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Emeritus Professor

Clare Bradford

Emeritus Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/Office of the Executive Dean Arts and Education

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  • Emeritus Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Education/Office of the Executive Dean Arts and Education
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BIO

I hold a Personal Chair as Alfred Deakin Professor in the School of
Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, where I work in the
field of literary studies. I have published 13 books and over 80 essays and
journal articles on children's and other literature. My most recent book is
The Middle Ages in Children's Literature (Palgrave), which explores how the
Middle Ages are used and abused in medievalist texts for the young--that is,
post-medieval texts which respond to and deploy medieval culture.

From 2007-2011 I served as President of the International Research Society for
Children's Literature, the main international scholarly organisation in the
field. In this role I met scholars from all over the world undertaking
research in children's literature. In 2009 the Trudeau Foundation (Canada)
named me as its first Visiting International Fellow, and during 2010 I spent
most of the year working with Canadian scholars at the University of
Winnipeg's Centre for Young People's Texts and Cultures. In 2011 I was elected
as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Emeritus Professor
    Deakin University, Office of the Executive Dean Arts and Education

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    University of Sydney
  • Master of Arts
    Wellington, Victoria U. of
  • Master of Education
    University of Sydney
  • Bachelor of Arts
    University of Auckland

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Literary studies
  • Curriculum and pedagogy

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • Office of the Executive Dean Arts and Education