Family in Childrens and Young Adult Literature

About

Eleanor Spencer is Principal of Janet Clarke Hall at the University of Melbourne where she is also an Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Culture and Communications teaching on the English and Theatre Studies programme. She is the recipient of a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship and was Visiting Fellow in the Department of English at Harvard University. Her research interests include twentieth and twenty-first-century British and American poetry and childrens and Young Adult fiction. Her recent publications include the New Casebook on American Poetry since 1945 (2016) and essays in Sylvia Plath in Context (2019) and A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry 19602015 (2020). Jade Dillon Craig is Associate Professor of Childrens Literature and Young Learners at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Norway. Her research interests include childrens literature Alice studies visual texts cinematography and gender studies. She has published book chapters in volumes with Palgrave Macmillan Peter Lang and McFarland. Her most recent publication features in Barnboken: Journal of Childrens Literature Research. Jade is a project leader for eBLINK (engelske bildebøker i norske klasserom) and co-founder of the Childrens Literature Education and Research group at NTNU (with Alyssa Magee Lowery).