cari84@ufl.edu  

Cari Keebaugh

Graduate Student, Teaching Associate, Department of English, University of Florida

Research

"Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't known them have no understanding of them at all. ... There are as many different passions as there are people." From Michael Ende's The Neverending Story

My primary research interest is fantasy literature for children and young adults. I also have interests in American literature, psychoanalysis of literature, and comic studies.

Past Projects

Please see my curriculum vitae for more information.

Recent Research

Spyro

I am currently working on my dissertation, which deals with issues of intertextuality and postmodernity in children's and young adult literature. Recently, I've been completing my second chapter, which will focus on such text as Sunbonnet Babies in Mother Goose Land by Eulalia Osgood Grover (illustrated by Bertha Corbett Melcher), published by Rand McNally & Co in 1927.

To read the full story, please visit the Children's Books Online website version of Sunbonnet Babies in Mother Goose Land.


Coursework

Summer A 2009, Fall 2009

  • Research Hours: Dissertation Research

    • Spring 2009

  • Research Hours: Pre-Quals Research

    • Fall 2008

  • LIT 6856: Into the Archive: Reading in the Baldwin - Dr. Kenneth Kidd
  • ENG 7979: Supervised Doctoral Research

    • Summer 2008

  • ENG 6906: Independent Study: Literary Theory - Dr. Kenneth Kidd

    • Spring 2008

  • CLA 6805: Graduate Trailor, Ancient Magic, Witchcraft, and Mystery Cults - Dr. Judy Turner
  • LIT 6934: Maurice Sendak - Dr. John Cech
  • ENG 7979: Supervised Doctoral Research
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    Fall 2007

  • LIT 6856: The Golden Age of Children's Literature - Dr. Kenneth Kidd
  • LIT 6934: The History of the Child & the Memory of Childhood - Dr. Anja Ulanowicz
  • ENG 7979: Supervised Doctoral Research

    • Summer 2007

  • ENG 6906: Independent Study: YA Fantasy Fiction and Scholarship - Dr. Kenneth Kidd

    • Spring 2007

  • LIT 6934: Children, Culture, & Violence - Dr. John Cech
  • ENG 6910: Thesis Research

    • Fall 2006

  • LIT 6855: Young/Adult: American Literatures of Adolescence - Dr. Kenneth Kidd
  • ENG 6910: Thesis Research
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    Summer B 2006

  • LIT 6856: Nationalism & the Novel - Dr. Apollo Amoko

    Spring 2006

  • ENG 6137: Culture of Performance - Dr. Nora Alter
  • LIT 6934: Studies in Children's Culture(s) - Dr. John Cech
  • ENG 6910: Supervised Research
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    Fall 2005

  • LIT 6856: Psychoanalysis & Children's Literature - Dr. Kenneth Kidd
  • LAE 6947: Writing Theories and Practices - Dr. Sidney Dobrin
  • ENG 6971: Supervised Research
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    Summer 2005

  • ENG 6906: Independent Study: Mark Twain, Comic Books, and Adaptations - Dr. Donald Ault
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