英文系專題演講-“We Say Gay: State Censorship and Florida Queer Narrative for Kids”

“We Say Gay: State Censorship and Florida Queer Narrative for Kids”

Date: 19 November 2024

Time: 13.10-15.00

Venue: A313

Guest Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Kidd, Department of English, University of Florida

Prof. Kenneth Kidd, from the Department of English at the University of Florida, works in Anglophone children’s literature studies and is especially interested in the field’s intersections with other cultural fields, such as philosophy, psychology, and critical theory. He is invited as the keynote speaker for the 2024 international conference in Taiwan, “Kids and Adults Allowed: Children’s Literature for Everyone,” organized by Soochow University and Taiwan Children’s Literature Research Association (TCLRA).

Prof. Kidd has authored books like Theory for Beginners: Children’s Literature as Critical Thought (Fordham, 2020), Freud in Oz (Minnesota, 2011) and Making American Boys (Minnesota, 2004). His most recent co-edited book is Alt Kid Lit: What Children's Literature might Be (2024).

In this lecture at Wenzao, Prof. Kidd will share his profound knowledge of queer narratives and discourse in children’s literature, a field in which he has been a pioneering scholar. He will combine this expertise with his keen, long-term observation of the specific context of Florida and demonstrate how censorship is enacted yet how queer narrative and discourse can still flourish in the pursuit of liberty and equality.

Kenneth Kidd 教授來自佛羅里達大學英語系，專長於英美兒童文學研究，尤其關注該領域與其他領域的跨域交流（如兒童文學與哲學、心理學及批判理論等等）。2024年，他受台灣兒童文學研究學會（TCLRA）邀請，擔任將在東吳大學舉辦的國際研討會「老少皆宜：兒童文學的普世性與大眾化」的主題演講者。Kidd教授著有專書《啟發理論：兒童文學作為批判思想》（2020年，Fordham出版社）、《弗洛伊德在奧茲》（2011年，明尼蘇達出版社）及《打造美國少年》（2004年，明尼蘇達出版社）等書籍。他最新合編的書籍是《另類兒童文學：兒童文學的可能性》（2024年）。在此次文藻的講座中，Kidd教授將分享他研讀兒童文學中的酷兒敘事與建構酷兒論述的成果。他亦是該領域的頂尖的學者。他將針對佛羅里達州的特定情境，探討即使面對審查壓力，酷兒敘事與酷兒論述仍得以開展，且能促進更自由平等的社會。