PhD in Children’s Lit

Applications are invited for a PhD position at Ghent University in the field of Children’s Literature. The research project on which the PhD candidate will be employed is supervised by Prof. Dr. Elly McCausland. Candidates are invited to propose their own project, which must be in the field of children’s literature, and combine theoretical inquiry with textual analysis. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, children’s literature and the environment; young adult dystopia; adaptations of canonical texts for children; medievalism in children’s literature; nineteenth-century children’s literature; representations of risk and adventure in children’s literature; play in children’s literature; fantasy and fairytale.