Dr. Lindsay Myers

Lecturer
Director, BA Connect with Children's Studies

Dr. Lindsay Myers BA (UCC), MA (UCC), Ph.D (UCD)

Office: Room 315, Arts Millennium Building
Tel: 353-91-492396
E-mail: lindsay.myersnuigalway.ie

Research Interests:

• 20th Century Italian Literature and Civilization.
• Twentieth Century Italian Poetry.
• Italian Children's Literature and Film.
• National Identity and Children's Literature.

Recent Publications:

Myers, L. J. 2012 Making the Italians: Poetics and Politics of Italian Children's Fantasy (Bern: Peter Lang, 2012)
Myers, L.J., 2008 "Fighting for or against Fascism?  The Subversive Nature of Text and Image in Giovanni Bertinetti's I pugni di Meo" in International Research in Children's Literature Vol. 1, No. 1 (July 2008) 1 - 16.
Myers, L. J., 2008 "Roberto Innocenti - HCA Illustrator Medallist" in Bookbird Vol. 46, No. 4 (2008), 30 - 37.
Myers, L.J., 2007 ’Maternal Shadows – Nature, Femininity and Identity in the Poetry of Antonia Pozzi’ in In corpore: (im) material bodies in Italy, from the Middle Ages to the present day (Madison, Farleigh Dickinson Press, 2007), pp.173-188.     Myers, L.J., 2007 ’Sara Fanelli’, Inis n. 20 (Summer 2007), 20-24.
Myers, L J., 2007 ’Io Nano e Cuore di Ciccia –Pinocchiate alternative’ in LG Argomenti n.4 (Oct-Dec 2006).
Myers L.J., 2006 ’The Ants go Marching In: Ant fascism from Ciondolino to Antz’ in Divided Worlds: Studies in Children’s Literature ed. by Celia Keenan and Mary Shine Thompson (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2006), pp.139-149.
Myers, L.J., 2005 'Writing the Past, Righting the Future:  The Community Fantasy in Italian Children's Literature' in Children's Literature Global and Local:  Social and Aesthetic Perspectives ed. by Emer O'Sullivan, Kimberly Reynolds and Rolf Romören, (Kristiansand: Hoyskoleforlaget AS - Norwegian Academic Press)
Myers, L.J., 2005 'La Letteratura per l'infanzia in Irlanda: una panoramica' in LG Argomenti n.4 (Oct-Dec 2004), pp.47-55
Myers, L.J., 2005 - Bibliographical entries in J. Zipes (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature London: Oxford UP. Myers, L.J., 2004 ' A Guided Tour of Italian Children's Literature'  Inis, 8, 2004, pp.6-9
Myers, L.J., 2002  ' Pinocchio- A Classic among Classics', Inis, 3 (2002), pp.25-28

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