School of Education

Dr Evelyn Arizpe

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  • Lecturer in Children's Literature (Creativity Culture and Faith)

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


Research interests

Children’s literature and literacies, particularly in the following areas: picturebooks; adolescent literature; Latin America; children’s books in Spanish; reader-response; the history of reading; gender; immigration and intercultural communities; bilingualism and language learning.

I am Programme Leader for the MEd in Children's Literature and Literacies in the School of Education. I have taught and published widely in my areas of interest, both in the UK and internationally. I am particularly interested in children’s meaning-making strategies in relation to verbal-visual interaction this is the focus of much of my research. I am currently leading an international project, Visual Journeys, with a research award from the United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA), which investigates immigrant children’s responses to wordless picturebooks and graphic novels and the ways in which they create meaning and narrative through their own multimodal texts. I am also PI on a project funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation 'Journeys from Images to Words: Examining the efficacy of visual meaning-making strategies in the development of inclusive communities of critical readers'.

I welcome postgraduates in any aspect of children's literature or literacy research, particularly in the areas mentioned above.

Career history

2006- Lecturer in Children's Literature, School of Education, University of Glasgow.

2005- 2006  Research Associate with Prof. James McGonigal on the project Learning to Read a New Culture: How Immigrant and Asylum Seeking Children Experience Scottish Identity through Classroom Books funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department.

2004-2006  Research Fellow in Children’s Literature, Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Glasgow.   1995-96  Post-doctoral research Reading from a Gender Perspective: A Study of Mexican Student’s Responses to Literature’on adolescent literature and reading in secondary schools in Mexico with a Spencer Foundation Small Grant.

2002- 2005  Research Associate with Morag Styles on the project Domestic Literacy in the  Eighteenth Century: A Study of Jane Johnson’s Nursery Library funded by the British Academy and the Research and Development Fund, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education.

2002- 2004    Undergraduate lecturing and teaching for the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge for the following:
Year 3 B.Ed. and B.A. Course: ‘Children and Literature’
B.Ed. English Course: ‘Research and Investigation’
M.Ed. Course: ‘Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature’

1999- 2001  Research Associate with Morag Styles (Homerton College, Cambridge) on the project Reading Picturebooks funded by the AHRB and the British Academy.

1996-2003  Undergraduate supervisor for the Modern and Medieval Faculty and the English Faculty in Spanish language and literature at various Cambridge colleges.

1996-98  Research Officer with Madeleine Arnot, Gerard Duveen, Mary James, John Gray, Jean Rudduck in the project Gender and Performance: A Review of Recent Research at the School of Education, Universityof Cambridge.

1996-98 Research Officer with Madeleine Arnot in Project Arianne: Broadening Adolescent Masculinity, a European Commission funded project at the School of Education, University of Cambridge.

1995  Teacher on the course "Gender and Children's Literature", Interdisciplinary Programme for Women's Studies (PIEM), El Colegio de México.

1990-94  Wolfson College, Cambridge. Ph.D. Thesis:  Reading Response: The Reading Processes of Adolescent Reluctant Readers. Research supervisor: Mr. Anthony Adams, Department of Education.

1987- 90 Teacher on  the B.A. course in Latin American Literature, Universidad Iberoamericana:  for Semiology and Poetics, Literature and the Science of Language, and English Literature.

1987-90  Research assistant in El Colegio de México, for a children's dictionary project: "Diccionario Infantil de México".

1983-87  Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico. B.A. Course in Latin American Literature. Thesis: Mexican Stories by Adults for Children. A Literary Analysis, supervised by Dr. Raúl Avila, El Colegio de México. The thesis involved critical research on children’s literature in Mexico and was published as a book in 1994.

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Number of items: 27.

2011

McAdam, J., and Arizpe, E. (2011) Journeys into culturally responsive teaching. Journal of Teacher Education and Teachers' Work, 2 (1). pp. 18-27.

Arizpe, E., and McAdam, J. (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. ISSN 1361-4541 (doi:10.1080/13614541.2011.624969)

Arizpe, E., 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., 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., Arizpe, E. , and McAdam, J. (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. ISSN 1038-1562

Arizpe, E (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 (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. (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. ISSN 1755-6198

Arizpe, Evelyn (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, 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. , Devlin, A.M. , and Arizpe, E. (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, 18-20 Sep 2009, Glasgow, UK.

Styles, M and Arizpe, Evelyn, (Eds.) (2009) Acts of Reading: Teachers, texts and childhood. Trentham, London. ISBN 9781858564388

Arizpe, E. (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., Farrell, M. , and McAdam, J. (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, July 2009, London.

Arizpe, E., 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., 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 (2008) Children's Literature in Progress. Canadian Children's Literature, 34 (1). pp. 136-146. ISSN 0319-0080

Arizpe, E. (2008) Reading Picturebooks: Children and Visual Literacy. In: Bornelitteratur i Daginstitutioner, 24th April 2008., Centre for Children’s Literature, Danish School of Education, University of Denmark. (Unpublished)

Arizpe, E., Farrell, M. , and McAdam, J. (2008) Journeys across visual borders with The Arrival by Shaun Tan. In: SERA International Conference, Perth. (Unpublished)

2007

Arizpe, E. (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. ISSN 0006-7377

Arizpe, E. (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. ISSN 0006-7377

2006

Arizpe, E. (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. ISSN 1665-4862

2004

Arizpe, E., 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. ISSN 0046-760X (doi:10.1080/00467600410001691528)

Styles, M., and Arizpe, E. (2004) Reading lessons from the eighteenth century. Children’s Literature in Education, 35 (1). pp. 53-68. ISSN 0045-6713 (doi:10.1023/B:CLID.0000018900.64783.65)

2002

Arizpe, E., 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). ISSN 0325-8637

2001

Arizpe, E. (2001) ‘Letting the story out’: Visual encounters with Anthony Browne’s The Tunnel. Reading, 35 (3). pp. 115-119. ISSN 0034-0472 (doi:10.1111/1467-9345.00173)

Arizpe, E. (2001) “Responding to a “Conquistadora”: readers talk about gender in Mexican secondary schools. Gender and Education, 13 (1). pp. 25-37. ISSN 0954-0253 (doi:10.1080/09540250124426)

This list was generated on Sat May 26 10:57:33 2012 BST.

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’, £1500

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, £7500.

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 £14,900

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 £2600

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.

Supervision Areas

  • Children's literature
  • Literacy
  • Picturebooks and visual literacy
  • Literacy and education in Spanish-speaking countries

Current Research Students

C. Bagelman

Thesis title: Picturing Transformative Texts: an exploration of food politics through picturebooks

Academic and professional body membership

International Committee, United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA); Steering Group, Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet); Executive Group, Refugees into Teaching in Scotland (RITeS); International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL).

Review Board for The Journal of Children's Literature and The Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature (as well as reviews for the following journals: Cambridge Journal of Education, International Research in Children's Literature, Journal of Early Childhood Literacy and The Journal of Children's Literature Studies)