Dr Grace Moore
Lecturer, English
Biography
Grace Moore holds an MA from the College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA and a BA (Hons) and a PhD from the University of Exeter, UK. Prior to joining the University of Melbourne, Grace taught at the University of Bristol, UK (2001-2002) and the University of Idaho, USA (2002-2004). She is a faculty member of the Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz, USA. Grace is a Dickens scholar with additional research interests in crime fiction and neo-Victorianism. Her monograph, Dickens and Empire, was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award for literary scholarship in 2006.
Current research
- Victorian Pirates (edited collection).
- Victorian Silhouettes (a work-in-progress on twentieth-century reinventions of the Victorian novel).
Teaching
- 106-216 Victorian Crime Writing
- 106-102 Modern and Contemporary Literature
- 106-230 Reverberations of Terror (with Clara Tuite)
- 106-458 Dickens and the Condition of England.
- 106-060 Decadent Literature (with Clara Tuite)
Full subject descriptions are available on the University of Melbourne Handbook.
Publications
Books
- Grace Moore. Dickens and Empire. Ashgate Nineteenth-Century Series. 2004. Shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier’s Biennial Award for Literary Scholarship (2006). ISBN 0754634124, 210 pages.
- Andrew Maunder & Grace Moore (eds). Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation. Ashgate Nineteenth-Century Series. 2004. ISBN 0754634124, 259 pages.
Articles
- ‘Turkish Robbers, Lumps of Delight, and the Detritus of Empire: The East Revisited in Dickens’s Late Novels’ Critical Survey 21.1 April 2009, pp75-88.
- “The Skull Beneath the Skin: A Melodrama Without a Character?”. METAphor May 2008.
- “Neo-Victorianisms” in Literature Compass (Blackwell). Volume 5/1, January 2008 pp134-144.
- Grace Moore and Susan Pyke. ‘Haunting Passions: Revising and Revisiting Wuthering Heights’. Victorians Institute Journal. Volume 35, 2007, pp239-250.
- “Colonialism in Victorian Fiction: Recent Studies”, Extended review essay on recent publications in Victorian postcolonial studies, commissioned by the editors of Dickens Studies Annual. Volume 37, September 2006. ISBN 0-404-18937-7.
- "Virginia Woolf and the Remaking of Victorian Britain". Virginia Woolf Bulletin. May 2003, pp 8-17.
- “Swarmery and Bloodbaths: A Reconsideration of Dickens and the Governor Eyre Controversy”. Dickens Studies Annual, 2002, ISBN 0-404-18931-8, pp 175-201.
- “Reappraising Dickens’s ‘Noble Savage’”. The Dickensian. 2002, pp 236-243.
Book Chapters
- ‘Rehabilitating the Nineteenth Century: The Revisionist Novel and the Future of Victorian Studies’ in Maunder, Andrew (ed) Teaching Nineteenth-Century Fiction (The New English). Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009.
- “Victorian Empire” in Holly Furneaux and Sally Ledger (eds). Dickens in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Kirstie Blair, Michael Helfand, Priti Joshi, Grace Moore and Tamara Wagner. ‘Chapter Four: Case Studies in Reading Literary Texts’ in Alexandra Warwick and Martin Willis (eds), The Victorian Literature Handbook. London: Continuum, 2008. pp89-115.
- ‘Beastly Criminals and Criminal Beasts’. In Martin A. Danahay & Deborah D. Morse (eds) Animal Dreams: Representations of Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture. Aldershot & Vermont: Ashgate, 2007 ISBN 0754655113, pp 286-306.
- “Something to Hyde: the “Strange Preference” of Henry Jekyll”. In Andrew Maunder & Grace Moore (eds) Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation. Ashgate, 2004. ISBN 0754634124, pp147-161.
- “Introduction” (co-authored). In Andrew Maunder & Grace Moore (eds) Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation. Ashgate, 2004. ISBN 0754634124, pp1-14.
Entries
- “The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith” for The Literary Encyclopedia ed. Robert Clarke et al. 2005. 2500 words. http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8031
- “My Life as a Fake” for The Literary Encyclopedia ed. Robert Clarke et al. 2005. 2500 words. http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13344.
- “A Tale of Two Cities”. for The Literary Encyclopedia ed. Robert Clarke et al. 2004. 2500 words. http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6942.
- “Great Expectations” for The Literary Encyclopedia ed. Robert Clarke et al. 2004. 2500 words. http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4892
- “Charles Dickens” for Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia. Eds Michael S Kimmel, with Amy Aronson. ABC-Clio, 2003.
- Article-length entry on Peter Carey, Jack Maggs. Beacham’s Encylopedia of Popular Fiction. 2001. ISBN 07876 5150-8, pp 245-254.
- Article-length entry on Bernhard Schlink, The Reader. Beacham’s Encylopedia of Popular Fiction. 2001. ISBN 07876 5150-8, pp 357-364.
Introductions
- Introduction to Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2009.
- Introduction to Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2008.
- Introduction to Charles Dickens: Five Complete Novels. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006.
Reviews
- Ronald Thomas. Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science. Cambridge University Press. Critical Survey. 2001, pp 135-137.
- Chris Barker. Cultural Studies: Theory & Practice. London: Sage Publications. The Review of Communication, 2002. http://www.natcom.org/ROC/one-one/January2002/MooreonBarker.pdf
- Angelique Richardson & Chris Willis. The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact. Palgrave. The Thomas Hardy Journal. February 2002.
- Holly Henry. Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science. The Times Literary Supplement. October 31st 2003.
- Gautam Chakravarty The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination. English Studies in Canada. Volume 31.4, 2005.
- Radhika Mohanram Imperial White: Race, Diaspora, and the British Empire and Angelia Poon, Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period for The Journal of Victorian Culture, 2009.
- Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle for Nineteenth-Century Literature. 2009.
Journalism
- “The Darker Side of Robert Louis Stevenson”. The Strand, October 2002. pp 55-58.
- "The First Great Detectives". The Strand, May 2003. pp 48-51. .
- “The Rise of the Vampire”. The Strand, October 2003. pp 52-55.
- “Death of the Reader”. The Chronicle of Higher Education. May 2004, ppC1 & C4.
Research Fellowships
- Distinguished Junior Scholar in Residence Fellowship. The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada. July/August 2001.
- Visiting Research Fellow, Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, April 2003.
- University of Melbourne Career Enhancement Fellowship: 2008/2009.
Grants and Awards
- University of Melbourne Research Office Early Career Researcher Grant (2005).
- University of Melbourne Research Office Early Career Researcher Grant (2006).
- Dickens and Empire was one of two books shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier’s Award for Literary Scholarship, 2006.