Anastasia Oikonomidou

(Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)

Dr. Anastasia (Soula) Oikonomidou is an Associate Professor at the Department of Education Sciences in Early Childhood of the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, where she teaches Greek and foreign literature for children. Her scientific interests lie in the area of the ideology inscribed in literary texts for children, in the implied reader and its ideological function in texts for children, as well as in the ideological aspects of illustrated books. She is the author of A Thousand and One Subversions: Innovation in Literature for Young Readers [2001], (Patakis, 2011) and of The Child behind the Lines: The Implied Reader of Books for Children (Gutenberg, 2016). She is also the co-editor of Catch me, if you can: Representations of Childhood in Contemporary Greek Cinema (2006) and of Never-ending Stories: Textual and Pictorial Adaptations for Children (2011).