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Dr. Naomi Hamer

Associate Professor; Chair
EducationBA (McGill); MA (UBC); PhD (UCL/IOE)
Areas of ExpertiseChildren’s and adolescent literature; child and youth studies; picture book theory; film and the visual cultures of young people; transmedia and digital storytelling; fairy-tale media and cultures; children’s museum education and New Literacies; cultural theory, identity, and audience studies.

englishchair@torontomu.ca (Administrative Email Account)

naomi.hamer@torontomu.ca (Personal Institutional Email Account)

 

Biography: 

Dr. Naomi Hamer (she/her) is Associate Professor and Department Chair of English. Her scholarship examines the cross-media adaptation of children’s literature with a focus on picture books and digital cultures. She 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) (external link, opens in new window)   and The Routledge Companion of Fairy-tale Cultures and Media (eds. Greenhill, Rudy, Hamer, and Bosc, 2018) (external link, opens in new window) . Dr. Hamer's current research stems from her role as principal investigator on the SSHRC-funded project “Curating the Story Museum: Transmedia practices, participatory exhibits, and youth citizenship” with Dr. Ann Marie Murnaghan (York). 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.  

Dr. Hamer served as President of the Association for Research in Cultures of Young People, Associate Editor for Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, and as co-organizer of three SSHRC-funded conferences. She was awarded the Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2020) for her contributions to experiential learning, and continued this work as Practicum Director of the MA LitMod program. 

SSHRC-funded research with Dr. Ann Marie Murnaghan: 
https://www.curatingstory.com/ (external link) 
https://scalar.library.yorku.ca/curatingstory/index (external link)