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Philip Nel

Distinguished Professor

Department of English

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  • Distinguished Professor
    Department of English
  • Kansas State University, English, 919 Mid-Campus Drive, Manhattan, KS, 66506, United States
  • Kansas State University, 919 Mid-Campus Drive, Manhattan, KS, 66506, United States
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TEACHING

Children's Literature, Young Adult Literature, Multicultural Children's Literature, African American Children's Literature, Comics/Graphic Novels, Censorship, Nostalgia.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Banned Books and Censorship
    5 Jun 2025 - 5 Jun 2025
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    American Comics
    1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2025
    ENGL 650
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Nostalgia and the Cultures of Childhood
    1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
    ENGL 830
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Anti-Racist Research: Doctorandi Masterclass
    31 Mar 2022 - 31 Mar 2022
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Multicultural Children’s Literature
    1 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2025
    ENGL 384
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    African American Children’s Literature
    1 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2022
    ENGL 695/725
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Censoring Children’s Literature
    1 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2026
    ENGL 680/695
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Comics & Graphic Novels
    1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2021
    ENGL 710/825/830
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature
    1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2025
    ENGL 703
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Radical Children’s Literature
    1 Jan 2008 - 31 Dec 2018
    ENGL 680/725
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    The Graphic Novel
    1 Jan 2008 - 31 Dec 2016
    ENGL 440
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Dr. Seuss
    1 Jan 2007 - 31 Dec 2012
    ENGL 680/710
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    20th Century American Children’s Picturebooks
    1 Jan 2005 - 31 Dec 2005
    ENGL 680
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Children’s Literature and the Left
    1 Jan 2004 - 31 Dec 2004
    ENGL 690
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Women in Literature
    1 Jan 2004 - 31 Dec 2004
    ENGL 525
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Image, Text, Ideology: Picturebooks and Illustrated Works
    1 Jan 2003 - 31 Dec 2003
    ENGL 830
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Harry Potter’s Library: J.K. Rowling, Texts and Contexts
    1 Jan 2002 - 31 Dec 2013
    ENGL 440
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Literature for Adolescents
    1 Jan 2002 - 31 Dec 2020
    ENGL 545
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Don DeLillo
    1 Jan 2001 - 31 Dec 2001
    ENGL 660
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Literature for Children
    1 Jan 2000 - 31 Dec 2026
    ENGL 355
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Readings in Contemporary American Novels
    1 Jan 2000 - 31 Dec 2000
    ENGL 650