About me
Marianne Martens, Ph.D. is Professor at Kent State University’s School of Information. Her research examines the interconnected fields of young people’s literacy, youth services librarianship, and publishing for young people. Her interests converge at the intersection of books and technology in new literary formats including the impact of digital reading experiences and the multi-literacies required to interpret them, as well as visible reading audiences, and the information they share. She is the author of Publishers, Readers and Digital Engagement: Participatory Forums and Young Adult Publishing (Palgrave Macmillan), The Forever Fandom of Harry Potter: Balancing Fan Agency and Corporate Control (Cambridge University Press), and Children’s Literature in Action (Bloomsbury, 4th Edition) with Sylvia Vardell. You can read more about her at mariannemartens.org.
