Lorraine Kerslake is Associate Professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Alicante and a member of the Research Institute for Gender Studies. She is a member of the Transhistorical Literary Studies in English (THALIS/VIGROB-292) research group. She has worked as a translator of literary criticism, poetry and art criticism and has published widely on children's and YA literature and ecocriticism.
Since 2010 she has been a member of the Research Group on Ecocriticism (GIECO). From 2016 to 2020 she was executive editor of the journal Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and the Environment. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment (EASLCE) and is also a member of the Executive Board for IRSCL: The International Research Society for Children's Literature.
She is currently the leading researcher of the project "Women Who Write Animals" (CIGE/2021/153) and was the PI of the research project "Angels of the Ecosystem?" (GV/2020/029). She has participated in other projects such as "Stories for Change" and Aglaya "Innovation Strategies in Cultural Mythocriticism" (H2019/HUM-5714 AGLAYA-CM Grupo GIECO).
She is author of The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes's Writing for Children (Routledge, 2018) and co-editor of Imaginative Ecologies: Inspiring Change through the Humanities (Brill, 2021).
Her most recent publications include "Aesthetic Entanglements in the Age of the Anthropocene: A Posthuman Reading of Shaun Tan's Tales from the Inner City." Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature 60, no. 4 (2022): 38-47. doi:10.1353/bkb.2022.0058; "Reading The Iron Woman in Times of Crisis as a Tale of Hope." Children's Literature in Education 53, 439-453 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-021-09459-4; “Ted Hughes: The Importance of Fostering Creative Writing as Environmental Education”. Children's Literature in Education 52, 478-492 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-020-09427-4; "Of Mice, Rabbits and Other Companion Species in Beatrix Potter's More than Human World". In Besson, Françoise, et al. (Eds.). Reading Cats and Dogs: Companion Animals in World Literature (Lexington Books, 2021), pp. 79-93.
Lines of research: ecocriticism, children's and YA literature, the representation of animals and nature in literature and art, ecofeminism.