Kenneth Kidd

Kenneth Kidd is Professor of English at the University of Florida, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture. He’s the author of three monographs, Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale; Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature; and Theory for Beginners: Children’s Literature as Critical Thought. He has co-edited Wild Things: Children’s Culture and Ecocriticism; Over the Rainbow: Queer Children’s and Young Adult Literature; Prizing Children’s Literature: The Cultural Politics of Children’s Book Awards; and Queer as Camp: Essays on Summer, Style, and Sexuality. With Elizabeth Marshall he co-edits the Routledge series Children’s Literature and Culture.