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Dr Jennifer Mooney
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Assistant Professor, DCU School of English
Children’s & YA Literature MA Chair

Applications now open: bit.ly/4hGaOyy
MA Blog: https://search.app/WNUm9uNmWL775wvS6
Thinking about an MA? Interested in children's and YA literature?

Press GO! to start your MA journey: expertise and specialist insight into picturebooks, collections, YA fiction, and much more!

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November 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Wonderful visit to @nlireland.bsky.social for our DCU MA students! We saw the children’s book illustrations & processes of P.J. Lynch, Margaret Anne Suggs & Chris Judge.

Laura Ryan facilitated a fascinating discussion about preserving process in children’s book creation.
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
‘The past few years have seen radical changes in culture, ways of thinking, world views, and the books produced for the young’

DCU Adjunct Prof. Peter Hunt asking our MA students, ‘do the basics of children’s lit. criticism stand up today?’
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October 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
How to write about Edwardian children’s books? Context? Style? Genre? Their adaptations? Were they/ are they for children? Does writing about them at all perpetuate a narrow, artificial canon?

Adjunct Prof. Peter Hunt’s talk showed what a rich field Children’s Literature is!
October 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Looking forward to welcoming new and continuing students to our gorgeous DCU All Hallows campus next week to begin semester one of the MA in Children’s and Young Adult Literature! 📚
@dculibrary.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
April 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Delighted to be at proofing stage with my article for @isscl
special issue of Irish Studies Review, ‘Race, Ethnicity and Representation in Irish Youth Literature and Culture’!
April 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
April 2nd is International Children's Book Day! I wrote about Jella Lepman's dream to build peace through children’s lit. after WW II – something pertinent to today’s context of children affected by conflicts.

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April 2, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Congratulations to our @dublincityuni.bsky.social MA in Children’s & YA Literature students who graduated today! 🎓🎓🎓🎓🎓Congrats in absentia for those who couldn’t make today 🎊🎉🥳
March 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Enjoyed speaking about my work on EU-funded Creative Europe Project, G-Book, @dublincityuni.bsky.social FHSS Arts & Culture celebration yesterday.

G-Book promotes gender positive children’s & YA literature. To see the bibliography (so far) go to search.app/mamNSxoGzrmu...
March 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
What can the 2023 award nominated picturebooks in the @childrensbooksireland.ie collection tell us about Irish children’s literature?

Great session @dculibrary.bsky.social with our fantastic MA in Children’s & YA Literature students & my wonderful colleague, Dr Lucy Stone, yesterday!
March 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Marvellous @isscl.bsky.social 21st bday @dublincityuni.bsky.social 🥳Thanks to @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social & our other speakers & panelists, including @chennessybooks.bsky.social & @nikiwan.bsky.social, for an inspiring day exploring the 'magic' & challenges of re-reading childhood books as adults
March 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Get a taste for @DCUSchoolofEng MA in Children’s & YA lit at our Postgrad Open Day in U Building, Glasnevin campus.
March 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM