Victoria de Rijke

Dr. Victoria de Rijke is  Professor in Arts & Education at Middlesex University in London and Co-Chief Editor of Children’s Literature in Education Journal. Her research and publication is transdisciplinary across the fields of literature and the arts, children’s literature, media, play and animal studies, through the associations of metaphor. 
Publications include a picturebook (as RebVik) The A-Z of Dangerous Food, (2012), which draws on Russian constructivist design and a range of playfully risky foods humans eat or are eaten by.  Her book Duck (2009) was developed out of work as Dr. Quack, recording ducks for research and exhibited audio material on ducks’ regional dialects.
Chapters and journal articles on children’s literature include ‘Modernist and Avant-Garde Children’s Books’ (2021) with Guilherme Magri da Rocha , in Revista de Letras Nortementos  13(34) Brazil, ‘Reading Children’s Literature’ (2020) in Education 3-13 International Journal of Primary, Elementary and Secondary years Education (42)6, ‘War-torn: a juxtaposition of signifiers, or radical collage in children’s literature’(2018)  Journal of Literary Education, and ‘The Values of Savagery: Pathologies of Child and Pet Play in Avant-Garde Visual Culture’ (2017) for Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture. Contrary to the popular warning, Victoria is always keen to work with animals and children.