Academic biography

Lucy Stone is an Assistant Professor in the School of English, and module coordinator of Histories and Contexts, part of the MA in Children's and Young Adult Literature degree programme.

Lucy has published on children's representations of war and displacement, and is a contributing author to Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's Literature and Film, winner of the 2023 IRSCL Book Award.

The Research Excellence Academy (Newcastle University, UK) funded Lucy's doctoral project on the Nazi-era and multilingual (German, French and English) juvenilia by children's authors Judith Kerr (1923-2019) and Tomi Ungerer (1931-2019), and she also received a David Almond Fellowship (Newcastle University and Seven Stories) for her archival research. In 2024, she won an Humanities Travelling Fellowship from the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Faculty Research Grant from the Children's Literature Association research children’s lived experiences of conflict and forced migration across the globe in the mid-twentieth century. Most recently, Lucy won the 2025 International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) Research Grant to further develop this work.

Lucy is also developing a new, interdisciplinary project on narratives of young people's cancer survivorship. 

Before joining DCU, Lucy was a Strategic Partnership Coordinator, Education Transformation, at the University of Adelaide, and served on the committee for the Cambridge Society of South Australia, part of the University of Cambridge Alumni Global Network. She is now a board member for the Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research (ACLAR) and a member of the Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature (ISSCL).