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Vanessa Joosen
Dr Vanessa Joosen is a professor in the Department of Literature in the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She specializes in English literature and children’s literature studies. Her research interests include the construction of childhood, adulthood and old age in literature, postmodern fairy-tale rewritings, the international reception of fairy tales and genetic criticism of children’s books. She also supervises a doctoral project on STEM representations in children’s books. Vanessa’s publications include: ‘Challenging age norms in the city: Cornelia Funke’s Herr der Diebe, child agency and the child flâneur’, Cahier voor literatuurwetenschap, 2016; ‘Second childhoods and intergenerational dialogues: How children’s literature studies and age studies can supplement each other’, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, 2015; Grimms’ Tales Around the Globe: The Dynamics of their International Reception, Wayne State University Press, 2014; and ‘Once upon a time in an occupied country: The Dutch reception and translation of fairy tales, 1940–1945’, Arcadia: Internationale Zeitschrift für literarische Kultur, 2012.