Jade Dillon-Craig

The CLELE team is happy to announce that the latest issue of Children's Literature in English Language Education is now online! Check it out here: clelejournal.org 📚✨

And just like that, the manuscript for my monograph, "From How to Catch a Star to Now: Theorising Oliver Jeffers' Picturebooks", has been submitted to Routledge!! 🚀⭐ I am excited for the next steps - watch this space! ✨

🚨 academic friends 🚨 I am submitting the manuscript for my monograph on theorising Oliver Jeffers' picturebooks to the publishers next week - any last minute tips, tricks, or advice? ❤️📚 This is my first monograph so I'm equal parts nervous and excited, and also sleep deprived 🙈 #kidlit

Some exciting work news... I'm very honoured and excited to share that I've been awarded one of this year's Kvalifiseringsstipend from NTNU 🥹 🎉 This award funds my research for two years with the aim of qualifying for promotion to full professor in 2027 🤓

The CLELE team is happy to announce that the November issue of Children's Literature in English Language Education is now online! Check it out here: clelejournal.org/category/curre… 📚✨

Family in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone children’s and Young Adult literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Writt...

The volume was published almost 2 months ago! 😍 ✨ 📚 Cheers to the book, and to borrow from our introduction, cheers to all of us who continue to "love, love, love" ♥️ tinyurl.com/FamKidLIT

Through an analysis of 'The Lone City' trilogy and 'Gather the Daughters', Malin Alkestrand illustrates in what ways the young mothers are oppressed, how they respond to this oppression, and how they rebel against it: tinyurl.com/FAMCH18✨

Sorry for dropping off for a little bit - but; in 'Apple to Pomegranate', Lisa Nevárez engages with the last novel in the Twilight series, Midnight Sun, and its role in reimagining and further detailing the role of family, characters, and events from the earlier novels: tinyurl.com/FAMCH17 ✨

Jade Dillon Craig explores the unhomely spaces presented in @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com's 'Coraline' through the Freudian lens of the uncanny, focusing specifically on Coraline's perception of family (and selfhood) as she navigates what is real and what is (m)other: tinyurl.com/FAMCH16 ✨

Eleanor Spencer examines the male characters in the Harry Potter heptalogy through the lens of their masculinity - hegemonic or non-hegemonic - and their often complex experiences of familial and quasi-familial relationships: tinyurl.com/FAMCH15 ✨

Angel Daniel Matos examines how Adam Silvera's queer YA novel 'They Both Die at the End' subversively engages with discourse on family and the home to detach these concepts from ideologies of safety, protection, and wellbeing: tinyurl.com/FAMCH14 ✨

In the chapter 'A Taste for the Secret', Blanka Grzegorczyk discusses the activities of keeping, transmitting, and detecting secrets in Malorie Blackman's fictions of family: tinyurl.com/FAMCH13%E2%9...

Alyson Miller's chapter examines Melvin Burgess’ depiction of the nuclear family as a dysfunctional space, in which the child as a symbol of futurity is disrupted and displaced by troubled and absent parents: tinyurl.com/FAMCH12 ✨

Kay Waddilove interrogates the ideological impact of
Jacqueline Wilson's representation of the maternal subject, alongside her challenging insights into the diversity of family relationships, on the implied middle-grade reader: tinyurl.com/FAMCH11 ✨

In the chapter "From First Born to Second Fiddle", Joseph Michael Sommers explores the oft critically derided author Judy Blume's overlooked narrative innovations into the form and construction of the children's literary protagonist: tinyurl.com/FAMCH10 ✨

Nicholas Tucker explores the manner in which Enid Blyton's child adventurers first absent themselves from family supervision, how they re-engage with their parents in the end, and how often, if ever, they refer to them in-between: tinyurl.com/FAMCH9 ✨

Macarena García-González & Evelyn Arizpe argue that books produce belonging in children from migrant backgrounds and avoid delving into the increasingly hostile environment towards migrants and the many injustices related to the migration flux: tinyurl.com/FAMCH8 ✨

Karen Sands-O'Connor & Phyllis Ramage look at the changing representation of Black British, Caribbean, and African families in post-1970 British children's literature, comparing authors through time and across racial and ethnic categories: tinyurl.com/FAMCH7%E2%9C...

Jessica Straley argues that feral children create families that incorporate the more-than-human world and find allegiances beyond race, nation, and species that are capable of encompassing all organic beings who share our home on earth: tinyurl.com/FAMCH6 ✨

Elisabeth Rose Gruner asserts that in Frances Hodgson Burnett's novels for children, imagination and ‘maternal’ care, along with the vital energy of colonial children, restore and reform the English family: tinyurl.com/FAMCH5 ✨

Vanessa Joosen discusses grandparent figures in contemporary Western children's literature by reflecting on their functions in the plot and on their construction in relationship to discourses on old age in society at large: tinyurl.com/FAMCH4 ✨

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Jane Suzanne Carroll's chapter examines the endurance of the auntly voice and argues that the sympathetic treatment of the aunt figure enables child characters to consider the intersections of family, heritage, and personal identity: tinyurl.com/FAMCH3 ✨

Richard Charlesworth's case study of Katya Balen's October, October (2020) explores the portrayal of fathers, their relationships with other characters, and whether they conform to the familiar stereotypes held by society: tinyurl.com/FAMCH2 ✨

Claudia Schwabe's chapter "Where Are They Now? Manifestations of (Monstrous) Mothers in Fairy Tales" argues that many of the popular texts in children's literature today reinforce traditional portrayals of the (step)mother figures found in fairy tales: tinyurl.com/FAMCH1 ✨

Family in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone children’s and Young Adult literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Writt...

In the lead up to the publication day of Family in Children's & Young Adult Literature, I am going to spend the next 18 days posting about the chapter content from our wonderful contributors! Stay tuned to find out more! 📚✨ tinyurl.com/FamKidLIT

It's pre-order day 🖤 Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is available for pre-order right now! Thank you to all of the authors for their insightful and valuable contributions to this field of research! Check it out:
tinyurl.com/FamKidLit 📚✨

It feels fitting to share this alongside my introduction post - meet Casper! 🖤 This is us on graduation day (at-home-due-to-lockdown) in 2020 when I was awarded my PhD! Casper has sat through many of my lectures (both as a student and as a lecturer) and was rightly appointed to "Purrfessor" 🖤🐱

Hello, hello! Quick introduction post; I am originally from Ireland but I now live in Norway with my partner, Marcus 😍 I post about my academic ventures and share the occasional photo of my cat 🐱 My current research focuses on the construction of childhood in picturebooks and other visual texts 📚

Hi @theinterloper.bsky.social 👋🏻