Åsa Warnqvist is the Research Manager and Director of the Swedish Institute for Children’s Books. She is also currently affiliated with Linneaus University. Her research focuses on Canadian writer L.M. Montgomery’s success in Sweden, the Swedish children’s book market, gender studies, and normativity studies. She is a member of the IRSCL executive board and vice-president of IRSCL. She was the congress convenor of the IRSCL Congress 2019.