Members

Dr Gillian Lathey – Reader in Children’s Literature
Director of the NCRCL
Email: G.Lathey@roehampton.ac.uk

Areas of expertise: the translation of children’s literature and literature for children by German and Austrian exiles 1933-45.

Selected publications:

The Impossible Legacy: Identity and Purpose in Autobiographical Children’s Literature Set in the Third Reich and the Second World War (1999, Bern: Peter Lang).
'Time, Narrative Intimacy and the Child Reader: Implications of the Transition from Present to the Past Tense in the Translation of Children's Texts into English,' META, Translators' Journal (2003) Vol. 48, nos. 1-2, 233-240.
'Autobiography and History: Literature of War' and 'Comparative and Psychoanalystic Approaches: Personal History and Collective Memory,' in Reynolds, K. ed. Modern Children's Literature: An Introduction (2004, London: Palgrave), 58-74 and 74-89.
'The Travels of Harry: International Marketing and the Translation of J.K.Rowling's Harry Potter Books', The Lion and the Unicorn (2005), Vol 29, no.2, 141-151.
'The Translator Revealed: Didacticism, Cultural Mediation and Visions of the Child Reader', in Van Coillie, J. and Verschueren, W. eds. Children's Literature in Translation: Challenges and Strategies (2006, Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing), 1-18.
' " What a funny name!" Cultural transition in versions of Erich Kästner's Emil and the Detectives for page, stage and screen', in Collins, F. and Ridgman, J. eds. Turning the Page: Children's Literature in Performance and the Media (2006, Bern: Peter Lang), 115-132.
editor of The Translation of Children’s Literature: A Reader (2006, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters).
co-editor with Heidy-Margrit Müller and Ernst Seibert of the series Europäische Kinder-und Jugendliteratur im interkulturellen Kontext for the publisher Peter Lang.

Dr Lisa Sainsbury – Senior Lecturer
Deputy Director of the NCRCL and Convener of the On-Site Postgraduate Programme in Children’s Literature
Email: L.Sainsbury@roehampton.ac.uk

Areas of expertise: adolescent fiction; contemporary children’s literature; electronic fiction; creative writing for young people.

Selected publications:

‘Rousseau's Raft: Interaction and Transformation in Electronic Books for Children’ in Fiona Collins and Jeremy Ridgman, eds., Children’s Literature in Performance and the Media (Peter Lang, 2006).
‘Childhood, Youth Culture and the Uncanny: Uncanny Nights in Contemporary Adolescent Fiction’; ‘Picturebook Case Study: Politics and Philosophy in the Work of Raymond Briggs’; ‘Heritage and Chronotopes: Time and Memory in Contemporary Children's Literature’ all in Modern Children's Literature: An Introduction, ed. Kimberley Reynolds, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2005.
'Game On: Adolescent Texts to Read and Play' in eds. Mallan, K and Pearce, S, Youth Cultures: Texts, Images, and Identities, Westport, Conneticut: Praeger, 2003.
'Exploration of textual space in the (dis)location of adolescence', Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies, Vol. 7, 1999, pp.313-324.
'Tales from the Mouse House: Playing with Reading on CD-ROM' in Bearne, E and Watson, V, eds. (2000) Where Texts and Children Meet, London: Routledge, pp.82-97.
'Information Playgrounds: Children's Reference and Multimedia', in Hancock, S., ed. (1998) A Guide to Children’s Reference Books and Multimedia Material, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, pp.145-187.

Dr Liz Thiel – Senior Lecturer
Email: L.Thiel@roehampton.ac.uk

Areas of expertise: Victorian children’s literature, Visual Texts, Twentieth-century children's literature.

Selected publications:

The Fantasy of Family: Nineteenth-century Children’s Literature and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal (London and New York: Routledge, 2008).
Co-author of B Carrington, E Lomax, M Sebag-Montefiore and L.Thiel, A Victorian Quartet: Four Forgotten Women Writers (Lichfield: Pied Piper, 2008)
Co-editor of L Atkins, N Dalrymple, M Gill and E Thiel, eds., An Invitation to Explore: New International Perspectives on Children's Literature (Lichfield:Pied Piper, 2008).
Television interview 'Harry Potter', Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News (broadcast 20 July 2007).
Radio interview ‘A Doll’s Life: Victoria Bess,’ BBC Radio 4 (broadcast 26 December 2005).
'The Dark Horse: Ruby Ferguson and the Jill Pony Stories,' The Lion and The Unicorn, Vol. 26, No 1. (2002).
'Beyond Expectations: Historical Fiction and Working Children' in Fiona Collins and Judith Graham, eds., Historical Fiction for Children: Capturing the Past (David Fulton, 2001).

Dr Alison Waller – Senior Lecturer
Email: A.Waller@roehampton.ac.uk
Convener of the Distance Learning Postgraduate Programme in Children’s Literature

Areas of expertise: adolescence and young adult fiction; fantasy and fantastic realism; reading children’s literature; creative writing.

Selected publications:

Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism (London: Routledge, 2008)
‘Rereading Children’s Literature: memory and emotion’ in Jenny Plastow (ed.) The Story and the Self: Some Psychoanalytical Perspectives (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, forthcoming).
‘Emotional Responses to Children’s Literature’, Case Study for Northumbria University’s MEDAL project [http://medal.unn.ac.uk] (2007).
‘Fade and the Lone Teenager: young adult fantastic realism shaping modern individualism’ in N. Moody & C. Horrocks (eds.) Children’s Fantasy Fiction: debates for the 21^st Century (Liverpool: Association for Research in Popular Fictions, 2005) pp. 127-144.
‘”Solid All the Way Through”: Margaret Mahy’s Ordinary Witches’ in S. Winters & E. Hale (eds.) The Fiction of Margaret Mahy (Wellington, NZ: Victoria University Press, 2005) pp. 21-43.
‘Is Holden Caulfield Still Real?: the body of theory and practice in young adult literature’ in S. Chapleau (ed.) Childhood, Adulthood and Children’s Literature (Pied Piper Publishing: The British Children’s Literature Research Forum, 2004) pp. 97-104.
‘”Solid All the Way Through”: Margaret Mahy’s Ordinary Witches’ (short version) Children’s Literature in Education 35:1 (March 2004) 77-86.

Dr Susan Hancock – Part-time Senior Lecturer
Email: S.Hancock@roehampton.ac.uk

Areas of expertise: Jungian approaches to children’s literature; the miniature in children’s literature.

Selected publications:

(2004) ‘Jungian Readings of Children’s Literature: Animus and Father in M. L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time (1962) and U. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan (1972)’, in Harvest: International Journal of Jungian Studies, Karnac Publishing: London, 50 no. 2, 61-71.
(2005) ‘Jungian Readings of Classic Fantasy Fiction: CS Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) and JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1937)’, in ed. Kimberley Reynolds, Modern Children's Literature, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke.
(2001) Young People's Reading in 2001, London: NCRCL/Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries.
P Pinsent, K Reynolds, I Singh (1999) Young People’s Reading at the End of the Century: Focus on Ethnic Minority Pupils, London: NCRCL/British Library.
J. Kendrick, K Reynolds (1999) Young People’s Reading at the End of the Century: Focus on Pupils with Special Educational Needs, London: NCRCL/British Library.
(1998) A Guide to Children’s Reference Books and Multimedia Material, Aldershot & Vermont: Ashgate Publishing.

Dr Pat Pinsent – Senior Research Fellow
Co-founder of the NCRCL and Visiting Lecturer on the On-Site and Distance Learning Postgraduate Programmes in Children's Literature
Email: PatPinsent@aol.com

Areas of expertise: children’s literature and religion and spirituality; poetry; contemporary children’s literature.

Selected publications:

Children’s Literature and the Politics of Equality (1997, London: David Fulton).
The Power of the Page: Children’s Books and Their Readers (1993, London: David Fulton).
Editor of the journals IBBYLink, Network and The Journal of Children’s Literature Studies.
Editor of the annual IBBY/MA conference proceedings (Books and Boundaries, 2004; East meets West in Children’s Literature, 2005; No Child Is An Island, 2006, etc.).
Co-editor with Jan De Maeyer, Hans-Heino Ewers, Rita Ghesquière and Patricia Quaghebeur of Religion, Children’s Literature and Modernity in Western Europe 1750-2000 (2005, Leuven University Press).
Interview on the Today programme, BBC Radio 4 on books by young writers, 12 August 2005.

Dr Penni Cotton – Senior Research Fellow
Responsible for European research projects and Director of the European Picture Book Project which won the award of Innovative Reading Promotion in Europe in 1997.
Email: P.Cotton@roehampton.ac.uk

Areas of expertise: European children’s literature; European picture book analysis; European picture books in primary education.

Selected publications:

(2009) 'Accessing Europe through Visual Narratives, ID EST: Journal of Literature, Education and Culture, 2, No.l, 26-30.
(2007) ‘Intercultural Approaches to using Children’s Literature Websites’, Children's Literature and Librarianship,13, No. 1, 77-100.
Interview: BBC World Service: Reporting Religion (14.7.2007): Imagery Inspired by Religion and Mythology in Children's Literature.

Interview: Radio Four’s Woman’s Hour (24.3.2006): Images of Mothers in Children’s Picture Books.
(2006) El reto de los libros de imágenes europeos: EPBC y ESET, Revista de Literatura, no 216, 21-29.
(2005) Visual Narratives across Cultures, Bookbird, 43 (2), 39-45.
(2005) EPBC & BARFIE Books as Facilitators of Intercultural Education, The Barfie Handbook of Pedagogical and Scientific Approaches to Children's Books, 1, 4-9.
(2004) The European Picture Book Collection: A School Education Training course (ESET), www.ncrcl.ac.uk/eset.
(2004) ‘Adult Challenges from the European Picture Book’, in Books and Boundaries: Writers and their Audiences (Pinsent, P. ed): Lichfield, UK: Pied Piper Publishing, pp53-67.
(2004) ‘Europe sans Frontières’, The Primary English Magazine, 9:3, 29-31.
(2003) ‘L'Angleterre et la recherche sur la littérature de la jeunesse’, ARGOS, 4, 67-69.
(2002) ‘Albums sans Frontières: Utilisation de la collection d'albums européens à l'école primaire’, Caractères: association belge pour la lecture, 2, 27-33.
(2002) ‘An analysis of settings in selected European picture books’, Bookbird: Picture Books and Global Trends, 40:2, 6-13.
(2002) ‘Caractères: association belge pour la lecture’, Bookbird: Special Issue, 40:4, 11-15.
(2001) ‘Europe in the Literacy Hour’, NATE, The Primary English Magazine, 7:1, 26-30.
(2001) Picture Books sans Frontières: Livres illustrés sans frontières, Caractères, 5:3, 34-35.
(2001) ‘The Europeaness of Picture Books’, Children's Literature and National Identity, London: Trentham, Ed. Margaret Meek, 111-120.
(2000) Picture Books Sans Frontières, London: Trentham

Laura Atkins – Lecturer
Email: L.Atkins@roehampton.ac.uk

Areas of expertise: multicultural children’s literature; the juvenile publishing industry and the author/editor relationship; contemporary children’s literature.

Selected publications:

‘Creepy Kids: The Use of the Child’s Perspective in Films of the Uncanny’ in Children’s Literature and Childhood Performance, ed. Kim Reynolds, Lichfield: Pied Piper Publishing, 2003.
‘A Publisher's Dilemma: The Place of the Child in the Publication of Children's Books’ in New Voices in Children's Literature Criticism. ed. Sebastien Chapleau, Lichfield: Pied Piper Publishing, 2004.
Co-editor of L. Atkins, N. Dalrymple, M. Gill and E. Thiel, eds., An Invitation to Explore: New International Perspectives in Children's Literature (Lichfield: Pied Piper Press, 2008).

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