Alkisti Kallinikou (PhD student)
Thesis title: Oddballs and prodigies: The representation and reception of gifted characters in children’s and young adult literature (working title)
PhD supervisors:
Address
- Street
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Moray House School of Education and Sport, IECS
- City
- University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus)
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ
Qualifications
- MA Creative Writing, Hellenic Open University
- BA English, University of London
Current research interests
My PhD research investigates representations of giftedness in children's and young adult literature, using reader-response approaches. My main interest is how literature can influence readers in understanding themselves and how it can cultivate empathy, compassion and belongingness towards different forms of diversity.Papers delivered
Kallinikou, A. (2024, May). "I don’t want to be an oddball": Marginalized Gifted Children in Madeleine L’Engle’s Wrinkle in Time. Paper presented at the Inklings-Gesellschaft Symposium, Schloss Malberg, Malberg, DE.