Corina Löwe Editor

Sabine Planka, Dr. phil., is a literary scholar with an additional M.A. in “Library and Information Science” from the TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences (Cologne; Germany). She works as a visiting lecturer at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld, Germany). Her research particularly focuses on children’s literature, cookbook literature and literary food studies. She is also interested in aspects of space and gender theory, and she works in the field of film studies. Latest publications include, for example, “What and How Will We Eat in Future? Food Culture, Food System, and Food Memory in Cli-fi Novels for Young Adults” (2024, together with Corina Löwe), and “Meet to Eat. The Restaurant as Narrative Setting in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (1985) and The Fisher King (1991)” in A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam (2023) edited Sabine Planka, Philip van der Merwe, and Ian Bekker.

Corina Löwe, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in German at the Department of Languages at Linnaeus University, Sweden. After her dissertation on East German children’s crime fiction (2011), she has continued her research on 20th and 21st century children’s literature, East German children’s literature, intermediality, didactics of literature and language teaching. Together with Sabine Planka, she researches aspects of food and nutrition in children’s media. Her latest publication is an anthology of girls’ literature: “Flickor som löser gåtor. I flickdetektiverans värld” (In Flickboken &flickors läsning. Flickskapande nu och då, edited by Helene Ehriander and Corina Löwe. Halmstad: Makadam, 2022) and “What and how will we eat in the future? – Food culture, food system and food memory in cli-fi novels for young adults”, together with Sabine Planka (submitted for publishing).