Michelle J. Smith

Michelle J. Smith is an Associate Professor in Literary Studies at Monash University where she researches and teaches across the fields of children’s literature and Victorian literature and periodicals. She is the author of three books: Consuming Female Beauty: British Literature and Periodicals, 1840–1914 (Edinburgh UP, 2022), From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Children’s Literature, 1840–1940 (U of Toronto P, 2018, with Kristine Moruzi and Clare Bradford), and Empire in British Girls’ Literature and Culture: Imperial Girls, 1880–1915 (Palgrave, 2011). She has also co-edited seven collections, the most recent of which are Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods (co-edited with Moruzi, Palgrave, 2024) and The Edinburgh History of Children’s Periodicals (co-edited with Moruzi and Beth Rodgers, 2024).