Jade Dillon-Craig
@jadedilloncraig.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Children’s Literature @ NTNU, Norway 📚✨ Ed. Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature https://tinyurl.com/FamKidLit 📚 Ed. Children's Literature in English Language Education journal 📚 I love all things books and cats!
And just like that, the manuscript for my monograph, "From How to Catch a Star to Now: Theorising Oliver Jeffers' Picturebooks", has been submitted to Routledge!! 🚀⭐ I am excited for the next steps - watch this space! ✨
March 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
And just like that, the manuscript for my monograph, "From How to Catch a Star to Now: Theorising Oliver Jeffers' Picturebooks", has been submitted to Routledge!! 🚀⭐ I am excited for the next steps - watch this space! ✨
🚨 academic friends 🚨 I am submitting the manuscript for my monograph on theorising Oliver Jeffers' picturebooks to the publishers next week - any last minute tips, tricks, or advice? ❤️📚 This is my first monograph so I'm equal parts nervous and excited, and also sleep deprived 🙈 #kidlit
March 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
🚨 academic friends 🚨 I am submitting the manuscript for my monograph on theorising Oliver Jeffers' picturebooks to the publishers next week - any last minute tips, tricks, or advice? ❤️📚 This is my first monograph so I'm equal parts nervous and excited, and also sleep deprived 🙈 #kidlit
Through an analysis of 'The Lone City' trilogy and 'Gather the Daughters', Malin Alkestrand illustrates in what ways the young mothers are oppressed, how they respond to this oppression, and how they rebel against it: tinyurl.com/FAMCH18✨
December 4, 2023 at 1:47 PM
Through an analysis of 'The Lone City' trilogy and 'Gather the Daughters', Malin Alkestrand illustrates in what ways the young mothers are oppressed, how they respond to this oppression, and how they rebel against it: tinyurl.com/FAMCH18✨
Sorry for dropping off for a little bit - but; in 'Apple to Pomegranate', Lisa Nevárez engages with the last novel in the Twilight series, Midnight Sun, and its role in reimagining and further detailing the role of family, characters, and events from the earlier novels: tinyurl.com/FAMCH17 ✨
December 4, 2023 at 1:46 PM
Sorry for dropping off for a little bit - but; in 'Apple to Pomegranate', Lisa Nevárez engages with the last novel in the Twilight series, Midnight Sun, and its role in reimagining and further detailing the role of family, characters, and events from the earlier novels: tinyurl.com/FAMCH17 ✨
Jade Dillon Craig explores the unhomely spaces presented in @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com's 'Coraline' through the Freudian lens of the uncanny, focusing specifically on Coraline's perception of family (and selfhood) as she navigates what is real and what is (m)other: tinyurl.com/FAMCH16 ✨
November 4, 2023 at 11:26 AM
Jade Dillon Craig explores the unhomely spaces presented in @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com's 'Coraline' through the Freudian lens of the uncanny, focusing specifically on Coraline's perception of family (and selfhood) as she navigates what is real and what is (m)other: tinyurl.com/FAMCH16 ✨
Eleanor Spencer examines the male characters in the Harry Potter heptalogy through the lens of their masculinity - hegemonic or non-hegemonic - and their often complex experiences of familial and quasi-familial relationships: tinyurl.com/FAMCH15 ✨
November 4, 2023 at 11:23 AM
Eleanor Spencer examines the male characters in the Harry Potter heptalogy through the lens of their masculinity - hegemonic or non-hegemonic - and their often complex experiences of familial and quasi-familial relationships: tinyurl.com/FAMCH15 ✨
Angel Daniel Matos examines how Adam Silvera's queer YA novel 'They Both Die at the End' subversively engages with discourse on family and the home to detach these concepts from ideologies of safety, protection, and wellbeing: tinyurl.com/FAMCH14 ✨
November 2, 2023 at 10:47 AM
Angel Daniel Matos examines how Adam Silvera's queer YA novel 'They Both Die at the End' subversively engages with discourse on family and the home to detach these concepts from ideologies of safety, protection, and wellbeing: tinyurl.com/FAMCH14 ✨
In the chapter 'A Taste for the Secret', Blanka Grzegorczyk discusses the activities of keeping, transmitting, and detecting secrets in Malorie Blackman's fictions of family: tinyurl.com/FAMCH13%E2%9...
November 2, 2023 at 10:46 AM
In the chapter 'A Taste for the Secret', Blanka Grzegorczyk discusses the activities of keeping, transmitting, and detecting secrets in Malorie Blackman's fictions of family: tinyurl.com/FAMCH13%E2%9...
Alyson Miller's chapter examines Melvin Burgess’ depiction of the nuclear family as a dysfunctional space, in which the child as a symbol of futurity is disrupted and displaced by troubled and absent parents: tinyurl.com/FAMCH12 ✨
November 2, 2023 at 10:46 AM
Alyson Miller's chapter examines Melvin Burgess’ depiction of the nuclear family as a dysfunctional space, in which the child as a symbol of futurity is disrupted and displaced by troubled and absent parents: tinyurl.com/FAMCH12 ✨
Kay Waddilove interrogates the ideological impact of
Jacqueline Wilson's representation of the maternal subject, alongside her challenging insights into the diversity of family relationships, on the implied middle-grade reader: tinyurl.com/FAMCH11 ✨
Jacqueline Wilson's representation of the maternal subject, alongside her challenging insights into the diversity of family relationships, on the implied middle-grade reader: tinyurl.com/FAMCH11 ✨
November 2, 2023 at 10:45 AM
Kay Waddilove interrogates the ideological impact of
Jacqueline Wilson's representation of the maternal subject, alongside her challenging insights into the diversity of family relationships, on the implied middle-grade reader: tinyurl.com/FAMCH11 ✨
Jacqueline Wilson's representation of the maternal subject, alongside her challenging insights into the diversity of family relationships, on the implied middle-grade reader: tinyurl.com/FAMCH11 ✨
In the chapter "From First Born to Second Fiddle", Joseph Michael Sommers explores the oft critically derided author Judy Blume's overlooked narrative innovations into the form and construction of the children's literary protagonist: tinyurl.com/FAMCH10 ✨
November 2, 2023 at 10:44 AM
In the chapter "From First Born to Second Fiddle", Joseph Michael Sommers explores the oft critically derided author Judy Blume's overlooked narrative innovations into the form and construction of the children's literary protagonist: tinyurl.com/FAMCH10 ✨
Nicholas Tucker explores the manner in which Enid Blyton's child adventurers first absent themselves from family supervision, how they re-engage with their parents in the end, and how often, if ever, they refer to them in-between: tinyurl.com/FAMCH9 ✨
November 2, 2023 at 10:43 AM
Nicholas Tucker explores the manner in which Enid Blyton's child adventurers first absent themselves from family supervision, how they re-engage with their parents in the end, and how often, if ever, they refer to them in-between: tinyurl.com/FAMCH9 ✨
Macarena García-González & Evelyn Arizpe argue that books produce belonging in children from migrant backgrounds and avoid delving into the increasingly hostile environment towards migrants and the many injustices related to the migration flux: tinyurl.com/FAMCH8 ✨
November 2, 2023 at 10:42 AM
Macarena García-González & Evelyn Arizpe argue that books produce belonging in children from migrant backgrounds and avoid delving into the increasingly hostile environment towards migrants and the many injustices related to the migration flux: tinyurl.com/FAMCH8 ✨
Karen Sands-O'Connor & Phyllis Ramage look at the changing representation of Black British, Caribbean, and African families in post-1970 British children's literature, comparing authors through time and across racial and ethnic categories: tinyurl.com/FAMCH7%E2%9C...
November 2, 2023 at 10:42 AM
Karen Sands-O'Connor & Phyllis Ramage look at the changing representation of Black British, Caribbean, and African families in post-1970 British children's literature, comparing authors through time and across racial and ethnic categories: tinyurl.com/FAMCH7%E2%9C...
Jessica Straley argues that feral children create families that incorporate the more-than-human world and find allegiances beyond race, nation, and species that are capable of encompassing all organic beings who share our home on earth: tinyurl.com/FAMCH6 ✨
November 2, 2023 at 10:41 AM
Jessica Straley argues that feral children create families that incorporate the more-than-human world and find allegiances beyond race, nation, and species that are capable of encompassing all organic beings who share our home on earth: tinyurl.com/FAMCH6 ✨
Elisabeth Rose Gruner asserts that in Frances Hodgson Burnett's novels for children, imagination and ‘maternal’ care, along with the vital energy of colonial children, restore and reform the English family: tinyurl.com/FAMCH5 ✨
October 25, 2023 at 6:28 AM
Elisabeth Rose Gruner asserts that in Frances Hodgson Burnett's novels for children, imagination and ‘maternal’ care, along with the vital energy of colonial children, restore and reform the English family: tinyurl.com/FAMCH5 ✨
Vanessa Joosen discusses grandparent figures in contemporary Western children's literature by reflecting on their functions in the plot and on their construction in relationship to discourses on old age in society at large: tinyurl.com/FAMCH4 ✨
October 23, 2023 at 3:03 PM
Vanessa Joosen discusses grandparent figures in contemporary Western children's literature by reflecting on their functions in the plot and on their construction in relationship to discourses on old age in society at large: tinyurl.com/FAMCH4 ✨
Jane Suzanne Carroll's chapter examines the endurance of the auntly voice and argues that the sympathetic treatment of the aunt figure enables child characters to consider the intersections of family, heritage, and personal identity: tinyurl.com/FAMCH3 ✨
October 22, 2023 at 9:48 AM
Jane Suzanne Carroll's chapter examines the endurance of the auntly voice and argues that the sympathetic treatment of the aunt figure enables child characters to consider the intersections of family, heritage, and personal identity: tinyurl.com/FAMCH3 ✨
Richard Charlesworth's case study of Katya Balen's October, October (2020) explores the portrayal of fathers, their relationships with other characters, and whether they conform to the familiar stereotypes held by society: tinyurl.com/FAMCH2 ✨
October 21, 2023 at 6:37 PM
Richard Charlesworth's case study of Katya Balen's October, October (2020) explores the portrayal of fathers, their relationships with other characters, and whether they conform to the familiar stereotypes held by society: tinyurl.com/FAMCH2 ✨
Claudia Schwabe's chapter "Where Are They Now? Manifestations of (Monstrous) Mothers in Fairy Tales" argues that many of the popular texts in children's literature today reinforce traditional portrayals of the (step)mother figures found in fairy tales: tinyurl.com/FAMCH1 ✨
October 20, 2023 at 8:35 AM
Claudia Schwabe's chapter "Where Are They Now? Manifestations of (Monstrous) Mothers in Fairy Tales" argues that many of the popular texts in children's literature today reinforce traditional portrayals of the (step)mother figures found in fairy tales: tinyurl.com/FAMCH1 ✨
It's pre-order day 🖤 Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is available for pre-order right now! Thank you to all of the authors for their insightful and valuable contributions to this field of research! Check it out:
tinyurl.com/FamKidLit 📚✨
tinyurl.com/FamKidLit 📚✨
October 17, 2023 at 10:43 AM
It's pre-order day 🖤 Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is available for pre-order right now! Thank you to all of the authors for their insightful and valuable contributions to this field of research! Check it out:
tinyurl.com/FamKidLit 📚✨
tinyurl.com/FamKidLit 📚✨
It feels fitting to share this alongside my introduction post - meet Casper! 🖤 This is us on graduation day (at-home-due-to-lockdown) in 2020 when I was awarded my PhD! Casper has sat through many of my lectures (both as a student and as a lecturer) and was rightly appointed to "Purrfessor" 🖤🐱
October 5, 2023 at 9:52 AM
It feels fitting to share this alongside my introduction post - meet Casper! 🖤 This is us on graduation day (at-home-due-to-lockdown) in 2020 when I was awarded my PhD! Casper has sat through many of my lectures (both as a student and as a lecturer) and was rightly appointed to "Purrfessor" 🖤🐱