DCU's Peter Hunt talks how food is portrayed in Children's Literature

The Centre for Research in Children’s and Young Adult Literature in conjunction with the MA in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Degree Programme will hold a talk by Professor Peter Hunt - Adjunct Professor, DCU on Monday, 19 February 2024 at 4pm in Room AHC.PG02, Ground Floor, Room 2, All Hallows Campus.

The talk will centre on Children's Literature and it's Gastronomic contexts. According to Prof. Peter Hunt:

Often what is lacking in children’s books’ histories is a sense of context – what is going on in the literary and cultural and social worlds surrounding them. Obviously that is too big a topic for anybody, but by concentrating on how food is portrayed in children’s and adults’ texts, we can get an idea of how children’s books reflect, contradict, or even lead cultural developments through, in this case, the twentieth century. (The two quotations hidden in the title, for example, are almost contemporaneous.)

A panel discussion will follow the talk with some of the School of English’s PhD students joining Prof. Hunt to discuss the rewards and challenges of researching children’s and young adult literature.

To register to attend this talk please email Susan Byrne: susan.byrne@dcu.ie

You can read more from Prof. Hunt in his blog