gsjolly@yorku.ca

Having taught in CCY for over a decade, I have had the opportunity to teach first-year to fourth-year courses, and to work with multiple cohorts of students. Recently, my teaching has focused on CCY 2999 (“Global Cultures of Children and Youth”) and CCY 4145 (“Fantasy in Children’s Cultures”). My research interests inform my teaching in at least three ways. First: thematically, my courses generously include studies of childhood and global migration, childhood and religion/spirituality and children as trickster figures. Second: in terms of critical theory, these studies foreground the contemporary material and cultural consequences of colonialism. These contemporary consequences include children’s engagements with entrenched racism, economic disparities between the Global North and Global South and spectres of cultural displacement. Third: because I believe stories are powerful, my courses gravitate towards studies of narratives–ethnographic, literary, pictographic and cinematic. (Also: I suspect my research and teaching interests may have some biographical roots: I was conceived in London, born in Mumbai, bounced across continents for sevenish years, and raised in Toronto to be a trickster-like straddler-of-worlds). 

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