The Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures (CRYTC) supports scholarly inquiry into literary, media, and other cultural texts for children and youth. The Centre provides a focus for research in the field in the Department of English and more broadly at the University of Winnipeg, houses the journal Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, facilitates the development and management of collaborative national and international research projects, hosts visiting speakers and researchers, and maintains links with other research centres in children's studies internationally... more
The Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures is sponsoring a University of Winnipeg speaker series entitled Shelter. Over the months of October, November, January and March, speakers will explore the representations of shelter and its lack, the social and political discourses surrounding these representations, and the affect attached to the idea of home. For more details, click here.
The fourth lecture in the series is "Homeless Hero: An Analysis of the Media Articulation of Homelessness in the Case of Faron Hall" by Dr. Shannon Sampert on March 19, 2010.
Find out more about the first three lectures in the series in the Resources section.
The first issue of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures is out now! See Jeunesse's website for more information about this issue, how to submit articles and how to subscribe.
To renew your IRSCL membership please click here.
News Flash
The Environmental Imagination and Children’s Literature Symposium at University of Toronto
February 4, 2010
THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION AND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE will feature renowned children’s authors from Canada, the U.S. and the U.K.: David Almond, M.T. Anderson, Susan Cooper, Sarah Ellis and Tim Wynne-Jones.
To find out more, please click here.Jeunesse Editor Catherine Tosenberger at MLA’s Chat With An Editor
November 30, 2009
On Monday December 28, Jeunesse editor, Dr. Catherine Tosenberger will be participating in the "Chat with an Editor" session at the MLA Convention in Philadelphia. Dr. Tosenberger will be on from 4:00PM to 5:00PM.
To find out more, please click here.CFP: Nationalism(s) and Cultural Memory in Texts of Childhood
October 20, 2009
This proposed collection of essays seeks to address the interplay between nationalism (or nationalisms) and cultural memory in a range of texts for or about young people, including books, periodicals, films, television series, games, tourism sites, websites, and archives.
To find out more, please click here.
First Visiting Trudeau Fellowship Awarded to Dr. Clare Bradford
September 14, 2009
Dr. Clare Bradford has been awarded the first $225, 000 Trudeau Visiting Fellowship Prize from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. A professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, Dr. Bradford will be a Visiting Professor of literary studies at The University of Winnipeg in the 2009-2010 academic year, and the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures will be hosting her.
To find out more, please click here.