Kerenza Ghosh

Kerenza is a Senior Lecturer in English Education at the University of Roehampton, London. She teaches Primary Initial Teacher Education, and has written chapters for two academic books on the topics of creativity in primary education and teaching a diverse curriculum. She has co-authored an article about student teachers’ use of comics in the primary classroom.

Kerenza is currently a part-time PhD student at the University of Glasgow. Her doctoral research explores the eco-pedagogical affordances of wild animals in visual texts through children’s reading and book-making. For this project she recently worked with a group of children aged 9 – 11 to look at representations of polar bears, pandas, snow leopards and foxes in books made for, and by, children.

Kerenza has presented research papers at conferences organised by UKLA (United Kingdom Literacy Association), IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) and IRSCL (International Research Society for Children’s Literature). She has a MA in English Education from the University of Roehampton (2012), and a MEd in Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature from the University of Cambridge (2021). She has published two research chapters entitled Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf: children’s responses to the portrayal of wolves in picturebooks (2015) and Exploring animality and childhood in stop-motion animation Prokofiev’s Peter & the Wolf (2023).

Through her work with children and children’s literature, Kerenza maintains an interest in the evolving cultural role of animals, children’s responses to animals in literature, the development of visual literacy, and posthumanism and the natural world.