Playful Visions Now Available from MIT Press!

About

I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden. I research children’s toys, media, and visual, and material cultures from the nineteenth century to the present and my work has been published in a range of journals and edited collections (see publications). My current book project considers the role of pre-cinematic visual media from optical toys to early pop-up books in shaping children as media spectators. A new project in preliminary development considers the history and theory of animate toys.

See also my former research blog and site, Perception and Playthings.