Karen A. Krasny

(York University Toronto, Canada)

Dr. Karen A. Krasny is a Professor of Language and Literacy in the Faculty of Education at York University.  She was awarded the 2017-18 York Visiting Scholar to Massey College at the University of Toronto where she developed “The autonomy of the child reader: The impact of 18th and 19th century developments in illustration and typography” using the Robertson Davies Library and Toronto Public Libraries’ Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books. Her work also draws on her research in theoretical models and processes of reading with Mark Sadoski (Texas A&M) that extends the structure and function of imagery and affect in Paivio’s Dual Coding Theory to account for the comprehension of multimodal texts.