Children’s Literature and Film

Part of my work in this area is informed by my service on the National Committee of the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award.

You can learn more about the award by visiting its webpage:

Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award

 

Here are my publications in this field:

"Children's Literature sin fronteras: Mesticismo and Ecopoetics in Francisco X. Alarcón's Animal Poems of the Iguazú."  The Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingüe 33.5 (2017): 76-90.

"Chicano/a Children's Literature: A Transaztlantic Reader's History." Journal of American Studies of Turkey 23 (2006):  15-35.

"Reel Origins: Multiculturalism, History, and the American Children's Movie."  Caroline Levander, and Carol Singley, eds., The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003.  280-302.

"Hyenas in the Pride Lands: Latinos/as and Immigration in Disney's The Lion King."  Aztlán 25.1 (Spring 2000): 47-66.

I am currently working on a book on the images of Latinos/as in children’s film.

Photo © Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez