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Podcast: New Books in Education
Episode: Melissa Terras, āPicture-Book Professors: Academia and Childrenās Literatureā (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Description: How have academics been represented in childrenās books? In Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Childrenās Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2018),Ā Melissa Terras,Ā Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh, tells the story of the professor in childrenās books since 1850.Ā The book details the history of highly problematic depictions of academics, usually as kindly old men, baffled buffoons, or evil madmen, depictions that exclude those who are not white, often middle class origin, men. Terrasā work is a great example for digital humanities scholarship, offering a powerful case for new methods to answer crucial questions of equality an...