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Sesame Street: A Transnational History
By: Helle Strandgaard Jensen
Podcast Interview:
Helle Strandgaard Jensen discusses her book, Sesame Street: A Transnational History, with David Buckingham. Listen here. You can listen to other episodes of the SHCY podcast by visiting our podcast website, or you can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Helle Strandgaard Jensen is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. David Buckingham is a scholar, writer and consultant specializing in young people, media and education.
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About Helle Strandgaard JensenHelle Strandgaard Jensen is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is the author of From Superman to Social Realism: Children's Media and Scandinavian Childhood (2017) and Sesame Street. A Transnational History (2023). She holds a Ph.D. in History from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and has been a visiting fellow at universities in the UK, the US, Canada, Norway, and Sweden. Her work has appeared in Media History; Journal of Children and Media; Media, Culture & Society; Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth; The Programming Historian, and elsewhere. She holds a shared directorship at the Center for Digital History Aarhus. |
This post is part of the SHCY Featured Books series, in which SHCY members provide written contributions on various academic topics pertaining to the history of childhood and youth.