Dr Lisa Sainsbury

Room Number: Grove House F120
Office Hours: Wednesday 10.30-12.00

Biographical Statement:

Lisa is based at NCRCL (National Centre for Research in Children's Literature) in Grove House on the Froebel Site at Roehampton University. She teaches children's literature and creative writing for a child audience at both undergraduate and MA level. On the MA in Children's Literature she currently teaches the following modules: Writing for a Child Audeince, British Children's Literature 1900-1960, British Children's Literature 1960-Present Day, Visual Texts, Time and History, Voice and Verse. Research interests include: electronic texts and alternative forms of children's literature, the construction of time and history in children's literature and contemporary adolescent literature.

Indicative Bibliography:

‘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