Can “queerness disarm social anxieties”? A Conversation with Alina Szeptycka


Abstract

This conversation with Alina Szeptycka explores queer children’s and young adult literature in Poland.

Keywords

Alina Szeptycka; LGBTQIA ; children’s and young adult literature; queer literature; Poland


Published : 2022-12-07


Mik, A., & Skowera, M. (2022). Can “queerness disarm social anxieties”? A Conversation with Alina Szeptycka. Dzieciństwo. Literatura I Kultura, 42, 75-84. https://doi.org/10.32798/dlk.1068

Anna Mik  anna.mik@koszykowa.pl
Warsaw Public Library – Central Library of Mazovia Province  Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6840-6504

Anna Mik –  PhD, works at the Museum of Children's Books, a special department and scholarly reading room of the Warsaw Public Library – Central Library of Mazovia Province (Poland). Her research interests include gender studies, monster studies, queer studies, and multiculturalism in the context of children’s and young adult literature and culture. Contact:  anna.mik@koszykowa.pl.


Maciej Skowera 
University of Warsaw, Warsaw Public Library – Central Library of Mazovia Province  Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0299-3515

Maciej Skowera – PhD, works at the Institute of Polish Literature of the Faculty of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw as well as at the Museum of Children's Books, a special department and scholarly reading room of the Warsaw Public Library – Central Library of Mazovia Province (Poland). His research interests include history and the theory of children’s and young adult fantasy fiction, adult reworkings of juvenile classics, and popular culture. Contact: mgskowera@uw.edu.pl or maciej.skowera@koszykowa.pl.






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