Maria Nikolajeva

Maria Nikolajeva taught children’s literature and critical theory at Stockholm University for twenty-five years before her appointment as Professor of Education at Cambridge University. Among her academic honors are a Fulbright Grant and a research fellowship at the International Youth Library in Munich, and in 2005 she was awarded the International Brothers Grimm Award for lifetime achievement in her research in children’s literature. Her current projects include studies on power and subjectivity in children's and young adult fiction, and work on picture books, visual literacy and multimodal communication. She has published over fifteen books, including The aesthetic approach to children’s literature (2005), and the forthcoming Power, Voice, and Subjectivity in Literature for Young People (2009), and published over 200 articles on children’s literature. Web site: under construction


Perry Nodelman

Perry Nodelman has researched and taught children’s literature since 1975, and is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Winnipeg. With more than one hundred articles published about understanding children’s literature within the context of literary theory, he has also written three books on the subject: Words About Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children's Picture Books, The Pleasures of Children's Literature, the third edition of which was co-authored with Mavis Reimer, and 2008’s The Hidden Adult: Defining Children’s Literature. Perry also writes fiction for children, including Behaving Bradley, The Same Place But Different, and a trilogy in collaboration with author Carol Matas.

Learn more at http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~nodelman/


Mavis Reimer

Mavis Reimer is Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg, and current Canada Research Chair in the Culture of Childhood, where she and her colleagues explore the discourse of home and homelessness in youth culture. Her other projects include re-reading Victorian children’s literature through the context of British imperialism, and a picture book about the life of a seventeenth-century Cree woman, Kayasochi Kikawenow, in collaboration with other scholars and writer/educator William Dumas. Mavis is co-author of the third edition of The Pleasures of Children’s Literature with Perry Nodelman, editor of Home Words: Discourses of Children's Literature in Canada (2008) as well as Such a Simple Little Tale: Critical Responses to L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (1992).

Learn more at http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/CRC-Reimer


Kimberly Reynolds

Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of Children's Literature at Newcastle University and current President of the International Research Society for Children's Literature. She and a colleague founded the successful MA program in children's literature at the University of Roehampton, and in 1991 established the award-winning National Centre for Research in Children's Literature. Made the second professor of children's literature in the UK in 2000, Professor Reynolds divides her time supervising doctoral students, liaising with Seven Stories: The Centre for Children's Books, developing the Children’s Laureate, which she helped found, and pursuing her own research in radical children's literature, for which she won the ChLA award this year. Other research areas include the portrayal of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials in the National Theatre, an investigation of the relationship between self-harming behavior in adolescents and recent YA fiction dealing with the subject, and the relationship between children’s reading and their participation in World War I.

Learn more at http://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/staff/profile/kim.reynolds