Cheryl Cowdy

(York University Toronto, Canada)

Cheryl Cowdyis an Associate Professor of Humanities in the Children, Childhood and Youth Program at York University, Toronto. She specialises in the intersections between children’s literature and childhood and youth studies, with a particular focus on Canadian children’s and adolescent literatures and digital storytelling. She recently co-edited a special issue of IRCL (International Research in Children’s Literature) with Alison Halsall on ‘Possible’ and ‘Impossible’ Children (11:2) and has published articles in Global Studies of Childhood, Jeunesse, Bookbird, Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, and in Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives, edited by Candida Rifkind and Linda Warley.