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Evelyn Arizpe has worked in the field of children's literature and literacy for 25 years, starting with her undergraduate thesis on Mexican children's literature in the 1980s at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. She completed her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge, focusing on adolescent readers and young adult literature. Alongside Morag Styles, she pioneered research into children's response to picturebooks and visual literacy, co-authoring the influential book, "Children Reading Picturebooks: Interpreting Visual Texts" (2003/2016). Since moving to Glasgow in 2004, she has played a significant role in creating and managing the MEd in Children's Literature Literacies, now running for over a decade. She leads the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters program in Children's Literature, Media, and Culture (IMCLMC) and has developed research projects that address migration and displacement, including the "Visual Journeys: Journeys of Images and Words" project and collaborations with the Mexican Ministry of Culture. Professor Arizpe is a jury member for the Hans Christian Andersen Award (2022-2024) and is actively involved in teaching, supervising postgraduate research, and conducting international collaborations. Her research interests lie in children's literature, literacies, particularly picturebooks, young adult literature, reader-response, and the intersections with migration and intercultural communities.
University of Glasgow • Glasgow, Scotland
Leading research in Children's Literature and Literacies with focus on migration and intercultural communities.