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Dr. Sinead Moriarty
Assistant Professor, English

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Sinead Moriarty, Slow Violence and Precarious Progress: Picturebooks About Wangari Maathai, Humanities, 14, (3 (50)), 2025 Journal Article, 2025 DOI

Sinead Moriarty, Emancipatory Didacticism and the Environmental Picturebooks of Oliver Jeffers, Children's Literature in Education, 2025 Journal Article, 2025 DOI

Sinead Moriarty, The Environmental Hero in Literature for Children: stories of child activist Greta Thunberg, The Lion and the Unicorn, 2021, p192 - 207 Journal Article, 2021 TARA - Full Text URL

Sinead Moriarty, Visual Scaling in Environmental Picturebooks: Ecopedagogy and Children"s Literature, Deportees, Exiles, Refugees, 44, 2020, p119 - 136 Journal Article, 2020

Sinead Moriarty, What a Crusoe crowd we shall make!": Destabilising Imperialist Attitudes to Space in G. Warren Payne"s Three Boys in Antarctica, Deportees, Exiles, Refugees, 44, 2019, p53 - 72 Journal Article, 2019

Sinead Moriarty, Unstable Space: Mapping the Antarctic for Children in "Heroic Era" Antarctic Literature, Children's Literature in Education, 48, 2017, p56 - 72 Journal Article, 2017 DOI

Roundtable: Roehampton Journal for Academic and Creative Writing, 1, (2017), Sinead Moriarty Anne Malewski Denise Saul, [Editor], 2017 Journal, 2017 URL

Anti-colonialism in Geraldine McCaughrean"s The White Darkness in, editor(s)Bridget Carrington Pat Pinsent , The Final Chapters: Concluding Papers of The Journal of Children"s Literature Studies, London, 2013, [Sinead Moriarty] Book Chapter, 2013

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Sinead Moriarty, Pádraic Whyte, Elizabeth Nixon, Reading Rooms: Fostering Constructive and Inclusive Dialogue Between Communities, London, 2022, p1 - 39 Report, 2022 URL

Sinead Moriarty, Antarctica in British Children's Literature, London, Routledge, 2020, vii - 213pp Book, 2020 URL

Research Expertise

Description

I specialise in the study of ecocriticism and landscape studies in children's literature. My first monograph Antarctica in British Children's Literature was published in 2021. I have also published on visual scaling in environmental picturebooks, the hero narrative in non-fiction work about Greta Thunberg, and mapping in Antarctic literature for children. My research has also focused on shared reading. From 2021-2022 I worked as a postdoctoral research on the IRC-funded project 'Reading Rooms: Fostering Constructive and Inclusive Dialogue Between Communities' led by Dr Pádraic Whyte and Dr Elizabeth Nixon. This project focused on exploring the potential of shared reading to foster constructive dialogue in interface communities in Northern Ireland. Following this project I worked as Research Manager at Verbal, an arts-based organisation based in Derry that runs reading groups with marginalised populations.
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