Lindsay Myers

Emaillindsay.myersuniversityofgalwayie

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Italian children's literature, Childrens Literature in Translation, the child in film, picturebooks.

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Biography

I am a college lecturer in Italian and Childrens Studies at the University of Galway. My research focuses on Italian childrens literature and culture, comparative childrens literature and film, translation, fantasy literature and picturebooks. I believe that creativity and critical thinking should be at the heart of education at all levels and it is my mission to foster these as best I can in my teaching, research and community involvement.

Research Interests

Italian childrens literature and culture, the child in film, European children's literature and national identity pIcturebooks, translation and adaptation.

Teaching Interests

My teaching interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century Italian childrens literature and film, fantasy literature, picturebooks, adaptation, Europan childrens literature and society, childrens literature in translation.

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, MA, BA

Accepting PhD Students

Accepting PhD Students

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

SDG 4 Quality Education

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Multilingual Picturebooks and Involuntary Displacement: I Want to Speak Ukrainian
Myers, L., 1 Jan 2025, Creative Readings of Multilingual Picturebooks: International and Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Taylor and Francis Group, p. 212-222 11 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction. The Seeds of Memory by Mateusz Świetlicki (review)
Myers, L., 2024, In: Bookbird: Journal of International Children's Literature. 62, 1, p. 70-71 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to a Journal (Peer & Non Peer) › Review article › peer-review
Pinocchio in Irlanda"
Myers, L., 2024, Atlante Pinocchio . Cappechi, G., Bonanni, V., Casadei, A. & Casari, M. (eds.). Rome: Treccani, p. 107 114 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
“From Sardines to Spongecake: Heritage Preservation and Gastronationalism in Anna James Tilly and the Bookwanderers and Laura Walter’s Mistica Maeva e l’anello di Venezia”.
Myers, L., 2024, Eating Cultures in Children’s Literature. National, International and Transnational Perspectives. . Gasperini, A., Sundmark, B. & Tosi, L. (eds.). Mälmo: Mälmo University Press, p. 30 38 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
From Page to Stage: Locating the Spirit of Branar’s How to Catch a Star
Myers, L., Dec 2021, In: Children's Literature in Education. 52, 4, p. 528-542 15 p.
Research output: Contribution to a Journal (Peer & Non Peer) › Article › peer-review