Description
Book Synopsis Potterversity: Essays Exploring the World of Harry Potter presents a written companion to the popular, Hermione-Approved MuggleNet podcast by the same name. Selected from the top Potter Studies scholars in the field, the diverse authors in the volume provide a range of interpretations of wizarding world stories. Essays include analysis of genre conventions, literary and religious symbolism, the role of games in the series, pedagogical approaches, and politically challenging issues like U.S. race relations, colonialism, and gender and sexuality--including direct attention to J.K. Rowling''s controversial statements about trans people.
Grouped into the sections Occult Knowledge, Ancient Magic, A Question of Character, Self and Other, Playing Potter, and Teaching, the Hogwarts Way, partnered essays precede transcripts of podcast conversations, led by the hosts of Potterversity. The book''s essays and conversations aim to engage not only the mind but the spiri
Trade Review
This collection takes a unique and exciting approach that is new to academic studies of Harry Potter. Every one of the essays taught me something new. This book is an extremely valuable contribution to the field."—Beth Sutton-Ramspeck, associate professor emerita, The Ohio State University at Lima
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Your Potterversity Orientation
- Kathryn N. McDaniel and Emily Strand
- Occult Knowledge
- Good Men and Monsters: Bram Stoker's Dracula and Harry Potter
- Beatrice Groves
- Dark Arts and Secret Histories: Investigating Dark Academia
- Amy H. Sturgis
- Conversation: Occult Knowledge
- Ancient Magic
- Here Be Dragons and Phoenixes: A Thematic Direction for the Fantastic Beasts Series
- Lana A. Whited
- The Real Magic of Christmas in Harry Potter
- Emily Strand
- Conversation: Ancient Magic
- A Question of Character
- Padfoot Revelio! The Life and Love of Sirius Black
- Emma Nicholson
- The Weasley Witches: From Snitches to Stitches to "Not-My-Daughter-You-Bitches"
- Louise M. Freeman
- Arthur Weasley and the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts
- Kathryn N. McDaniel
- Conversation: A Question of Character
- Self and Others
- The Problem with Loving Enemies: Kindness and Oppression in "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot"
- Travis Prinzi
- Uncle Remus's Shack: Tokenism in the Wizarding World
- Mark-Anthony Lewis
- Conversation: Self and Others
- Playing Potter
- It's All Fun and Games Until…: Leisurely and Competitive Pursuits in Harry Potter and Chivalric Romance
- Laurie Beckoff
- Gamifying the Harry Potter Studies Classroom
- Tison Pugh
- Conversation: Playing Potter
- Teaching, the Hogwarts
- Dumbledorisms: The Idiosyncratic Style of a Hogwarts Headmaster
- M'Balia Thomas
- Hem Hem... I Take Umbridge with Bigotry: Using the Witch-in-Pink to Counter Oppression
- Brent A. Satterly
- Conversation: Teaching, the Hogwarts Way
- Before the Dismissal Bell: Closing Thoughts
- Kathryn N. McDaniel
- Bibliography
- About the Contributors
- Index
