Dr Jennie Gouck
@jenniegouck.bsky.social
WiRe Fellow at University of Münster 📚 Researches girlhood in American YA 🤓. ChLA Membership Committee 👥. Reviewer for Kids Books Ireland 🇮🇪. She/her.
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I enjoyed presenting on children's Art History picture books this morning. It's kickstarted an exciting new direction for my research :)
Thanks to @jenniegouck.bsky.social for organizing the 'Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children's and Young Adult Literature' #kidlit conference!
Thanks to @jenniegouck.bsky.social for organizing the 'Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children's and Young Adult Literature' #kidlit conference!
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I enjoyed presenting on children's Art History picture books this morning. It's kickstarted an exciting new direction for my research :)
Thanks to @jenniegouck.bsky.social for organizing the 'Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children's and Young Adult Literature' #kidlit conference!
Thanks to @jenniegouck.bsky.social for organizing the 'Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children's and Young Adult Literature' #kidlit conference!
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Registration for online #kidlit conference 'Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering' is open! indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3701/ I'll present 'Mothers of the Avant-Garde: Depictions of Mothering in Children’s Art History Picture Books'. Thx @jenniegouck.bsky.social at Uni of Münster for organizing!
indico.uni-muenster.de
October 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Registration for online #kidlit conference 'Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering' is open! indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3701/ I'll present 'Mothers of the Avant-Garde: Depictions of Mothering in Children’s Art History Picture Books'. Thx @jenniegouck.bsky.social at Uni of Münster for organizing!
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Yesterday @jenniegouck.bsky.social and I sent out outcome emails for this upcoming conference & spent a happy afternoon arranging abstracts into possible panels (old-school, with bits of paper on the rug). We were ✨completely overwhelmed✨ by the response - so much so that we've added an extra day! -
CFP: Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People
An online conference hosted by the University of Münster
11-12 February 2026
Abstracts due 11:59pm on 31 August!
Full CFP and to submit: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/
Please share!
An online conference hosted by the University of Münster
11-12 February 2026
Abstracts due 11:59pm on 31 August!
Full CFP and to submit: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/
Please share!
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Yesterday @jenniegouck.bsky.social and I sent out outcome emails for this upcoming conference & spent a happy afternoon arranging abstracts into possible panels (old-school, with bits of paper on the rug). We were ✨completely overwhelmed✨ by the response - so much so that we've added an extra day! -
Just over a week to go! Get those abstracts in 📚
CFP: Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People
An online conference hosted by the University of Münster
11-12 February 2026
Abstracts due 11:59pm on 31 August!
Full CFP and to submit: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/
Please share!
An online conference hosted by the University of Münster
11-12 February 2026
Abstracts due 11:59pm on 31 August!
Full CFP and to submit: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/
Please share!
August 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Just over a week to go! Get those abstracts in 📚
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Hello, a little reminder that @jenniegouck.bsky.social and I wrote a long CFP for a conference we're organising, online, next February. Do you have thoughts about book banning and censorship in children's and YA literature? Send 'em in!
June 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Hello, a little reminder that @jenniegouck.bsky.social and I wrote a long CFP for a conference we're organising, online, next February. Do you have thoughts about book banning and censorship in children's and YA literature? Send 'em in!
Submit a proposal to the conference Sarah and I are organising!
Details below 👇🏻
Details below 👇🏻
CFP: Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People
An online conference hosted by the University of Münster
11-12 February 2026
Abstracts due 11:59pm on 31 August!
Full CFP and to submit: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/
Please share!
An online conference hosted by the University of Münster
11-12 February 2026
Abstracts due 11:59pm on 31 August!
Full CFP and to submit: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/
Please share!
June 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Submit a proposal to the conference Sarah and I are organising!
Details below 👇🏻
Details below 👇🏻
Delighted to be giving a guest lecture entitled "Banned in the USA: Banned, Challenged, and Controversial YA Fiction in America" at University of Hamburg on 13th May.
If you're in the area, come along! More details below.
www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/germanistik/...
If you're in the area, come along! More details below.
www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/germanistik/...
Vortrag von Dr. Jennifer Gouck: "Banned in the USA: Banned, Challenged, and Controversial YA Fiction in America"
www.slm.uni-hamburg.de
April 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Delighted to be giving a guest lecture entitled "Banned in the USA: Banned, Challenged, and Controversial YA Fiction in America" at University of Hamburg on 13th May.
If you're in the area, come along! More details below.
www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/germanistik/...
If you're in the area, come along! More details below.
www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/germanistik/...
🚨Just one month to go until the call for papers for "Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children's and Young Adult Literature" closes!🚨
This online conference, hosted by the University of Münster, will take place from 12th-14th Nov 2025. Closing date for proposals is Friday 2nd May 2025. /1
This online conference, hosted by the University of Münster, will take place from 12th-14th Nov 2025. Closing date for proposals is Friday 2nd May 2025. /1
April 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
🚨Just one month to go until the call for papers for "Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children's and Young Adult Literature" closes!🚨
This online conference, hosted by the University of Münster, will take place from 12th-14th Nov 2025. Closing date for proposals is Friday 2nd May 2025. /1
This online conference, hosted by the University of Münster, will take place from 12th-14th Nov 2025. Closing date for proposals is Friday 2nd May 2025. /1
Irish 🤝 Germans
Going absolutely feral for nice weather
Going absolutely feral for nice weather
March 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Irish 🤝 Germans
Going absolutely feral for nice weather
Going absolutely feral for nice weather
Upcoming conference: Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children's and Young Adult Literature.
💻 Online
🗓️ 12-14 November 2025
🚨 Deadline for proposals 2 May 2025
More details here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...
💻 Online
🗓️ 12-14 November 2025
🚨 Deadline for proposals 2 May 2025
More details here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
February 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Upcoming conference: Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children's and Young Adult Literature.
💻 Online
🗓️ 12-14 November 2025
🚨 Deadline for proposals 2 May 2025
More details here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...
💻 Online
🗓️ 12-14 November 2025
🚨 Deadline for proposals 2 May 2025
More details here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...
Some Münster highlights from the past two weeks. Happy to be settling in and excited for the year ahead!
February 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Some Münster highlights from the past two weeks. Happy to be settling in and excited for the year ahead!
Well, I guess the cat is out of the bag...
Delighted to announce that I will be joining the University of Münster as a WiRE Fellow from January 2025!
I'm absolutely thrilled to be hosted by Prof. Dr. Silvia Schultermandl at the Institute of American Studies. 1/2
Delighted to announce that I will be joining the University of Münster as a WiRE Fellow from January 2025!
I'm absolutely thrilled to be hosted by Prof. Dr. Silvia Schultermandl at the Institute of American Studies. 1/2
November 21, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Well, I guess the cat is out of the bag...
Delighted to announce that I will be joining the University of Münster as a WiRE Fellow from January 2025!
I'm absolutely thrilled to be hosted by Prof. Dr. Silvia Schultermandl at the Institute of American Studies. 1/2
Delighted to announce that I will be joining the University of Münster as a WiRE Fellow from January 2025!
I'm absolutely thrilled to be hosted by Prof. Dr. Silvia Schultermandl at the Institute of American Studies. 1/2
Hallo aus Münster! Spending the weekend here ahead of something exciting lined up for 2025 👀
November 16, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Hallo aus Münster! Spending the weekend here ahead of something exciting lined up for 2025 👀
Good evening 🐾
November 14, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Good evening 🐾
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Carefully saving the deleted section in a new document, just in case I need the worst paragraph ever written for future work
November 13, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Carefully saving the deleted section in a new document, just in case I need the worst paragraph ever written for future work
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The first draft is for telling yourself the story, revisions are for telling your readers.
I don't like "Your first draft will be shitty" as advice, because it's a really negative framing.
I prefer, "You have the freedom to be messy creating your first draft."
Anyone crafter knows what their room looks like mid-creation. Writers should be as free to be as exhuberent and messy.
I prefer, "You have the freedom to be messy creating your first draft."
Anyone crafter knows what their room looks like mid-creation. Writers should be as free to be as exhuberent and messy.
February 16, 2024 at 3:37 PM
The first draft is for telling yourself the story, revisions are for telling your readers.