James Hunt Smith

PhD Student - University of Michigan

James Hunt Smith (he/they) holds master’s degrees in Teaching and Children’s Literature from Simmons University and is currently a PhD student in the Joint Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. James’s research revolves around questions of how children’s literature — including picture books, graphic novels, and film — might be used by readers and educators to explore the crises of childhood. Their recent work is out or forthcoming in Boyhood Studies, The Lion and the Unicorn, The Journal of Popular Culture, and the edited collection Literacies for Earthlings.