Naomi Hamer
Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts
Department of English
Toronto, Ontario
naomi.hamer@torontomu.ca
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 6135
Expert In
Audience studies
Child and youth studies
Children's and adolescent literature
Children's museum education
Cultural theory
Culture and creativity
Fairy tale cultures
Fairy tale media
Film and the visual cultures of young people
New Literacies
Picture book theory
Transmedia and digital storytelling
Visual cultures of young people
Bio/Research
Naomi Hamer's research and publications examine the cross-media adaptation of children's literature with a focus on picture books, mobile apps and children’s museums. Her research project, in collaboration with Dr. Ann Marie Murnaghan (Curating the Story Museum: Transmedia practices, participator...
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Bio/Research
Naomi Hamer's research and publications examine the cross-media adaptation of children's literature with a focus on picture books, mobile apps and children’s museums. Her research project, in collaboration with Dr. Ann Marie Murnaghan (Curating the Story Museum: Transmedia practices, participatory exhibits, and youth citizenship), was awarded an SSHRC Insight Development Grant. This research examines how media is used to negotiate the cultural discourses of childhood, nationalism, gender, race, class, sexuality, and ability within children’s museum exhibits. Framed by ‘queering the museum’ and ‘the participatory museum’ movements, the next phase of this research will invite young people to engage as collaborative curators.
Professor Hamer is the co-editor of More Words About Pictures: Current Research on Picture Books and Visual/Verbal Texts for Young People (eds. Hamer, Nodelman and Reimer, 2017) and The Routledge Companion of Fairy-tale Cultures and Media (eds. Greenhill, Rudy, Hamer, and Bosc, forthcoming 2018). Professor Hamer received the David Almond Fellowship for Research in Children’s Literature (2013) for research at Seven Stories: The National Centre for Children’s Books (Newcastle, UK).
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Professor Hamer is the co-editor of More Words About Pictures: Current Research on Picture Books and Visual/Verbal Texts for Young People (eds. Hamer, Nodelman and Reimer, 2017) and The Routledge Companion of Fairy-tale Cultures and Media (eds. Greenhill, Rudy, Hamer, and Bosc, forthcoming 2018). Professor Hamer received the David Almond Fellowship for Research in Children’s Literature (2013) for research at Seven Stories: The National Centre for Children’s Books (Newcastle, UK).
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