richard shakeshaft¶

§ PhD in Children's Literature, University of Cambridge (October 2011–January 2018)

• Finding the 'human' in the 'posthuman': The representation of the technologically enhanced posthuman in Young Adult fiction

§ Book Chapters & Reviews

• 'The Case for a Posthuman Trialism in Young Adult Fiction' (2016) in Critical Perspectives on Artificial Humans in Children's Literature, edited by Sabine Planka.
• Review of Children's Games in the New Media Age: Childlore, Media and the Playground (ed. Andrew Burn and Chris Richards) (2015) for International Research Society for Children's Literature
• 'Supermen, Cyborgs, Avatars and Geeks: Technology and the Human in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction' (2014) in Modern Children's Literature: An Introduction (second edition), edited by Catherine Butler and Kimberley Reynolds.

§ MEd in Children's Literature, University of Cambridge (October 2009–August 2011)

• The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth
• An analysis of Year 7 and Year 10 girls’ responses to Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree

§ PGCE in Secondary English, The University of Nottingham (September 2006–July 2007)

§ BA (Hons) in Combined Humanities (First Class), University of Birmingham (October 2000–August 2005)