Dr. Jane Suzanne Carroll

• Jane Suzanne Carroll, Landscape in Children's Literature, London and New York, Routledge, 2012Book, 2012, URL
• Jane Suzanne Carroll, "Land Under Wave: Reading the Landscapes of Tiffany Aching", Gramarye: The Journal of the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy, 7, 2015, p8 - 19Journal Article, 2015
• Spatiality in Fantasy for Children in, editor(s)Maria Nikolajeva, Clementine Beauvais , Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2018, pp55 - 69, [Jane Suzanne Carroll]Book Chapter, 2018
• 'Catalysing Urban Interaction: Individual and Crowded Identities in New York City' in, editor(s)Pádraic Whyte and Keith O'Sullivan , New York in Children's Literature, London and New York, Routledge, 2014, pp97 - 110, [Jane Suzanne Carroll]Book Chapter, 2014
• Jane Suzanne Carroll, Typography as Voice in Children's Visual Texts", Word and Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, 2020Journal Article, 2020
• Jane Suzanne Carroll, "Its own space: Mindscape in Two Texts for Children" , The Journal of Children's Literature Studies,, 8, (1), 2011, p18 - 33Journal Article, 2011
• 'Civil Pleasures in Unexpected Places: An Introduction to the Etiquette of Middle earth" in, editor(s)Helen Conrad O'Briain and Gerard Hynes , Tolkien: The Forest and the City, Dublin, Four Courts, 2013, pp33 - 42, [Jane Suzanne Carroll]Book Chapter, 2013
• "A Topoanalytical Reading of Landscapes in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit" in, editor(s)Peter Hunt , Palgrave Casebook: Tolkien and Children's Literature, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp121 - 138, [Jane Suzanne Carroll]Book Chapter, 2013
• "You are too slow: Time Travel in Around the World in 80 Days" in, editor(s)Trish Ferguson , Victorian Time, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp77 - 94, [Jane Suzanne Carroll]Book Chapter, 2012
• Death and the Landscape in The Dark is Rising and its Adaptations in, editor(s)Ciara Ní Bhroin and Patricia Kennon , What Do We Tell the Children?, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012, pp74 - 91, [Jane Suzanne Carroll]Book Chapter, 2012
• 'Girlhood and Space in C19 Orphan Fiction' in, editor(s)Laura Peters, Diane Warren , Rereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritence, Kin, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2020, pp186 - 205, [Jane Suzanne Carroll]Book Chapter, 2020
• "Objects and Toys" in, editor(s)Eugene Giddens, Zoe Jaques, and Louise Joy , The Cambridge History of Children's Literature in English, Volume 2: 1830-1914, Cambridge Unversity Press, 2025, [Jane Suzanne Carroll]Book Chapter, 2025
• Jane Suzanne Carroll, The Victorians taught children about consumerism - and we can learn from them too, The Conversation, (April 27), 2017Journal Article, 2017, URL
• Jane Suzanne Carroll, British Children's Literature and Material Culture: Commodities and Consumption 1850-1914, London, Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature, 2021, 208ppBook, 2021
• Jane Carroll, Storied Places and Emplaced Stories: Landscape in Welsh and Irish Fairy Tales, IBBYLink, Autumn 2020, (59), 2020, p32 - 36Journal Article, 2020
• Mid Century Models: post-war girls' comics, fashion and self-fashioning in, editor(s)Kristine Moruzi, Michelle Smith, Beth Rodgers , The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024, pp591 - 608, [Jane Suzanne Carroll]Book Chapter, 2024
• Jane Carroll, Beatrix Carroll Kinsella, 'Screaming for Champions', The Banshee: The Leading Journal for Women who Scream, Oxford, 2022, 45 - 47Fiction and creative prose, 2022, TARA - Full Text
• Jane Suzanne Carroll, Margaret Masterson, On the Edge of Chaos: Space and Power in Maria Edgeworth's "The Grateful Negro" (1804), Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrif / Nordic Journal of Childlit Aesthetics (BLFT), 13, (1), 2022, p1 - 10Journal Article, 2022, DOI , TARA - Full Text
• Very Nearly Magical: The subversive power of the written word in Terry Pratchett's Discworld in, editor(s)Karen Attar and Andrew Nash (eds.) , The Reader in the Book: Books, Reading and Libraries in Fiction, London, London University Press, 2024, [Jane Suzanne Carroll]Book Chapter, 2024
• 'Shrewd sound-hearted maiden aunts': The Aunt Figure in Children's Literature in, Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature, Routledge, 2023, pp42 - 54, [Carroll, Jane Suzanne]Book Chapter, 2023
• The Power of Stories: Narrative Causality and Coercive Narratives in Pratchett's Witches book in, editor(s)Justine Breton , Power and Society in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, [Yevheniia Orestivna Kanchura, Jane Suzanne Carroll]Book Chapter, 2025
• Jane Suzanne Carroll, 'Children's Literature and Young Adult Literature in Ireland', Oxford Bibliography of British and Irish Literature, 2024, -Bibliography, filmography, etc., 2024

• Jane Suzanne Carroll, "Social Media: Practical Applications for Teaching and Research", , University English OGM, Senate House, London, 5th December , 2015, University EnglishInvited Talk
• Jane Suzanne Carroll, "'Remarkable and Perplexing Items': Material Culture in Victorian Children's Literature" , University of Aberystwyth, 4th November, 2015Invited Talk
• Jane Suzanne Carroll, "Land Under Wave: The Landscape of Tiffany Aching" , Homerton College, Cambridge, 5th February, 2014Invited Talk
• Jane Suzanne Carroll, "The Way to Wonderland" , Wonderworlds of Children's Fantasy, University of Venice, Ca'Foscari, Venice, 5th-6th December , 2013Invited Talk
• Jane Suzanne Carroll, "Landscape History for Beginners", Children's Literature Oxford Colloquium, University of Oxford, 25th October, 2013Invited Talk
• Jane Suzanne Carroll, "The Hag O' The Hills: Landscape in Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series", Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tale and Fantasy Lecture Series, Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tale and Fantasy, University of Chichester, 25th March, 2014Invited Talk
• Jane Suzanne Carroll, "Always Winter: C.S. Lewis and Irish Children's Literature", Liverpool Irish Festival, Liverpool Hope University, 15th November, 2012Invited Talk
• Jane Suzanne Carroll, "Material Cultures of Victorian Childhood", Biennial Conference of the Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland April, 10th-11th April 2015, 2015Oral Presentation
• Pádraic Whyte et al, 'Story Spinners: Irish Women & Children's Literature', Trinity College Dublin, Google Arts & Culture, 2018, -Exhibition
• Jane Suzanne Carroll, "A Stitch in Time: The Craft of Wasting Time in Children's Literature", International Board of Books for Young People/ National Centre for Research in Children's Literature annual conference 2018, University of Roehampton, 9th November, 2018Invited Talk
• Jane Suzanne Carroll, "Adventures in the Archive", University of Antwerp, 8th July, 2018Invited Talk
• Jane Carroll, 'Mongrel Country', Channel, 2020, -Fiction and creative prose, URL
• 'The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret': The Magic of the Printed Word in Terry Pratchett's Discworld Series in, editor(s)Tetiana Riazantseva, Yevheniia Kantchura , Theoretical Aspects of Fantasy Studies: Representations of Magic Across the Media, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2024, [Jane Suzanne Carroll]Book Chapter

My major research interest are in children's literature, literary geography, material culture, and book history. These elements of my work intersect and overlap and my research is characterised by tracing connections between the imagined worlds of children's fantasy and the real world. I particularly specialise in examining the background details in texts that are often overlooked. My PhD and the publications that emerged from it focused on the relationship between the landscapes of twentieth-century children's fiction and the topical settings of fantasy literature. My first monograph, Landscape in Children's Literature (Routledge 2012), offered a new way to combine literature with morphology and landscape history to read the landscapes of children's fantasy in a new way. I have also published on Susan Cooper, Terry Pratchett, J.R.R. Tolkien, M.R. James, and Jules Verne. My latest monograph, British Children's Literature and Material Culture: Commodities and Consumptions 1850-1914 (Bloomsbury 2021), investigates the intersection of children's books and children's consumerism and analyses the role and representation of commodities within British children's literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In tracing the role of objects in key texts from the turn of the century, I uncover the connections between these fictional objects and the real objects that child consumers bought, used, cherished, broke, and threw away. Beginning with the Great Exhibition of 1851, my work takes stock of the changing attitudes towards consumer culture - a movement from celebration to suspicion - to demonstrate that children's literature was a key consumer product, one that influenced young people's views of and relationships with other kinds of commodities. My interest in the book as commodity reflects a wider interest in book history and I have written on typography in children's picture books and on paper-dolls in mid-century girls' periodicals. In 2020, I was awarded a Sassoon Visiting Fellowship with the Bodleian Library, Oxford to complete research with the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera into the links between advertising, illustration, and child consumers. Since joining Trinity, I have worked to connect my research to the special collections in the Library of TCD. As well as drawing public attention to the special collections, through my involvement with The History of the Book MOOC and the Pratchett Project, I have generated new research interest in the Pollard Collection of Children's Books. I have two funded PhD students (Provost's PhD Award 2020 and Irish Research Council postgraduate award 2021) working on the Pollard Collection with me. I am also committed to finding new ways to connect my research with my teaching interests and developing new ways to enhance the Collection, its international profile, and generate new research projects on the Collection. With Co-PI Julie Bates, I have secured funding from the Higher Education Authority to develop a new research-led module Exploring Heritage Collections that enables us to bring students and professionals together to engage with special collections from 10 heritage institutions around Dublin, including the Library at TCD.

• Title

  Maria Edgeworth in the Pollard Collection of children's books: constructing, collecting and conserving girlhood in the children's literature archive
  Summary

  This project interrogates concepts of girlhood as formed by Maria Edgeworth in her writing of children's stories, through a bibliographic study of Edgeworth's works held in the Pollard Collection of Children's Books at Trinity College Dublin. It focusses on Edgeworth as the Pollard Collection's most prolific author, using bibliography as a bridge to Edgeworth's texts, highlighting constructions of girlhood and femininity through the materiality of books and book production. Historical bibliographer Donald McKenzie (1986) states that bibliography must include both linguistic interpretation and historical explanation, creating a sociology of texts. I use bibliography to further Peter Hollindale's argument that childhood is as much a literary construction as it is a social construction, by arguing that "girlhood," is also a literary construct, and that it can be identified and traced within the texts, books and book collections written for and about girls (Vallone 1995, Rodgers 2016, Stewart 1993). I examine the Pollard Collection's many Edgeworth editions to show how past constructions inform current understandings of girlhood by presenting a timeline of girlhood highlighted through print culture; one that informs a girlhood experienced by female writers and girl readers in the course of a century. I show how the Edgeworth editions offer a trajectory of how girlhood is constructed or reconstructed over time, by the writer, the printer, and the implied girl reader. Through a combined methodology of textual analysis, girlhood studies, material culture, and book history, my examination of the editions shows how historical bibliography looks beyond Edgeworth's writing to the ideologies of girlhood that compelled her to write the stories, induced Pollard to collect them, and prompts scholars to consult them in the archive. This thesis provides insight into the writing, publishing and collecting practices that inform both Edgeworth's books and the collection as a whole.
  Funding Agency

  Irish Research Council
  Date From

  September 2021
  Date To

  September 2023
• Title

  The Pratchett Project
  Summary

  This interdisciplinary network promotes knowledge exchange and supports collaborative projects on the work of fantasy author, Terry Pratchett. The network promotes Trinity's special relationship with Pratchett and brings much-needed critical attention to the collection of his works gifted to the Library by his estate. The two-day workshop in 2019, jointly organised by staff in the School of English, the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation, the Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities, ADAPT, and the Library of Trinity College Dublin, is the first in a series, bringing together researchers, librarians, and fans of Terry Pratchett's work. This workshop will establish a network of interested parties and determine the nature of larger, future projects and events based around Pratchett's work.
  Funding Agency

  Trinity Long Room Hub
  Date From

  18/12/18
• Title

  Exploring Heritage Collections
  Summary

  A blended module including development of a digital learning environment involving Google Cultural Institute, and practical workshops, linking School of English undergraduates and industry partners' staff (who can earn a microcredential) to digitised special collections in the Library of Trinity College Dublin and key heritage institutions in Dublin including the National Library of Ireland, the Irish Film Institute, Marsh's Library, the Royal Irish Academy, the Hugh Lane Gallery, the National Visual Arts Library at NCAD, and Dublin City Library and Archive. Students and industry professionals will work together in a series of off-site workshops and through the digital learning environment. Drawing on materials digitised through this project, students and industry professionals will collaborate to create online exhibitions for wide public audiences, generating new digital pathways for the access and enjoyment of special collections in libraries, museums, and galleries. Students will avail of internships with partner organisations and develop and practice new, transferable skills for the workplace, addressing the need for future skilled workers in the heritage sector. This module enables professionals in partner organisations and beyond to adopt new technologies and digitisation initiatives to promote heritage resources and engage new audiences both nationally and internationally. This module responds agilely to Trinity's capacity to anticipate, understand and respond to emerging skills of the Heritage sector. This module promotes lifelong learning, affording new opportunities for professionals within the heritage sector to upskill and to enhance their skill sets.Dr Julie Bates is Co-PI on this project.
  Funding Agency

  Higher Education Authority
  Date From

  January 2021
  Date To

  December 2024
• Title

  Inscriptions in Children's Books, Ireland 1900 - 1925: The Collection and Preservation of Childhood Through Marginalia in the Pollard Collection of Children's Books
  Summary

  9)Through focusing on the marginalia found within Pollard's collection with an emphasis on books published between 1900 and 1925, this thesis will establish how the collection preserves the childhood experience by examining the way in which the child reader utilises the book to express their own thoughts, knowledge and identities, and assesses the biographical traces of the child reader through the information which they include as part of their inscriptions. This study will use marginalia to uncover the geographical, social, and economic backgrounds of these child readers and use the marks they left on these books to evaluate the impact of national changes in Ireland on these children's lives.
  Funding Agency

  Trinity College Dublin
  Date From

  March 2021
  Date To

  March 2025

Languages and literature,

• IRCHSS PhD Award 2009
• Sassoon Visiting Fellowship, Bodleian Library 2020
• National Forum Teaching Hero 2021 Award 27 April 2021

• Board member of the Children's Research Network (CRN) present
• Fellow of the Higher Education Association, UK
• President of the Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature present

• External examiner for MLitt in Children's Literature students at Newcastle University
• Peer reviewer for The Lion and the Unicorn (since 2014)
• External examiner for Rose Miller, PhD, University of Worcester 5th November 2018
• Member of the Editorial Board for Roundtable. 2018
• Board member of the Children's Research Network (CRN) 2019
• Peer reviewer for The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies (since 2014)
• Vice President of the Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature
• External Examiner for Dominika Nycz (PhD) University of Chichester 16 December
• Peer reviewer for International Research in Children's Literature (since 2011)