Biography
Kristine Moruzi is a senior lecturer 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.
Read more on Kristine's profileResearch interests
Kristine’s research interests include: children’s and young adult literature; Victorian literature; girls’ studies; colonial literature; Gothic fiction; philanthropy; and history of childhood.
Teaching interests
Kristine teaches in the Children’s Literature major and in Literary Studies.
Publications
Kristine Moruzi
(2024), pp. 117-128, The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture, London, Eng., B1
Children's Literature and Transnationalism
Clare Bradford, Kristine Moruzi, Michelle Smith
(2024), pp. 377-388, The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture, London, Eng., B1
Public Health, Polio, and Pandemics: Fear and Anxiety about Health in Children's Literature
K Moruzi, S Chen, P Venzo
(2022), Vol. 53, pp. 97-111, Children's Literature in Education, C1
Female Collaboration in Australian Fairy Tales
Sarah Hart, Kristine Moruzi
(2022), Vol. 36, Marvels and Tales: journal of fairy-tale studies, Detroit, Mich., C1
Kristine Moruzi, Paul Venzo
(2021), pp. 1-12, Sexuality in literature for children and young adults, New York, N.Y., B1
Postfeminism and sexuality in the fiction of Sarah J. Maas
Elizabeth Little, Kristine Moruzi
(2021), pp. 81-95, Sexuality in literature for children and young adults, New York, N.Y., B1
Kristine Moruzi, Michelle Smith
(2021), pp. 1-14, Young adult gothic fiction: monstrous selves/monstrous others, Cardiff, Wales, B1
Young adult gothic fairy tales and terrifying romance
Michelle Smith, Kristine Moruzi
(2021), pp. 255-271, Young adult gothic fiction: monstrous selves/monstrous others, [Cardiff, Wales], B1
Sexuality in literature for children and young adults
Paul Venzo, Kristine Moruzi
(2021), New York, N.Y., A7
'The plain duties which are set before me': Charity, Agency, and Women's Work in the 1860s
Kristine Moruzi
(2020), Vol. 2, pp. 89-104, British Women's Writing from Bronte to Bloomsbury, Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s, Cham, Switzerland, B1
Gender and Sexuality in Young Adult Fiction
Michelle Smith, Kristine Moruzi
(2020), pp. 609-622, The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic, London, Eng., B1
Woke girls: from The Girl's Realm to Teen Vogue
N Coulter, K Moruzi
(2020), Feminist Media Studies, C1
Rape Myths and Rape Spaces in Rosie Price's What Red Was and Miriam Toews' Women Talking
E Turner, K Moruzi
(2020), Vol. 46, pp. 164-182, Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation, St Lucia, Qld., C1
Children's voices in the Boy's Own Paper and the Girl's Own Paper, 1880-1900
Shih Chen, Kristine Moruzi
(2019), pp. 29-52, Children’s voices from the past: new historical and interdisciplinary perspectives, Cham, Switzerland, B1
Hearing children's voices: Conceptual and methodological challenges
Nell Musgrove, Carla Leahy, Kristine Moruzi
(2019), pp. 1-25, Children’s Voices from the Past : New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Berlin, Germany, B1
Kristine Moruzi
(2019), pp. 140-152, Women, periodicals and print culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s : the Victorian period, Edinburgh, Scotland, B1
Daughters of Greater Britain: The colonial "new girl" in Victorian girls' periodicals
M Smith, K Moruzi
(2019), Vol. 52, pp. 703-718, Victorian Periodicals Review, Toronto, Ont., C1
Children's Voices from the Past New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Kristine Moruzi, Nell Musgrove, Carla Leahy
(2019), Berlin, Germany, A7
Michelle Smith, Kristine Moruzi, Clare Bradford
(2018), Toronto, Ont., A1
Embodying the healthy, charitable child in the Junior Red Cross
K Moruzi
(2018), pp. 113-126, Embodied child : readings in children's literature and culture, London, Eng., B1
'Suitable for us girls': Subjectivity and community in the Victorian periodical press
K Moruzi, N Coulter
(2018), Vol. Volume 2, pp. 87-102, Mediated girlhoods : new explorations of girls' media culture, New York, N.Y., B1
Vampires and witches go to school: contemporary young adult fiction, gender, and the gothic
M Smith, K Moruzi
(2018), Vol. 49, pp. 6-18, Children's literature in education, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Charity, affect and waif novels
K Moruzi
(2017), pp. 33-51, Affect, Emotion, and Children's Literature: Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults, London, Eng., B1
Children's literature and the affective turn: Affect, emotion, empathy
E Bullen, K Moruzi, M Smith
(2017), pp. 1-16, Affect, Emotion, and Children’s Literature: Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults, New York, N.Y., B1
K Moruzi
(2017), Vol. 50, pp. 190-213, Victorian Periodicals Review, C1
Higher education and home duties: The morality of self-interest in the periodical press, 1880-1910
K Moruzi
(2017), Vol. 50, pp. 686-702, Victorian Periodicals Review, C1
K Moruzi, K Moruzi, M Smith, M Smith, E Bullen, E Bullen
(2017), New York, N.Y., A7
"A very cruel thing": Canadian children, the First World War, and the Grain Grower's guide
K Moruzi
(2016), pp. 214-225, Children's literature and culture of the First World War, London, Eng., B1
K Moruzi
(2016), pp. 293-306, The Routledge handbook to nineteenth-century British periodicals and newspapers, Abingdon, Eng., B1
Being a girl in wartime: Canadian children's religious magazines during the First World War
K Moruzi
(2015), Vol. 32, pp. 151-166, Australasian Canadian Studies, Wollongong, N.S.W., C1-1
Doing their bit : The Great War and transnationalism in girls' fiction
K Moruzi
(2014), pp. 161-188, Girls, texts, cultures, Waterloo, Ont., B1
Serializing scholarship: how the nineteenth-century periodical press (re)produces girlhood
K Moruzi
(2014), pp. 166-189, Seriality and texts for young people : the compulsion to repeat, Basingstoke, Hampshire, B1
Education and work in service of the nation: Canadian and Australian girls' fiction, 1908-1921
K Moruzi, M Smith
(2014), pp. 180-194, Colonial girlhood in literature, culture and history, 1840-1950, Basingstoke, England, B1
Colonial girlhood/colonial girls
K Moruzi, M Smith
(2014), pp. 1-11, Colonial girlhood in literature, culture and history, 1840–1950, New York, N.Y., B1-1
The British empire and Australian girls' annuals
K Moruzi
(2014), Vol. 21, pp. 166-184, Women's writing, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950
K Moruzi, Michelle Smith
(2014), Berlin, Germany, A7-1
A great strange world: reading the girls' school story
K Moruzi, M Smith
(2013), pp. xiii-xxxii, Girls' school stories, 1749-1929, Abingdon, Eng., B1
Constructing girlhood through the periodical press, 1850-1915
K Moruzi
(2012), Aldershot, England, A1-1
Postfeminist fantasies : sexuality and femininity in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series
K Moruzi
(2012), pp. 47-64, Genre, reception, and adaptation in the 'Twilight series', Aldershot, England, B1-1
Colonial girls' literature and the politics of archives in the digital age
M Smith, K Moruzi
(2012), Vol. 22, pp. 33-42, Papers: exploration into children's literature, Victoria Park, W.A., C1-1
'I am content with Canada': Canadian girls at the turn of the twentieth century
K Moruzi
(2012), Vol. 4, pp. 119-131, Jeunesse: young people, texts, cultures, Winnipeg, Canada, C1-1
'The freedom suits me': encouraging girls to settle in the colonies
K Moruzi
(2011), pp. 177-191, Victorian settler narratives : emigrants, cosmopolitans and returnees in nineteenth-century literature, London, England, B1-1
'Learning what real work...means': ambiguous attitudes towards employment in the girl's own paper
K Moruzi, M Smith
(2010), Vol. 43, pp. 429-444, Victorian periodicals review, Baltimore, Maryland, C1-1
K Moruzi
(2010), Vol. 17, pp. 288-304, Women's Writing, Oxford, UK, C1-1
K Moruzi
(2009), pp. 57-75, Antifeminism and the Victorian novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century women writers, Amherst, NY, B1-1
Fast and Fashionable: The Girls in the Girl of the Period Miscellany
K Moruzi
(2009), Vol. 14, pp. 9-28, Australasian journal of Victorian studies, Melbourne, Vic., C1-1
Feminine Bravery: The Girl's Realm (1898-1915) and the Second Boer War
K Moruzi
(2009), Vol. 34, pp. 241-254, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Baltimore, Md., C1-1
Missed Opportunities: The Subordination of Children in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
K Moruzi
(2005), Vol. 36, pp. 55-68, Children's Literature in Education, Amsterdam, Netherlands, C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
The Charitable Child: Children and Philanthropy in the Nineteenth Century
A/Prof Kristine Moruzi
ARC DECRA - Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
- 2016: $109,778
- 2015: $126,565
- 2014: $113,023
Industry and Other Funding
Literary Cultures in Childrens Periodicals
A/Prof Kristine Moruzi
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Curran Fellowship
- 2024: $8,552
Supervisions
Cecilia Yubuko Rogers
Thesis entitled: Dark Topographies: Young Adult Gothic Fiction and the Natural World
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Elizabeth Little
Thesis entitled: Mediating (post)feminist girlhood through young adult fantasy literature
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Karen Donnelly
Thesis entitled: The Soldier Artists of the Australian Imperial Force
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Emma Louise Whatman
Thesis entitled: Postfeminist Identities in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Adaptations for Young People
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Lara Bridget Hedberg
Thesis entitled: Queer Girls, Queer Landscapes in Texts for Young People
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Caitlin Kavanagh-Ryan
Thesis entitled: Crip Worldbuilding: Representing Disability in Young Adult Speculative Fiction
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Ranika Singh
Thesis entitled: Rescuing the Princess: Challenging Gender Ideologies Through Revisionary Parody
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Emma Jayne Dyson Hayes
Thesis entitled: 'Betwixt-and-Between': Liminality in Golden Age Children's Literature
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts