Staff Profile:Sara Broad

Name:

Mrs Sara Broad

Job Title:

Lecturer in English and Education

Responsibilities:

Main responsibilities at the Institute of Education:

Admissions tutor for BA(ED) English

Teaching:

BA(ED)

• I convene and teach on 'Children's Literature (1) and (2)
• Childhood and Autobiography
• Realization of Text
• Children's Radio, TV and Film
• Shakespeare and the Modern World
• Heritage and Multicultural Literature
• Craft of Writing

MA in English and Education module

• Readers and Texts
• Narratives of nostalgia in Children's Literature
• Theory of poetry

Areas of Interest:

Areas of expertise and research interest:

• Children's Literature and related critical theory
• The family in Children's Literature
• Media for children

Areas in which you are able to supervise at Masters level:

• Learning and attainment from 'A' level to certificate level in English.

Current and recent Research Students:

• Tracey Chapman 'How relevant is a cultural heritage view […] with particular reference to the problem of Shakespeare?'
• Katherine Hamilton 'Picture books as text books'

Current and recent Research Projects:

Doctoral research:

Writing the Family: the relationship between children's literature, ideas of 'the family' in education'.

Research groups / Centres:

First Language Research Group

Publications:

'Hysterical or Historical? Ideas of history in contemporary Children's Literature' in IBBYlink 25(2), 2009 pp.3-5

'Beyond Belief' Journal of Children's Literature Studies, Pied Piper Publishing 5 (1), 2008 pp.22-31

Conferences:

Broad, S. (2011) Writing the Family' 4th Annual International Conference on Literature, Languages & Linguistics, 11-14 July 2011, Athens, Greece;

Broad, S. (2011) 'Nostalgia and the Family' 2011 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference, Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture, San Antonio, Texas, on April 20-23, 2011;

Broad, S. (2009) 'Historical or hysterical? Looking at the family in contemporary children's literature'. Childhood in its Time: The Child in British Literature International Conference, 28-29 March 2009, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent;

Broad, S. (2008) 'Dependents and Dependency: rebellion and conformity through substance abuse in Melvin Burgess' Junk and Bernard Hare's Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew'. Twenty-First Century Teenager: Media Representation, Theory and Policy conference hosted by the Association for Research in Popular Fictions - 10^th-12^th July 2008 Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds;

Broad, S. (2006) 'Have yourself a Merry Wiccan Christmas: religion and belief in the Harry Potter films'. Folklore Society 'Folklore, Film and Television: Convergences in Traditional Culture and Popular Media' at the Warburg Institute 31 March - 1^st April 2006.

External Roles:

2008 Visiting Lecturer, University of Cardiff, in Literature, Tradition and Mythology in Children's Literature, Lecturing on JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Philip Pullman and JK Rowling on Folklore module

Enterprise Activity, External Roles & Consultancy

2008 Visiting Lecturer, University of Cardiff, in Literature, Tradition and Mythology in Children's Literature, Lecturing on JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Philip Pullman and JK Rowling on Folklore module.