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December 6, 2017 Children's Literature / Hero's Quest / Joseph Campbell / MPhil

The Student-Hero’s Quest

Lindsay Burton is an MPhil in Children’s Literature at St. John’s College. She wears loose, comfy clothing so as to

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November 28, 2017 Cambridge / Children's Literature / Education / PhD

Want to make your PhD better? Hang out with an animal

Anna Savoie is a third year PhD student at the Children’s Literature Centre in Cambridge. If you go around asking

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October 24, 2017 Cambridge / Children's Literature / Children's Literature Centre / Education

The First Year Viva, or The Definitely Not Breaking Point

Vera Veldhuizen is a second year PhD researching children’s war literature from a cognitive perspective. So the way the PhD works

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July 18, 2017 Cambridge / Children's Literature / Disney / MPhil / University of Cambridge

Looking back: My personal highlights of the Children’s Literature MPhil

Lisa Kazianka is an MPhil student who has recently handed in her thesis – yay! It is done: the thesis

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June 28, 2017 Cambridge / Children's Literature / Deathly Hallows / Disney / Harry Potter / Harry Potter / JK Rowling / MPhil / Twilight / University of Cambridge

What a transformation! Glass slippers, Polyjuice Potion and a Very Hungry Caterpillar

Anna Purkiss is an MPhil student who is currently writing her thesis on representations of disability in contemporary young adult

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May 30, 2017 Anne of Green Gables / Children's Literature / Harry Potter / MPhil

Reflecting on Friendship

This week’s post is by Anna Purkiss, an MPhil-er who’s almost done! One of my favourite parts about my MPhil

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May 16, 2017 Cambridge / Children's Literature / Homerton College / Meg Rosoff / University of Cambridge

Meg Rosoff, Philip Nel and Reasons Why I Study Children’s Literature

Danielle Cameron is a former teaching assistant and current MPhil student. She writes about issues of intersectionality (particularly age, race

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May 9, 2017 Cambridge / Children's Literature / MPhil / thesis / University of Cambridge

Time for Thesis Writing!

Lisa Kazianka is an MPhil student and currently working on her thesis focusing on letter novels in young adult literature.

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February 15, 2017 Children's Literature / teaching

Listening to the Music of Children’s Literature

In her former life as a primary school teacher, Anna Purkiss used to teach children how to read and appreciate

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November 19, 2016 Cambridge / Children's Literature / MPhil / University of Cambridge

A week in the life of a Children’s Lit MPhil International Student

This week’s post is brought to you by Magdalena Jennings, who is, as will become obvious, an international MPhil student.

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