Céline Zaepffel is a Lecturer in French literature and culture. Her research focuses on the transmission of ideologies through modern children's literature and culture, based on an intermedial and sociological analysis of children's media and the historical and cultural context of their publication. From September 2022 to June 2023, as part of the Johan Huizinga Fellowship at the Rijksmuseum, she researched the role of 19th-century board games in the circulation of Industrial Revolution ideas. Her PhD dissertation, Vers une hégémonie lafontainienne : itinéraire de la fable ésopique illustrée dans la pédagogie française (1500-2010), will be published by Brill in 2025. She is currently developing a new research project around colonial children's literature.

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Fields of interest

• Children's literature
• History of education 
• Education and politics
• Sociology of children's literature
• Modern literature

Research

Céline Zaepffel's  research focuses on the transmission of ideologies through modern children's literature and culture. She is currently working on a future research project around colonial children's literature.

Grants and awards

Johan Huizinga Fellowship 2022-2023, Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)

Curriculum Vitae

2017-2022: PhD in Literature (Universiteit Leiden), supervised by Paul J. Smith and Annelies E. Schulte-Nordholt
2022-2023: Johan Huizinga Fellow (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), supervised by Eveline Sint Nicolaas and Daniel Horst
2023-2026: Lecturer in French literature and Culture (Universiteit Leiden)