Research Interests

Elizabeth Marshall’s research interests include childhood, gender, and alcohol in American pop culture; teachers and teaching in visual texts; children’s picture books and film; childhood and youth studies. She is the author of The Drinking Curriculum: A Cultural History of Childhood and Alcohol, Graphic Girlhoods: Visualizing Education and Violence, and Witnessing Girlhood (with Leigh Gilmore). Her forthcoming edited collection (with Anna Mae Duane) entitled Hatred is Health: White Women and the Wellness Industry is forthcoming from Fordham University Press.  Marshall’s scholarship has appeared in Feminist Studies (Claire G. Moses Award for Most Theoretically Innovative Article in Feminist Theory), Feminist Media Studies, Women’s Studies Quarterly, The Harvard Educational Review, and College English.  With Kenneth Kidd, she co-edits the Children’s Literature and Culture series at Routledge, the oldest-running monograph series in the field. Her public scholarship has been published in The Conversation, Popmatters.com, Rethinking Schools, and TIME Magazine. 

Research Keywords

Children’s picture books; Children’s film; Drinking Culture; Alcohol; Teachers and Teaching in Popular Culture; Childhood and Youth Studies