Vanessa Joosen
is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tilburg where she studies constructions of adulthood in children's literature. She is the author of Critical and Creative Perspectives of Fairy Tales (Wayne State University Press 2011) and Wit als sneeuw, zwart als inkt: De sprookjes van Grimm in de Nederlandstalige Literatuur (LannooCampus 2012).