Reading Children’s Fairytales: Inside the Gingerbread House

Reading Children’s Fairytales: Inside the Gingerbread House brings together leading and emerging researchers and practitioners to showcase how interdisciplinary approaches enable diverse responses to texts.

Mette Lindahl-Wise is a children’s literature PhD researcher at Goldsmiths. Her research focuses on the representations of females (children and adults) in the Carnegie Winners. A central component of her PhD is action research with a group of teenage girls to understand how they read and perceive these representations. She holds a MA in Anglo-American Literary Relations from University College London and a MA in Children’s Literature from Goldsmiths. Mette has published several articles on her research and is also an Associate Lecturer on Goldsmith’s Children’s Literature MA programme.

Harry Oulton is currently in the final year of his creative writing PhD and is an associate lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College. His YA novel is an adaptation which combines elements from 15th century letters, a Robert Louis Stevenson novel from the 19th century and a family biography from 2004 to create a piece of original fiction. Harry worked at the BBC and Granada for over 20 years, including stints as a script editor, drama producer and ultimately executive producer of the BAFTA nominated The Great Train Robbery. He has written and published three middle grade novels, a book of writer’s prompts, short fiction, articles on adaptation and three award winning short films.

Vicky Macleroy is a Professor of Language and Literacy, Head of the MA Children’s Literature programme, and Director of the Research Centre for Language, Culture and Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work focuses on linguistic diversity, multimodality and children’s/Young Adult literature; literacy and digital storytelling; language development, poetry and multilingualism; and activist citizenship and transformative pedagogy. Underpinning her research is a commitment to research methodologies that embrace collaborative and creative ways of researching. Vicky is co-director of an international literacy project ’Critical Connections Multilingual Digital Storytelling’ (2012-ongoing) that uses digital storytelling to support engagement with language and literacy.

Emily Corbett is a children’s and YA literature specialist with particular interest in the British book market and paratextual materials. Emily serves as General Editor for TheInternational Journal of Young Adult Literature. Her monograph, In Transition: Young Adult Literature and Transgender Representation (2024) was published with the University Press of Mississippi.