Ms Rita Faire

Rita Faire is a Lecturer in Publishing at the University of Stirling. Her current research examines power dynamics and structures in the periphery picturebook publishing environments of Europe – specifically Scotland, Ireland and Sweden. Rita is a programming advisory board member of Researchers Exploring Inclsuive Youth Literature (REIYL) and is a co-founder of the Researcher Activist Network (RAN). She is currently finishing her PhD in Creative Industries at the Scottish Centre of the Book in Edinburgh Napier University. Outside of academia, Rita has spent a more than a decade working in the publishing industry – in the books and magazine sectors, in the UK and beyond. Rita is a writer, editor and graphic designer who has worked with several award-winning publishers including dyslexia-friendly children’s publisher Barrington Stoke.

Publishing studies, children's publishing, global publishing, magazine publishing, accessibility in publishing, diversity in publishing, children's literature, picturebooks, children's agency (particularly in the political process), girl(hood) studies, popular culture