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Joe Sutliff Sanders is a University Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD from the University of Kentucky and has held roles as a junior high school English teacher in Japan and a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Luxembourg. His research focuses on children’s literature’s intersections with form, genre, and ideology, particularly examining how texts like picture books, comics, and speculative fiction address difference and marginalization.
Key research interests include animation, children’s nonfiction, comic books, gender studies, and librarianship. He co-leads the Children’s Literature Research Centre and has published extensively on graphic novels, nonfiction, and classic girlhood narratives. Sanders currently serves as Deputy Director of Learning and Teaching and coordinates the first-year Humanities Paper, alongside teaching courses in children’s literature and research methods.
His work has been recognized with awards for articles and edited volumes, including the Children’s Literature Association’s Best Article Award (2015) and a runner-up award for his 2008 article on orphan girl novels. Sanders actively contributes to professional networks, serving on editorial boards for journals like Children’s Literature in Education and Extrapolation, and judges the Young Adult Fiction Festival at the American Library in Paris.
Recent projects include an open-access collection on comic books and the Global South, a book on comic history and library gatekeeping, and articles exploring children’s nonfiction, Chinese graphic novels, and autism representation in comics. His teaching and research emphasize interdisciplinary approaches to understanding how literary forms shape cultural narratives.
