Vassiliki Vassiloudi

(Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)

Dr. Vassiliki Vassiloudiholds an MA (University of Reading, UK, awarded with distinction) and a Ph.D. (Democritus University, Greece), both in the field of children’s literature. She teaches courses in children’s literature, history of childhood, and multi-literacies at the Department of Primary Education, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. She studies adaptations of classics, Western canonical art in picturebooks, metafiction and historical fiction with a particular focus on WWII. Her scholarly contributions appeared in such international journals as the Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Asian Women, BookBird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, The Mediterranean Chronicle and the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth.