Ilaria Filograsso

(University of Chieti Pescara, Italy)

Ilaria Filograsso is an Associate Professor of History of Education and Children’s Literature at the Department of Literature, Arts and Social Sciences at the “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti - Pescara. Her research covers the epistemological aspects of children's literature, the representation of relations of power in children's books and education to reading. Her most significant publications include Bambini in trappola. Pedagogia nera e letteratura per l’infanzia (2012), SIPED Italian Pedagogy Prize 2014, Scrivere per liberare l’infanzia. Leila Berg tra impegno pedagogico, attivismo politico e letteratura per l’infanzia (2019) and, with Marnie Campagnaro, Children, Soldiers and Heroes: The Great War in Past and Present Italian Children’s Literature (2018).