Professor Professor Clare Bradford – Emeritus Professor

I began my scholarly life as a medievalist, switching to children’s literature when I was employed to teach texts for the young. My work investigates how children’s texts engage with and promote ideas and values. I’ve published widely on colonial and postcolonial literatures, utopianism, and medievalism. I hold a Personal Chair as Alfred Deakin Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, where I have worked in the field of literary studies. In 2009 the Trudeau Foundation (Canada) named me as its first Visiting International Fellow. In 2011 I was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.