Sara Pankenier Weld is now Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also the President of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL). She researches childhood across national and disciplinary boundaries, including in literature, culture, and theory. Her specializations include Russian/Slavic literature, Scandinavian literature, North American literature, comparative literature, and world literature; avant-garde literature, art, and theory; Vladimir Nabokov; Indigeneity and childhood; word and image; and childhood studies, children’s literature, and picturebooks. Her comparative and interdisciplinary interests are wide-ranging, but oftentimes childhood, infancy, and the infantile figure centrally within her research, whether this interest takes her scholarship into literature, culture, history, art, or film; literary and cultural artifacts from the 13th to 21st century; modernism and the avant-garde; or children's literature and picturebooks.