charlie peters

Title: Research Associate, University of Winnipeg
Email: ch.peters@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

charlie peters is a communications consultant and an independent scholar who teaches courses and does research at the University of Winnipeg, where she has been an editor of Jeunesse and an associate of the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures. charlie’s research interests include ontology, nineteenth-century literature, cultures of childhood, and indigeneity. charlie lives at the Cyrk on Young Street, an art house where occasional salons, music concerts, and film festivals are held.

Publications:

• “Can Children Rule?: An Enquiry into Locke’s Ideas of Children and Government,” jointly with Mavis Reimer. Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children’s Literature: Where Children Rule. Ed. Christopher (Kit) Kelen and Björn Sundmark. Routledge, 2017.
• “Girls, Animals, Fear, and the Iterative Force of the National Pack: The Diarists of the Dear Canada Series.” Seriality and Young People’s Texts: The Compulsion to Repeat. Ed. Mavis Reimer, Nyala Ali, Deanna England, and Melanie Dennis Unrau. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
• “Ignorant and Innocent: The Childs of Common Cultural Discourses,” with Mavis Reimer (first author). Introduction to the Forum on Theorizing Young People. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 3.2 (2011): 88-99.