Kiera Vaclavik
Biographic Data
| ID | 5705486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kiera Vaclavik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kiera |
| FAMILY NAME | Vaclavik |
| SIGNATURE | VACLAVIK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3712-0706 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sophie Heywood, Children’s Publishing in Cold War France
Little Girls, Big Dreams
Published 70 years apart and adopting contrasting approaches to real-world detail, Lewis Carroll's Alice books and Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes bear a number of affinities. Both portray dynamic, creative, and skillful girls whose dreams and destinies they probe. In this article, I highlight Alice's inventiveness and the curtailment of her dreams, then examine Streatfeild's employment of a production of Alice in Wonderland to delineate two dist…
Special Issue Introduction – Not Only Dressed but Dressing
Puzzles, Kits, and Knits
This article presents an interview with Maija Nygren, a knitwear designer and educator based in Edinburgh. Nygren has been passionate about textiles since the age of five, when her Finnish grandmother taught her to crochet. She is the founder and leader of Almaborealis, an experimental knitwear lab where she creates educational, child-centred kids’ textiles which embrace local and ethical production. In 2022, she led a workshop series titled “Wha…
Listening to the Alice Books
Despite the ‘acoustic turn’ providing ‘a corrective to the visualist bias of much scholarship on modern and postmodern culture’, the Alice books and their author have been almost exclusively seen rather than heard by critics to date. Prompted by a collaboration with composer Paul Rissmann which resulted in a concert suite performed by the London Symphony Orchestra in 2015, in this article I undertake the first detailed exploration of the sonic di…
World Book Day and Its Discontents
In Britain, children dressing as their favourite book character has become synonymous with World Book Day, an event created by UNESCO in 1995 to promote reading for pleasure.Book-based fancy dress is often a fraught process which has attracted considerable critique.Its examination offers insights into issues ranging from intergenerational relations to the place of reading in contemporary society.In this article, I debunk a number of common critic…
More than Mirrors
Jules Verne écrivain… de jeunesse
World Book Day and Its Discontents
In Britain, children dressing as their favourite book character has become synonymous with World Book Day, an event created by UNESCO in 1995 to promote reading for pleasure.Book-based fancy dress is often a fraught process which has attracted considerable critique.Its examination offers insights into issues ranging from intergenerational relations to the place of reading in contemporary society.In this article, I debunk a number of common critic…
Jules Verne écrivain… de jeunesse
More than Mirrors
World Book Day and Its Discontents
In Britain, children dressing as their favourite book character has become synonymous with World Book Day, an event created by UNESCO in 1995 to promote reading for pleasure.Book-based fancy dress is often a fraught process which has attracted considerable critique.Its examination offers insights into issues ranging from intergenerational relations to the place of reading in contemporary society.In this article, I debunk a number of common critic…
Listening to the Alice Books
Despite the ‘acoustic turn’ providing ‘a corrective to the visualist bias of much scholarship on modern and postmodern culture’, the Alice books and their author have been almost exclusively seen rather than heard by critics to date. Prompted by a collaboration with composer Paul Rissmann which resulted in a concert suite performed by the London Symphony Orchestra in 2015, in this article I undertake the first detailed exploration of the sonic di…
Little Girls, Big Dreams
Published 70 years apart and adopting contrasting approaches to real-world detail, Lewis Carroll's Alice books and Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes bear a number of affinities. Both portray dynamic, creative, and skillful girls whose dreams and destinies they probe. In this article, I highlight Alice's inventiveness and the curtailment of her dreams, then examine Streatfeild's employment of a production of Alice in Wonderland to delineate two dist…
Special Issue Introduction – Not Only Dressed but Dressing
Puzzles, Kits, and Knits
This article presents an interview with Maija Nygren, a knitwear designer and educator based in Edinburgh. Nygren has been passionate about textiles since the age of five, when her Finnish grandmother taught her to crochet. She is the founder and leader of Almaborealis, an experimental knitwear lab where she creates educational, child-centred kids’ textiles which embrace local and ethical production. In 2022, she led a workshop series titled “Wha…
Sophie Heywood, Children’s Publishing in Cold War France
Art (6 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (2 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (2 works)