Dr. Lucy Stone

Lucy Stone is an Assistant Professor in the School of English, Programme Chair of the MA in Children's and Young Adult Literature, and recipient of over 10 research grants, awards, and accolades, (including from the University of Cambridge, the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and the Arts, and the Australian Academy for the Humanities), for projects on subjects ranging from medical humanities to children’s literature, war, and forced migration.

Lucy recently joined the DCU team for the Creative Europe funded G-BOOK Project (€1.4 million), now in its third and final iteration. (Other team members are School of English colleagues Jennifer Mooney and Keith O'Sullivan, and SALIS colleagues Áine McGillicuddy (PI) and Olga Springer.) G-BOOK 3 builds on the success of G-BOOK 1 and 2 (Gender Identity: Child Readers and Library Collections and European teens as readers and creators in gender-positive narratives) and is developing audience engagement activities for the social and emotional education of EU teens through gender-positive literature and digital technology. The DCU G-BOOK 3 team is partnering with Fighting Words and Donabate Community School, and is working with a broader team of 10 partners across Europe to deliver the project.  

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 for 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, cross-disciplinary project on narratives of young people's lived experiences of cancer. She was awarded a fellowship from the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and the Arts to form a preliminary bibliography, identifying and assessing titles in 26 languages from 53 countries at the International Youth Library in Munich, April to June 2026.

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).