Leverhulme Visiting Professorship for Jack Zipes
Jack Zipes
Congratulations to two members of the Centre for Children's Book Studies, Dr Mick Gowar, Lecturer, Cambridge School of Art and Dr Zoe Jaques, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Childhood and Youth Research Institute, who have successfully applied for funding from the Leverhulme Trust for Jack Zipes to spend a period as Visiting Professor at Anglia Ruskin University in 2013.
Professor Zipes, who is arguably the world's leading authority on fairy tales and storytelling, is well-known to academics, teachers, storytellers and others for his many studies of children's literature, fairytales and practical storytelling techniques such as Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from "Slovenly Peter" to "Harry Potter", Fairy Tales and The Art of Subversion, Creative Storytelling: Building Communities/Changing Lives and The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy Tale Films.
Professor Zipes's programme while at Anglia Ruskin will include a series of five Leverhulme lectures, two of which will be at Anglia Ruskin's Cambridge campus, one at Anglia Ruskin's Chelmsford campus, and one each at our partner institutions, Homerton College, University of Cambridge, and Lincoln University. Professor Zipes will also lead a series of seminars, with topics to include: 'The risks and consequences of a Disneyfied 21st Century'; 'Not in front of the adults', and will lead masterclasses in practical storytelling.
Professor Zipes will also contribute to colloquia on topics of particular interest to researchers, students and school teachers, including 'Theorising Children's Literature; (this will be the launch event for the new critical journal on children's literature), the fairy tale film and teachers and pupils as storytellers.
Professor Zipes has conducted a great deal of empirical research with children, which aligns strongly with the objectives of the Childhood and Youth Research Institute, and Professor Zipes has specifically asked for a series of of practical storytelling workshops in schools to be included in his programme in order to promote the value and practice of storytelling, and to help empower children as active, creative tellers of their own stories, and not simply as consumers of ready made tales.
We look forward greatly to working with Professor Zipes, and are confident that his visiting professorship will enhance the reputation and prestige of studying children's literature both within Anglia Ruskin University, the University of Cambridge and nationally, and that it will also support Anglia Ruskin University's strategic emphasis on childhood as a focus for research excellence.
Professor Zipes, who is arguably the world's leading authority on fairy tales and storytelling, is well-known to academics, teachers, storytellers and others for his many studies of children's literature, fairytales and practical storytelling techniques such as Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from "Slovenly Peter" to "Harry Potter", Fairy Tales and The Art of Subversion, Creative Storytelling: Building Communities/Changing Lives and The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy Tale Films.
Professor Zipes's programme while at Anglia Ruskin will include a series of five Leverhulme lectures, two of which will be at Anglia Ruskin's Cambridge campus, one at Anglia Ruskin's Chelmsford campus, and one each at our partner institutions, Homerton College, University of Cambridge, and Lincoln University. Professor Zipes will also lead a series of seminars, with topics to include: 'The risks and consequences of a Disneyfied 21st Century'; 'Not in front of the adults', and will lead masterclasses in practical storytelling.
Professor Zipes will also contribute to colloquia on topics of particular interest to researchers, students and school teachers, including 'Theorising Children's Literature; (this will be the launch event for the new critical journal on children's literature), the fairy tale film and teachers and pupils as storytellers.
Professor Zipes has conducted a great deal of empirical research with children, which aligns strongly with the objectives of the Childhood and Youth Research Institute, and Professor Zipes has specifically asked for a series of of practical storytelling workshops in schools to be included in his programme in order to promote the value and practice of storytelling, and to help empower children as active, creative tellers of their own stories, and not simply as consumers of ready made tales.
We look forward greatly to working with Professor Zipes, and are confident that his visiting professorship will enhance the reputation and prestige of studying children's literature both within Anglia Ruskin University, the University of Cambridge and nationally, and that it will also support Anglia Ruskin University's strategic emphasis on childhood as a focus for research excellence.
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