Morag Styles

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E-mail Address

ms104@cam.ac.uk

Phone

01223 767546

Qualifications

BSc Social Science, PGCE

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Profile

Morag Styles divides her time between research and teaching, having two major courses in the Faculty of Education on which she co-ordinates, examines, teaches and supervises (see below). Her research areas (detailed below) are all within the field of the academic study of children's literature. She has many links with outside organisations which include the British Library, Arts Council, Book Trust, UKLA, IRSCL, IBBY.

She has organised two exhibitions at the Fitzwilliam Museum (1993 and 2000) and one at the British Museum (2009). She has organised numerous international conferences, the latest of which is POETRY and CHILDHOOD, a collaboration between Faculty of Education and British Library, April 20-21, 2009. Contributors include Carol Ann Duffy, Andrew Motion (Poet Laureate), Michael Rosen (Children's Laureate). She is Chair of Philippa Pearce Memorial Steering Committee and a Fellow of Homerton College.

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Research Topics

Current Research Projects

Curating an exhibition on the history of poetry for the British Library from April 1st - end of June 2009 - Twinkle twinkle little bat! 400 years of poetry for children.

Morag Styles is currently collaborating with Martin Salisbury who runs the MA Course on Illustrated Books for Children at Anglia Ruskin School of Art. They have run a very successful fourth seminar series, Words about Pictures, Pictures about Words. Previous speakers included artists and authors, Quentin Blake, John Lawrence, Charlotte Voake and Martin Waddell.

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Course Involvement

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Selected Publications

Styles, M. and Arizpe, E. (eds.) (2009) Acts of Reading: Teachers, Texts and Childhood, Stoke-on-Trent, Trentham. Introduction: Styles, M. and Arizpe, E.

Arizpe, E. and Styles, M. (2008) 'The Voices behind the Pictures: Children responding to picturebooks', Postmodern Picturebooks: Play, Parody, and Self-Referentiality, edited by Sipe, L. and Pantaleo.

Arizpe, E. and Styles, M. (2007) 'A Critical Review of Research into Children's Responses to Multimodal Texts' The Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy through the Communicative and Visual Arts Volume II, edited by Flood, Brice Heath and Lapp, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey.

Wyse, D., and Styles, M. (2007) Synthetic phonics and the teaching of reading: The debate surrounding England's 'Rose Report'. Literacy, 47(1).

Arizpe, E. and Styles, M. (2006) Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: Mothers, Children and Texts, Lichfield, Pied Piper Press (pp. 243).

Styles, M. (Ed.) (2005) Fiction for Children Comes of Age New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship 11 (2) (pp. 111-115 and 147-149).

Styles, M. and Arizpe, E. (2004) 'Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century' Children's Literature in Education 35 (1) (pp. 53 - 69).

Arizpe, E. and Styles, M. (2004) 'Seeing, Thinking and Knowing' (pp.185 - 199) in Grainger, T. (ed.) The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Literacy and Literature London, Routledge (pp. 309).

Arizpe, E. and Styles, M. (2004) "'Love to Learn your Book": children's experiences of text in the eighteenth century', History of Education, 33 (3) (pp. 337-353)

Hunt, P. (ed) 2nd edition (2004) International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, London, Routledge - Styles, M. (2004) Poetry (pp. 396-418)

Styles, M. (2004)'The Play's the Thing: the Ludic and the Ludicrous in Poetry for Children' in Seriously Playful: Genre, Performance and Text, Pearce, S. and Mallan, K. (eds.) Post Pressed, Flaxton, Qld, Australia (pp 1-18).

Arizpe, E. and Styles, M. (2003) Children Reading Pictures:Interpreting Visual Texts London, Routledge (pp. 270). Translated into Spanish and Korean.

Styles, M. and Bearne, E. (eds.) (2003) Art, Narrative and Childhood, Stoke-on-Trent, Trentham Books (pp.157).

Arizpe, E. and Styles, M. 'Picturebooks and Metaliteracy: How children describe the processes of creation and reception' (pp.115 - 125).

Arizpe, E. and Styles, M. (2002) 'On a Walk with Lily: How Children Link Words and Pictures along the Way' (pp. 33 - 49) in BULL, G. and ANSTEY, M. (eds.) Crossing the Boundaries :Exploring Visual Texts, Sydney, Pearson. (pp.338).

Styles, M. (2001) 'Versions of Childhood in Contemporary British Poetry for Children' (pp. 165-177) in Davis, R. and Baena, R. (eds.) Small Worlds:Transcultural Visions of Childhood, Navarra, Ediciones Universidad de Navarra.

Styles, M. 'The Capacity to Amuse: a Historical and Critical Investigation into Comic Verse for Children' (pp. 139 - 160) in TOSI, L. (ed.) (2001) Hearts of Lightness: the Magic of Children's Literature, Venice, Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia.

Watson, V. (ed.) (2001) The International Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English , Cambridge, CUP - Styles, M. (Poetry Editor)

Styles, M. and Beck, J. (eds.) (2000) The Curriculum of the Future, Special Issue, Cambridge Journal of Education, 30,1.

Styles, M. (1998) From The Garden to the Street: Three Hundred Years of Poetry for Children, London, Cassell (pp. 304).

Hilton, M., Styles, M., Watson, V. (eds.) (1997) Opening the Nursery Door: Reading, Writing and Childhood:1600 - 1900, London, Routledge (pp. 242).

Styles, M. '"Of the Spontaneous Kind": Women Writing Poetry for Children from Jane Johnson to Christina Rossetti' (pp.142-160).

Watson, V. and Styles, M. (eds.) (1996) Talking Pictures: Pictorial Texts and Young Readers, London, Hodder and Stoughton (pp. 188). Translated into Japanese, Kashiwashobo Publishing Company, 2002).

Styles, M. 'Inside the Tunnel: A Radical Kind of Reading - Picturebooks, Pupils and Post-modernism' ( pp. 23- 47).