Michelle J Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 5406876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle J Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle J |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3924-9690 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Aladdin” as a Model of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature
“Aladdin” is one of the most popular “fairy tales” and one of the rare stories with a boy protagonist that remains well known. Yet the tale has an unusual history, in that it did not originate in One Thousand and One Nights , as is commonly assumed, but was composed by a French translator based on the oral performance of a Syrian storyteller. The lengthy story of “Aladdin” added to the Nights by Antoine Galland has a distinct publication history …
The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals
Since the publication of the first children’s periodical, The Lilliputian Magazine in 1751, magazines have offered an affordable and accessible way for children to read and form virtual communities. Despite the diversity of children’s periodicals—from missionary magazines to comics—their study has been overshadowed by an emphasis on children’s literature and constrained by the ephemerality of the form. The Edinburgh History of Children’s Periodic…
Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals
Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals
Neo-Victorian Approaches to the Colonial Past in Ruth Park’s *Playing Beatie Bow
Fantasising the Nation for Child Readers in Early Australian Fairy Tales
This article examines three collections of Australian fairy tales published between 1897 and 1925 and considers the ways in which they contributed to nation-building efforts. Atha Westburyâ s Australian Fairy Tales (1897), J. M. Whitfeldâ s The Spirit of the Bush Fire and Other Australian Fairy Tales (1898), and Hume Cookâ s Australian Fairy Tales (1925) fantasise a nation into being through the fairy-tale genre. The associations of the European …
Imagining Colonial Environments: Fire in Australian Children's Literature, 1841–1910
This article examines children's novels and short stories published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that feature bushfires and the ceremonial fires associated with Indigenous Australians. It suggests that British children's novels emphasise the horror of bushfires and the human struggle involved in conquering them. In contrast, Australian-authored children's fictions represent less anthropocentric understandings of the enviro…
Kristine Alexander. Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s
In Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s, Kristine Alexander synthesizes the histories of British, Canadian, and Indian Girl Guiding to produce a rich account of how an international movement developed in the interwar period. Her monograph begins with the diary entry from an English Girl Guide who reports on her patrol’s activities, which include a uniform inspection marred by the girls’ uneven tie le…
Victorian Environments
From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Literature, 1840-1940
From Colonial to Modern examines representations of girls in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand girls’ literature to trace how colonial authors transformed British feminine norms to produce transnational ideals and modern, nationalised femininities.
Victorian Environments: Acclimatizing to Change in British Domestic and Colonial Culture
 But what is his country?â
Race, Species, and the Other: “Beauty and the Beast” in Victorian Pantomime and Children's Literature
Race, species, and the other: “Beauty and the Beast” in Victorian pantomime and children's literature
Martha Ostenso, Periodical Culture, and the Middlebrow
Between 1938 and 1942, border-crossing Norwegian-Canadian author Martha Ostenso published three short stories in Chatelaine magazine, stories that engage in complex ways with themes of femininity, nationalism, and consumerism. In this article, we consider how the context of Chatelaine shapes and complicates readings of these stories by placing the stories in conversation with surrounding material, including advertisements and editorial content. T…
Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840–1950
Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australi
Animating child activism: Environmentalism and class politics in Ghibli's Princess Mononoke (1997) and Fox's Fern Gully (1992)
Informed by ecocriticism, this article conducts a comparative examination of two contemporary animated children's films, Princess Mononoke (1997) and Fern Gully (1992). While both films advocate for the prevention of deforestation, they are, to varying degrees, antithetical to environmentalism. Both films reject the principles of deep ecology in displacing responsibility for environmental destruction on to ‘supernatural’ forces and exhibit anthro…
Buried Traces
By the time I came to make this film, my grandfather had already passed on. There was no one in my family to speak about their experiences growing up Métis. It was in talking to Lorraine Freeman, a Métis community leader in Winnipeg, that I came to really comprehend the extent of racism and challenges of being a ‘halfbreed’ in the first half of the 20th century. My conversations with Lorraine helped me to see that the years of silence around our …
Empire in British Girls’ Literature and Culture: Imperial Girls, 1880-1915
n\t\t\t\t\tWhile the gender and age of the girl may seem to remove her from any significant contribution to empire, this book provides both a new perspective on familiar girls' literature, and the first detailed examination of lesser-known fiction relating the emergence of fictional girl adventurers, castaways and 'ripping' schoolgirls to the British Empire.\n\t\t\t\t
Claudia Rankine
Research Article| September 01 2002 Claudia Rankine Michelle Smith Michelle Smith michelle r. smith is a twenty-five-year-old poet from Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Case Western Reserve University and received her M.A. in English in August 2000. She started her own website and published her first chapbook, They Be, in 2001. She has also been published in Poemmemoirstory. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Meridians (2002)…
Black Identity: The O. J. Simpson Case
The purpose of this paper is to review the White and Black perspectives regarding the O. J. Simpson trial. The henneneutic-dialectic (HD) method of inquiry will be utilized in order to comprehend how Whites and Blacks reached their respective conclusions concerning O. J. Simpson’s guilt or innocence. This method of inquiry employs discourses, separately by Blacks and Whites, the interchange of the recorded discourses, and last, the coming togethe…
Animating child activism: Environmentalism and class politics in Ghibli's Princess Mononoke (1997) and Fox's Fern Gully (1992)
Informed by ecocriticism, this article conducts a comparative examination of two contemporary animated children's films, Princess Mononoke (1997) and Fern Gully (1992). While both films advocate for the prevention of deforestation, they are, to varying degrees, antithetical to environmentalism. Both films reject the principles of deep ecology in displacing responsibility for environmental destruction on to ‘supernatural’ forces and exhibit anthro…
Black Identity: The O. J. Simpson Case
The purpose of this paper is to review the White and Black perspectives regarding the O. J. Simpson trial. The henneneutic-dialectic (HD) method of inquiry will be utilized in order to comprehend how Whites and Blacks reached their respective conclusions concerning O. J. Simpson’s guilt or innocence. This method of inquiry employs discourses, separately by Blacks and Whites, the interchange of the recorded discourses, and last, the coming togethe…
Claudia Rankine
Research Article| September 01 2002 Claudia Rankine Michelle Smith Michelle Smith michelle r. smith is a twenty-five-year-old poet from Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Case Western Reserve University and received her M.A. in English in August 2000. She started her own website and published her first chapbook, They Be, in 2001. She has also been published in Poemmemoirstory. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Meridians (2002)…
Buried Traces
By the time I came to make this film, my grandfather had already passed on. There was no one in my family to speak about their experiences growing up Métis. It was in talking to Lorraine Freeman, a Métis community leader in Winnipeg, that I came to really comprehend the extent of racism and challenges of being a ‘halfbreed’ in the first half of the 20th century. My conversations with Lorraine helped me to see that the years of silence around our …
Empire in British Girls’ Literature and Culture: Imperial Girls, 1880-1915
n\t\t\t\t\tWhile the gender and age of the girl may seem to remove her from any significant contribution to empire, this book provides both a new perspective on familiar girls' literature, and the first detailed examination of lesser-known fiction relating the emergence of fictional girl adventurers, castaways and 'ripping' schoolgirls to the British Empire.\n\t\t\t\t
Animating child activism: Environmentalism and class politics in Ghibli's Princess Mononoke (1997) and Fox's Fern Gully (1992)
Informed by ecocriticism, this article conducts a comparative examination of two contemporary animated children's films, Princess Mononoke (1997) and Fern Gully (1992). While both films advocate for the prevention of deforestation, they are, to varying degrees, antithetical to environmentalism. Both films reject the principles of deep ecology in displacing responsibility for environmental destruction on to ‘supernatural’ forces and exhibit anthro…
Martha Ostenso, Periodical Culture, and the Middlebrow
Between 1938 and 1942, border-crossing Norwegian-Canadian author Martha Ostenso published three short stories in Chatelaine magazine, stories that engage in complex ways with themes of femininity, nationalism, and consumerism. In this article, we consider how the context of Chatelaine shapes and complicates readings of these stories by placing the stories in conversation with surrounding material, including advertisements and editorial content. T…
Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840–1950
Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australi
 But what is his country?â
Race, Species, and the Other: “Beauty and the Beast” in Victorian Pantomime and Children's Literature
Race, species, and the other: “Beauty and the Beast” in Victorian pantomime and children's literature
Victorian Environments
From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Literature, 1840-1940
From Colonial to Modern examines representations of girls in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand girls’ literature to trace how colonial authors transformed British feminine norms to produce transnational ideals and modern, nationalised femininities.
Victorian Environments: Acclimatizing to Change in British Domestic and Colonial Culture
Kristine Alexander. Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s
In Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s, Kristine Alexander synthesizes the histories of British, Canadian, and Indian Girl Guiding to produce a rich account of how an international movement developed in the interwar period. Her monograph begins with the diary entry from an English Girl Guide who reports on her patrol’s activities, which include a uniform inspection marred by the girls’ uneven tie le…
Imagining Colonial Environments: Fire in Australian Children's Literature, 1841–1910
This article examines children's novels and short stories published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that feature bushfires and the ceremonial fires associated with Indigenous Australians. It suggests that British children's novels emphasise the horror of bushfires and the human struggle involved in conquering them. In contrast, Australian-authored children's fictions represent less anthropocentric understandings of the enviro…
Fantasising the Nation for Child Readers in Early Australian Fairy Tales
This article examines three collections of Australian fairy tales published between 1897 and 1925 and considers the ways in which they contributed to nation-building efforts. Atha Westburyâ s Australian Fairy Tales (1897), J. M. Whitfeldâ s The Spirit of the Bush Fire and Other Australian Fairy Tales (1898), and Hume Cookâ s Australian Fairy Tales (1925) fantasise a nation into being through the fairy-tale genre. The associations of the European …
The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals
Since the publication of the first children’s periodical, The Lilliputian Magazine in 1751, magazines have offered an affordable and accessible way for children to read and form virtual communities. Despite the diversity of children’s periodicals—from missionary magazines to comics—their study has been overshadowed by an emphasis on children’s literature and constrained by the ephemerality of the form. The Edinburgh History of Children’s Periodic…
Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals
Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals
Neo-Victorian Approaches to the Colonial Past in Ruth Park’s *Playing Beatie Bow
“Aladdin” as a Model of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature
“Aladdin” is one of the most popular “fairy tales” and one of the rare stories with a boy protagonist that remains well known. Yet the tale has an unusual history, in that it did not originate in One Thousand and One Nights , as is commonly assumed, but was composed by a French translator based on the oral performance of a Syrian storyteller. The lengthy story of “Aladdin” added to the Nights by Antoine Galland has a distinct publication history …
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