Åse Marie Ommundsen

(Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway)

Åse Marie Ommundsen is Professor of Scandinavian literature in the Faculty of Education at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. She is also part-time Professor at Nord University, Norway. Her current interest is in contemporary Scandinavian children’s literature, crossover picture books, and picture books for adults, on which she has published articles in Norwegian, English, French and Dutch. She is the editor of Looking Out and Looking In: National Identity in Picturebooks of the New Millenium (Novus, 2013). In 2011, she arranged The Child and the Book in Oslo, and has been a member of the board of The Child and The Book since then. Her current research project is Challenging Picture books in Education: Rethinking Language and Literature.