The Center for Young People’s Literature and Culture at the Institute of English Studies and the Centre for Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Wrocław invite you to a lecture by professor Macarena García-González (University of Glasgow) entitled Children Becoming Writers: Intergenerational Assemblages for Children’s Literature.
The lecture (in English) will take place on 24 November 2022 at 12:00 in the Institute of English Studies (room 208) and via the MS Teams platform. All those interested in attending the lecture should contact dr hab. Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, prof. of the UWr, at justyna.deszcz-tryhubczak@uwr.edu.pl.
Prof. García-González will be hosted at the UWr as part of the “Initiative of Excellence – Research University” (IDUB) programme.
Macarena García-González is currently a postdoctoral Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Glasgow. She investigates the shifting relationships between literature, cultural materials, and children working with transdisciplinary and collaborative methodologies. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies from the University of Zurich and a MA on Cultural Studies from the University of Maastricht. She has authored two monographs —Origin Narratives. The Stories We Tell Children about Immigration and International Adoption (Routledge, 2017) and Enseñando a sentir. Repertorios éticos en la ficción infantil (Metales Pesados, 2021)—, as well as several articles and book chapters on children’s literature, reading promotion, culture and education. She has been visiting scholar at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Graz, the Collegium Helveticum in Switzerland, the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and the Internationale Jugendbibliothek in Munich. She has led the research project “Emotional and Literary Repertoires for Childhood” (2018-2022), a new materialist exploration of the affective in encounters between texts and children, as well as the research line BioSocioCultural Inclusion. Challenging Homogeneity in Educational Spaces at the Center for Educational Justice of the Catholic University of Chile. She was the convener of the 25th IRSCL Congress Aesthetic and Pedagogic Entanglements and has served as a member of the IRSCL executive board since 2019.