Kristine Moruzi

Kristine Moruzi is Associate Professor in the School of Communications and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She researches historical and contemporary children's literature, with a particular focus on children's periodicals and representations of gender. Her other monographs include From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Children's Literature (1840-1940) (2018, with Michelle J. Smith and Clare Bradford) and Constructing Girlhood through the...See more

Kristine Moruzi is Associate Professor in the School of Communications and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She researches historical and contemporary children's literature, with a particular focus on children's periodicals and representations of gender. Her other monographs include From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Children's Literature (1840-1940) (2018, with Michelle J. Smith and Clare Bradford) and Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915 (2012). She is co-editor of Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods (2023), Children's Voices from the Past: New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2019), Affect, Emotion, and Children's Literature: Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults (2017), Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 (2014), and Girls' School Stories, 1749-1929 (2014). See less