Allison McBain Hudson 🇨🇦

It's "dinner" until the next day!

I’ve also added a cinnamon stick to the jar… not sure how that will taste with the gin, though 😬

Me too! Gin or vodka?

And the final step on this year’s milestones: graduation. So grateful to my DCU mentors and colleagues as well as my supportive family and friends.

The DCU MA in Children’s and YA Lit Blog Welcome to our MA in Children's and Young Adult Literature Blog - we hope you enjoy reading about our research and events, and all things children’s literature related here.

New posts on DCU MA in Children’s and YA Lit Blog by our graduates 🎓:

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‘The Accidental Academic’ by @drmcbainhudson.bsky.social
& the first in a 3part series on Children’s Lit & GenAI

Support bookstores. Not billionaires.

Free shipping on any purchases 10/7-10/8.

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Every Child is a Universe
Christi Belcourt ~ Métis
2025

☕️ Our first online postgraduate coffee morning is next Friday at 11am!

A great opportunity to meet, catch-up, and discuss your research with fellow researchers of children's and YA literature.

Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/isscl-post...

but there's also "flammenwerfer"...

AAAAHHHHHH so exciting!!! Well done and congrats!!

The woods beside Cong Abbey, or the oaks of Tomnafinoge in Wicklow!

Our first online postgraduate coffee morning of the academic year is happening on Friday 26th Sept at 11am ☕

A great opportunity to meet, catch-up, and chat with other researchers of children's literature! 📚

Register via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/isscl-post...

Having to choose between these two is Canadian torture! 😆

Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Fun delivery this morning 😊

A little extension for those of you for whom July flew by far too quickly 😊

I find crocheting much easier... try both? YouTube tutorials help!

Post-PhD project: guest room curtain using my elderly friend Ellen’s fine old handkerchiefs.

Do you know the ghost story?

Random photo dump: June sunset, pups, and my latest obsession: small things on shelves.

After 150 years, a prized box returns to an Indigenous nation in Canada: ‘I felt like royalty traveling with it’ The unlikely return of the bentwood box underscores the challenges facing Indigenous communities working to reclaim items raided from their lands

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Add a touch of vanilla to balance the zing 😊

I’m from Grimshaw. Don’t. 😂 (But QE Provincial Park is beautiful!)

Online launch: The 'Irish Studies Review' special issue on "Race, Ethnicity, and Representation in Irish Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture"
The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature
6 Jun 2025 16:00-17:00 CEST
Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1377335279...

PhD ✅🎉😊

Star Wars grindhouse edits

The only aesthetically pure way to watch the original STAR WARS trilogy is these moldy grindhouse prints that were found and digitized a few years ago

You can see the OT the way it was originally seen: with the original ILM effects, in a dreamlike gauze

ENJOY:

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To celebrate this year's publication of the 'Irish Studies Review' special issue on "Race, Ethnicity, and Representation in Irish Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture", we are hosting an online launch on Friday 6th June!

Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1377335279...

Swirl
Emily Carr
1937

…meanwhile, MLA stood back watching and feeling superior 😊

I've been teaching on a couple of modules in which the midterm is an online essay and the final is a pen-and-paper exam, and the difference is staggering... but it's heartening to see that most students rise to the occasion when they have to.