Professor Evelyn Arizpe Solana

Professor of Children's Literature (Culture, Literacies, Inclusion & Pedagogy)

telephone: 01413301920
email: Evelyn.Arizpe@glasgow.ac.uk

R527a Level 5, St Andrew's Building, Glasgow G3 6NH

Biography

I have worked in the field of children's literature and literacy for over 25 years, starting with my undergraduate thesis on Mexican children's literature in the 1980s at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and then during my doctoral work at the University of Cambridge on adolescent readers and YA literature. While in Cambridge, together with Morag Styles, I pioneered research into children’s response to picturebooks and visual literacy and our co-authored book, Children Reading Picturebooks: Interpreting visual texts (2003/2016) is now considered a classic study in this area. I moved to Glasgow in 2004 and when I joined the School of Education I helped to create the MEd in Children's Literature and Literacies which has now been running for nearly ten years. I now lead an Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters in Children's Literature, Media and Culture (IMCLMC). In the last decade, my research projects have had a focus on migration and displacement (Visual Journeys and Journeys from Images to Words) and I built on these to develop a programme for migrant readers through the Salas de Lectura project in the Mexican Ministry of Culture (2016-2018). Overall, I have developed my expertise by bridging, on one hand, the theory and analysis of text and, on the other, reading and reader response. I have worked with both young adult (YA) texts and also with picturebooks in research with participants of different ages and across different countries, especially in Mexico and I have published widely in both English and Spanish. In 2022 and 2024 I was on the jury for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, International Board on Books for Children and Young People (IBBY).

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
Ursula K. LeGuin

Research interests

‌‌‌I am interested in the following areas of research and teaching: Children's literature and literacies particularly in relation to picturebooks; YA literature; reader-response, Latin America, migration and intercultural communities.

I welcome enquiries from postgraduate students interested in any of these topics.

As Programme Leader for the International Master in Children's Literature, Media and Culture (IMCLMC) I also welcome enquiries about the programme.

I am particularly interested in children's meaning-making strategies in relation to verbal-visual interaction which is the focus of much of my research. I have delivered lectures, seminars and keynotes in my areas of interest, both in the UK and internationally, to researchers, practitioners and policy-makers. My work also involves international collaboration, especially with Spain and Latin America but also with colleagues in the USA and elsewhere.

My current research builds on the following projects:

(PI) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises (British Academy GCRF)

(PI) AHRC-GCRF Network 'Children's Literature in Critical Contexts of Displacement: Exploring how story and arts-based practices create safe spaces for displaced children and young people'

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Publications

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2025

Imperiale, M. G. et al. (2025) LINEs4Palestine. Project Report. University of Glasgow.

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, McAdam, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 and Hirsu, Lavinia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4145-9048 (2025) Creating safe spaces in contexts of “complex emergency” through mediation and picturebooks. In: Mourão, Sandie and Bennett, Karen (eds.) Multimodal Mediation Through Picturebooks and Graphic Narratives: Educational and Translational Contexts. Routledge. ISBN 9781032456669 (In Press)

McAdam, Julie E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711, Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Abou Ghaida, Susanne (2025) Texts that assure: selecting picturebooks to use with displaced children. In: Adair, Gigi, Fasselt, Rebecca and McLaughlin, Carly (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature. Routledge, pp. 520-512. ISBN 9781032191690

2024

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Gormally, Sinead ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Vega, Nohora Niño, Muñoz, Jeronimo Castillo, Rueda, Manuela Suárez, Jiménez, Javiera Donoso, Rivera, Alejandro Bahena and Mendoza, Sergio Hernández (2024) A Tale of Two Cities: Recovering community spaces for peacebuilding in Medellín and Acapulco. In: Yohannes, HyabTeklehaimanot, Phipps, Alison and Sitholé, Tawona (eds.) Cultures of Sustainable Peace: Conflict Transformation, Gender-Based Violence, Decolonial Praxes. Multilingual Matters. ISBN 9781800418349 (In Press)

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2024) État de l’art des recherches sur l’album de 2010 à 2020. Acta fabula: Revue des parutions pour les études littéraires, 25(9), (doi: 10.58282/acta.18674)

Farrar, Jennifer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7128-6355, Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Lees, Rachel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7499-3731 (2024) Thinking and learning through images: a review of research related to visual literacy, children’s reading and children’s literature. Education 3-13, (doi: 10.1080/03004279.2024.2357892) (Early Online Publication)

García-González, Macarena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8051-9969, Munita, Felipe and Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (Eds.) (2024) Latin American Children’s Literature and Culture. International Research in Children’s Literature. [Edited Journal]

García-González, Macarena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8051-9969, Munita, Felipe and Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2024) Introduction: Latin American children’s literature and culture. International Research in Children's Literature, 17(1), pp. 1-5. (doi: 10.3366/ircl.2024.0541)

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2024) Los que regresany los que no: posmemoria y libros álbumsobre niñosevacuados = Those who come back and those who don’t : postmemory and picturebooks about evacuated children. LIJ Ibero. Revista de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil Contemporánea, 17(9), pp. 36-53. (doi: 10.48102/lijibero.17.372)

2023

Garcia Gonzalez, Macarena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8051-9969 and Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2023) Kinning with picturebooks about la frontera. In: Spencer, Eleanor and Craig, Jade Dillon (eds.) Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032217048

Gormally, Sinéad ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Bahena-Rivera, Alejandro ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031 (2023) What would peace look like in Acapulco? The views of local practitioners and stakeholders. Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, (doi: 10.1177/15423166231179239) (Early Online Publication)

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Noble, Kate and Styles, Morag (2023) Children Reading Pictures: New Contexts and Approaches to Picturebooks. Routledge. ISBN 9780367617424 (paperback); 9780367617431 (hardback)

Garcia Gonzalez, Macarena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8051-9969, Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Casals Hill, Andrea (Eds.) (2023) Campo en formación. Textos clave para la crítica de literatura infantil a juvenil. Metales Pesados: Chile.

Hirsu, Lavinia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4145-9048, Nguyễn Ngọc, Ánh, Futro, Dobrochna, Lê Anh, Vinh, McAdam, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711, Bùi Thị, Diển, Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Trần Mỹ, Ngọc (2023) Arts-based Language Learning: A Resource Book for Teachers in Primary and Lower Secondary Schools. Vietnam National University Press: Hanoi. ISBN 9786043968446

2022

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and McGilp, Emma (2022) Picturebook futures. In: Coats, Karen, Stevenson, Deborah and Yenika-Agbaw, Vivian (eds.) A Companion to Children's Literature. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 193-206. ISBN 9781119038221 (doi: 10.1002/9781119038276.ch16)

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2022) Mediating the Act of Reading through Picturebooks and Fictional Readers. In: Hagen, Anne Marie (ed.) Mediation and Children's Reading: Relationships, Intervention, and Organization from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Series: Studies in text and print culture. Lehigh University Press. ISBN 9781611463262

Véliz, Soledad, García-González, Macarena and Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2022) Mediación literaria como ética de cuidado en contextos adversos = Literary mediation as ethics of care in adverse contexts. Ocnos, 21(1), (doi: 10.18239/ocnos_2022.21.1.2714)

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Zárate, Mónica, McAdam, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 and Hirsu, Lavinia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4145-9048 (2022) Estrategias de mediación cultural en emergencias: lectura y escritura como refugios simbólicos. Tomo 1. Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (Cerlalc): Bogotá.

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Zárate, Mónica, McAdam, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 and Hirsu, Lavinia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4145-9048 (2022) Estrategias de mediación cultural en emergencias: lectura y escritura como refugios simbólicos. Tomo 2. Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (Cerlalc): Bogotá.

2021

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2021) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing Paper 5: Medellin's cultural transformation. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2021) Migrant shoes and forced walking in children’s literature about refugees: material testimony and embodied simulation. Migration Studies, 9(3), pp. 1343-1360. (doi: 10.1093/migration/mnz047)

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2021) The state of the art in picturebook research from 2010 to 2020. Language Arts, 98(5), pp. 260-272.

Moskal, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4483-9310, Odena, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6009-7842, Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Gormally, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Pacheco, E.-M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9467-1099, Dagar, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3760-9189 and Aldegheri, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8238-0021 (2021) Education, Culture and Learning in Response to Conflict and Protracted Crisis [Symposium]. Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 65th Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, 25-29 Apr 2021.

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2021) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing Paper 4: Mapping cultural and nonformal education at the community level in Acapulco. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2021) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing paper 3: The role of Stakeholders in Peacebuilding. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2021) Transnational. In: Nel, Philip, Paul, Lissa and Christensen, Nina (eds.) Keywords for Children's Literature, Second Edition. NYU Press: New York, pp. 187-190. ISBN 9781479843695

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2021) Introduction to special issue on childrens’ books. Migration Studies, 9(2), pp. 311-316. (doi: 10.1093/migration/mnab012)

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, Alejandro ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, Sinead ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, Sergio (2021) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the Role of Education, Culture and Learning in Responding to Crises. Project Report. Low and Middle Income Countries Research Network (LMIC). (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.260007).

Farrar, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7128-6355, Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and McAdam, J.E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 (2021) Challenging picturebooks and literacy studies. In: Ommundsen, Åse Marie, Haaland, Gunnar and Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina (eds.) Exploring Challenging Picturebooks in Education: International Perspectives on Language and Literature Learning. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780367856250

2020

McAdam, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711, Abou Ghaida, Susanne, Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Hirsu, Lavinia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4145-9048 and Motawy, Yasmine (2020) Children’s literature in critical contexts of displacement: exploring the value of hope. Education Sciences, 10(12), 383. (doi: 10.3390/educsci10120383)

Hirsu, Lavinia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4145-9048, Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and McAdam, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 (2020) Cultural interventions through children’s literature and arts-based practices in times of disaster: a case study of reading mediators’ response to the Mexican earthquakes (September 2017). International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 51, 101797. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101797) (PMID:32834977) (PMCID:PMC7425675)

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2020) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing Paper 2: Key Public policies for peacebuilding in Medellin. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2020) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing Paper 1: Public Policies and Peacebuilding. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Coban, Osman, McAdam, Julie E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 and Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2020) Hanging out in The Studio to challenge xenophobia: consolidating identities as community writers. Literacy, 54(3), pp. 123-131. (doi: 10.1111/lit.12220)

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2020) Refugee. By Alan Gratz. Migration Studies, 8(1), pp. 131-133. (doi: 10.1093/migration/mny007)[Book Review]

2018

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2018) Literatura infantil en contextos críticos de desplazamiento: El programa “Leer con migrantes”. In: Para leer en contextos adversos y otros espacios emergentes. Secretaria de Cultura: Mexico City, pp. 23-63. ISBN 9786077459286

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Ryan, Sadie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2854-1741 (2018) The wordless picturebook: literacy in multilingual contexts and David Wiesner’s worlds. In: Bland, Janice (ed.) Using Literature in English Language Education: Challenging Reading for 8–18 Year Olds. Bloomsbury Academic: London ; New York, pp. 63-82. ISBN 9781350034259 (doi: 10.5040/9781350034280.ch-004)

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Cliff Hodges, Gabrielle (Eds.) (2018) Young People Reading: Empirical Research Across International Contexts. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138291584

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Guerrero, L. (2018) Reading fears and opportunities: researching change over 25 years in the literacy practices of Mexican adolescents. In: Arizpe, Evelyn and Cliff Hodges, Gabrielle (eds.) Young People Reading: Empirical Research Across International Contexts. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 73-88. ISBN 9781138291584

2017

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Farrar, Jennifer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7128-6355 and McAdam, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 (2017) Picturebooks and literacy studies. In: Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks. Series: Routledge literature companions. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, pp. 371-380. ISBN 9781138853188

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2017) Picturebooks and situated readers: the intersections of text, image, culture and response. In: Beauvais, Clémentine and Nikolajeva, Maria (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474414630

2016

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Smith, Vivienne (Eds.) (2016) Children as Readers in Children’s Literature: The Power of Text and the Importance of Reading. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138806696

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2016) Of readers and vermin: the consequences of literacy for parasites. In: Arizpe, E. and Smith, V. (eds.) Children as Readers in Children’s Literature: The Power of Text and the Importance of Reading. Routledge: London, pp. 51-60. ISBN 9781138806696

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Styles, Morag (2016) Children Reading Picturebooks: Interpreting Visual Texts. Routledge: Oxford. ISBN 9781138014077

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Styles, Morag (2016) Responding to picturebooks in the 21st century: the challenges for readers, teachers and researchers. In: Scherer, Gabriela and Heinz, Kathrin (eds.) Im Bildungsfokus: Bilderbuchrezeptionsforschung. Series: KOLA Koblenz-Landauer Studien zu Geistes-, Kultur- und Bildungswissenschaften (15). Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier: Trier, pp. 79-96. ISBN 9783868216547

2015

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bagelman, C., Devlin, A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9407-6465, Farrell, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9238-3576 and McAdam, J.E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 (2015) Visualizing intercultural Literacy: Engaging critically with diversity and migration in the classroom through an image based approach. In: Phipps, A. and Kay, R. (eds.) Languages in Migratory Settings: Place, Politics and Aesthetics. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138911970

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2015) Libros, lectores y lectura en la literatura infantil y juvenil: Personajes analfabetas y “abyectos”. Bellaterra Journal of Teaching and Learning Language and Literature, 8(4), pp. 9-23. (doi: 10.5565/rev/jtl3.655)

McKinney, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8249-6067, McAdam, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711, Britton, Alan, Crichton, Hazel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5791-3159 and Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2015) Managing the learning of new arrival children in mainstream schooling: challenges for school management and curriculum leaders. In: Christopher, Elizabeth (ed.) International Management and Intercultural Communication: A Collection of Case Studies. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9781137553232

2014

McAdam, J. E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711, Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Devlin, A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9407-6465, Farrell, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9238-3576 and Farrar, J. (2014) Journeys from Images to Words. Project Report. Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

McAdam, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 and Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2014) Childhood and diversity. In: Carroll, Mike and McCulloch, Margaret (eds.) Understanding Teaching and Learning in Primary Education. SAGE: London. ISBN 9781446254820

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Colomer, T., Martínez-Roldán, C., Bagelman, C., Belloran, B., Farrell, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9238-3576, Fittipaldi, M., Grilli, G., Manresa, A.M., McAdam, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711, Real, N. and Terrusi, M. (2014) Visual Journeys through Wordless Narratives: An international inquiry with immigrant children and 'The Arrival'. Bloomsbury Academic: London. ISBN 9781780937762 (doi: 10.5040/9781472593283)

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2014) Wordless picturebooks: critical and educational perspectives on meaning-making. In: Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina (ed.) Aesthetic and Cognitive Challenges of the Picturebook. Routledge: London, pp. 91-108.

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bagelman, Caroline, Devlin, Alison M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9407-6465, Farrell, Maureen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9238-3576 and McAdam, Julie E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 (2014) Visualizing intercultural literacy: Engaging critically with diversity and migration in the classroom through an image-based approach. Language and Intercultural Communication, 14(3), pp. 304-321. (doi: 10.1080/14708477.2014.903056)

2013

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Farrell, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9238-3576 and McAdam, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 (2013) Opening the classroom door to children’s literature: a review of research. In: Hall, K., Cremin, T., Comber, B. and Moll, L. (eds.) International Handbook of Research on Children's Literacy, Learning, and Culture. John Wiley & Sons: London, UK, pp. 241-257. ISBN 9780470975978

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Farrell, Maureen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9238-3576 and McAdam, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 (Eds.) (2013) Picturebooks: Beyond the Borders of Art, Narrative and Culture. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415814188

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2013) Meaning-making from wordless (or nearly wordless) picturebooks: what educational research expects and what readers have to say. Cambridge Journal of Education, 43(2), pp. 163-176. (doi: 10.1080/0305764X.2013.767879)

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and McAdam, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 (2013) Crossing visual borders and connecting cultures: children’s responses to the photographic theme in David Wiesner’s 'Flotsam'. In: Arizpe, Evelyn, Farrell, Maureen and McAdam, Julie (eds.) Picturebooks: Beyond the Borders of Art, Narrative and Culture. Routledge: London, pp. 141-157. ISBN 9780415814188

Arizpe, Evelyn Solana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2013) Imágenes que invitan a pensar: el 'libro álbum sin palabras' y la respuesta lectora. Reflexiones Marginales, 3(18),

McAdam, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711, Britton, A., McKinney, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8249-6067, Crichton, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5791-3159 and Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2013) L’esperienza poi nelle scuole Scozzesi. Portfolio of Integration Report. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (Unpublished)

2012

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2012) Entre imágenes y palabras: la investigación que promueve comunidades lectoras inclusivas y creativas. In: Colomer, T. and Fittipaldi, M. (eds.) La Literatura Que Acoge: Inmigración y Lectura de Albumes. Caracas-GRETEL: Barcelona, Spain, pp. 44-68. ISBN 9789806417397

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, McAdam, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711, Farrell, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9238-3576 and Devlin, A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9407-6465 (2012) Journeys from Images to Words: evaluating a collaborative visual approach to literacy research and pedagogy. In: 48th International Conference of the United Kingdom Literacy Association, University of Leicester, 6-8 July 2012,

McKinney, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8249-6067, McAdam, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711, Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Crichton, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5791-3159 and Britton, A. (2012) Portfolio of Integration (Scotland). Project Report. Oxfam Italia. (Unpublished)

2011

McAdam, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 and Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2011) Journeys into culturally responsive teaching. Journal of Teacher Education and Teachers' Work, 2(1), pp. 18-27.

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and McAdam, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 (2011) Crossing visual borders and connecting cultures: children’s responses to the photographic theme in David Wiesner’s 'Flotsam'. New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, 17(2), pp. 227-243. (doi: 10.1080/13614541.2011.624969)

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Blatt, J. (2011) How responses to picturebooks reflect and support the emotional development of young bilingual children. In: Kummerling-Meibauer, B. (ed.) Emergent Literacy: Children’s Books from 0 to 3. Series: Studies in written language and literacy (13). John Benjamins: Amsterdam. ISBN 9789027218087

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Styles, M. (2011) Children reading at home: an historical overview. In: Wolf, S., Coats, K., Enciso, P. and Jenkins, C. (eds.) The Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature. Routledge: New York, N.Y.. ISBN 9780415965057

2010

Farrell, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9238-3576, Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and McAdam, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 (2010) Journeys across visual borders: Annotated spreads of 'The Arrival' by Shaun Tan as a method of understanding pupils' creation of meaning through visual images. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 33(3), pp. 198-210.

Arizpe, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2010) "Este libro va de libros": Alfabetizacion, cultura y conciencia metaliteraria. In: Colomer, T, Kummerling-Meibauer, B and Silva-Diaz, M C (eds.) Cruce de miradas: Nuevas aproximaciones al libro-álbum. Banco del Libro-GRETEL: Barcelona, pp. 162-175.

Arizpe, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2010) 'It was all about books': Picturebooks, culture and metaliterary awareness. In: Colomer, T, Kümmerling-Meibauer, B and Silva-Díaz, C (eds.) New Directions in Picturebook Research. Routledge: New York, pp. 69-82. ISBN 978-0-415-87690-2

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2010) Obsidian Knives and high tech: Latin America in contemporary adventures stories for young adults. International Research in Children’s Literature, 3(2), pp. 190-204. (doi: 10.3366/ircl.2010.0107)

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2010) El lector infantil ante la intertextualidad y la metaficcion en ellibro album. In: Mendoza, Antonio and Romea, Celia (eds.) El lector ante la obra hipertextual. Horsori: Barcelona, pp. 15-23.

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Styles, M and Rokison, A (2010) Sidelines: Some Neglected Dimensions of Children's Literature and its Scholarship. In: Rudd, D (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature. Routledge: London, pp. 195-215.

2009

Baumfield, V., Dickson, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4734-038X, Devlin, A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9407-6465 and Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2009) Promoting access to the curriculum through visual literacy and meaning making in a Community of Inquiry. In: Beyond Borders: Art, Narrative and Culture in Picture Books. 2nd International Symposium: New Impulses in Picture book Research, Glasgow, UK, 18-20 Sep 2009,

Styles, M and Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (Eds.) (2009) Acts of Reading: Teachers, texts and childhood. Trentham: London. ISBN 9781858564388

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2009) Lateinamerika als Ort der Selbsfindung. Buch und Maus: Die Zeitschrift des Schweiserisches Institut für Kinder- und Jugendmedien, 4(9), pp. 10-12.

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2009) Sharing visual experiences of a new culture: Immigrant children in Scotland respond to picturebooks and other visual texts. In: Evans, J. (ed.) Talking Beyond the Page: Reading and Responding to Picture Books. Routledge: London, pp. 134-151. ISBN 978-0-415-47696-6

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Farrell, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9238-3576 and McAdam, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 (2009) Visual connections: immigrant and non-immigrant pupils create a reading community around a wordless picturebook. In: United Kingdom Literacy Association 45th International Conference: Making Connections: Building literate communities in and beyond the classroom, London, July 2009,

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Styles, M. (2009) Bringing “Wisdom into the Hearts of Young Persons”: Aesop, Watts and Newbery as sources for Jane Johnson’s fables and maxims. In: Styles, M. and Arizpe, E. (eds.) Acts of Reading: Teachers, texts and childhood. Trentham: London, pp. 29-42. ISBN 978-1-85856-438-8

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Styles, M. (2009) A critical review of research into children's responses to visual texts. In: Flood, J., Heath, S.B. and Lapp, D. (eds.) Handbook on research in teaching literacy through the communicative and visual arts. Lawrence Erlbaum: London, pp. 363-375. ISBN 978-0805857009

2008

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2008) Marvellous Realities: 25 Years of Illustration for Children in Mexico. In: Harding, J. and Pinsent, P. (eds.) What Do You See? International Perspectives on Children's Book Illustration. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle, pp. 101-115. ISBN 9781847188502

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2008) Reading Picturebooks: Children and Visual Literacy. In: Bornelitteratur i Daginstitutioner, Centre for Children’s Literature, Danish School of Education, University of Denmark, 24th April 2008., (Unpublished)

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and McGonigal, J. (2008) Global citizens, local linguists: how migrant children explore cultural identity through vernacular texts. In: Peters, M.A., Britton, A. and Blee, H. (eds.) Global Citizenship Education: Philosophy, Theory and Pedagogy. Sense Publishers: Rotterdam, pp. 459-476. ISBN 978-9087903732

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Styles, M., Cowan, K., Mallouri, L. and Wolpert, M. (2008) The Voices Behind the Pictures: Children Responding to Postmodern Picturebooks. In: Sipe, L. and Pantaleo, S. (eds.) Postmodern Picturebooks: Play, Parody, and Self-Referentiality. Routledge: London, pp. 207-222. ISBN 0-415-96210-2

Arizpe, E (2008) Children's Literature in Progress. Canadian Children's Literature, 34(1), pp. 136-146.

2007

McGonigal, J. and Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2007) Learning to Read a New Culture: How immigrant and asylum-seeking children experience Scottish identity through classroom books. Project Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh, UK.

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2007) "Delight and instruction to all Moomins": encounters with text in Moominland. In: McLoughlin, K. and Lidström Brock, M. (eds.) Tove Jansson Rediscovered. Cambridge Scholars Press: Newcastle, pp. 108-114. ISBN 9781847182692

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2007) Finding a voice: a select overview of 25 years of children's literature in Mexico. Part I: New voices: outstanding books for Mexican children since 1980. Bookbird, 48(1), pp. 5-13.

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2007) Finding a voice: a select overview of 25 years of children's literature in Mexico. Part II: New voices: outstanding books for Mexican children since 1980. Bookbird, 45(2), pp. 29-38.

2006

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2006) El juego de los espacios: los lectores y la interaccion entre imagen y palabra en el libro ilustrado infantil. Alter Texto, 6(3), pp. 11-36.

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2006) Young interpreters: affective dimensions of bilingual children’s response to pictures. In: Enever, J. and Schmid-Schönbein, G. (eds.) Picturebooks and Primary EFL Learners. Langenscheidt: Munich, pp. 35-48.

2004

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2004) Mexico and Central America. In: Hunt, P. (ed.) International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 1132-1137. ISBN 9780415290531

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Styles, M. (2004) ‘Love to learn your book’: children’s experiences of text in the eighteenth century. History of Education, 33(3), pp. 337-352. (doi: 10.1080/00467600410001691528)

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Styles, M. (2004) Seeing, thinking and knowing. In: Grainger, T. (ed.) The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Language and Literacy. RoutledgeFalmer: London, pp. 185-198. ISBN 9780415327671

Styles, M. and Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2004) Reading lessons from the eighteenth century. Children’s Literature in Education, 35(1), pp. 53-68. (doi: 10.1023/B:CLID.0000018900.64783.65)

2003

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Styles, M. (2003) Children reading pictures: Interpreting visual texts. Taylor and Francis: London. ISBN 9780415275767

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Styles, M. (2003) Picturebooks and metaliteracy: how children describe the processes of creation and reception. In: Styles, M. and Bearne, E. (eds.) Art, Narrative and Childhood. Trentham: Stoke on Trent, pp. 115-126. ISBN 9781858562636

Coulthard, K., Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Styles, M. (2003) Getting inside Anthony Browne’s head: pupils and teachers asking questions and reading pictures. In: Bearne, E., Dombey, H. and Grainger, T. (eds.) Classroom Interactions in Literacy. Open University Press: Maidenhead, pp. 77-89. ISBN 9780335213856

2002

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2002) On a walk with Lily: children’s responses to Satoshi Kitamura’s words and pictures. In: Bull, G. and Anstey, M. (eds.) Crossing the Boundaries. Pearson Education Australia: Frenchs Forest, N.S.W., pp. 33-48. ISBN 9781740098106

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Styles, M. (2002) ¿Cómo se lee una imagen? El desarrollo de la capacidad visual y la lectura mediante libros ilustrad. Lectura y Vida, 23(3),

2001

Styles, Morag and Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2001) A gorilla with 'Grandpa’s eyes': how children interpret visual texts – a case study of Anthony Browne’s Zoo. Children’s Literature in Education, 32(4), pp. 261-281. (doi: 10.1023/A:1012760422501)

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2001) ‘Letting the story out’: Visual encounters with Anthony Browne’s The Tunnel. Reading, 35(3), pp. 115-119. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9345.00173)

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2001) “Responding to a “Conquistadora”: readers talk about gender in Mexican secondary schools. Gender and Education, 13(1), pp. 25-37. (doi: 10.1080/09540250124426)

1994

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (1994) Whose Spanish? Language and literature in the secondary school in Mexico. In: Hayhoe, M. and Parker, S. (eds.) Who Owns English? Series: English, language and education series. Open University Press: Buckingham, pp. 53-61. ISBN 9780335192663

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Articles

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2021) The state of the art in picturebook research from 2010 to 2020. Language Arts, 98(5), pp. 260-272.

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2021) Introduction to special issue on childrens’ books. Migration Studies, 9(2), pp. 311-316. (doi: 10.1093/migration/mnab012)

Arizpe, Evelyn Solana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2013) Imágenes que invitan a pensar: el 'libro álbum sin palabras' y la respuesta lectora. Reflexiones Marginales, 3(18),

Arizpe, E (2008) Children's Literature in Progress. Canadian Children's Literature, 34(1), pp. 136-146.

Books

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Zárate, Mónica, McAdam, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 and Hirsu, Lavinia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4145-9048 (2022) Estrategias de mediación cultural en emergencias: lectura y escritura como refugios simbólicos. Tomo 2. Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (Cerlalc): Bogotá.

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Styles, Morag (2016) Children Reading Picturebooks: Interpreting Visual Texts. Routledge: Oxford. ISBN 9781138014077

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Styles, M. (2003) Children reading pictures: Interpreting visual texts. Taylor and Francis: London. ISBN 9780415275767

Book Sections

Book Reviews

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (2020) Refugee. By Alan Gratz. Migration Studies, 8(1), pp. 131-133. (doi: 10.1093/migration/mny007)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Styles, M and Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 (Eds.) (2009) Acts of Reading: Teachers, texts and childhood. Trentham: London. ISBN 9781858564388

Edited Journals

Research Reports or Papers

Imperiale, M. G. et al. (2025) LINEs4Palestine. Project Report. University of Glasgow.

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2021) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing Paper 4: Mapping cultural and nonformal education at the community level in Acapulco. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2021) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing paper 3: The role of Stakeholders in Peacebuilding. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2020) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing Paper 2: Key Public policies for peacebuilding in Medellin. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2020) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing Paper 1: Public Policies and Peacebuilding. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Conference or Workshop Item

Conference Proceedings

Arizpe, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Farrell, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9238-3576 and McAdam, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-6711 (2009) Visual connections: immigrant and non-immigrant pupils create a reading community around a wordless picturebook. In: United Kingdom Literacy Association 45th International Conference: Making Connections: Building literate communities in and beyond the classroom, London, July 2009,

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Grants

2022 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship (EU-UKRI) for Macarena García González

2020 Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises (PI - British Academy GCRF)

2017 AHRC-GCRF Network Grant for 'Children's Literature in Critical Contexts of Displacement: Exploring how story and arts-based practices create safe spaces for displaced children and young people' (PI)

2016 GU Knowledge Exchange Grant for the scoping project 'Literacy Practices Past and Present' in the East End of Glasgow

2014 Children's Literature Assembly Research Award for the project 'Reading Changes: Young adult literature and the changing literacy practices of adolescents in Mexico'

2011 John Robertson Bequest, University of Glasgow, for the project ‘An Evaluation of the Impact of Visual Strategies for Critical Literacy in Diverse Communities of Readers’

2011 British Academy small grant for the project ‘Reading Fictions - How representations of books and readers in children's literature reflect perceptions of the power and purpose of literacy’ with Dr Vivienne Smith, Strathclyde University

2010: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation ‘New Approaches to Learning’ small grant for the project Journeys from Images to Words: Examining the efficacy of visual meaning-making strategies in the development of inclusive communities of critical readers

2009: UK Literacy Association small grant for main phase of the research project Visual Journeys: Understanding immigrant children's response to visual images in picturebooks

2007: Children's Literature Association International Sponsorship Grant.

2003: Lilly Library Helm Fellowship for research on Jane Johnson’s Nursery Library.

1995: Spencer Foundation Small Grant for research on gender, adolescent literature and reading in secondary schools in Mexico.

1992: "Elva Knight" Research Grant by the International Reading Association to undertake fieldwork on adolescent reading in Mexico.

1992-1994: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT, Mexico)

1990: British Council Scholarship

1990: Fellowship, International Youth Library, Munich

Supervision

Completed

Herdiana: Multicultural children’s literature in Indonesia, children’s responses, and teachers’ perspectives

Louise Couceiro: ‘Extraordinary Women’, ‘Visionary Women’ and ‘Fantastically Great Women’: exploring children’s responses to contemporary biographies

Yaxi Wang: An Exploration of Interpictoriality: The relationship between original artworks, children's picturebooks and meaning-making

Lan Ma: Library Wars: Discourse, power and dystopian Young Adult literature from the East and West

Suzanne Abou Ghaida: The Arabic adolescent novel: tracing constructions of adolescence within texts and in the discourses of authors, publishers and readers

Julie McAdam: Resources of Hope: A narrative inquiry into the potential of Children’s Literature to foster mutual care in times of crisis

Soumi Dey: Emerging bilingual readers' responses to metafictive picturebooks: A cognitive exploration of multiliteracies

Osman Coban: An Educational Perspective on Reading Practices of Adolescent Readers in Turkey and Scotland

Sadie Ryan: Language, identity, integration and education: a sociolinguistic study of ‘New Arrivals’ in Glasgow (with Dr Jennifer Smith, Lord Kelvin & Adam Smith Scholarship)

Emma McGilp: A Dialogic Journey into Exploring Multiliteracies in Translation for Children and a Researcher in International Picturebooks

Jennifer Farrar: "I didn't know they did books like this!" An inquiry into the literacy practices of young children and their parents using metafictive picturebooks

Caroline Bagelman: Picturing Transformative Texts: Anticolonial learning and picturebooks

Under Supervision

Arshad, Rabaha
Children's Literature for Children's Rights
Cruz Velasquez, Diana
Co-constructing strategies for enhancing democratic reading spaces in early childhood through image reading and dialogic exchanges: A case study in Yauyos, Peru
Ghosh, Kerenza
Childhoodnature: Picturebooks and Film

External Examining

Ph.D. Thesis:Investigating Wordless Picturebook Reading on YouTube: Implications for Visual Literacy in Early Childhood Education, Maryam Izadi, NUSW Sydney

Ph.D. Thesis: Facilitating primary school children’s inferences by studying a postmodern picture book in conjunction with process drama, Susan Rook, Leeds-Beckett University

Ph.D. Thesis: The interpretation of fictional violence represented in illustrated books by gatekeepers of children’s literature in educational context, Halyna Pavlyshyn, University of Tasmania

Ph.D. Thesis: El libro-álbum contemporáneo español: procesos de canonicidad, mediadores adultos y lectores infantiles, Marta Larragueta, Universidad Camilo José Cela

Ph.D. Thesis: Anglophone picturebook shared reading in Chinese families —A mixed method study exploring parents’ motivation and parent-child interaction patterns, Ying Zou, University of York

Ph.D. Thesis: Exploring Tanzanian Students' Experiences and Engagement with English-Language Books in School Library Spaces, Nard Choi, University of Cambridge.

Ph.D. Thesis: Reading Illustrated Novels: Exploring the medium through participatory case study, Jennifer Aggleton, University of Cambridge

International Doctorate: Esto no va de libros. Literatura infantil y juvenil digital y educación literaria, Lucas Ramada Prieto, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, 2017.

Ph.D. Thesis: Humour in Children's Literature 1800-1840, Karen Elizabeth Williams, University of Roehampton, 2017.

Ph.D. Thesis: Reconceptualizing the Crossover Picturebook: Cognitive Approaches to Crossover Picturebooks and Reader's Engagement with Them, Xiaofei Shi, University of Cambridge 2016.

Ph.D Thesis: De lo Universal a lo Global: Nuevas formas del folklore en los álbumes para niños (From the universal to the global: New forms of folklore in picturebooks), Brenda Bellorín Briseño, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, 2015.

Ph.D. Thesis: A practice-based exploration of the relationship between artists’ books and children’s picturebooks, Laura Little, Anglia Ruskin University, 2015.

Ph.D. Thesis: Children’s literature about refugees and its use in the primary classroom, Julia Hope, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2015.

International Doctorate: El mediador escolar de lectura literaria, Felipe Munita, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2014.

Ph.D. Thesis: “What’s the story?” A case study of young adults’ attitudes towards reading in Lebanon, Nayla Aramouni, University of Cambridge, 2014.

Ph.D. Thesis: Interconnections between young adult fiction and young adult readers’ constructions of place within and beyond the text, Erin Spring, University of Cambridge, 2013.

Ph.D. Thesis: Conocimientos literarios y tipos de actuaciones que permiten progresar en la competencia literaria (Literary knowledge and practices that allow progress in literary competence), Martina Fittipaldi, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, 2013.

Ph.D. Thesis: National Identity in Visual Texts in Cyprus, Louiza Mallouri, University of Cambridge, 2011.

Teaching

I teach the course "Children's Literature and Literacies: Critical Enquiry" for the MEd in Children's Literature and Literacies and for the International Masters "Children's Literature, Media and Culture". I also lecture for other courses and I have been guest lecturer at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, the Universidad de Zaragoza and the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. I have also taught on various on-line courses, including for the Diploma course offered by IBBY Mexico. I was External Examiner for the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education Critical Approaches to Children's Literature MPhil and MEd Routes from 2018-2021.

Professional activities & recognition

Grant committees & research advisory boards

2018: AHRC, ODA Review College
2016: The National Research Council of Canada, Reviewer
2017: The National Research Foundation in South Africa, Reviewer
2018: Czech Science Foundation, Reviewer

Editorial boards

2016 - 2019: Journal of Literacy Research
2013 - 2019: CLELE

Professional & learned societies

2015 - 2019: Awards and Grants Officer, International Research Society for Children's Literature
2019: Vocal, Serra Húnter Programme
2019: President, International Research Society for Children's Literature

Selected international presentations

2019: Keynote: XI Congreso De la Oralidad a la LIJ: Géneros de la memoria, pioneros y transterrados españoles (U Iberoamericana, UNAM, Mexico City)
2018: Keynote: “Literatura, temas difíciles y espacios educacionales” (Centro de Justicia Educational, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Santiago, Chile)
2018: Keynote: A Childs World Conference: New Shoes New Directions (Aberystwyth University)
2017: Keynote: MA in Education Address (St Mary's University, Twickenham)
2016: Congreso Iberoamericano de Lengua y Literatura Infantil y Juvenil (Mexico City)
2015: Keynote: Im Bildungsfokus: Bilderbuchrezeptionsforschung (Landau-Koblenz-Heidelberg Universities)
2014: Keynote: Universo de letras (UNAM, Mexico City)
2013: Keynote: UKLA International Annual Conference (UK)
2011: Keynote: La literatura que acoge: infancia, inmigración y lectura’ (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

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Member of the jury for the 2018 Amnesty / CILIP (The Chartered Institute for Library and Information Professionals) Honour for Kate Greenaway Medal Shortlists Member of the jury for the VIII Premio Iberoamericano SM de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil 2012 (CERLALC, IBBY, OEI, OREALC-UNESCO) representing the Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI). Highly commended research publication in 2019, UK Literacy Association (UKLA) for Young people reading: Empirical research across international contexts, Routledge. Award for research publication in 2015, Literacy Research Association (LRA) Edward B. Fry Book Award for Visual Journeys through Wordless Narratives, Routledge. Award for research in 2013, for the British Education Research Association (BERA)/Routledge prize for curriculum development work through partnerships between schools and universities for the project "Journeys from Images to Words: Researchers and teachers examine the efficacy of visual meaning-making strategies in the development of inclusive communities of readers’.

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Consulting and Advice

Consultant for the programme Rutas de la palabra y la vida. Proyecto Regional para la Atención a Personas Migrantes a través de la Lectura, la Escritura y la Oralidad. CERLALC Unesco, 2024-2026.

Member of the Jury for the Premio Iberoamericano SM de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil 2024 (CERLALC, IBBY, OEI, OREALC-UNESCO).

Member of the Jury for the Hans C Andersen Award, International Board on Books for Young People IBBY (2022 and 2024).

Advisory Panel member for Beyond School Gates: Children's contribution to community integration (Nuffield Foundation), June 2022-May 2024.

Experts Panel member for the Agenda de prioridades para el desarrollo de las bibliotecas y el fomento de la lectura, la escritura y la oralidad en Iberoamérica (CERLALC)

Consultant for the programme Salas de Lectura para migrantes y desplazados, Dirección General de Publicaciones, Secretaría de Cultura, Mexico.

Member of the Jury for the VIII Premio Iberoamericano SM de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil 2012 (CERLALC, IBBY, OEI, OREALC-UNESCO) representing the Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI).

Co-curator for the Andrew Raven Trust Weekend on the theme of "Flourishing Children: Childhood, Nature and Community”, Ardtornish, June 2013.

Academic consultant: Universidad de Almería, Depto. Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura, Dr José Manuel de Amo Sánchez-Fortún, ‘Identificación de las facetas metaliterarias en el proceso de construcción de la competencia lecto-literaria del alumnado de educación secundaria’, Subprograma de Educación, Programa Nacional de Proyectos de Investigación Fundamental, en el marco del VI Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica, January 2011 – January 2014

Academic peer reviewer: Cambridge Journal of Education, International Research in Children's Literature, Journal of Early Childhood Literacy and The Journal of Children's Literature Studies)

Academic and professional membership

2019- 2023 President of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL)

2015- 2019 Member to the Board of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) as Awards and Grants Officer.

2014- University Research Network on Children's and Young Adult Literature (Spain and Latin America).

2009-2014 International Sub-Committee, United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA)

2010-2013 Academic Member of GRAMNET Advisory Board (Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network

2009-2011 Executive Group, Refugees into Teaching in Scotland (RITeS)

Guest Editor

Special Issue: García Gonzalez, M., Munita, F. and Arizpe, E. (eds) 2024 International Research on Children's Literature (IRCL) on Latin American Children's Literature and Culture 17 (1).

Special Issue: Arizpe, E., Farrell, M. and McAdam, J. (eds) (2011) New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship 17 (2).

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