{"id":7080,"date":"2014-03-21T18:07:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T18:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/nclc\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2014-03-21T18:07:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T18:07:44","slug":"dr-victoria-ford-smith-featured-in-uconn-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2014\/03\/21\/dr-victoria-ford-smith-featured-in-uconn-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Victoria Ford Smith featured in UConn Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out UConn Today&#8217;s wonderful <a title=\"Victoria Ford Smith\" href=\"http:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/blog\/2014\/03\/childrens-literature-not-as-simple-as-it-seems\/?utm_source=DailyDigest\" target=\"_blank\">feature article <\/a>about Victoria Ford Smith, professor of children&#8217;s literature in UConn&#8217;s English Department.\u00a0 With the engaging title &#8220;Children&#8217;s literature not as simple as it seems&#8221; Dr. Ford Smith describes her background as a specialist in 19th and 20th-century British literature and culture, as well the challenges of teaching students who have grown up in a multimedia world.\u00a0 Dr. Ford Smith&#8217;s first book, <i>Between Generations: The Collaborative Child and Nineteenth-Century Authorship<\/i>, &#8220;examines how children collaborate in the creation of stories&#8221; says author Ken Best.\u00a0 Dr. Ford Smith is also interested in how stories such as<em> Alice in Wonderland<\/em> can be perceived as simple when in actuality, they are quite complex.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out UConn Today&#8217;s wonderful feature article about Victoria Ford Smith, professor of children&#8217;s literature in UConn&#8217;s English Department.\u00a0 With the engaging title &#8220;Children&#8217;s literature not as simple as it seems&#8221; Dr. Ford Smith describes her background as a specialist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2014\/03\/21\/dr-victoria-ford-smith-featured-in-uconn-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-1Qc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}