Heather Snell

Biography

My research straddles two fields of critical inquiry, postcolonial cultural studies and young people’s texts and cultures. Accordingly, I am interested in postcolonial children’s literature and representations of young people in literary, performance, filmic, and other visual texts that engage histories and legacies of colonialism, neocolonialism, ongoing colonialism, postcolonialism, and globalization. The two monographs I am currently in the process of researching and writing include Reading Urban Poverty: Children and Youth, Global Visual Culture, and Postcolonial Counter-Imaginaries, a book that explores primarily texts about children and youth, and Outward Bound: Seeing, Reading, and Acting across Borders in Youth Texts, which takes as its primary objects of analysis texts produced for and marketed to young adult readers.

Research Interest

Postcolonial cultural studies; young people’s texts and cultures; research methods.