About
Camilla Ringkjøbing Jensen is a PhD Candidate in the language subject pedagogy Norwegian at Oslo Metropolitan University where she teaches children's literature. She holds an Erasmus Mundus Master's degree in Children's Literature, Media and Culture, a Master's degree in Pedagogical Sciences in Youth (0-21), Society and Policy, and a Bachelor's degree in Linguistics. Her PhD project is a comparative classroom study of Norwegian and Danish students' responses to picturebooks about refugees and war. Her research interests include children’s and young adult literature, visual literacy, reader response, critical and postcolonial theory, decolonial and anti-colonial perspectives, Nordic exceptionalism, critical pedagogy, critical human rights and citizenship educaiton.
She is a member of the Nordic Research School for Educational Research (NORED) at the University of Bergen, an external member of the Entangled Colonialities Collective at Aarhus University, and the Association for Research on Children’s Literature in English in Norway (ARCLEN) at NTNU.
Field of study
Classroom research Policy Childhood and youth Postcolonial theory and practice Critical pedagogy Picturebook research Picturebooks Reader response Multimodal image analysis Critical and decolonial perspectives
Research groups
Publications and research
Dissemination
Jensen, Camilla Ringkjøbing
(2025).
Rose-tinted Realities: Aesthetic Representations of War and Displacement in Danish Picturebooks [online presentation].
Children’s and Youth Literature in the Context of War and Displacement: Comparative Perspectives Between the 20th and 21st Centuries. University of Wuppertal.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5486350
Jensen, Camilla Ringkjøbing
(2025).
Empowering Narratives or Imposing Expectations? The Discourse of “Children as Changemakers” in Picturebooks and Citizenship Education (Online presentation).
The Child and the Book Conference 2025: Children Shaping The(ir) World: Between the Exceptional and the Everyday. Tilburg University.
https://doi.org/https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/
Jensen, Camilla Ringkjøbing
(2025).
With an Eye for Humor. Studies in Children's Literature by Ingrid Nestås Mathisen and Anne-Stefi Teigland (Book review).
Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature.
Vol. 63.
https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2025.a969643
