Current Project
Making claims that are both fraught and compelling, children’s literature teaches the youngest members of society who we are and how we fit into our world. Heather’s current book project, The Gods Make You Giggle, analyzes modern and contemporary Japanese picturebooks in order to ask how this rich repertoire does religious work by forging human agreements about how reality can and should work, cultivating moral and devotional dispositions, orienting us toward virtues and truths, channeling our feelings, and organizing our relationships.