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MARNIE CAMPAGNARO
Position
Professoressa Associata
Address
VIA BEATO PELLEGRINO, 28 - PADOVA
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PhD in Education and Children's Literature.
Associate Professor of Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Reading Pedagogy, and the History of Work Pedagogy at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FISPPA) at the University of Padua. She directs the postgraduate specialization course Reading and Literature for Children and Young Adults (0–18 years): Projects and Experiences for Teachers, Educators, and Facilitators, and coordinates the research group LETIN UNIPD.
Her work adopts a strongly interdisciplinary approach, spanning theories of the imagination and education, fairy tales, visual studies, book materiality, design, ecocriticism, literary botany, and dialogic pedagogy. Her research lies at the intersection of theoretical inquiry, educational practice, and socio-cultural transformation, building fertile connections between languages, knowledge systems, and imaginaries.
She is the principal investigator of the national project BIBI – Biographies and Biofiction of Childhood (2025–2027), funded by the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Department for Equal Opportunities. The project promotes a culture of respect and deconstructs gender stereotypes from early childhood through literary education. She also leads the Italian research unit within the European project Green Dialogues – NOTED (2022–2025), which focuses on climate literacy, social justice, and walk inquiry as critical tools for reading and reinterpreting narrative landscapes.
She has taken part in numerous international research projects, collaborating actively with colleagues from European universities on studies and educational experiments related to literary, visual, and aesthetic literacy, graphic design, materiality, ecocriticism, and the promotion of children’s historical-literary heritage. Her qualitative research includes studies on reader-response theory in primary education and early childhood settings (nurseries and preschools), as well as intergenerational reading practices.
She has been invited as a visiting professor and keynote speaker at leading universities in Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.
She is an active member of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL), and serves on the Steering Committee and Advisory Board of international networks such as The Child and the Book and the European Network of Picturebook Research.
She is the author of over 90 publications in peer-reviewed national and international journals and edited volumes. She is regularly invited as a visiting professor and speaker at major universities and research centers, and serves on the editorial boards of leading journals and scholarly societies in the field of children’s literature.
For more information:
www.childrensliterature-unipd.it
Instagram: @childrensliterature.unipd
Notices
Office hours
Monday from 15:00 to 16:30
at Padova - Via Beato Pellegrino 28, primo piano, studio n. 20
La docente riceve su appuntamento: inviare una mail, con almeno quattro giorni di preavviso, specificando nome, cognome, numero di matricola e motivo del ricevimento a marnie.campagnaro@unipd.it.
Teachings
- CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: HISTORY, THEORY AND READING EDUCATION, AA 2025 (SUP8082397)
- THEORY AND HISTORY OF CHILDRENS LITERATURE AND READING, AA 2025 (SUP8082437)
- CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: HISTORY, THEORY AND READING EDUCATION, AA 2024 (SUP8082397)
- NEW THEORIES AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: SUSTAINABILITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY, AA 2024 (SUQ2101300)
- THEORY AND HISTORY OF CHILDRENS LITERATURE AND READING, AA 2024 (SUP8082437)
- CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: HISTORY, THEORY AND READING EDUCATION, AA 2023 (SUP8082397)
- NEW THEORIES AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: SUSTAINABILITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY, AA 2023 (SUQ2101300)
- THEORY AND HISTORY OF CHILDRENS LITERATURE AND READING, AA 2023 (SUP8082437)
Publications
PUBLICATIONS (selected - limited to 2017)
Research monographs and Special issues
Campagnaro, M., Daly, N., & Short, K.G (Eds.) (2021). Building dialogic spaces: Teaching children’s literature at the university [Special issue]. Journal of Literary Education, 4, https://doi.org/10.7203/JLE.4.21403
Callegari, C., Campagnaro, M. (Eds.) (2019). Home, Lived-In Spaces and Childhood in European Picturebooks from 1945 to the Present Day [Special issue]. RPD Journal of Theories and Research in Education, 14 (2), DOI: 10.6092/issn.1970-2221/10029
Campagnaro, M. (2018). Questioni epistemologiche e ricerca pedagogica sui libri 0-3 anni, Dossier Nsricerca, Nuova Secondaria, vol. 7, XXXIV, p. 66-69, ISSN 1828-4582.
Campagnaro, M. (2017). Il cacciatore di pieghe. Figure e tendenze della letteratura per l’infanzia contemporanea. Lecce: Pensa MultiMedia.
Campagnaro, M. (Ed.) (2017). Frames for the Body. Spaces and Places in Children’s Literature [Special issue]. Encyclopaideia, XXI (49), https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-8670/7516
Articles and book chapters
Campagnaro M. & Goga N. (2022). Material Green Entanglements: Research on Student Teachers’ Aesthetic and Ecocritical Engagement with Picturebooks of Their Own Choice. International Research in Children's Literature, 15 (3): 308-322.
Campagnaro, M., & Goga, N. (2021). Green Dialogues and Digital Collaboration on Nonfiction Children’s Literature. Journal of Literary Education, 4, 96-114. https://doi.org/10.7203/JLE.4.21019
Campagnaro, M., Daly, N., & Short, K.G (2021). Editorial: Teaching Children’s Literature in the University: New Perspectives and Challenges for the Future. Journal of Literary Education, 4, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.7203/JLE.4.21403
Campagnaro M. (2021) Picturebooks and aesthetic literacy in early childhood education. In Å.M. Ommundsen, G. Haaland & B. Kümmerling-Meibauer (Eds.), Exploring Challenging Picturebooks in Education. International Perspectives on Language and Literature Learning (pp. 79-98). Oxon/New York: Routledge.
Campagnaro, M. (2021). Stepping into the World of Houses. Children's Picturebooks on Architecture. In N. Goga, S.I. Iversen & A.-S. Teigland (Eds.), Verbal and Visual Strategies in Nonfiction Picturebooks: Theoretical and Analytical Approaches (pp. 202-219). Oslo: Scandinavian University Press.
Campagnaro, M. (2021). Clothing the Child in Red: A Historical and Comparative Analysis of Italian Visual Retellings of the Grimms’ “Little Red Riding Hood”, Strenæ, (18). https://doi.org/10.4000/strenae.6423
Campagnaro, M. (2020). The materiality of silence. The curious cases of Munari, Charlip and their picturebooks with no pictures. FronteiraZ. Revista do Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Literatura e Crítica Literária, 24, 4-23. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23925/1983-4373.2020i24p4-23
Campagnaro, M. (2020). “Pro e contro la fiaba” Fifty Years Later: Is Gianni Rodari's Apologia Still Relevant Today?. Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, 34 (1), 109–118. https://doi.org/10.13110/marvelstales.34.1.0109
Campagnaro, M. (2019). Materiality in Bruno Munari’s Book Objects: The case of Nella notte buia and I Prelibri. Libri & Liberi, 8 (2), 359-379. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21066/carcl.libri.8.2.7
Campagnaro, M. (2019). "Narrating" homes and objects: images of domestic life in Italian picturebooks since the mid-20th century. RPD Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica – Journal of Theories and Research in Education, 14 (2), 9-48. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1970-2
