Farriba Schulz, PhD, is a Guest Lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin, where she teaches Children’s Literature and Media for Bachelor and Masters students. Farriba is the author of a monograph on childhood in picturebooks nominated for the German Children’s Literature Award from 1956 onwards (German). Previously, she was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of German at Universität Potsdam and a Visiting Professor of Primary Education in the Department of German at Technische Universität Dresden. Her research interests range from visual and linguistic narratives to the construction of childhoods in children’s literature and second language acquisition with visual narratives.