Associate ProfessorKristine Moruzi

Kristine Moruzi is an Associate Professor in Children's Literature and Literary Studies in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. As a member of the Reading Writing Futures research group, her research areas include children's periodicals, girls and girlhood, and contemporary children's and young adult literature. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate units and supervises PhD students in these areas. 

She has a number of research projects underway, including on far-right children's literature, consent in young adult fantasy literature, and charity in twentieth-century children's literature. Her most recent research is on children and charity and was supported by an ARC DECRA fellowship. The monograph related to this research, Philanthropy in Children's Periodicals, 1840-1930: The Charitable Child was published with Edinburgh University Press (2024). Other monographs include: From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Children's Literature (1840-1940), co-authored with Michelle J. Smith and Clare Bradford (University of Toronto Press 2018); and Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915 (Ashgate 2012). 

She enjoys working collaboratively and has co-edited a number of collections, including: The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals (with Beth Rodgers and Michelle J. Smith, Edinburgh University Press 2024), Children's Voices from the Past: New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (with Nell Musgrove and Carla Pascoe Leahy, Palgrave 2019); Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults (with Paul Venzo, Routledge 2019) and Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others (with Michelle J. Smith, University of Wales Press 2021).