Dr Sue Walsh

BA (UEA), MA (Sussex), PGCE (Leeds), PhD (Reading)

CIRCL Tutor and Researcher

Sue completed her PhD on children's literature (her thesis was on: 'Untheming the Theme: The Child in Wolf's Clothing') at Reading. Sue already taught on the MA as a post-graduate student, and was appointed to a full-time lectureship in the Department from October 2002. Sue teaches extensively on the MA in Children's Literature, as well as more widely in general in the Department. Her research interests are in the areas of critical theory, philosophy, and cultural studies, particularly with regards to ideas of childhood and writings on animal liberation.

Sue's publications in the field include:

Book:

Sue Walsh, Kipling's Children's Literature: Language, Identity and Constructions of Childhood (Ashgate, 2010)

Chapters and articles:

an article: 'Animal/ Child: It's the "Real" Thing' in: Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (ed.), Yearbook of English Studies on 'Children in Literature', vol. 32, 2002.

an article: '"Irony? - But children don't get it do they?" The Idea of Appropriate Language for the Child in the Criticism of Kipling's Children's Literature' , in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, for the special issue on 'Narrative Theories and Practices in Children's and Young Adult Literature', Spring 2003.

a chapter: 'Effigies of Effie' in Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (ed.), Children's Literature: New Approaches, Palgrave, 2004.

a chapter: 'Bikini Fur and Fur Bikinis' in Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (ed.), The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair, Manchester University Press, 2006.

a chapter: 'Gothic Children', The Routledge Companion to Gothic, (eds.) Catherine Spooner and Emma McEvoy, Routledge: London, 2007, pp. 183-191.

a chapter: 'Reading the Child and Translating the Animal in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli Stories' in: Rimi B. Chatterjee and Nilanjana Gupta (eds.), Reading Children: Essays on Children's Literature (Orient Black Swan: New Delhi, 2009), pp. 18-39.

a chapter: 'Irony and the Child' in Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (ed.), Children in Culture, Revisited: Further Approaches to Childhood, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 126-47.

Sue convenes and teaches on the Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Children's Literature core-course, as well as the options modules on North-American Children's Literature and on Colonial and Postcolonial Children's Literature. She also contributes to the MA's Nineteenth Century Children's Literature core course.

E-mail address: S.a.b.Walsh@reading.ac.uk