Plant Tendrils in Children's and Young Adult Literature. An Introduction

Authors

  • Melanie Duckworth Østfold University College
  • Lykke Guanio-Uluru Western Norway University of Applied Sciences https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1056-4681
  • Antonia Szabari University of Southern California

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2024.15.1.5433

Abstract

Introduction to the guest edited section.

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Author Biographies

Melanie Duckworth , Østfold University College

Melanie Duckworth is an associate professor of English literature at Østfold University College, Norway. Her research interests include children’s literature, Australian literature, contemporary poetry, ecocriticism, and critical plant studies, and her research is published in journals including Environmental Humanities, International Research in Children’s Literature, Bookbird, and Australian Literary Studies. Melanie is co-editor of Plants in Children’s and Young Adult Literature (Routledge 2022) and Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds (Palgrave 2023).

Lykke Guanio-Uluru, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

Lykke Guanio-Uluru (hagl@hvl.no) is Professor of Literature at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Her research focus is on literature and ethics, with an emphasis on ecocriticism, fantasy and game studies. She is the author of multiple research articles, of the monography Ethics and Form in Fantasy Literature: Tolkien, Rowling and Meyer (2015) and the co-editor of the anthology Ecocritical Perspectives on Children’s Texts and Cultures: Nordic Dialogues (2018), both published by Palgrave Macmillan. She has further co-edited Plants in Children’s and YA Literature (2021, in press), Routledge.

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Published

2024-04-26

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2024): Plant Tendrils in Children's and Young Adult Literature

Section

Plant Tendrils in Children's and Young Adult Literature

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