Writing Childhood

Writing Childhood is a crosslisted Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies/Social Science class taught by L. Brown Kennedy and Rachel Conrad.

Course Description
In this course we will examine representations of children's voices and perspectives in fictional and poetic texts. We will think about the following questions: Why do adults write about children? How do texts use children's voices? How are childhood and memory interrelated in these texts? We will work primarily with texts written for adult audiences, but will also read a few children's books. Assignments will include both analytic and creative writing.