Peter Kostenniemi

Peter Kostenniemi has a PhD in comparative literature from Stockholm University and is a university teacher at Umeå University. Kostenniemi’s research focuses on gothic children’s literature, the relation between childhood and children’s literature and discourses revolving around the evil child and the child as an economic subject. Apart from his doctoral thesis Hemsökt barndom: Bilder av barnet i gotisk barnlitteratur (2022), Kostenniemi has written articles on issues such as post-apocalyptic fiction for children and images of entrepreneurship in children’s culture.