Filip is a PhD candidate at the English Literature Section at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. He has completed his BA studies in the Comparative Literature programme at UCL and his MPhil studies in Children’s Literature programme at Trinity College Dublin. His current PhD research focuses on portrayals of children and childhood in twenty-first century British fiction, looking in his dissertation at how contemporary British literary stars as well as lesser known authors employ and use child figures and how childhood is approached and framed in their works, i. e. how children and childhood are imagined in recent British literature and, eventually, what the position and role of the child is there. Besides developing the well-established field of English studies, this examination aims to contribute to the advancement of the relatively recently established field of Children and Youth Studies and, as Adela L. Catană phrased it in Ways of Being in Literary and Cultural Spaces (2016), to further “contemplate the multiple ways of being a child in literary and cultural space.”
