Dr Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak is Associate Professor of Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Wrocław. She has published on children’s culture, new materialism, and posthumanism. Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film (2021), which Justyna co-edited with Zoe Jacques, received the 2023 Edited Book Award from the International Research Society for Children’s Literature. She also co-edited (with Irena Barbara Kalla) Children’s Literature and Intergenerational Relationships: Encounters of the Playful Kind (2021) and Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature (2021), (with Macarena García-González) Children’s Cultures after Childhood (2023), and (with Terri Dougthy and Janet Grafton) Children’s Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: Multidisciplinary Entanglements (2015). She was among others a Foundation for Polish Science grantee (2003 and 2004), a National Agency for Academic Exchange, Poland, grantee (2020), a Marie Skłodowska Research fellow at Anglia Ruskin University (2017/2018), a Fulbright visiting scholar at Rugers University (2013/2014). She was also the University of Wrocław coordinator for Erasmus Mundus International Master: Children’s Literature, Media and Culture (2018-2025) and is the University of Wrocław academic lead in Seen and Heard: Young People’s Voices and Freedom of Expression (2023-2026) and CoREM: Collective Remembrance: Engaging Youth Through Curatorial Practices (2025-2027).