Delivered on October 16, 2020 at the Harry Potter Conference of Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA. On September 25, 2018, Korean actress Claudia Kim was announced in the role of Nagini for Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald. Here is my five-item tweet from the moment I found out: That was a fun morning. I
Ph.D. student Parinita Shetty is the creator of the Marginally Fannish podcast, in which she uses an international lens to examine fan podcasts as sites of public pedagogy. For a delicious break from quarantine life, she invited me onto her show for an hour of talk about how much I love the character of Nagini
I didn’t intend to see Snape parallels when I picked up this book, but they’re plentiful. The narration alternates between a middle-school Korean girl, Sun-hee, and her young adult brother as they live with their parents through Japan’s colonization of Korea during World War II. The story is set a decade or two after the
I was honored to be part of the keynote panel at MISTI-Con 2019 alongside Bayana Davis, Constance Gibbs, and Lawrence Neals, “Evanesco Representation, Accio Inclusion: Diversity in Harry Potter.” Moderator Robyn Jordan of Black Girls Create sent out questions in advance. Here are the answers I prepared to a couple of those questions. I’m going
Warning: This discussion gets dark. (I mean, this whole series is dark. And it certainly looks as if the Fantastic Beasts series, freed of any concerns about being intended “for children,” is going to go darker. But yes, this discussion gets dark.) On Tuesday, September 25, 2018, the final trailer for the upcoming film Fantastic Beasts and
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