Allison McBain Hudson 🇨🇦
@drmcbainhudson.bsky.social
Canadian in Ireland, LM Montgomery and children's lit scholar, will pet all the dogs
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Thinking about an MA? Interested in children's and YA literature?
Press GO! to start your MA journey: expertise and specialist insight into picturebooks, collections, YA fiction, and much more!
Sign up for our DCU Postgraduate Open Day!
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Press GO! to start your MA journey: expertise and specialist insight into picturebooks, collections, YA fiction, and much more!
Sign up for our DCU Postgraduate Open Day!
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November 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Thinking about an MA? Interested in children's and YA literature?
Press GO! to start your MA journey: expertise and specialist insight into picturebooks, collections, YA fiction, and much more!
Sign up for our DCU Postgraduate Open Day!
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Press GO! to start your MA journey: expertise and specialist insight into picturebooks, collections, YA fiction, and much more!
Sign up for our DCU Postgraduate Open Day!
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Our next posgraduate coffee morning is in person and focuses on the transition from MA to PhD!
We'll discuss applying for PhDs, writing proposals, finding supervisors, and PhD life itself.
For more information and to register, visit our Eventbrite link: www.eventbrite.com/e/isscl-post...
We'll discuss applying for PhDs, writing proposals, finding supervisors, and PhD life itself.
For more information and to register, visit our Eventbrite link: www.eventbrite.com/e/isscl-post...
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Our next posgraduate coffee morning is in person and focuses on the transition from MA to PhD!
We'll discuss applying for PhDs, writing proposals, finding supervisors, and PhD life itself.
For more information and to register, visit our Eventbrite link: www.eventbrite.com/e/isscl-post...
We'll discuss applying for PhDs, writing proposals, finding supervisors, and PhD life itself.
For more information and to register, visit our Eventbrite link: www.eventbrite.com/e/isscl-post...
And the final step on this year’s milestones: graduation. So grateful to my DCU mentors and colleagues as well as my supportive family and friends.
October 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
And the final step on this year’s milestones: graduation. So grateful to my DCU mentors and colleagues as well as my supportive family and friends.
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New posts on DCU MA in Children’s and YA Lit Blog by our graduates 🎓:
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‘The Accidental Academic’ by @drmcbainhudson.bsky.social
& the first in a 3part series on Children’s Lit & GenAI
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‘The Accidental Academic’ by @drmcbainhudson.bsky.social
& the first in a 3part series on Children’s Lit & GenAI
The DCU MA in Children’s and YA Lit Blog
Welcome to our MA in Children's and Young Adult Literature Blog - we hope you enjoy reading about our research and events, and all things children’s literature related here.
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October 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
New posts on DCU MA in Children’s and YA Lit Blog by our graduates 🎓:
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‘The Accidental Academic’ by @drmcbainhudson.bsky.social
& the first in a 3part series on Children’s Lit & GenAI
share.google/QKVEJEZM4pcp...
‘The Accidental Academic’ by @drmcbainhudson.bsky.social
& the first in a 3part series on Children’s Lit & GenAI
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Support bookstores. Not billionaires.
Free shipping on any purchases 10/7-10/8.
See our recommendations and more:
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Free shipping on any purchases 10/7-10/8.
See our recommendations and more:
bookshop.org/shop/peoples...
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October 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Support bookstores. Not billionaires.
Free shipping on any purchases 10/7-10/8.
See our recommendations and more:
bookshop.org/shop/peoples...
@bookshop.org
Free shipping on any purchases 10/7-10/8.
See our recommendations and more:
bookshop.org/shop/peoples...
@bookshop.org
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Every Child is a Universe
Christi Belcourt ~ Métis
2025
Christi Belcourt ~ Métis
2025
September 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Every Child is a Universe
Christi Belcourt ~ Métis
2025
Christi Belcourt ~ Métis
2025
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☕️ Our first online postgraduate coffee morning is next Friday at 11am!
A great opportunity to meet, catch-up, and discuss your research with fellow researchers of children's and YA literature.
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/isscl-post...
A great opportunity to meet, catch-up, and discuss your research with fellow researchers of children's and YA literature.
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/isscl-post...
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September 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
☕️ Our first online postgraduate coffee morning is next Friday at 11am!
A great opportunity to meet, catch-up, and discuss your research with fellow researchers of children's and YA literature.
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/isscl-post...
A great opportunity to meet, catch-up, and discuss your research with fellow researchers of children's and YA literature.
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/isscl-post...
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Our first online postgraduate coffee morning of the academic year is happening on Friday 26th Sept at 11am ☕
A great opportunity to meet, catch-up, and chat with other researchers of children's literature! 📚
Register via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/isscl-post...
A great opportunity to meet, catch-up, and chat with other researchers of children's literature! 📚
Register via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/isscl-post...
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September 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Our first online postgraduate coffee morning of the academic year is happening on Friday 26th Sept at 11am ☕
A great opportunity to meet, catch-up, and chat with other researchers of children's literature! 📚
Register via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/isscl-post...
A great opportunity to meet, catch-up, and chat with other researchers of children's literature! 📚
Register via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/isscl-post...
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.
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August 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
Fun delivery this morning 😊
August 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Fun delivery this morning 😊
Post-PhD project: guest room curtain using my elderly friend Ellen’s fine old handkerchiefs.
July 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Post-PhD project: guest room curtain using my elderly friend Ellen’s fine old handkerchiefs.
Random photo dump: June sunset, pups, and my latest obsession: small things on shelves.
July 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Random photo dump: June sunset, pups, and my latest obsession: small things on shelves.
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Online launch: The 'Irish Studies Review' special issue on "Race, Ethnicity, and Representation in Irish Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture"
The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature
6 Jun 2025 16:00-17:00 CEST
Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1377335279...
The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature
6 Jun 2025 16:00-17:00 CEST
Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1377335279...
May 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Online launch: The 'Irish Studies Review' special issue on "Race, Ethnicity, and Representation in Irish Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture"
The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature
6 Jun 2025 16:00-17:00 CEST
Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1377335279...
The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature
6 Jun 2025 16:00-17:00 CEST
Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1377335279...
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The only aesthetically pure way to watch the original STAR WARS trilogy is these moldy grindhouse prints that were found and digitized a few years ago
You can see the OT the way it was originally seen: with the original ILM effects, in a dreamlike gauze
ENJOY:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/iozg1...
You can see the OT the way it was originally seen: with the original ILM effects, in a dreamlike gauze
ENJOY:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/iozg1...
December 8, 2024 at 12:52 PM
The only aesthetically pure way to watch the original STAR WARS trilogy is these moldy grindhouse prints that were found and digitized a few years ago
You can see the OT the way it was originally seen: with the original ILM effects, in a dreamlike gauze
ENJOY:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/iozg1...
You can see the OT the way it was originally seen: with the original ILM effects, in a dreamlike gauze
ENJOY:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/iozg1...
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To celebrate this year's publication of the 'Irish Studies Review' special issue on "Race, Ethnicity, and Representation in Irish Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture", we are hosting an online launch on Friday 6th June!
Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1377335279...
Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1377335279...
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May 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
To celebrate this year's publication of the 'Irish Studies Review' special issue on "Race, Ethnicity, and Representation in Irish Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture", we are hosting an online launch on Friday 6th June!
Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1377335279...
Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1377335279...
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Swirl
Emily Carr
1937
Emily Carr
1937
May 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Swirl
Emily Carr
1937
Emily Carr
1937
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"Use AI or get left behind" ok, leave me behind, I'll be here in the library, doing actual research, citing real publications, writing my own words, not being replaceable by a bullshit artist algorithm that's destroying the environment.
May 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"Use AI or get left behind" ok, leave me behind, I'll be here in the library, doing actual research, citing real publications, writing my own words, not being replaceable by a bullshit artist algorithm that's destroying the environment.
On either side the river lie/Long fields of barley and of rye… (Tennyson)
May 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
On either side the river lie/Long fields of barley and of rye… (Tennyson)
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Congratulations to Anja Voigt, the recipient of ISSCL's Master's Thesis Award 2025 for her thesis “Young Adult Gothic and the Construction of Adolescent Queerness"!
"Having my work be recognized as innovative and valuable is immensely affirming and motivating for me as a young academic" - Anja
"Having my work be recognized as innovative and valuable is immensely affirming and motivating for me as a young academic" - Anja
May 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Congratulations to Anja Voigt, the recipient of ISSCL's Master's Thesis Award 2025 for her thesis “Young Adult Gothic and the Construction of Adolescent Queerness"!
"Having my work be recognized as innovative and valuable is immensely affirming and motivating for me as a young academic" - Anja
"Having my work be recognized as innovative and valuable is immensely affirming and motivating for me as a young academic" - Anja
Poplar hawk moth!!
April 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Poplar hawk moth!!
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The Bounce of Spring
Emily Carr
c. 1936
Emily Carr
c. 1936
April 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The Bounce of Spring
Emily Carr
c. 1936
Emily Carr
c. 1936
Six years, 237 pages, 76,000 words, three supervisors, major surgery, a global pandemic, a good few migraines, and the girls’ teenage years… done. Submitted this evening; Viva (thesis defense) May 30. Big thanks to all!!
April 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Six years, 237 pages, 76,000 words, three supervisors, major surgery, a global pandemic, a good few migraines, and the girls’ teenage years… done. Submitted this evening; Viva (thesis defense) May 30. Big thanks to all!!