Dr. Andrew O Malley

Biography

Andrew O’Malley’s teaching and research interests have primarily dealt with historical children’s literature and popular cultures, particularly in the field of Comics Studies. He has published monographs, edited collections, and a wide range of book chapters in various journals including The Lion and the Unicorn, Children’s Literature, International Research in Children’s Literature, Eighteenth-Century Life, and English Studies in Canada. In recent years, Andrew has been working on a digital archive and critically-curated online exhibit focusing on the imagined effects of crime and horror comics on child readers during the mid-twentieth century, titled “A Crisis of Innocence: Comic Books and Children’s Culture, 1940-1954.” Selected publications include The Making of the Modern Child: Children’s Literature and Childhood in the Late Eighteenth Century (Routledge 2003, pbk 2011), Children’s Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe (Palgrave 2012), and Literary Cultures of Eighteenth-Century Childhoods (Palgrave 2018).

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