Amanda Landegren
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Amanda Landegren
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PhD Candidate in Children's Literature @ Lund University // Interested children’s urban fantasy and constructions of urban childhoods // Glasgow & Cambridge alumna // Swedish
Thesis deadline in three months from today - feeling excited but also kinda mortified???
November 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Edgar seems (almost) as pleased as me to see this thesis in print for the first time! Still some way to go but big milestone ✨🥂
July 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
”Active, informed, iron-willed wonder is a skill, not a gift: you have to work at it. And you cannot remain in awe of that which is familiar, so the only way to maintain wonder is to learn: learn, and keep learning.”
"The Moomins would add you, however strange and ungainly your inner or outer self, to their table, without question."

I'm maybe a quarter of the way through this and it is bringing me SO MUCH joy to-day
Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books?
Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...
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February 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Beyond excited for this! I’ll be sharing some of my findings on the emergence and historical development of children’s urban fantasy ✨
Really excited for this symposium in April! I'll be sharing some juicy archival tidbits about the editorial process for Ursula K. Le Guin's novel POWERS, & what it can tell us about YA publishing trends in the 2000s.

Thrilled to be on a panel with Marita Arvaniti & @amandalandegren.bsky.social!
It's here! Registration is now open for our Publishing Fantasy for Young Readers Symposium this April! Book your tickets to our FREE in-person event on Eventbrite: shorturl.at/5Awu8

Visit our website for the full schedule: shorturl.at/yjghx

Fantasy #FantasyLiterature #ChildrensLit #Publishing
February 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Had the sweetest interaction on Instagram today - took a chance and asked an author for a ‘research copy’ of a text since the book is really hard to get hold of in Sweden, and he offered to send me the whole series! 🥹 and he seemed super excited about my dissertation in general 🫶🏻
February 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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A “hoax.”

I have experienced a curious mix of feelings while having a significant portion of my life’s work in books and the art of my friends distorted and vandalized by post-literate fascists for the last few years. The feelings right now are uniquely awful.

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January 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
How many times is it acceptable to write ‘outwith’ in a doctoral dissertation? 😅 It’s mostly a little nod to my time living in Scotland, but, also, ‘within and outwith’ just sound so satisfying together??
January 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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As promised, my essay on Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn.

It's a long one and was great fun to write, not to mention thoroughly energizing. And it's got me really excited to take a closer look at the rest of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series.

Huge shout out to @timothysmiller.bsky.social.
Ballantine Adult Fantasy: Reading “The Last Unicorn” by Peter S. Beagle
The first essay in Ballantine Adult Fantasy: A Reading Series, which looks at Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn (1968): a supremely beautiful, memorable, and critically energizing masterwork of fa…
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January 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I put A Series of Unfortunate Events on the reading list for the first time this semester and I must say it was a banger to teach. Worked super well as a lens through which to look at trends and changes in the publishing industry around the millennium. And the students all seemed very engaged ✨
January 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I’m surprised at the level of resistance I felt towards going back to work today - even though I’m really pumped about writing on my introduction and prepping the last few children’s lit classes of the semester, all I seem to want to do is procrastinate??😴
January 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
(re-)reading this gem over the holidays as I’m about to revisit my chapter on layered urban histories after new years — also a way to access a much-missed Scotland ✨
December 25, 2024 at 10:37 AM
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Since Looking for Alaska has become the second-most banned book in America, let's talk about THAT scene.
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About THAT Scene in Looking for Alaska
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December 17, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Today’s home office set up! Edgar making sure this thesis will actually be written #PhDlife
December 11, 2024 at 7:18 PM