Abstract: Feminist perspectives have strongly influenced the fairy-tale rewritings of the past decades, but the intersection of gender with other identity markers deserves more attention. This article applies the conclusions of Sylvia Henneberg’s critical examination of age and gender in fairy tales to Gillian Cross’s Wolf (1990),
an awa…[Read more]

Intergenerational dialogue is central to children’s literature. According to Marah Gubar, the relationship between childhood and adulthood can be cast in terms of difference, deficit (stressing what children do less well) and kinship. In the course of his writing career, the Flemish children’s author Bart Moeyaert evolved from a discourse of dif…[Read more]

Though only in his mid-fifties, Bart Moeyaert began his writing career over forty years ago, when at age thirteen. In the course of almost four decades as a published
author, Moeyaert’s views and writing practices have inevitably evolved. These developments can be attributed to personal experiences from living
through adolescence, young a…[Read more]

In Ik ben Polleke, hoor! (2001) van Guus Kuijer zegt hoofdpersonage Polleke: ‘Ik wil best leuke dingen met Spiek doen, maar ik wil niet op hem passen. Hallo? Horen jullie me? Ik ben pas twaalf hoor!’ Door onder meer dit soort reflecties op leeftijd dragen jeugdboeken bij aan de constructie van leeftijdsnormen en daarmee aan de socialisatie van kin…[Read more]

This is the Introduction to my new book, _Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History_.

“Sensation Fiction and the Medical Context.” Cambridge Companion to Sensation, Andrew Mangham, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014. 182-195.