TY - BOOK ID - 48212180 TI - Picture-book professors : academia and children's literature PY - 2018 SN - 110852950X 1108438458 1108540325 1108543022 9781108540322 9781108543026 9781108529501 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Children's literature KW - College teachers in literature. KW - Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Stereotype (Psychology) in literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:48212180 AB - How is academia portrayed in children's literature? This Element ambitiously surveys fictional professors in texts marketed towards children. Professors are overwhelmingly white and male, tending to be elderly scientists who fall into three stereotypes: the vehicle to explain scientific facts, the baffled genius, and the evil madman. By the late twentieth century, the stereotype of the male, mad, muddlehead, called Professor SomethingDumb, is formed in humorous yet pejorative fashion. This Element provides a publishing history of the role of academics in children's literature, questioning the book culture which promotes the enforcement of stereotypes regarding intellectual expertise in children's media. The Element is also available, with additional material, as Open Access. ER -