Literature Across Borders: The Pilot Year Part 1: The Staff: Reflections on the planning and delivery of the pilot year of ‘Literature across Borders’, a collaboration between Ashoka University and Bath Spa University, facilitated by the Green Literature Festival.

Alexia Casale-Katzman; Meghaa Gupta; Alexander Robert  Phillips

doi:10.58091/n8bp-3m60

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Alexia Casale-Katzman Author
Meghaa Gupta Author
Alexander Robert Phillips Author

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https://doi.org/10.58091/n8bp-3m60

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transnational, children's literature, environment, collaboration

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This piece outlines the conceptualisation, planning, delivery and staff reflections on the culmination of the pilot year of the ‘Literature across Borders’ project, a collaborative endeavour between Ashoka University (India) and Bath Spa University (UK), facilitated by the Green Literature Festival (India). This piece accompanies a partner article (see this issue) exploring the reflections of eight of the pilot year student participants.

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Alexia Casale-Katzman

Dr Alexia Casale is Programme Leader for the MA Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University, and the author of three YA novels (Faber & Faber), with a fourth to follow in 2024 alongside with her adult crime debut, The Best Way To Bury Your Husband (Viking/PRH). Her debut YA novel, The Bone Dragon (2013), was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Jugendliteraturpreis. She is also a script consultant and human-rights non-fiction editor specialising in prevention of torture and male violence against women and girls.
Meghaa Gupta

Meghaa Gupta has worked in Indian children’s publishing for over a decade and believes that all change begins with getting children to read books that demystify the world and its infinite possibilities. She heads the young people’s programme at the Green Literature Festival, curates a course on nature writing for young readers at Azim Premji University and writes books on environment and history for children. Her picture book, A Home of Our Own (Tulika, 2018) is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Book Club. Her latest book is After Midnight: A History of Independent India (Penguin, 2022).
Alexander Robert Phillips

Alexander Robert Phillips is an assistant professor of English at Ashoka University. Prior to coming to Ashoka, he taught in Germany and the United States. After studying at the University of California, Irvine and the Humboldt Universität in Berlin, he completed his PhD in German Studies at Cornell University. He has published on literature, ecology, environmental aesthetics, and nineteenth century mass media. His forthcoming book, Ecology and German Realism: Poetics, Politics, and the Conquest of Nature explores the relationship between the representation of environmental degradation and aesthetic reflection in German literature in the years of Germany's industrialization between 1840 and 1900.

Literature Across Borders: The Pilot Year Part 1: The Staff

Reflections on the planning and delivery of the pilot year of ‘Literature across Borders’, a collaboration between Ashoka University and Bath Spa University, facilitated by the Green Literature Festival.

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