Scholars with Their Research Themes
Jerzy Axer
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Kotick the Saviour: From Inferno to Paradise with Animals
Evelien Bracke
History and Classics, Swansea University
Literacy through Classical Myth: Teaching Stories and Languages in Wales
Margaret Bromley
School of Arts, University of New England
“Somewhere Else” and “Like Nowhere Else on Earth” – Making the World “a Better Place”: Antipodean Representations of Aesop’s Fables
Rachel Bryant Davies
Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University
‘Steeds of Magical Capacity’: The Trojan Horse as Children’s Toy since the Nineteenth Century
Krishni Burns
Anthropology and Classical Studies, University of Akron
La Fontaine’s Reeds: Adapting Greek Myths to Model Resilience
Marilyn E. Burton
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Mythical Delight and Playfulness in C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces and Chronicles of Narnia
Simon J.G. Burton
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Mythical Delight and Playfulness in C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces and Chronicles of Narnia
Véronique Dasen
Department of Historical Sciences, University of Fribourg
Playing with Life Uncertainties
Susan Deacy
Department of Humanities, University of Roehampton
Hercules and the Autistic Imagination: Introducing the ‘Autism’ Strand of Our Mythical Childhood
Elizabeth Hale
School of Arts, University of New England
Australian Reveries and Floating Schoolgirls: Intertextual Mysteries in Ursula Dubosarsky’s The Golden Day
Edith Hall
Department of Classics, King’s College London
Facing Family Trauma in Natalie Haynes’ The Children of Jocasta
Owen Hodkinson
Department of Classics, University of Leeds
Orphic Resonances of Love and Loss in David Almond’s A Song for Ella Grey
Markus Janka
Institute of Classical Philology, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich
markus.janka@klassphil.uni-muenchen.de
Hercules as Hero of Hopeful Culture in Ancient Poetry and Contemporary Media for Children and Young Adults
Katarzyna Jerzak
Institute of Modern Languages, Pomeranian University in Słupsk
Myth and Suffering in Modern Culture: The Mythical Chronotope from Oscar Wilde to Woodkid
Marguerite Johnson
School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
marguerite.johnson@newcastle.edu.au
‘For the Children’: Children’s Columns in Australian Newspapers during the Great War. Mythic Hope or Mythic Indoctrination?
Jan Kieniewicz
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Bandar-log in Action: The Polish Children’s Experience of Disaster in Literature and Mythology
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
German Department, University of Tübingen
bettina.kuemmerling-meibauer@uni-tuebingen.de
The Utopia of an Ideal Community: Reconsidering the Myth of Atlantis in James Gurney’s Dinotopia Novels
Helen Lovatt
Department of Classics, University of Nottingham
Hungry and Hopeful: Greek Myths and Children of the Future in Mike Carey's Melanie Stories
Katarzyna Marciniak
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
“I Found Hope Again that Night...”: The Orphean Quest of Beauty and the Beast
Lisa Maurice
Department of Classical Studies, Bar-Ilan University
From Joppa to Jaffa: Percy Jackson and Israeli Fanfiction: A Case Study
Sheila Murnaghan
Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Greek Tragedy for Modern Children: Ali Smith’s The Story of Antigone
Divine Che Neba
Department of English, University of Yaoundé 1
Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons and Osiris Rising as Pan-African Epics
Sonya Nevin
Department of Humanities, University of Roehampton
Animating the Ancient World in Warsaw: The Making-Of
Daniel A. Nkemleke
Department of English, University of Yaoundé 1
Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons and Osiris Rising as Pan-African Epics
Elżbieta Olechowska
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Battle between Hope and Destiny in Young Adults Television Series Atlantis (2013-2016), Olympus (2015), and Once Upon a Time, Season 5-6 (2015-2017)
Hanna Paulouskaya
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Soviet Cinematic Tragedies as a Help in Growing Up
Edoardo Pecchini
Bolzano Hospital / Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Promoting Mental Health through Classics: Hercules as Trainer in Today’s Labours of Children and Young People
Ayelet Peer
Department of Classical Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Growing Up Manga Style
Deborah H. Roberts
Department of Classics, Haverford College
Gilgamesh as Special Child: Saving the Story
Michael Stierstorfer
Institute for German Studies, University of Regensburg / Humanistic High School Albertus Magnus at Regensburg
From an Adolescent Freak to a Hope Spreading Messianic Demigod: The Curious Transformations of Modern Teenagers in Actual Mythopoetic Fantasy Literature
Steve Simons
Department of Humanities, University of Roehampton
Animating the Ancient World in Warsaw: The Making-Of
Robert A. Sucharski
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Joe Alex (Maciej Słomczyński) and His Czarne okręty [The Black Ships]: A History of a Trojan Boy in Times of the Minoan Thalassocrasy
Alfred Twardecki
National Museum in Warsaw
Project of the Ancient Art: Gallery of the National Museum in Warsaw, 2019
Katerina Volioti
Department of Humanities, University of Roehampton
katerina.volioti@roehampton.ac.uk
Images of a Good Life: Gods in Early Readers for Children in Greece
