Maria Andersson is docent in literature and senior lecturer at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University. Her research interests include nineteenth-century literature, gender studies, citizenship studies, and power relations between children and adults. She has co-edited several anthologies on children’s literature, such as Barnlitteraturanalyser (2008) and Mångkulturell barn- och ungdomslitteratur (2017), and among her recent publications is a monograph on Swedish literature for girls, Framtidens kvinnor (2020).