Staff Profile
Emerita Professor Kim Reynolds
Emerita Professor
- Address: School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics,
缅北禁地,
缅北禁地 upon Tyne,
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Kimberley Reynolds specialises in Children's Literature Studies. She was President of the International Research Society for Children's Literature 2003-7 and in 2013 received the International Brothers Grimm Award for contributions to the subject. She two of her books have received the prestigious Children's Literature Association Book Award, and she was the first Honorary Senior Fellow of the Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence in the History of Emotions. Kim sits on a number of influential boards and committees in the UK and internationally. She was been a Trustee of Seven Stories, the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature from 2004 to 2016 and served on both the V&A Trustees' committee with responsibility for the Museum of Childhood the board of the charity Booktrust (Chair 2004-8) for 10 years. She was a founder-member of the UK's Children's Laureate on whose steering committee she continues to sit, and has advised and contributed to many children's literature broadcasts, programmes, films, blogs and other projects, including for the British Library and the British Council.
Background
After completing her doctoral research in nineteenth-century juvenile fiction at the University of Sussex, Kim took up a post at what is now the Roehampton University where she and a colleague developed the successful MA in Children's Literature. In 1991 she conceived and established the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature (then called the Children's Literature Research Centre) which, under her direction, was awarded a Queen's Prize for Further and Higher Education 2000-2004. She led 4 national studies of young people's reading habits; the Children's Literature International Summer School, and conceived and obtained funding for the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation. She has organised a number of national and international conferences. In 2000 she was made the UK's second Professor of Children's Literature.
Roles and Responsibilities
Kim is now part-time and no longer delivers taught courses. She is currently seeing her final doctoral students through to completion. Kim has seen 24 doctoral students through to successful completion and has a further 4 students at various stages in their research. She has supervised on a wide range of topics, from historic children’s literature through comparative studies (Greece, Cyprus, Taiwan, India and Korea), genre-based research, creative writing and digital children’s literature.
Area of expertise
Children's literature, especially late-nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries
Qualifications
BA (C.W. Post College, Long Island University); BA, MA, PhD, all from Sussex, all in English Literature/nineteenth-century
Previous Positions
Lecturer, Ealing College of Higher Education, Department of English
Lecturer/Reader/Professor, University of Roehampton, School of English and Modern Literature
Memberships
International Research Society for Children's Literature (Past President)
Children's Literature Association
Children's Books History Society
British IBBY
Honours and Awards
Senior Honorary Fellow, Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence in the History of Emotions
International Brothers Grimm Award (2013) from the International Institute for Children's Literature, Osaka (1 million yen)
Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship, ‘Modernism, the Left, and progressive writing for children, 1900 – 1945’ (2011 – 2013)
Children's Literature Association Book Award 2009 for 'Radical Children's Literature: Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations' (Palgrave, 2007) and 2018 for 'Left out: the forgotten tradition of radical publishing for children in Britain, 1910-1949'
Queen's Prize for Further and Higher Education awarded to National Centre for Research in Children's Literature (2000-2004)
Languages
English
Informal Interests
Swimming, walking
Research Interests
Children's Literature Studies.
Other Expertise
Childhood Studies; Modernism
Current Work
Radical and avant-garde children's literature; circuses in children's literature
Postgraduate Supervision
Successfully sypervised 24 students; currently working with 2 doctoral students. These have spanned a range of projects including a study of self-harm in YA fiction; trauma writing in Greek-Cypriot children's literature; the relationship between PC games and juvenile narrative; the environment in children's fiction; twentieth-century developments in historical fiction for children; a comparison of British and Greek periodicals for girls in the C19th and their construction of adolescence; the politics of clothing in Golden Age children's fiction; an evaluation of convergence culture in relation to turn of the millennium fantasy fiction; a reappraisal of working-class writers of the 1960s and 1970s; the fiction of Margaret Mahy and Diana Wynne Jones; the juvenilia of Judith Kerr and Tomi Ungerer; early children's popular print culture, and two creative writing theses focusing.
Esteem Indicators
Received the International Brothers Grimm Award for contributions to Children's Literature 2013 (1 million yen)
Awarded the 2009 Children's Literature Association Book Award for 'Radical Children's Literature: Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations' and 2018 for Left Out: The Forgotten Tradition of Radical Publishing for Children 1910-1949
Elected President of the International Research Society for Children's Literature (2003-7); on the board for 10 years
Elected to the International Committee of the Children's Literature Association 2008-1010
Selected to serve on the Book Award judging panel of the Children's Literature Association 20010-2012; chaired the board 2012-2013
On the boards of several key journals
Regular keynote speaker at international conferences
Invited to participate in major publishing projects
Invited to contribute to/advise on new academic programmes, media broadcasts and programmes, films and theatre productions
Funding
Awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council; Arts Council of England; Leverhulme; British Academy, Daiwa Foundation; British National Bibliographical R&D Foundation
I am no longer teaching
- Reynolds K. . Children's Literature 2021, 49, 8-22.
- Reynolds K, Schofield T, Trujillo-Pisanty D. . Children's Literature in Education 2020, 51(4), 502-518.
- Reynolds K. . Children's Literature in Education 2019, 50(4), 449-463.
- Schofield T, Trujillo Pisanty D, Arrigoni G, Reynolds K, Pattinson R. . In: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '19). 2019, San Diego, CA, USA: ACM.
- Reynolds K, Rosen J, Rosen M, ed. . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Reynolds K. The unexpected world of Olive Dehn. tbc 2017. In Preparation.
- Barclay K, Rawnsley C, Reynolds K, ed. . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Reynolds K. . In: Kummerling-Meibauer, B; Muller, A, ed. Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature. New York and London: Routledge, 2016.
- Reynolds K. . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Reynolds K. . Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies 2016.
- Reynolds K. . In: Arizpe E; Smith V, ed. Children as Readers in Children's Literature : The power of texts and the importance of reading. New York and London: Routledge, 2015.
- Reynolds K. . In: Druker, E; Kummerling-Meibauer, B, ed. Children's Literature and European Avant-Garde. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins, 2015, pp.89-109.
- Reynolds K. . London: British Library, 2015.
- Reynolds K. What Use Are Stories?. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Education), 2015. In Press.
- Reynolds K. . Oxford: Oxford University Press with Hindawi Foundation for Education and Culture, 2014.
- Reynolds K. From muggles to whizzpopper: invented words in children's literature. Oxford: Oxford Univiersity Press, 2014. In Preparation.
- Butler C, Reynolds K, ed. . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Reynolds K. . London: British Library, 2014.
- Reynolds K. . London: British Library, 2014.
- Reynolds K. "Books We Forgot to Remember: Left-wing Publishing for Children in Interwar Britain". In: Mikota, J, Muller, A and S Planka, ed. European Literature for Children and Young Adults: Trends and Developments. Germany: SEKL, 2013, pp.17.
- Reynolds K. . Children's Literature in Education 2013, 44(2), 120-139.
- Reynolds K. . In: Lyon, J.M., Wooten, W, ed. 70 Years of Penguin. 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013. In Press.
- Reynolds K. . The Lion and the Unicorn 2013, 37(1), 1-19.
- Reynolds K. . Tavistock, Devon: Northcote House Publishers Ltd, 2012.
- Reynolds K. Children's Literature: From the fin de siècle to the new millennium. Tavistock, Devon: Northcote House and the British Council, 2012. In Preparation.
- Reynolds K. . In: Kennon, P., Ni Bhroin, C, ed. What Do We Tell the Children? Critical Essays on Children’s Literature. 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012, pp.196-206.
- Grenby M, Reynolds K, ed. . London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Reynolds K. . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Reynolds K. . In: Julia L. Mickenberg and Lynne Vallone, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp.255-274.
- Reynolds K. . Maryland, USA: Recorded Books, 2011. Sound recordings and supporting print materials.
- Reynolds K. . In: Philip Nel and Lissa Paul, ed. Keywords for Children’s Literature. New York, USA: New York University Press, 2011, pp.151-154.
- Reynolds K. . In: Grenby, M., Immel, A, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp.193-208.
- Reynolds K (associate ed.), Birch D, ed. . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Reynolds K. . Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 2009, 34(3), 255-271.
- Reynolds K. . In: Briggs J; Butts D; Grenby MO, ed. Popular Children's Literature in Britain. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, pp.189-207.
- Reynolds K. . London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Reynolds K. . In: Collins FM; Ridgman J, ed. Turning the Page : Children's Literature in Performance and the Media. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006, pp.185-206.
- Reynolds K. . Ocnos 2006, 1(1), 19-19.
- Pinsent P, Reynolds K. . In: Butler, C, ed. Teaching Children's Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp.172-180.
- Reynolds K. . London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Reynolds K. . In: Keenan, C., Thompson, M.S, ed. Studies in Children's Literature 1500-2000. Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press, 2004, pp.138-147.
- O'Sullivan E, Reynolds K, Romoren R. . Kristiansand, Norway: Norwegian Academic Press, 2004.
- Reynolds K, ed. . Staffordshire, UK: Pied Piper, 2003.
- Reynolds K, ed. . Birmingham, UK: Pied Piper, 2003.
- Reynolds K, O'Sullivan E, Romoren R. . In: O'Sullivan, E., Reynolds, K. and Romoren, R, ed. Children's Literature: Global and Local. Kristiansand, Norway: Novus, 2003, pp.301.
- Reynolds K. . In: Stephens, J, ed. Ways of Being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature and Film. Sydney: Routledge, 2002, pp.96-115.
- Reynolds K. Researching Children's Literature. In: Vazquez-Garcia, C, ed. Literatura Infantil y Juvenile: Tendencias actuales en investigacion. Vigo, Spain: University of Vigo, 2002.
- Reynolds K, Brennan G, McCarron K. . London: Continuum, 2001.
- Avery G, Reynolds K. . Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000.
- Reynolds K. . In: Webb, Jean, ed. Text, Culture and National Identity in Children's Literature. Helsinki: Nordinfo, 2000.
- Reynods, Kimberley, Tucker, Nicholas (eds). Children's Book Publishing in Britain since 1945. Aldershot: Scolar/Ashgate, 1998.
- Reynolds, Kimberley, Yates, Paul. Too Soon: Representations of Childhood Death in Literature for Children. In: Lesnik-Oberstein, Karin, ed. Childhood and Culture. London: Longman, 1998, pp.27.
- Reynolds, Kimberley. Children's Literature in the 1890s and 1990s. Plymbridge: Northcote House & British Council, 1996.
- Reynolds, Kimberley. Mothering. In: Coates, Jennifer; Madoc-Jones, Beryl, ed. Women's Studies: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwells, 1994, pp.22.
- Reynolds, Kimberley. Telly Texts: Children's Books and the Media. In: Pinsent, Pat, ed. The Power of the Page: Children's Books and their Readers. London: David Fulton, 1993, pp.20.
- Reynolds, Kimberley and Humble, Nicola. Victorian Heriones: Readings and Representations of Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester/Wheatsheaf, 1993.
- Reynolds, Kimberley. Power and Pleasure in Measure for Measure. In: Loughrey, Brian, ed. Critical Essays on Measure for Measure. 1991, pp.13.
- Reynolds, Kimberley. Girls Only? Gender and Popular Juvenile Fiction in Britain 1880-1910. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester/Wheatsheaf, UK; Temple University Press, USA, 1990.