Dr Jeroen Dera is Associate Professor of Dutch Literature at Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands). He earned his PhD in 2017 for a dissertation on literary radio and television (1925–1975) as tools for education and cultural mediation. His work examines literature education and youth reading culture: how schools conceptualize and legitimize literature; intersections between literary studies and literature education; digital literary culture (e.g., BookTok, online reading challenges); and representations of young readers in popular culture. Dera has received the prestigious Veni and Vidi grants of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) as well as the 2023 Early Career Award of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2024, he was elected as a member of the Dutch Young Academy.