Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo, UH West Oʻahu Assistant Professor of English, published a chapter in “Childhood, Science Fiction, and Pedagogy,” published by Springer and edited by Andrew Gibbons and former UH West Oʻahu faculty David Kupferman.
Nolte-Odhiamboʻs chapter, “Through the Black Mirror: Innocence, Abuse, and Justice in ‘Shut Up and Dance,’ ” analyzes the episode in the Netflix hit and the complexities revealed through the story of its teenage protagonist, Kenny. The book’s abstract states that the chapter draws “on scholarship situated at the productive intersections of childhood studies and queer theory,” and “interrogates conceptions of the child-as-victim and analyzes how ‘Shut Up and Dance’ complicates the dominant discourse on child abuse.”