Wizards vs. Muggles

Christopher E. Bell is an associate professor of media studies in the department of communication at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, specializing in the study of the ways in which race, class and gender intersect in different forms of children’s media. He is a TED speaker, a diversity and inclusiveness consultant for Pixar Animation Studios, a 2017 David Letterman Award winning media scholar and the 2017 Denver Comic Con Popular Culture Educator of the Year.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction delete (Christopher E. Bell)Transfiguration: Wizard Identity: “The ­anti-racist-white-hero premise”: Whiteness and the Harry Potter Series (Raymond I. Schuck)The Prisoner of Gender: Masculinity in the Potter Books (Lauren R. Camacci)The HIV Metaphor: J.K. Rowling’s Werewolf and Its Transformative Potential (Brendan G.A. Hughes)Heroes and Horcruxes: Dumbledore’s Army as Metonym (Christopher E. Bell)“I’m a wizard too!” Identification and Habitus (Hillary A. Jones)Gendered Heroism: Family Romance and Transformations of the ­Hero-Type (Shira Wolosky)Muggle Studies: Muggle Identity: Quenching the Quill: How Fan Art Builds Meaning, Creates Bonds and Triggers Imagination (Jelena Borojević)Transcending Hogwarts: Pedagogical Practices Engendering Discourses of Aggression and Bullying (Kristen L. Cole)Culpability for Curses in Jewish Law and Mystical Lore (Levi Cooper)Building Harry Potter’s Identity in Transmedia Contexts (Pilar Lacasa, Sara Cortés and Rut Martínez-Borda)Creating Equality Through Quidditch: A Rhetorical Analysis of Quidditch Blogs (Ryan S. Rigda)About the ContributorsIndex

“Wizards vs. Muggles adds to this rapidly emerging field...and adds to it admirably. Nearly every essay is a high quality, well-researched, and well-edited contribution to our understanding of identity construction inside and outside the Potter universe”—Mythlore.