Cultural Perspectives on Sweets in Children's Literature and Media (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781032943022)

Sabine Planka, Dr. phil., works as an academic librarian at the Martin-Opitz-Library (Herne, Germany) in the field of public relations, event management and project management, and as a visiting lecturer at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld, Germany) in the field of children's literature. Her research particularly focuses on children's literature, cookbook literature, and literary food studies. She is also interested in aspects of space and gender theory, and she works in the field of film studies. Latest publications include, for example, "What and How Will We Eat in Future? Food Culture, Food System, and Food Memory in Cli-fi Novels for Young Adults" (2024, together with Corina L?we), and "Meet to Eat. The Restaurant as Narrative Setting in Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985) and The Fisher King (1991)" in A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam (2023) edited by Sabine Planka, Philip van der Merwe, and Ian Bekker.

Corina L?we, PhD, is Associate Professor of German in the Department of Languages at Linnaeus University, Sweden. After her dissertation on East German children's crime fiction (2011), she has continued her research on 20th- and 21st-century children's literature, East German children's literature, intermediality, and didactics of literature and language teaching. Together with Sabine Planka, she researches aspects of food and nutrition in children's media. Her latest publication is an anthology of girls' literature: "Flickor som l?ser g?tor. I flickdetektivernas v?rld" (in Flickboken & flickors l?sning. Flickskapande nu och d?, edited by Helene Ehriander and Corina L?we, 2022) and "Power! No Doubt About It. Power Structures in Swedish Crime Fiction for Children" in Astrid Lindgren's Works (2021), edited by Helene Ehriander.