All Stories

  1. The Case of The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Childhood, Animality

    Article • Oxford Literary Review, December 2019, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  2. Why do people want children of their 'own'? and also as conceived through reproductive technologies?

    Article • April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  3. What is the role of the child in Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations'?

    Article • Wittgenstein-Studien, February 2018, De Gruyter

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  4. neuroscience and literary studies

    Article • Textual Practice, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  5. Gender, Childhood and Children’s Literature

    Article • Asian Women, June 2016, Research Institute of Asian Women

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  6. Explaining what 'mirror neurons' are supposed to be and do and why

    Article • Feminist Theory, August 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  7. Rethinking Disability Theory and Practice

    Article • January 2015, Nature

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  8. Introduction: Challenging Essentialism in Disability Studies

    Article • January 2015, Nature

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  9. The Case of Pre-Natal Diagnosis

    Article • January 2015, Nature

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  10. History and the construction of the child in early British children’s literature

    Article • History of Education, July 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  11. Why women remove their body hair

    Article • January 2011, Manchester University Press

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  12. The last taboo: women, body hair and feminism

    Article • January 2011, Manchester University Press

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  13. Children in Culture, Revisited

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  14. Introduction: Voice, Agency and the Child

    Article • January 2011, Nature

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  15. Childhood, queer theory, and feminism

    Article • Feminist Theory, December 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  16. Freudian mythologies: Greek tragedy and modern identities

    Article • Feminist Review, October 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  17. Playground Poets

    Article • American Book Review, January 2008, Project Muse

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  18. A Children's Book on Children's Books

    Article • American Book Review, January 2007, Project Muse

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  19. Children's Literature as Communication: The ChiLPA Project

    Article • The Modern Language Review, April 2004, JSTOR

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  20. Children's Literature

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  21. Introduction. Children’s Literature: New Approaches

    Article • January 2004, Nature

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  22. The Philosophical Investigations’ Children

    Article • Educational Philosophy and Theory, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  23. What is Queer Theory Doing With the Child?

    Article • Parallax, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein, Stephen Thomson

  24. 'Holiday House': Grist to 'The Mill on the Floss', or Childhood as Text

    Article • The Yearbook of English Studies, January 2002, JSTOR

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  25. Oliver Twist: the narrator's tale

    Article • Textual Practice, March 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  26. Oliver Twist: The narrator's tale

    Article • Textual Practice, January 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  27. Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity

    Article • The Yearbook of English Studies, January 2001, JSTOR

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  28. The Fantasy Literature of England

    Article • The Modern Language Review, January 2001, JSTOR

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  29. The Psychopathology of Everyday Children's Literature Criticism

    Article • Cultural Critique, January 2000, JSTOR

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  30. Happily Ever after: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry

    Article • The Modern Language Review, April 1999, JSTOR

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  31. Editor's Introduction

    Article • The Lion and the Unicorn, January 1999, Project Muse

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  32. Children in Culture

    Article • January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  33. Childhood and Textuality: Culture, History, Literature

    Article • January 1998, Nature

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  34. Children's Literature

    Article • July 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  35. Issues in Children's Literature Criticism

    Article • July 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  36. On Knowing the Child: Stories of Origin and Hierarchical Systems

    Article • July 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  37. On Knowing the Child: Stories of Origin and the Education–Amusement Divide

    Article • July 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  38. On Knowing the Child: The Terms of Children's Literature Criticism

    Article • July 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  39. On Not Knowing the Child: Children's Literature Criticism and Adult Literary Theory

    Article • July 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  40. The Reading Child and Other Children: The Psychoanalytic Child and Psychoanalytic Space

    Article • July 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  41. Adapting the Roman de la Rose: Was the Middle Dutch Adaptor Careless or Ambitious?

    Article • Translation and Literature, April 1992, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  42. Afterword: Reading History as/and Vision

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  43. Introduction

    Article • Nature

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

  44. The Case of Pre-Natal Diagnosis

    Article • Nature

    Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein