Kristine Moruzi

Kristine Moruzi is an Associate Professor in Children's Literature and Literary Studies in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. Her research areas include children's print culture in the nineteenth century, girls and girlhood, and contemporary children's and young adult literature.

Her latest 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 is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press. Her 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). Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press was shortlisted for the Colby Book Prize offered by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, which honours the book that most advances the understanding of the nineteenth-century British newspaper or periodical press.

Other books of interest include: Children's Voices from the Past: New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (co-edited with Nell Musgrove and Carla Pascoe Leahy, Palgrave 2019); Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults (co-edited with Paul Venzo, Routledge 2019) and Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others (co-edited by Michelle J. Smith, University of Wales Press 2021).