David Kupferman, Associate Professor in the School of Teaching and Learning, was recently featured in the Huffington Post. Just in time for Halloween, his scholarship on children and killer dolls was cited in an article titled “Here’s Why You’re Afraid of Dolls, According to the Experts.” Dr. Kupferman’s work on the topic stems from his 2019 book, Children Ex Machina: Childhood, […]
David Kupferman, School of Teaching and Learning, has recently published the book Childhood, Science Fiction, and Pedagogy: Children Ex Machina, with Springer. Kupferman served as the lead editor of the collected volume (along with his colleague Andrew Gibbons from Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand), which includes 12 chapters by contributors from around the world. The book considers the […]
David Kupferman, School of Teaching and Learning, recently published a chapter with his colleague Andrew Gibbons, Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand), in the edited book Innovations in Narrative and Metaphor. Kupferman’s chapter, titled “Flow My Tears, the Teacher Said: Science Fiction as Method,” offers an argument for science fiction as a critical tool for questions concerning education. Philip K. […]
David Kupferman, School of Teaching and Learning, presented a paper at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting in Toronto, Canada this week. AERA is the largest and most prestigious education research conference in North America. His paper, titled “Naked School Lunch: Neoliberal Education Policy as William S. Burroughs’ Control Society,” looks at how the writings of William Burroughs […]
David Kupferman, School of Teaching and Learning, gave a presentation titled “Détournement: Getting Students to Think about ‘High’ Theory Using Kitsch and Low Theory” on February 8 at the STAR Symposium. Dr. Kupferman’s presentation focused on the method of détournement, a form of refashioning objects and themes in the social imaginary, often in the form of kitsch, to other ends, […]