Production Team

Mavis Reimer

Team Leader

Mavis Reimer is Project Director of the SSHRC Partnership Project, Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak: Reclamation, Regeneration, and Reconciliation. She is Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg. She was the Canada Research Chair in Young People’s Texts and Cultures between 2005 and 2015, lead editor of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures between 2009 and 2015, and President of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature between 2011 and 2015. She is the founding director of the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures (CRYTC) at the University of Winnipeg and founding President of the Association for Research in Young People’s Cultures.

Eric Meyers

Eric M. Meyers is Associate Professor and past Chair of the uniquely interdisciplinary Master of Arts in Children’s Literature program at the University of British Columbia. Eric’s research, at the intersection of information science and the learning sciences, explores how young people engage socially with digital information systems as they work, learn, and play. This research has included work on collaborative search, social reading environments, digital literacies in YouTube, and the affordances of tablet-based learning. Recent work has focused on how crafting and prototyping activities in informal learning settings, specifically Maker Camps and library-based coding and crafting programs, support the development of design literacies and computational thinking, the skills and attitudes that facilitate understanding of today's complex information and communication technologies. He also has a complementary research stream in children’s digital media and textual cultures, which explores how human values (e.g., privacy, autonomy, agency, and sustainability) are reflected and instantiated in children’s immersive technologies and their related textual ecosystems.

Naomi Hamer

Dr. Naomi Hamer is an Assistant Professor in child and youth studies at Ryerson University. Her current research and publications examine the cross-media adaptation of children's literature with a focus on picture books, mobile apps, and children’s museums. She is the co-editor of More Words About Pictures: Current Research on Picture Books and Visual/Verbal Texts for Young People (eds. Hamer, Nodelman and Reimer, 2017), and The Routledge Companion of Fairy-tale Cultures and Media (eds. Greenhill, Rudy, Hamer, and Bosc, 2018). Dr. Hamer received the David Almond Fellowship for Research in Children’s Literature (2013) for research at Seven Stories: The National Centre for Children’s Books (Newcastle, UK). She has expanded this project to examine how media is used to negotiate the cultural discourses of childhood, nationalism, gender, race, class, sexuality, and ability within children’s museum exhibits. Framed by "queering the museum" and "the participatory museum" movements, the next phase of this research will invite young people to engage as collaborative-curators. Dr. Hamer serves on the editorial board for the journal Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. She is also the President of the Association for Research in the Cultures of Young People (ARCYP).

Margaret Mackey

Margaret Mackey is a Professor Emerita in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta. She researches and teaches in the overlapping areas of print, media, and digital literacies for young people. Her most recent book, One Child Reading: My Auto-Bibliography (University of Alberta Press, 2016) was acknowledged as the Scholarly and Academic Book of the Year for 2017 by the Book Publishers' Association of Alberta.