Jade Dillon
About
I am an Associate Professor of Children's Literature and Young Learners within the department of Teacher Education at NTNU. My research focuses on the visual iconography of the ‘Alice’ figure created in Lewis Carroll’s Alice books and it traces the progression of Alice’s characterisation through multimodal platforms including illustration and fine art photography. I am also interested in representations of puberty and menstruation in children's texts. My current research project investigates how the female child's body is altered through physical and metaphysical space, thus initiating menstrual development.
Alyssa Lowery and I are co-founders of the Children's Literature Education and Research (CLEAR) group at NTNU. The research group works within the broad discipline of literature for children and young adults both in and out of educational contexts by researching children’s multimedia texts, their uses in classrooms for a variety of purposes, and their places in the daily lived realities of children and adults across the globe.
Alyssa Lowery and I are primary investigators in the eBLINK project (Maren S. Rasmussen is an active member of this research project). This is a fully funded project that explores the guided use of expert-curated digital English children’s book libraries into Norwegian classrooms where students are learning English.
Teaching (Fall 2022/Spring 2023):
MGLU2105 - English 1 (1-7) Module 2
MGLU3103 - English 2 (1-7) Module 1
Research Interests:
Children's Literature; Visual Methodologies and Aesthetics; Literary Theory; Girlhood Studies; Gender Studies; Picturebooks; Cinematography
Forthcoming Publications:
Books
Dillon, J. and Spencer, E. (eds). (2023). Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature. New York: Routledge.
Book Chapters
Dillon, J. (2023). 'Reflections of Identity in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books' in F. Kohlt & J. Houyaux (eds), Through the Looking Glass: A Companion. Peter Lang.
Dillon, J. (2023). '(Re)Imagining Little Red Riding Hood through a Feminist Lens' in H. Powers (ed), Fairy Tales in the Classroom. McFarland.
Dillon, J. (2023). 'The Feline Self' in S. Bacon (ed), Cats: A Companion. Peter Lang.
Dillon, J. (2023). ''I'm your other mother': Radical Family Identities and Othering in Neil Gaiman's Coraline' in J. Dillon & E. Spencer (eds), Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature. Routledge.
Academic Memberships:
International Research Society for Children’s Literature
The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature
Children’s Literature Association
The Lewis Carroll Society
The British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies
Irish Women’s Writing Network
Sibéal Feminist and Gender Studies Network
Research
CLEAR: Children’s Literature Education And Research
eBLINK: engelske Bildebøker for Lærere i Norske Klasserom
Publications
2022
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Dillon, Jade.
(2022)
“I must have been changed several times since then” Exploring Camille Rose Garcia’s (Re)-interpretation of Alice through the Disney Lens.
Barnboken.
volum 45.
Academic article
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Dillon, Jade.
(2022)
The Sky Beneath the Stone - Review.
Inis Magazine.
Review
2021
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Dillon, Jade.
(2021)
Climate Action - Review.
Inis Magazine.
Review
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Dillon, Jade.
(2021)
Escape - Review.
Inis Magazine.
Review
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Dillon, Jade.
(2021)
Examining the Bleeding Body in Wonderland.
Web pages (information material)
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Dillon, Jade.
(2021)
The Ravenmaster's Boy - Review.
Inis Magazine.
Review
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Dillon, Jade.
(2021)
When I See Red - Review.
Inis Magazine.
Review
2020
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Dillon, Jade.
(2020)
Fashioning Alice: The Career of Lewis Carroll’s Icon, 1860 – 1901 - Review.
International Research in Children's Literature (IRCL).
Review
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Dillon, Jade.
(2020)
Quarantine Comfort Reads: Coraline.
Children's Literature Association Quarterly.
Academic article
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Dillon, Jade.
(2020)
The Secret Life of Mermaids - Review.
Inis Magazine.
Review
2019
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Dillon, Jade.
(2019)
Girls on Fire: Transformative Heroines in Young Adult Dystopian Literature - Review.
International Research in Children's Literature (IRCL).
Review
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Dillon, Jade.
(2019)
Reimagining Alice Through the Intertextual Realm of Children’s Film and Television.
The Palgrave Handbook of Children's Film and Television.
Chapter
2018
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Dillon, Jade.
(2018)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction.
Academic chapter/article
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Dillon, Jade.
(2018)
Curiouser and Curiouser: Deconstructing the Fantastic within Victorian Children’s Fiction.
The British Fantasy Society.
Academic article
2017
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Dillon, Jade.
(2017)
Blessed Are The Meek: Atwood’s Desire for Female Autonomy in The Handmaid’s Tale.
Fantastika Journal.
Academic article
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Dillon, Jade.
(2017)
Cinematic Discourse: Deconstructing Modes of Gender and Time in James Bobin’s Alice Through The Looking Glass.
Fantastika Journal.
Academic article
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Dillon, Jade.
(2017)
The Politics of the Female Body in Louise O'Neill's Asking For It.
Sibéal.
Academic article
Scientific articles
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Dillon, Jade.
(2022)
“I must have been changed several times since then” Exploring Camille Rose Garcia’s (Re)-interpretation of Alice through the Disney Lens.
Barnboken.
volum 45.
Academic article
-
Dillon, Jade.
(2020)
Quarantine Comfort Reads: Coraline.
Children's Literature Association Quarterly.
Academic article
-
Dillon, Jade.
(2018)
Curiouser and Curiouser: Deconstructing the Fantastic within Victorian Children’s Fiction.
The British Fantasy Society.
Academic article
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Dillon, Jade.
(2017)
Blessed Are The Meek: Atwood’s Desire for Female Autonomy in The Handmaid’s Tale.
Fantastika Journal.
Academic article
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Dillon, Jade.
(2017)
Cinematic Discourse: Deconstructing Modes of Gender and Time in James Bobin’s Alice Through The Looking Glass.
Fantastika Journal.
Academic article
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Dillon, Jade.
(2017)
The Politics of the Female Body in Louise O'Neill's Asking For It.
Sibéal.
Academic article
Journal publications
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Dillon, Jade.
(2022)
The Sky Beneath the Stone - Review.
Inis Magazine.
Review
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Dillon, Jade.
(2021)
Climate Action - Review.
Inis Magazine.
Review
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Dillon, Jade.
(2021)
Escape - Review.
Inis Magazine.
Review
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Dillon, Jade.
(2021)
The Ravenmaster's Boy - Review.
Inis Magazine.
Review
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Dillon, Jade.
(2021)
When I See Red - Review.
Inis Magazine.
Review
-
Dillon, Jade.
(2020)
Fashioning Alice: The Career of Lewis Carroll’s Icon, 1860 – 1901 - Review.
International Research in Children's Literature (IRCL).
Review
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Dillon, Jade.
(2020)
The Secret Life of Mermaids - Review.
Inis Magazine.
Review
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Dillon, Jade.
(2019)
Girls on Fire: Transformative Heroines in Young Adult Dystopian Literature - Review.
International Research in Children's Literature (IRCL).
Review
Part of book/report
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Dillon, Jade.
(2019)
Reimagining Alice Through the Intertextual Realm of Children’s Film and Television.
The Palgrave Handbook of Children's Film and Television.
Chapter
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Dillon, Jade.
(2018)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction.
Academic chapter/article
Teaching
Courses
Media
2022
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Academic lectureDillon, Jade. (2022) Affective Space in Contemporary Picturebooks. NorLit ; NTNU. 2022-06-14 - 2022-06-16.
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Academic lectureDillon, Jade. (2022) Exploring Alice’s Development through Camille Rose Garcia’s Illustrative Space. ESSE ; Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. 2022-08-29 - 2022-09-02.
2021
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Academic lectureDillon, Jade. (2021) Breaking Through the Looking Glass: (Re)Imagining Alice through Visual Representation. Through the Looking Glass: A Sesquicentenary Celebration ; University of York. 2021-11-04 - 2021-11-05.
2020
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Academic lectureDillon, Jade. (2020) (Re)Imagining Girlhood: The Artistic Evolution of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Conceptions of Girlhood Now and Then: “Girls’ Literature” and Beyond ; Linnæus University. 2020-10-06 - 2020-10-08.
2019
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Academic lectureDillon, Jade. (2019) Analysing Cinematic Appropriations of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and Wendy. Irish Screen Studies Seminar ; National University of Ireland, Galway. 2019-05-09 - 2019-05-10.
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PosterDillon, Jade. (2019) Breaking through the Looking-Glass. Developments in Doctoral Supervision Practice Symposium ; Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. 2019-09-02.
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Programme participationDillon, Jade. (2019) Exploring Female Identity in Carroll’s Wonderland and Barrie’s the Neverland. null [Internett]. 2019-01-14.
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Academic lectureDillon, Jade. (2019) ‘I’m your other mother’: Radical Identities in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline (2002). The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature Conference ; Marino Institute of Education, Dublin. 2019-03-29 - 2019-03-30.
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Academic lectureDillon, Jade. (2019) Reflected Realism: How Children’s Literature Simultaneously Reflects and Deconstructs Social Ideologies. Irish History Students’ Conference ; Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. 2019-05-01 - 2019-05-03.
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Programme participationDillon, Jade. (2019) The Disney Effect: How Film Adaptations Reinforce Social Forms. null [Internett]. 2019-05-03.
2018
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Academic lectureDillon, Jade. (2018) No One Mourns the Wicked: Examining the Monstrous Other in Gregory Maguire’s Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. Villainous Victims: Redefining the Anti-Hero from a Postmodern Perspective . Jade Dillon and Adele Hannon; Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. 2018-04-25.
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Academic lectureDillon, Jade. (2018) The Artistic Lens of the Picturebook. Synergy and Contradiction: How Picturebooks and Picture Books Work ; University of Cambridge. 2018-09-06 - 2018-09-08.
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PosterDillon, Jade. (2018) Through the Looking Glass: Analysing Children’s Literature through the Theoretical Lens’. Research Engagement ; Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. 2018-09-03.
2017
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Academic lectureDillon, Jade. (2017) Locating Alice: The Gendered Body of Identity within Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Tim Burton’s adaptation. Performing Fantastika ; Lancaster University. 2017-04-28 - 2017-04-29.
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Academic lectureDillon, Jade. (2017) Mirror, Mirror: Establishing the Gendered Gaze in Louise O’Neill’s Only Ever Yours. Revisiting the Gaze ; Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London. 2017-06-28 - 2017-06-29.
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Academic lectureDillon, Jade. (2017) Reimagining Alice: Adaptation and Intertextuality of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Popular Culture. Mum’s The Word: Voicing the Female Experience in Popular Culture . Jade Dillon and Adele Hannon; Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. 2017-03-09.
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Academic lectureDillon, Jade. (2017) The Mirror of Alice: Locating Lacan’s Mirror Stage and the Search for Female Identity in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Association of Franco-Irish Studies Conference ; Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. 2017-05-19 - 2017-05-20.
2016
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Academic lectureDillon, Jade. (2016) Deconstructing Minds – A Psychoanalytical Deconstruction of the Brain as a Fantasy Island in Disney-Pixar’s Inside Out. ESSE ; National University of Ireland, Galway. 2016-08-22 - 2016-08-26.
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Academic lectureDillon, Jade. (2016) The Politics of the Female Body in Louise O’Neill’s Asking For It. Revolutionary Genders ; National University of Ireland, Galway. 2016-11-18 - 2016-11-19.