Dr Lydia Kokkola - Desiring Bodies: Reading the Adolescent Body

Lydia Kokkola works at Oulu University in Northern Finland. Her current two projects are on

reading in English as a foreign language and literature for and about Arctic youth. Together with

Roxanne Harde, she edited the Routledge collection, The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s

Literature and Culture (2018). Together with Sara ven den Bossche, she has edited an issue of

Barnboken on diversity in Nordic Literature for Children and Teens.