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Dr Macarena García-González

Macarena

Senior Researcher, the Faculty of Communication, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

Email: macarena.garcia@upf.edu

Profile

Macarena García-González is Ramón & Cajal Senior Researcher at the Communication Faculty of Pompeu Fabra University, where she chairs the research group JOVIS on interdisciplinary approaches to youth and childhood studies. She works in children’s literature, media and culture with attention to children's and young people's participation in the cultural ecosystems. She has authored The Borders of Empathy in Children’s Fiction (Routledge, 2025), Origin Narratives: The Stories We Tell Children about Immigration and International Adoption (Routledge, 2017) and Enseñando a sentir. Repertorios éticos en la ficción infantil (Metales Pesados, 2021), and co-edited Children’s Cultures After Childhood (John Benjamins, 2023) with Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak. She serves as an associated editor at the Children’s Literature in Education journal. 

Research

Publications

Authored books:

  • García González, Macarena. (2025) The Borders of Empathy in Children’s Fiction. Routledge

  • García González, Macarena. (2021) Enseñando a sentir. Repertorios éticos en la ficción infantil. Metales Pesados, 2021.

  • García González, Macarena. (2017) Origin Narratives. The stories we tell children about international adoption and immigration. New York: Routledge, 2017.

  • Contardo, Óscar y Macarena García. La Era Ochentera. TV, pop y under en el Chile de los ochenta. Santiago: Ediciones B, 2005. Planeta, 2015. 

Edited Books:

  • Garcia Gonzalez, M. , Arizpe, E.  and Casals Hill, A. (Eds.) (2023)  Campo en formación. Textos clave para la crítica de literatura infantil a juvenil. Metales Pesados: Chile.
    Deszcz-Tryhubczak, J. and Macarena García-González. (2023) Children’s Cultures after Childhoods. Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publishing Company, 2023.

Edited Special Issues:

  • García-González, Macarena, Felipe Munita, Evelyn Arizpe. “Latin American Children’s Literature and Culture” International Research in Children’s Literature. 17.1 (2024)
  • García-González, Macarena, Andrea Casals Hill, and Soledad Véliz. "Aesthetic & Pedagogic Entanglements." International Research in Children's Literature 15.3 (2022).

Articles in peer-reviewed journals:

  • García-González, M. (2024). Descolonizar las Listas de Lectura en la Era de la IA: un Ensayo en la Encrucijada de la Decolonialidad, la Crítica Infantilista y Chat GPT. La Palabra, (48).
  • García González, M., Saona, I., Arriagada, A., & Saintard, M. (2024). “When a Children’s Literary Jury Imagines Other Children as Potential Readers: A Case of Collaborative Research.” Childhood.
  • García-González, Macarena, Felipe Munita, Evelyn Arizpe. “Latin American Children’s Literature and Culture” International Research in Children’s Literature. 17.1 (2024). 1-5.
  • García-González, Macarena, Valentina Errázuriz, Soledad Concha and Ignacia Saona. “'An Evil Text': Chilean National Writing Plan and Students Becoming Writers with Villainy". Journal of Childhood Studies.
  • García-González, Macarena, Rodrigo Velásquez, Soledad Véliz, Juan de Dios Oyarzún and Ignacia Saona (2023) “Discursive Fluctuations of the School Library Program in Chile: A Critical Policy Analysis” Libri.
  • García-González, Macarena, and Xavier Mínguez-López (2023). "" Paper White" Characters and the Desire for Homogeneity in Spanish-Language Picturebooks." Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature 61.2 (2023): 37-47.
  • García-González, Macarena, Andrea Casals Hill, and Soledad Véliz. "Introduction: Aesthetic & Pedagogic Entanglements." International Research in Children's Literature 15.3 (2022): 243-248.
  • Deszcz‐Tryhubczak, Justyna, and Macarena García‐González. "Thinking and doing with childism in children's literature studies." Children & Society (2022).
  • García-González, Macarena. "Towards an Affective Childist Literary Criticism." Children's Literature in Education 53.3 (2022): 360-375.
  • Minguez-López, X. & García-González, M. (2022) “Diversity and Homogeneity in Spanish-language Picturebooks with Non-Human Characters” in Intercultural Education Vol 33.3
  • Véliz, S., García-González, M., & Arizpe, E. (2022). Mediación literaria como ética de cuidado en contextos adversos. Ocnos. Revista de estudios sobre lectura, 21(1).
  • Michulka, D., Świetlicki, M. & García González, M. “Theory and Practice of Memory in the Culture of the Present from the Perspective of Research on Literature for Young Readers” in Filoteknos 11 (4). 2021. DOI: 10.23817/filotek.11-1
  • García-González, M., & Errázuriz, V. (2021). Reading promotion, conflict negation and peaceful conviviality: the uses and hopes for literary education in Chile. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1-11.
  • Errázuriz, Valentina & García-González, Macarena (2021) “More person, and, therefore, more satisfied and happy” The Affective Economy of Reading Promotion in Chile" in Curriculum Inquiry.
  • García-González, Macarena & Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak (2020) “On Our Com(mon)Passions: Entanglements of Research, Teaching Practices and Institutional Lives”  in Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning (CriSTaL).
  • García-González, Macarena & Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak (2020) “New Materialist Openings to Children’s Literature Studies” in International Research for Children’s Literature Vol 13.1 p.45-60 DOI: 10.3366/ircl.2020.0327
  • Véliz, S., & García-González, M. (2020). Becoming abject: testing the limits and borders of reading mediation. In Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 1-15.
  • García-González, Macarena. (2020) “Postrepresentational Cultural Memory for Children in Chile. From La Composición to Bear Story”. Children’s Literature in Education. DOI: 10.1007/s10583-018-9361-y  
  • García-González, Macarena, Soledad Véliz & Claudia Matus (2020) “Think difference differently? Knowing/becoming/doing with picturebooks”. In Pedagogy, Culture & Society, DOI: 10.1080/14681366.2019.1667858 p. 543-562.
  • García González, Macarena (2017) “Narrando la dictadura a la infancia. Imágenes que trafican significados” In Catedral Tomada. Vol 9. 2017.
  • García González, Macarena. “Imagining Transnational Orphanhoods. Family as Nation in Recent Spanish Children’s Books” in Children’s Literature Association Quarterly (special issue on Orphanhood, Foster Care and Adoption in Youth Media) Vol 40. 322-338. 2015.
  • García González, Macarena and Elizabeth Wesseling. “Stories We Adopt by: Tracing ‘The Red Thread’ in Contemporary Adoption Narratives (1990-2010)”. The Lion and the Unicorn.  Vol 37.3. 257-276. 2013. 

Book Chapters:

  • Deszcz-Tryhubczak, J., & García-González, M. (2025) Speculating about Post-anthropocene Childhoods with Donna Haraway’s “The Camille Stories”: A Response from Children’s Literature and Culture Studies  in Children's Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: Multidisciplinary Entanglements. Bloomsbury.
  • Deszcz-Tryhubczak, J., & García-González, M. (2023). Ethics, epistemologies, and relational ontologies in researching children’s cultures. Children’s Cultures after Childhood, 1-17.
  • Garcia Gonzalez, Macarena., Arizpe, E.  and Casals Hill, A. (2023) “Introducción”. Campo en formación. Textos clave para la crítica de literatura infantil a juvenil. Metales Pesados: Chile, pp. 7-16.
  • García-González, M. & Arizpe, Evelyn. "Kinning with Picturebooks about La Frontera" in Family in Young Adult and Children's Literature. Edited by Eleanor Spencer and Jade Dillon Craig. Routledge, 2023, pp 110-122.
  • García-González, Macarena. Cultural Diversity. Readings from the South in Blackwell Companion to Children’s Literature Ed: Karen Coats, Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Blackwell, 2022.
  • Götz, Maya, Caroline Mendel, Sun Sun Lim, Macarena García-González. “Living in the shutdown” in Children and Media in a Time of a Pandemic. New York: Peter Lang, 2022.
  • Errázuriz, Valentina & García-González, Macarena.  “Del miedo al desborde y al conflicto. Educación literaria, prácticas afectivas y la esquiva justicia” en (In)justicias educacionales en Chile: prácticas, instituciones y bordes socioculturales de la educación. Ed: Camila Moyano. Santiago: Ediciones Alberto Hurtado, 2020, pp. 343-366.
  • García-González, Macarena. “Dealing with the “Otherness” of Your Own Children. Spanish Children’s Books about Transnational Adoption” in Family Stories and Children’s Literature: Parentage, Transmission or Reinvention? Ed: Rose-May Pham Dinh & Virginie Douglas. Paris: Peter Lang, 2020.
  • Errázuriz, Valentina & Macarena García-González.  “Fear of Conflict. Literary Education, Affective Practices, and the Avoidance of Justice” in Educational Justice. IAP, 2021 (forthcoming).
  • García-González, Macarena. “The Production of the Immigrant as a Perpetual Guest” in A Literary Anthropology of Migration and Belonging Roots, Routes, and Rhizomes Ed: Michelle Tisdel & Cicilie Fagerlid. Palgrave, 2020.  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-34796-3, p 181-202.

Expertise

Cultural studies of childhood; children's literature; posthumanism
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