Jean Webb (University of Worcester)
Jean Webb is Director of the International Forum for Research in Childrens Literature which provides a focus for literary, cultural and socio-historical scholarly enquiry into writing for children, internationally. She teaches a broad range of undergraduate modules on nineteenth and twentieth century literature, and is responsible for specialist modules in children’s literature. She is also an experienced PhD supervisor and examiner.
Jean has given conference papers and keynote lectures across the world: she was a Board member of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature and the Children’s Literature Association, India and was an Executive Board Member of ChLA. She was a contributor to the British Academy-funded research project Reading Fictions: how representations of books and readers in children’s literature reflect perceptions of the power and purpose of literacy (2011-2014).
Sara Reis da Silva (University of Minho)
Sara Reis da Silva, PhD in Children’s Literature. She is Assistant Professor with Habilitation in the Institute of Education at the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal) where she teaches: Children’s Literature; Language, Literary Textuality and Reading Strategies, and Children’s Literature Didactics. She is a member of: CIEC (Research Centre on Child Studies), the project RED LIJMI (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Gulbenkian/Casa da Leitura (www.casadaleitura.org), «Living Among Books» (Erasmus+ Project), ELOS, a Portuguese-Galaic research association, and Observatório de Leitura (https://caminhosdeleitura.pt/pt/juri). She has participated in several conferences and has widely published (books, chapters, articles, etc.). She has supervised/is supervising various PhD and Master students.
