Speakers
Claudia Alborghetti
(Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy)
Claudia Alborghetti is an Adjunct Professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore for the courses of History of Reading and Children’s Literature, and Translation Theory and Practice. She earned her Ph.D. in Linguistic Sciences in 2016, with a thesis on Gianni Rodari’s writings in English translation from 1965 to 2011. Her first published article was precisely on Rodari and his food language: Gianni Rodari’s Grammar of Food: translating Italian food language into English in children’s literature in the UK and the US (2018). Her research interest lies in translation, rewriting migrant identities, and young girls in translation.
Ângela Balça
(University of Évora CIEC, Portugal)
Ângela Balça Professor at the University of Évora (Portugal) and Senior Researcher at the CIEC - Research Centre on Child Studies, University of Minho (Portugal). Ph.D. in Sciences Education (University of Évora). Director of the Degree in Basic Education (pre-school and primary education). Visiting Professor at Paulista State University (São Paulo, Brazil). She has supervised/supervises Doctoral theses and Master theses. She is a regular reviewer of national and international scientific events and journals in the field of the teaching of language and literature. Her interests are literary education, children’s literature, readers training, teaching of language and literature.
Marina Balina
(Illinois Wesleyan University, United States)
Dr. Balina is Isaac Funk Professor of Russian Studies Emerita, Illinois Wesleyan University. Her scholarship focuses on historical and theoretical aspects of twentieth-century Russian children’s literature. She is editor and co-editor of numerous scholarly volumes, including Russian Children’s Literature and Culture (2008, 2011) and Hans Christian Andersen and Russia (2019).
Susanna Barsotti
(University of Roma Tre, Italy)
Susanna Barsotti is an Associate Professor of History of Education and Children’s Literature at the University of Cagliari. Her research interests focus on the history of children’s literature, fairy tales and their pedagogical and educational values, the relationship between storytelling and illustration, the representation of childhood, especially girls, in children’s literature. Her publications include: Le storie usate. Calvino, Rodari, Pitzorno: riflessioni pedagogiche e letterarie tra mitologia e fiaba (2006); Ancora Pinocchio: Riflessioni sulle avventure di un burattino (2012, with Alessandra Avanzini), Bambine nel bosco. Cappuccetto Rosso e il lupo tra passato e presente (2016) (SIPED Italian Pedagogy Prize 2017).
Katarzyna Biernacka-Licznar
(Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Poland)
Katarzyna Biernacka-Licznar Literary Studies and Italian Studies scholar, Doctor Habilitatus and Assistant Professor at the Department of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies, University of Wrocław. Her research focuses on translations of children’s and young adult literature, the reception of Italian children’s and young adult literature in Poland, and specialised translation.
Bożena Hojka
(University of Wrocław, Poland)
Bożena Hojka is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wrocław (Poland). Her research interests concern the relationship between text and image in various types of publications, with particular emphasis on educational books for children, widely understood publishing and communication theory. Currently she is conducting research on picture and illustrated dictionaries for children. She is a member of The Centre for Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the University of Wrocław.
Marnie Campagnaro
(University of Padua, Italy)
Marnie Campagnaro (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor of Children’s Literature in the FISPPA Department at the University of Padua. Main research fields include: picture books, fairy-tales, reader-response theory and Italian children’s writers. In 2013, she hosted the 9th International Conference “The Child and the Book” and in 2017 she was appointed to organize the 6thInternational Conference of the European Network of Picturebook Research. Recent publications: G. Zago, C. Callegari, M. Campagnaro (Eds.), La casa. Figure, modelli e visioni nella letteratura per l’infanzia dal Novecento ad oggi, [The home. Figures and Models in Children’s Literature from from the Past Century to the Present Day], Pensa Multimedia, 2019; Il cacciatore di pieghe[Trends in Contemporary Children’s Literature] Pensa MultiMedia, 2017; La Grande Guerra raccontata ai ragazzi [Telling Children about the Great War] Donzelli, 2015.
Maria Chatzianastasi
(University of Nicosia, Cyprus)
Maria Chatzianastasi is a Post-Doc Researcher at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. She holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Primary Education from the University of Cyprus as well as a Postgraduate Certificate in Research Training and a Ph.D. in Children’s Literature from Newcastle University. Since 2009 she has been working in the public and private primary education in Cyprus. She is also a Scientific Collaborator at the European University Cyprus, where she has previously taught Children’s Literature modules. Maria’s research work has so far been presented in international conferences and submitted in local and international conference proceedings and journals. Her main research interests involve literary trauma representations, the aesthetic and pedagogic aspects of children’s literature in education, contemporary trends in children’s literature, new forms and formats in children’s books, multimodality, wordless texts and controversial themes in children’s literature.
Cheryl Cowdy
(York University Toronto, Canada)
Cheryl Cowdyis an Associate Professor of Humanities in the Children, Childhood and Youth Program at York University, Toronto. She specialises in the intersections between children’s literature and childhood and youth studies, with a particular focus on Canadian children’s and adolescent literatures and digital storytelling. She recently co-edited a special issue of IRCL (International Research in Children’s Literature) with Alison Halsall on ‘Possible’ and ‘Impossible’ Children (11:2) and has published articles in Global Studies of Childhood, Jeunesse, Bookbird, Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, and in Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives, edited by Candida Rifkind and Linda Warley.
Jenna D'Andrea
(York University Toronto, Canada)
Jenna D’Andrea is a first-year doctoral student at York University in the Faculty of Education. She received her Master of Education from York University and Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English Literature with a minor in Dramatic Arts from Brock University. She is currently a high school English teacher where her classroom experiences motivated her to pursue ongoing research in the realm of moral and empathic education. She recognized a gap in pedagogical practices when it comes to formally established curriculum that facilitates the development of empathy and prosocial behaviour in students. Jenna’s research explores the use of fiction in classrooms as a vehicle for fostering necessary moral, empathic, and social justice education.
Andrea Davidson
(University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Andrea Davidson is a doctoral candidate at the University of Antwerp. Her dissertation examines the construction of adolescence in Aidan Chambers’ Dance Sequence novels by means of textual genetic analysis of the novels’ creation process. She earned a Master’s in English literature as a Canadian Alumni Scholar at the University of Oxford. Her Master's dissertation examined the influence of pedagogical reading on rhetorical form in adolescent women’s letters from the early modern period. She has an Honours Bachelor’s in English literature from the University of Toronto, where she held an Undergraduate Fellowship at the Jackman Humanities Institute.
Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska
(University of Gdańsk, Poland)
Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska Associate Professor at the Department of Scandinavian Studies of the University of Gdańsk, Poland. The focal points of her studies are: reading therapy, translation and theory of translation, Scandinavian literature for children including picturebooks, and Finnish literature. Apart from books on Swedish grammar (Troll 1, 2007; Troll 2, 2008), translation theory (Children’s literature translation studies. Analysis of Polish translations of Astrid Lindgren’s works, 2013) and reading therapy (In search of a “bit of solace”. The potential of works by Astrid Lindgren in reading therapy, 2014) she has published articles about Scandinavian picturebooks and co-edited The Picturebook: a mirror of social changes (2016), The Picturebook. Introduction (2017), The Picturebook. Lexicon 1 (2019). Her latest monograph, Philosophical and translatological wanderings in the Moomin Valley (2019), is devoted to the Moomin books by Tove Jansson.
Sabrina Fava
(University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy)
Sabrina Fava is an Associate Professor of History of Education and Children’s Literature, Faculty of Education, Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, Milan, Italy. Member of international scientific boards and editorial boards for academic publications, her research fields include history of children’s literature and publishers and the history of reading education. Her publications include: Piccoli lettori del Novecento (2015) (SIPED Italian Pedagogy Prize, 2016); Fairy tales in Italy during the 20thCentury and the translation of Tales of long ago (2017) (Cirse International Prize, 2017); Italian Readers of Il Giornalino della Domenica and Il Passerotto between the Great War and the Fiume Endeavour (2018).
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).
Dalila Forni
(University of Florence, Italy)
Dalila Forni is a Ph.D. candidate in Education and Psychology at University of Florence, Italy. She obtained her M.A. in European and Non-European Languages and Literatures at the University of Milan with a thesis entitled A World of Pure Imagination: Cinema and Theatre Adaptations of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Her research interests include children’s narratives and gender identity. She is currently researching how gender identities are represented in children’s storytelling, from picture books to videogames.
Nina Friess
(Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Germany)
Nina Friess is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Eastern European and International Studies (ZOiS) Berlin. She studied Political Science and Slavic Studies in Heidelberg, St. Petersburg (Russian Federation), and Potsdam. From 2009 to 2016 she was a research fellow at the Department of Eastern Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the University of Potsdam. In 2015 she completed her doctorate on the contemporary memory of Stalinist repressions in Russia. Her research interests include memory studies, links between politics and literature, children’s and crossover literature, Russophone literatures and cultures.
Carolin Führer
(Universität Tübingen, Germany)
Carolin Führer is a Professor of German Philology and Didactics at University Tübingen. Her focus is on research into the reception and teaching of literature and media, cultures of memory, subject-specific research into professions and professionalization, and form-sensitive didactics of literature (especially graphic novels, ballads, poetry, children's and young people's literature).
Macarena García González
(Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile)
Macarena García-González is an Associate Researcher at the Center for Educational Justice at the Universidad Católica in Chile working on BioSocioCultural Inclusion. Her current research project takes a new materialism approach to emotional repertoires in reading gender, nation, and childhood (inquiring into literary and institutional texts, as well as conducting a research-intervention with books). She works with NGOs, and with the international network #Chlitspaces, exploring forms of response-able research and intervention with arts and books with marginalized communities.
Etti Gordon Ginzburg
(Oranim Academic College, Isreal)
Dr. Etti Gordon Ginzburg is a lecturer in the English and Hebrew Literature Departments at Oranim and Gordon colleges of education in the north of Israel. Her research interests span nineteenth-century American children’s literature, Victorian nonsense poetry, genre and canonicity, and more recently contemporary Israeli children’s literature and queer theory. In 2018, she was awarded the Children’s Literature in Education Emerging Scholar Award for her article “Queering the Victorian Nursery: Laura Richards’s ‘My Japanese Fan’”.
Blanka Grzegorczyk
(University of Cambridge, UK)
Blanka Grzegorczyk teaches at the University of Cambridge and Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author of Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children’s Literature (Routledge, 2015) and Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature (Routledge, forthcoming in 2020).
Herdiana Hakim
(University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Herdiana Hakim is a published author and a Ph.D. candidate in Children’s Literature and Literacies at the University of Glasgow, where she also achieved her M.Ed. in the same programme. Both her master’s and doctoral studies are fully-funded by the Indonesian government. Previously, she studied English Literature and Developmental Psychology at Universitas Indonesia. Her research focuses on contemporary Indonesian children’s literature, reader’s response, and discourses of tolerance and diversity in children’s stories.
Owen D. Hodkinson
(University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
Owen Hodkinson, an Associate Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics at the University of Leeds, is an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation alumnus, an expert on ancient epistolary literature, and a specialist in Second Sophistic, Philostratus, ancient fiction, modern literary receptions of classics and classical receptions in children’s literature. At present he is a Visiting Researcher in Classics at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. In 2018 he co-edited with Helen Lovatt the volume Classical Reception and Children’s Literature Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation (I.B. Tauris). He has published numerous articles and chapters on the reception of the ancient myths in English language literature.
Jones Irwin
(Dublin City University, Ireland)
Jones Irwin is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Education in the Institute of Education, Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland. From 2014-2019, he was seconded to develop the first state curriculum in Irish schools to connect aesthetic, values and religious education with Community National Schools. His research interests are primarily in ethics, politics and aesthetics and he has published widely in these areas. He has published monographs on Paulo Freire and Jacques Derrida and a co-written text on Žižekwith the Slovenian philosopher, Helena Motoh. His forthcoming book is entitled The Pursuit of Existentialism (Routledge, 2019).
Aju Basil James
(Marshall University, USA)
Aju James is the Minority Faculty Fellow in the College of Education and Professional Development at Marshall University. He is also a doctoral candidate in American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. His research interests lie broadly in the study of globalisation and media, particularly in understanding how media flows create imaginations of the world.
Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska
(University of Wrocław, Poland)
Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wrocław (Poland). She has published widely on the children’s book market, design and illustration. Her major recent work is Serie literackie dla dzieci i młodzieży w Polsce 1945-1989. Produkcja wydawnicza i ukształtowanie edytorskie [Fiction Series for Children and Young Adults in Poland 1945-1989: Book Market and Design] (Warszawa, 2014). She is also a co-author of a monography Lilipucia rewolucja. Awangardowe wydawnictwa dla dzieci i młodzieży w Polsce w latach 2000-2015 [A Lilliputian Revolution: Avant-garde Publishers for Children and Young Adults in Poland 2000-2015] (Warszawa 2018). She is a co-founder and a member of The Centre for Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the University of Wrocław.
Eleanor Mara Johnston
(York University, Canada)
Eleanor Johnston is a candidate for Ph.D. at York University in the Faculty of Education. Her completed dissertation study focused on a global pop music intervention in the elementary music room to raise questions of belonging and hospitality with students and teachers. She is currently writing her dissertation. Her master’s degree in Musicology from the University of Toronto, and Bachelor’s degree in Drama and Music, also from University of Toronto, have seen plenty of use in her decade of experience teaching in public elementary schools. Her research focuses on the ways in which curricular objects foster/prevent feelings of belonging in the classroom and the concert hall, and the tensions and ethical questions embedded therein.
Barbara Kaczyńska
(University of Warsaw, Poland)
Barbara Kaczyńska holds a Master degree in applied linguistics and in history. She is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw, where she studies the reception of French 17th- and 18th-century fairy tales in Polish children’s literature. She has published papers on fairy tales and on metafiction in children’s literature, as well as on Polish medieval lexicography. She translates history books for the general public, and she is currently preparing the first Polish translation of La Belle et la Bête by Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve.
Svetlana Kalezić Radonjić
(University of Montenegro, Montenegro)
Svetlana Kalezić Radonjić works at University of Montenegro as an Assistant Professor of Literature for children and youth. She published seven individual books of poetry and she is a winner of many literary awards. Being particularly interested in authors that deal both with adult literature and literature for children and youth, as well as where they overlap, touch or bypass, she is author of seventy proceedings, articles and papers and the author of study Oblak nad Kamenim vratima: Umjetnost riječi Ivane Brlić-Mažuranić. Besides writing poetry, prose and literary critics, she is also a rock musician and member of the Croatian Association of Researches in Children’s Literature (CARCL) and member of the European Network for Comparative Literary Studies (REELC/ ENCLS).
Yevheniia Orestivna Kanchura
(Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, Ukraine)
Yevheniia O. Kanchura, Ph.D., an Associate Professor at the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Department of Zhytomyr State Technological University, the Deputy Manager of the Centre for Fantasy Literature Studies at The Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Born in Novosibirsk, graduated from Novosibirsk State University in 1988. In 1989 moved to Ukraine. Worked on the Ph.D. dissertation on Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels in Kyiv National Linguistic University. Fields of research: Postmodern fantasy, folklore, mythology.
Barbara Kalla
(University of Wrocław, Poland)
Dr. habil. Irena Barbara Kalla is an Associate Professor of Dutch Studies and coordinator of The Centre for Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the Faculty of Letters, University of Wroclaw, Poland. She has published on Dutch and Flemish literature, including Huisbeelden in de moderne Nederlandstalige poëzie (2012) and Minoes, Minnie, Minu en andere katse streken (2017, with Jan Van Coillie) and on interactions of literature and digital media culture On the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture. Perspectives from Eastern and Western Europe (with P. Poniatowska and D. Michułka). She is Chief Editor of the series Lage Landen Studies (Academia Press Ghent, Belgium).
Georgia Karantona
(University of Nicosia, Cypres)
Georgia Karantona is a literature teacher. Her Master thesis was “Graphic Novel and the Holocaust: Students’ aspects about the use of graphic novels in the classroom”. Part of her research has presented in the 3rd Educational Holocaust Seminar in Greece on March 2019. She has completed a postgraduate course at University of Cambridge about the Holocaust and its aftermath in Britain. She has recently published an article in the Greek journal Keimena entitled “The use of ninth art in Holocaust Education”. He is the co-author of the book Graphic Novel and the Holocaust. Educational Approaches for the preliminary and secondary education (in print).
Peter Karpinský
(University of Prešov, Slovakia)
PhDr. Mgr. Peter Karpinský, Ph.D. (1971) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Slovak language at Faculty of Arts at Prešov University. His field of research is the history and evolution of language as well as the theory and history of comics. He wrote several research papers about the issue of picto-verbal stories, and in 2014 his monograph titled Poetika komiksu v texte a kontexte (The poetics of comics in the text and context) was published. Currently, he is working on a monograph analysing axiological and development issues of Slovak comics. Regarding the issue of comic books, he had delivered several speeches at literary and medial conferences and was working on grant projects.
Anna Kérchy
(University of Szeged, Hungary)
Anna Kérchy is an Associate Professor in Literature at the University of Szeged, Hungary. Her areas of expertise include gender studies, the post-semiotics of the embodied subject, intermedial cultural representations, Victorian and postmodern fantastic imagination, fairy tales, and children’s/YA literature. She authored three monographs: Alice in Transmedia Wonderland (2016), Body-Texts in the Novels of Angela Carter. Writing from a Corporeagraphic Point of View (2008), and Essays on Feminist Aesthetics, Narratology, and Body Studies (in Hungarian, 2018). She (co)edited several essay collections including Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales (2011), The Fairy-Tale Vanguard (with Stijn Praet, 2019),and the forthcoming Transmediating and Translating Children’s Literature (with Björn Sundmark).
Kenneth Kidd
(University of Florida, United States)
Kenneth Kidd is Professor of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale (2004), Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature (2011), and the forthcoming Theory for Beginners, or Children’s Literature Otherwise. Kenneth has also co-edited several books, most recently Queer as Camp: Essays on Summer, Style, and Sexuality (2019) with Derritt Mason. With Beth Marshall he co-edits the Routledge book series on Children’s Literature and Culture.
Nina Kollárová
(University of Prešov in Prešov, Slovakia)
Mgr. Nina Kollárová, Ph.D. (1990) is an Assistant Professor at The Institute of British and American Studies at Prešov University, where she teaches primarily culture-oriented courses as well as the courses related to literature. Apart from teaching, her focal research field is a crossfield approach towards the current issues of culture and literature. She studied English language and literature and Slovak language and literature.
Andrijana Kos-Lajtman
(University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Andrijana Kos-Lajtman is an Associate Professor at Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, where she teaches various courses, i.e. Croatian literature, old and modern, as well as children’s literature. Her scientific research is focused on phenomenology of postmodernism in literature and children’s literature. She published some fifty scientific papers in Croatia and abroad and two scientific studies: Autobiographical Discourse of Childhood (2011) and Poetics of the Forms (2016). She co-authored chapters of the book Fairy tales and Fables (Volume 5 of critical review of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić collected works, 2014). She is on the editorial board of several philology proceedings and three scientific journals: Libri & liberi, Croatian Journal of Education and Istraživanja. She held position in programming and organizing several scientific conferences, and chaired the International Scientific Conference in Zagreb A Century of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić's “Priče iz davnine” (October 2016). Andrijana Kos-Lajtman is the author of four poetic collections – A Morning Laureate (2008), Lunule (2012), Teleidoscope (2018) and Stairs for Stojanka K. (2019).
Eva Kowollik
(Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
Eva Kowollik is a research assistant at the Department of Slavic Studies at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. She studied Slavic Studies and German Literature at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Woronesh (Russian Federation). In 2013 she completed her PhD on historiographic metafiction in Serbian contemporary literature. Her research interests include post-Yugoslav literature, war and trauma in contemporary south Slavic literature, children’s and young adult literature.
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.
Isaac Willis Larison
(Marshall University, USA)
Isaac Willis Larison is an Associate Professor in the Literacy Education Program at Marshall University. He is a Fulbright Scholar and former director of international studies in Denmark. He studies children’s literature, literacy development, and cross-cultural perspectives among children and teachers in schools. Dr. Larison serves on local, state, and national committees promoting literacy and children's literature. He presents at conferences around the world and is published in state, national, and international journals. His recent project examines how iPads assist students with writing. He received a fellowship to the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany in 2017.
Marta Larragueta Arribas
(Universidad Camilo José Cela, Spain)
Marta Larragueta Arribas is a Ph.D. Candidate at Universidad Camilo José Cela (Madrid) and member of ELLI, a research group at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She has worked as a teacher in schools in Madrid and the United Kingdom and is currently writing her thesis about Spanish contemporary picture books and children’s and adults’ preferences regarding this literary genre. She also contributes to the online journal Literatil, writing children’s literary reviews and has also been collaborating with Cero en conducta, a Spanish educational radio programme.
Chiara Lepri
(University of Roma Tre, Italy)
Chiara Lepri is a Researcher of History of Education in the Department of Education of the University of Roma Tre. Her research interests focus on the history of children’s literature between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with particular reference to artistic-narrative languages for children and linguistic experimentation in the field of contemporary poetic production. Her studies include: Parole in libertà. Infanzia e linguaggi poetico-narrativi (2013), CIRSE International Prize 2015; Aedi per l’infanzia. Poeti e illustratori di oggi (2015); Le immagini raccontano. L’iconografia nella formazione dell’immaginario infantile (2016), SIPED Italian Pedagogy Prize 2018.
Katarzyna Marciniak
(University of Warsaw, Poland)
Katarzyna Marciniak is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition (OBTA) at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw. In 2011 she established the “Our Mythical Childhood” programme, putting together scholars from various continents with the aim of studying the reception of Classical Antiquity in youth culture (edited volumes: Our Mythical Childhood, Brill 2016, and Chasing Mythical Beasts, in press, Winter 2020). She is a laureate of the Loeb Classical Library Foundation Grant, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Alumni Award, and the ERC Consolidator Grant. She writes also for children: in 2016 her poems received a Nomination for the Book of the Year of the Polish Section of the IBBY.
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Dorota Michułka
(University of Wrocław, Poland)
Dorota Michułka, Associate Professor: Head of the Department of Methodology of Teaching Language and Literature (Institute of Polish Studies, University of Wrocław); she has worked at the Department of Slavonic Philology at the University of Tampere (Finland) during 2000- 2005; she was a fellow in USA and Germany; as a researcher she deals with problems related to the children’s literature, history, culture studies and education. She has written more then 150 articles, published in Poland and abroad, she has edited several books; her latest monograph is: Ad usum Delphini. On literary education – then and now (2013); she is a member of Polish Academy of Science (Section of Education), she is a member of IRSCL, member of Polish Scientific Academy (Section of Education) and editor in chief of international journal “Filoteknos” (Children’s Literature - Cultural Mediation - Anthropology of Childhood)
Olga Mikhaylova
(State Pedagogical University Moscow, Russia)
Dr. Olga Mikhailova is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Philology, Moscow State Pedagogical University, where she teaches “History of Russian Literature of the XX-XXI centuries”, “Children’s Literature”. She is the author of more than 20 articles in Russian refereed journals, the chapters in the textbooks for higher education dedicated to different issues of children’s literature, media tendencies in contemporary literature. Some of her recent publications are the book chapters “Mapping illusions: between the child’s fantasy world of Lev Kassil’s Schwambrania and the geography of a fledgling Soviet State” (2017, in Maps and Mapping in Children’s Literature, ed. by Nina Gogan and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer) and “Plots about Circus in Victor Dragunsky short stories: commentary and reception issues” (2019, in Children’s Reading: Issues of Reception and Interpretation ed.by Maria Chernyak). In addition, she is the member of RBBY.
Catalina Millán Scheiding
(Berklee College of Music, Spain)
Catalina Millán Scheiding Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Liberal Arts Department at Berklee College of Music Valencia Campus and she is a member of the TALIS research group at the Universitat de València. She specializes in language learning, children’s literature and fantasy. She also works as a literary and audiovisual translator and is a spoken word poet. Her current scholarship focuses on children’s rhymes, translation and literary education.
Xavier Mínguez-López
(University of València, Spain)
Xavier Mínguez-Lopez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Didactics of Language and Literature at the University of Valencia. He conducted his Ph.D. on Interculturality in Catalan Literature for Children and Young People. He was a Researcher at Yokohama National University in Japan where he carried on research on comprehension of Japanese animation, and also in the International Youth Library in Munich. His other lines of research are Children’s Literature, Literary Education and Animation. He has published more than a dozen of books for children. He is co-director of the Journal of Literary Education.
Char Moffit
(California State University, USA)
Char Moffit is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at California State University, Chico. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses including Multicultural Children's Literature, literacy methods K-8, and Science Methods K-8. She has two areas of research. Her first area of research is the area of curriculum integration with literacy and science in the primary grades. Her second is in Children's Literature. She has presented at local, national, and international conferences.
Smiljana Narančić Kovač
(University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Dr. Smiljana Narančić Kovač is an Associate Professor, Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her research interests include comparative literature, narratology, children’s literature (contact and transfer studies), picture book theory, and teaching English to young learners. She served as the PI for a national research project about children’s literature translations (2015–2018). She published two monographs in Croatian, one a theoretical treatise on picturebooks as a narrative form (2015), and chapters in Alice in a World of Wonderlands (Jon Lindseth, ed., 2015) and The Routledge Companion to Picturebook (Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, ed., 2018). She is the Editor-in-Chief of Libri & Liberi.
Ewa Nicewicz-Staszowska
(Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland)
Ewa Nicewicz-Staszowska is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Italian Literature, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. Her research interests involve 20th- century Italian literature, Italian children’s literature and translation studies. Her last publications include the paper Is more always better? Translations of Italian Children’s Literature in Poland after 2000. Selected aspects (HECL, 2020), the chapter Non vorrei che tu tardassi all’incontro coi bambini polacchi». Sulla fortuna di Gianni Rodari in Polonia (Ed. Anicia 2020) and the paper Moravia l’africano delle «Storie della preistoria» (BeLLS, 2019). She is also a published literary translator from Italian and a member of the Polish Literary Translators Association. She translated into Polish the works of G. Rodari, R. Piumini, B. Alemagna and D. Morosinotto among others.
Ivana Odža
(University of Split, Croatia)
Ivana Odža graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split in 2006 and thus acquired the academic title of a teacher of Croatian language and literature and Italian language and literature. She enrolled in the Postgraduate doctoral study programme at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 2007 and defended her thesis in January 2016. She worked as an elementary school teacher of Croatian and Italian language and an external associate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split, where she is currently employed as Assistant Professor. She has published professional and scientific papers in the field of methodology of Croatian language, children`s and oral literature.
Emiliya Ohar
(Ukrainian Publishing and Printing Academy, Ukraine)
Emilya Ohar, Associate Professor:Head of PR and Journalism Department (Ukrainian Publishing and Printing Academy); member of the Committee of National Competition The Best Children’s Book of Year, member of IRSCL, member of editorial board of international journal “Filoteknos” (Children’s Literature - Cultural Mediation - Anthropology of Childhood); subjects of research interests: effective writing for children, editing, design, producing and promoting books and new media for children; selected publication:Children’s Book in Ukrainian Social Environment: Experience of Transitional Period (2012), Children’s Book and Reading Promotion in Eastern Europe, ed. (2012 ),The Book and the Tablet as Media of Children’s Literature: A Ukrainian Case,“On the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture. Perspective from Eastern and Western Europe”, 2018, p. 61-77.
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).
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.
Natalia Paprocka
(University of Wrocław, Poland)
Natalia Paprocka Translation Studies and Romance Studies scholar, Doctor Habilitatus and Assistant Professor at the Department of Romance Studies, University of Wrocław. Her research focuses on translations of children’s and young adult literature, the reception of French children’s and young adult literature in Poland, and translation quality assessment and terminology.
Dimitrios Politis
(University of Patras, Greece)
Dimitrios Politis is an Associate Professor of Children’s Literature and Theory of Literature at the Department of Educational Sciences and Early Childhood Education-University of Patras, Greece. A co-author of the book Children’s Ideas about Children’s Literature (2010) (in Greek), he also has edited books on Literature for Children and Adolescents, including: Literary Book and School (2008) and Modern Adolescent Literature (2011) (both in Greek). His research interests are focused on Literature for Children as well as on Theory and Teaching of Literature, while he has published several articles on various aspects of these topics.
Maria Porras Sanchez
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
María Porras Sánchez is an assistant teacher at the Department of English Studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, and she also collaborates at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She has formerly taught at Aberystwyth University (Wales, UK). Her research interests include postcolonial literature, travel literature, modernism and avant-garde, and comic studies. She combines her teaching and research with her work as a literary translator for publishing houses such as Editorial Siruela and HarperCollins. She has translated, among others, Anne Enright and Boris Fishman. She has coedited, with E. Sánchez-Pardo and R. Burillo, Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries: On Sappho’s Website (Cambridge Scholars, 2018). Her last work to date is a critical edition and translation of El himen y el hiyab: por qué el mundo árabe necesita una revolución sexual (2018) by Mona Eltahawy.
Michael Cornelius Prusse
(Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland)
Michael C. Prusse is Professor of ELT methodology and English Literature at the Zurich University of Teacher Education in Switzerland. Recent publications include Wirksamer Englischunterricht (2018), edited with Barbara Prusse-Hess, a collection of expert interviews on effective English teaching, and a transmedial analysis of Tim Winton’s Lockie Leonard series (in Janice Bland, Using Literature in English Language Education, 2018). Children’s and Young Adult literature belongs to his major teaching and research interests; he has published teaching materials on Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and criticism on Kevin Brooks, Anthony Horowitz and Philip Pullman.
Sara Reis da Silva
(University of Minho, Portugal)
Sara Reis da Silva, Ph.D. in Children’s Literature. She is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Education at the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal) where she teaches: Children’s Literature; Language, Textuality and Reading Strategies; and Children’s Literature Didactics. She is a member of: CIEC (Research Centre in Child Studies), the project RED LIJMI (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Gulbenkian/Casa da Leitura (www.casadaleitura.org), “Living Among Books” (Erasmus+ Project), and ELOS, a Portuguese-Galaic research association. She has participated in several conferences and has widely published (journal articles, books, etc.). She has supervised three Ph.D. students and is now supervising four others.
Larissa Rudova
(Pomona College, United States)
Dr. Larissa Rudova is Yale B. and Lucille D. Griffith Professor in Modern Languages, Professor of Russian at Pomona College, Claremont, California. She is a co-editor of Russian Children’s Literature and Culture (2008, 2011), and the author of two monographs on Boris Pasternak. Her numerous publications focus on Soviet and post-Soviet children’s and YA literature and film, modern Russian literature and culture, Russian cinema, and gender studies. She recently co-edited a special journal issue, “Russian and Eastern European War Childhood,” Filoteknos: Anthropology of Childhood, vol. 8 (2018), with Dorota Michułka.
Leonor Ruiz Guerrero
(University of Murcia, Spain)
Leonor Ruiz Guerrero is a Teacher of Didactics of Language and Literature at the Faculty of Education at the University of Murcia (Spain). She works in the areas of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and Teachers’ Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Her articles are on picture books and education, picture books and traditional children’s literature, and picture books that promote democratic citizenship. She has shared her research in recent conferences such as The 6th International Conference European Network of Picturebook Research (Padua, 2017), and The 14th Child and the Book Conference (Zadar, 2019).
Tatjana Kielland Samoilow
(University in Trondheim, Norway)
Tatjana Kielland Samoilow Associate professor in Norwegian literature. My research interest lies within literature at the intersection between aesthetics and politics. I have a Ph.D. in comparative literature (2013) with a thesis about economics in Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks and several novels by the Norwegian author Alexander Kielland. Since 2013 I have been working in early childhood and teacher education and turned interest toward literature for children and young adults as well. Since 2017 I have been leading a research group on catastrophes in literature. I am part of the editorial board at Nordic Journal of Childlit Aesthetics. Publications are registered here: https://wo.cristin.no/as/WebObjects/cristin.woa/wa/fres?sort=ar&pnr=42678&action=sok
Alexander Schneider
(Uni Wuppertal, Germany)
Alexander Schneider holds a Ph.D. in art pedagogy and works in scholastic and academic fields. He holds a doctorate in Art Education and is associated to the IMAGO research group for Art Education <https://www.ph-ludwigsburg.de/16201+M5aa62d648a5.html>. His research centers on the field of Visual Literacy. His current work focuses on graphic storytelling as well as the pictorial representation of the COVID-19 pandemic. His latest publication is called Fighting the Corona-Ghost: On the Imagery of Children in times of the Pandemic (original: “Kampf dem Corona-Geist: Zur Bildwelt und Bildsprache von Kindern in Zeiten der Pandemie“). He is also set to edit an interdisciplinary issue for IMAGO on curricular questions in graphic storytelling (together with Prof. Carolin Führer).
Beate Sommerfeld
(Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland)
Beate Sommerfeld PD Dr., Associate Professor at the Faculty of Modern Languages of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Degree in German, Romance and Slavic Philology in Marburg/Lahn and Montpellier. 2005 doctorate at the Adam Mickiewicz University, 2014 habilitation. Since 2015 Head of the Department of Comparative Literature and Theory of Literary Translation at the Institute of German Philology at the Adam Mickiewicz University. Together with Eliza Pieciul-Karmińska she leads a research group for the translation and reception of children’s literature at the Faculty of Modern Languages of the Adam Mickiewicz University.
Cláudia Sousa Pereira
(Universade de Évora, Portugal)
Since 1990, professor at the University of Évora, researcher and vice-director of CIDEHUS-UÉ (Interdisciplinary Center of History, Cultures and Societies of the University of Évora).Publications in books, conferences, communications and training, national and international, in the areas of children's and youth literature, reading promotion, literary education and mass literature; the doctoral thesis of 2000, about a chivalry book of the 16th century, was transformed into a book of characteristics peculiar to the transfer of applied knowledge in the publication Ler em Grupo. Between 2009 and 2013, she has been city councillor at the municipality of Evora.
Gro Marie Stavem
(Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway)
Gro Marie Stavem is an Assistant Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University. She worked as a primary school teacher for twenty years, and is now teaching Norwegian language and literature in teacher education. She has a general interest in research on literacy, especially critical literacy and written argumentation in primary school. Current research interests are classroom research, challenging picture books in education, and reading- and writing difficulties.
Karolina Stępień
(Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland)
Karolina Stępień is a Research and Teaching Assistant at the Institute of Modern Languages at the Pedagogical University of Krakow and a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Warsaw. She holds an M.A. in Iberian philology and a postgraduate certificate in children’s literature. She is a member of the editorial team of the journal Childhood: Literature and Culture. Her research interests include children’s literature criticism and Latin American literature for young readers.
Hadassah Stichnothe
(Universität Bremen, Germany)
Dr. phil Hadassah Stichnothe studied Comparative Literature and American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Tübingen with a dissertation on novels of initiation in German and English children’s literature. She currently teaches children’s literature and media as a research fellow at Bremen University.
Tone Louise Stranden
(Metropolitan University Oslo, Norway)
Tone Louise Stranden: I am, since 1 September 2019, a Ph.D. student in the research group “Challenging picturebooks in education” led by Åse Marie Ommundsen at OsloMet, Norway. I am educated as a teacher with a master’s degree in Norwegian literature and language. I have worked several years as an elementary school teacher in Norway. In my research project I will test out a didactic design for using picture books (my own development), and I will do a reception study of the student’s interpretation of six picture books.
Mateusz Świetlicki
(University of Wrocław, Poland)
Dr. Mateusz Świetlicki is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies. He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2018) and has received fellowships at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2014) and Harvard University (2012). His first book was published in 2016. His expertise is in North American and Ukrainian children’s and YA literature and culture, as well as in popular culture and film. He is a representative for the Childhood & Youth Network of the SSHA and a member of the consortium of The International Master in Children’s Literature, Media and Culture (CLMC).
Karoline Thaidigsmann
(Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany)
Karoline Thaidigsmann is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer of Polish and Russian Literature at the Department of Slavic Studies at the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg. She studied Slavic Studies, Psychology and Theology in Heidelberg and Wrocław (Poland). In 2009 she completed her doctorate on the experience in Soviet work camps and its influence on identity in Russian Literature. She is currently working on her habilitation about Crossover Literature and Cultural Identity in Poland since 1989. Her research interests include children’s and crossover literature, contemporary Polish literature, trauma narratives, memory studies, literature and identity.
Tasoula D. Tsilimeni
(University of Thessaly, Greece)
Tasoula Tsilimeni is Professor at the Department of Early Childhood Education, at School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Thessaly. She teaches Children’s Literature. She has published relevant articles and studies in autonomous books, in collective volumes and in reputable journals both Greek and foreign ones. She is the editor and the chair of the journal Keimena (www. keimena.ece.uth.gr) for the study of children’s literature. She has published books for children, educators and fiction books for adult’s literature as well she has taken part in international congresses.
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.
Padma Venkatraman
(University of Rhode Island, United States)
Padma Venkatraman was born in the city of Chennai, a city in the southern part of India. She is the author of three critically acclaimed award-winning novels. Her latest, A Time to Dance (Nancy Paulsen Books, Penguin) was released to 5 starred reviews (in Kirkus, Booklist, SLJ, VOYA and BCCB) and received numerous awards: ALA Notable, IRA NBGS, Kirkus Best Book, NYPL Top 25, IBBY outstanding, etc. Her two earlier novels, Island’s End and Climbing the Stairs, were also released to three or more starred reviews, were both ALA Best Books, CCBC choices and Booklist Editor’s Choice/Best Books and have won several other honors and awards. Padma Venkatraman is American, has a doctorate in oceanography and lives in Rhode Island. Visit her at www.padmasbooks.com and www.padmasbooks.blogspot.com.
Tea-Tereza Vidović-Schreiber
(University of Split, Croatia)
Tea-Tereza Vidović-Schreiber graduated in Croatian language and literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zadar. She completed a postgraduate degree course at the Faculty of philosophy in Zagreb. In 2011 she became a M.Sc. in the field of literature. Since 2016 she has been working as a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of philosophy in Split, at the Department for early and pre-school education. The areas of her professional and scientific interest are Croatian legends, traditional narratives, urban legends, children's literature, the contemporary Croatian literature, puppetry, theatrical and media culture in the education of teachers for children of early and preschool age and pre-school education. She has published a scientific book Fabulous honey words and a collection of poems The Soul and the Body, The Nest without a Sound and a shared collection Clouds. She writes and publish scientific articles in the fields of literature, theatrical and media culture.
Anna Wiśniewska-Grabarczyk
(University of Lodz, Poland)
Anna Wiśniewska-Grabarczyk is an Assistant Professorin the Chair of Polish Literature of the 20th and 21st Century at the University of Łódź. She is a writer and publicist (for her novel Porzeczkowy Josef she was nominated for the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Prize; she is also an author of several dozen reviews of kid’s literature and an author of radio-play for children Spożywczy bigiel. Mrożące krew w listkach przygody Szpinaka Alberta). Research interests: children and young adult literature and censorship of the Polish People’s Republic. Recipient of the Foundation of University of Lodz Prize for the outstanding M.A. thesis. Recipient of the first prize of the “Polityka” weekly magazine for the outstanding M.A. thesis on the history of the Polish People’s Republic. Distinguished in the 9th W. Pobóg-Malinowski Competition for the Best Historical Debut. Member of The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA). Principal investigator in National Science Centre Grant: Post-war Polish literature in the light of cryptotext (on the basis of bulletins of the Main Office of Control of Press, Publications and Shows 1945–1956).
Monika Wozniak
(Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Monika Wozniak has studied Polish Literature at the Catholic University of Lublin and Italian Literature and Language at Jagiellonian University of Cracow. Since 2008 she has been an Associate Professor of Polish Language and Literature at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Her research has addressed several topics in Literary Translation, Children’s Literature and Translation as well as Audiovisual Translation. She has co-authored a monography of Italian-Polish translations of children’s literature (Translations for Children in the System of Minor Literatures, Toruń, 2014), has co-edited a volume on Cinderella Cenerentola come testo culturale. Interpretazioni, indagini, itinerari critici (Rome, 2016) and another one Cinderella across cultures (Wayne University Press 2016). Imagining a Polish Cinerella, in: Cinderella Across Cultures. New Directions and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. WUSP, Detroit 2016, p. 296-316.
Angela Yannicopoulou
(National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Angela Yannicopoulou is a Professor of Children’s Literature at the Department of Preschool Education at National and Kapodistrian Univeristy of Athens, Greece. She is interested in picture books, teaching of children’s literature, ideology in children’s books and visual literacy. Her books are: Aesopic Fables and Children: Form and Function (Liverpool: Manutius Press, 1993, in English), Towards Reading (Athens: Kastaniotis, 2005, in Greek), Playing with Phonemes (Rhodes: Aegean University, 2006, in Greek), Literacy in Preschool Education (Athens: Kastaniotis, 2005, in Greek), Contemporary Picturebook (Papadopoulos, 2008, in Greek), Approaching sciences through children’s literature (Papadopoulos, 2009, in Greek) and Picturebooks in preschool education (Patakis, 2016, in Greek).
Zofia Zasacka
(National Library, Poland)
Zofia Zasacka, Phd, Assistant Professor: Sociologist, assistant professor in Book and Readers Institute in National Library of Poland and in Educational Research Institute; subjects of professional interests include: children and adolescent literacy, children and young adult literature, research on reading attitudes; sociology of culture, sociology of youth. Selected publications: Czytelnictwodzieciimłodzieży, (2014) Teenagers and books – from daily reading to avoidance “Edukacja” 2014, 6(131), p. 67-80. Reading engagement and school achievements of lower secondary students (with K. Bulkowski) “Edukacja” 2016, 5(140);.Reading Satisfaction: Implications of Research on Adolescents’ Reading Habits and Attitudes. „Polish Libraries”, 2016, vol. 4, p. 40-64.
Milena Zorić
(Preschool Teacher Training College in Novi Sad, Serbia)
Milena Zorić earned her B.A. in Serbian Language and Literature in 2004 and her M.A. in Serbian Philology in 2010 at Faculty of Philosophy of University of Novi Sad, Department for Serbian language and linguistics. Since 2016 she holds a doctorate from Faculty of Philosophy of University of Novi Sad. From the winter semester 2016/17 she has been a Professor at Preschool Teachers Training College Novi Sad, for the subjects: Serbian language, Methodology and Methodical Practice of Speech Development. She is the author and co-author of numerous scientific and vocational papers in area of development of child speech and the language of children literature.