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Jean Webb
Professor Jean Webb is director of the International Forum for Research in Children’s Literature, which provides a focus for literary, cultural and socio-historical scholarly enquiry into writing for children, internationally. She teaches a broad range of undergraduate modules on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and is responsible for specialist modules in children’s literature. She is also an experienced Ph.D. supervisor and examiner. She has given conference papers and keynote lectures across the world: she was a board member of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature and the Children’s Literature Association, India, and was an executive board member of ChLA. She was a contributor to the British Academy-funded research project ‘Reading Fictions: how representations of books and readers in children’s literature reflect perceptions of the power and purpose of literacy’ (2011–14).
Contact: School of Humanities, University of Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR2 6AJ, UK.