Kenneth Kidd
Associate Professor
Kenneth Kidd received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. He came to UF in 1998 after teaching for several years at Eastern Michigan University. Professor Kidd’s research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, gender studies/queer theory, and children’s literature and media. He has published in various journals, and is the author of Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale (University of Minnesota, 2004), a cross-disciplinary study of discourses of boyhood in and around realistic fiction, self-help writing, film, and psychoanalytic literature. With Sidney I. Dobrin he coedited the anthology Wild Things: Children’s Culture and Ecocriticism (Wayne State University Press, 2004). He is Associate Editor of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly.
Professor Kidd regularly teaches undergraduate courses in children’s literature, adolescent literature, and children’s film, as well as more specialized graduate seminars such as “Disney and Its Discontents” and “Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature.” Active in the MLA’s Division on Children’s Literature and the Children’s Literature Association, he is Associate Director of UF’s Center for the Study of Children’s Literature & Culture.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4103
- voice: (352) 294-2807
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <kbkidd@ufl.edu>