Zakład Historii Literatury i Kultury Amerykańskiej zaprasza na otwarte zebranie, które odbędzie się 15 maja o godz. 17:00 w Collegium Novum, w sali nr 30. Naszą gościnią będzie prof. Rebecca Hains z Uniwersytetu Stanowego w Salem, obecnie stypendystka Fulbrighta na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim. Podczas zebrania prof. Hains wygłosi referat zatytułowany “Girl’s Empowerment and Disney’s Princess Problem: The Evolution and Marketing of Gendered Representation.”
W swoich badaniach prof. Hains analizuje dziecięcą kulturę medialną z perspektywy krytycznej i kulturoznawczej. Jest autorką dwóch książek: Growing Up With Girl Power: Girlhood on Screen and in Everyday Life (2012) i The Princess Problem: Guiding Our Girls Through the Princess-Obsessed Years (2014), współautorką podręcznika Communication in Our Lives, 9th ed. (2024) oraz redaktorką zbiorów, w tym Cultural Studies of LEGO: More Than Just Bricks (2019) i The Marketing of Children’s Toys (2021). W Instytucie Anglistyki prof. Hains prowadzi dwa kursy: dla I stopnia zajęcia Understanding American Media and Culture oraz dla II stopnia - Cultural Studies Seminar on American Media and Society.
The Department of the History of American Literature and Culture will host an open meeting on May 15th at 5:00 pm in Collegium Novum, room 30. Our guest will be Professor Rebecca Hains, Ph.D., from Sale State University, currently a senior Fulbright scholar at Jagiellonian University. She will deliver a paper entitled “Girl’s Empowerment and Disney’s Princess Problem: The Evolution and Marketing of Gendered Representation.”
In her work, Professor Hains analyzes children’s media culture from a critical and cultural studies perspective. She is the author of two books, Growing Up With Girl Power: Girlhood on Screen and in Everyday Life (2012) and The Princess Problem: Guiding Our Girls Through the Princess-Obsessed Years (2014), co-author of the textbook Communication in Our Lives, 9th ed. (2024), and editor of collections, including Cultural Studies of LEGO: More Than Just Bricks (2019) and The Marketing of Children’s Toys (2021). Professor Hains teaches two classes at the Institute of English Studies: an undergraduate course on Understanding American Media and Culture and a graduate course on Cultural Studies Seminar on American Media and Society.
