dr. Elisabeth (Lies) Wesseling

Associate Professor

Elisabeth (Lies) Wesseling is an associate professor in the Department of Literature and Art. She is Director of the Centre for Gender and Diversity of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her research is on the cultural construction of childhood in fiction and science. Her current projects focus on narrative models for forging kinship in global adoption.

Keywords

  • cultural construction of childhood in fiction (novel, film, children's literature) and science (developmental psychology, anthropology), 1845-2000
  • narrative models for forging kinship in global adoption (1955-2010)
  • Gothic fiction