Kristine Moruzi

Name
Kristine Moruzi
Candidate Statement

Kristine Moruzi is a senior lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Australia. Her research areas include children’s print culture in the nineteenth century. Her first monograph, Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915, was shortlisted for the Colby Book Prize. She has published on Victorian children’s periodicals in Victorian Periodicals Review and Children’s Literature Association Quarterly as well as in (selected) book chapters in Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s (Edinburgh 2019) and The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers (Routledge 2016). Her current project is on charity in nineteenth-century children’s periodicals.