creative Writing)
Research
Children’s and Adolescent Literature
Youth Media Studies
Youth Research and Digital Ethnography
Monster Studies
Youth Media Studies
Youth Research and Digital Ethnography
Monster Studies
Professional Societies
- ChLA – Children's Literature Association Member
Selected Publications
Kellett, Kathleen. (2022). The Open Gates of Eden: Uncontainable Adolescence in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. In Containing Childhood: Space and Identity in Children’s Literature (Ed. D. Russell). University Press of Mississippi.
Kellett, Kathleen and Silver, Lauren. (2021). Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing by Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall (review). The Lion and the Unicorn, 45(1), 127-130.
Kellett, Kathleen. (2018). Beyond the Collapse of Meaning: Narratives of Monstrosity in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. University of Toronto Quarterly, Special Issue, Monster Studies, 87(1), 158-175.
Kellett, Kathleen and Silver, Lauren. (2021). Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing by Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall (review). The Lion and the Unicorn, 45(1), 127-130.
Kellett, Kathleen. (2018). Beyond the Collapse of Meaning: Narratives of Monstrosity in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. University of Toronto Quarterly, Special Issue, Monster Studies, 87(1), 158-175.
Courses
Foundations in Writing and Critical Inquiry