Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children's Literature

by Melissa Terras

How is academia portrayed in children's literature? This Element ambitiously surveys fictional professors in texts marketed towards children. Professors are overwhelmingly white and male, tending to be elderly scientists who fall into three stereotypes: the vehicle to explain scientific facts, the baffled genius, and the evil madman. By the late twentieth century, the stereotype of the male, mad, muddlehead, called Professor SomethingDumb, is formed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108438458
• ISBN13: 9781108438452
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.0"