Kiera Vaclavik

Kiera Vaclavik is Professor of Children’s Literature and Childhood Culture at Queen Mary, University of London and directs its interdisciplinary Centre for Childhood Cultures. Her work brings children’s literature studies into dialogue with other fields including classics and costume history, and regularly involves collaboration with high-profile organisations across the creative and cultural industries. Kiera’s research centres on children’s literature and childhood culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, with a particular focus on Victorian works and their afterlives. Her latest monograph, Fashioning Alice: The Career of Lewis Carroll’s Icon, 1860-1901, was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019.  For further details on the research project, Childhood Heroes: storytelling survival strategies and role models of resilience to COVID-19, see here.