CRYTC

The Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures (CRYTC) supports scholarly inquiry into literary, media, and other cultural texts for children and youth. Directed by the Canada Research Chair in the Culture of Childhood, Mavis Reimer, with assistance from the Research Coordinator, Larissa Wodtke, the Centre provides a focus for research in the field at the University of Winnipeg, houses the journal Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures (formerly, Canadian Children's Literature/Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse), facilitates the development and management of collaborative national and international research projects, hosts visiting speakers and researchers, and maintains links with other research centres in children's studies internationally.

CRYTC was established by the University of Winnipeg in 2006, in order to recognize, organize, and extend the expertise in the study of texts for children and youth that had developed at the University, principally through the Department of English, over more than thirty years. Key figures in the history of the field at the U of W include Dr. Kay Stone, who offered the first course in children's literature in the Department in the 1970s and whose article "Things Walt Disney Never Told Us" stands as one of the most quoted pieces of research in the field; Dr. Perry Nodelman, whose many books and articles have put him in the first ranks internationally of critics and theorists in the field; and Dr. Mavis Reimer, who was awarded the Canada Research Chair in the Culture of Childhood in 2005, directs the activities of CRYTC and currently edits Jeunesse. The continuing vitality of the field at the U of W and at the Centre is fuelled by the lively exchanges of ideas among faculty researchers and teachers, student researchers and research assistants, and visitors.
As our name implies, CRYTC is a place for research. The Centre houses four faculty offices, in addition to an office for the Editor of Jeunesse and the Research Coordinator. As well, we have a multi-media Research/Meeting Room and a Research Assistant Room with three workstations. For information on booking the Research/Meeting Room or a Research Assistant workstation, please fill out this form and return it to Larissa Wodtke.