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Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media (CIRCL)

Description

The Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media (CIRCL) was established in the English Department at the University of Reading in Reading, England, in October 1996. Known as CIRCL for short, the Graduate Centre aims to promote and coordinate international and interdisciplinary academic research in childhood, focusing particularly on research in children and culture, children’s literature, and children and the media.

CIRCL is run by its research associates: staff and postgraduate students working on childhood. CIRCL organises lecture series, seminars, and conferences. (Publications, Lectures, Seminars, Conferences).

Offers funding

Yes, this infrastructure provides funding in the following categories:

  • Bursaries
  • Unfunded fellowships

Founding year

1996

Contact details

RG6 6UR
United Kingdom
Website: https://www.circl.co.uk/
Public email: k.b.lesnik-oberstein@reading.ac.uk
  • @CirclMA
  • circluor

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Categorisation

Type

  • University-based infrastructure
  • Centre

Tags

  • Cultural studies tag
  • Language tag
  • Literature tag
  • Film studies tag
  • Media studies tag
  • Game studies tag
  • Post-colonial studies tag
  • Eighteenth-century studies (keyword) tag
  • Nineteenth-century studies tag
  • Comics tag
  • American studies tag
  • Disability studies (keyword) tag
  • Feminist theory (keyword) tag
  • Education tag
  • Folk studies (keyword) tag
  • African studies (keyword) tag
  • Animal studies (keyword) tag
  • English studies (keyword) tag
  • Commonwealth studies (keyword) tag
  • Comic studies (keyword) tag
  • Book illustration (keyword) tag
  • Animation (keyword) tag
  • Anime and Manga studies (keyword) tag
  • Children's literature tag
  • Adventure fiction (keyword) tag

University affiliation(s)

University of Reading
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2023-11-28 14:13:40

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