Ayantika Mukherjee

Academic Interests

Board Game Studies
Childhood Studies
Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Children’s literature and culture
Game studies
Game-Based Learning
gameful pedagogy
historical game studies
History of childhood
History of games and play

Commons Groups

MLA

Analog Game Studies
Game Studies
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
LLC 19th-Century American
LLC Early American
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography

Recent Commons Activity

joined the group Analog Game Studies
joined the group Game Studies
joined the group TM Book History, Print Cultur…
joined the group LLC 19th-Century American

Blog Posts

Publications

“Making Beliefs: Educational Card Games as Scripts of Imperial Fantasy.” Children’s Literature, vol. 52, 2024. Forthcoming.

Upcoming Talks and Conferences

Mukherjee, Ayantika. “Playful Imperialisms: Making Beliefs through The Little Corporal, or the World and its People.” Children’s Literature under the Long Shadow of US Imperialism. MLA 2024, Philadelphia, Jan 5, 2024.

Graduate Student

University of Alberta