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Dr Jane Moore - BA, MA, PhD (Wales)

Overview

Dr Jane Moore Position: Reader Email: MooreJV@cf.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)29 208 75669
Extension: 75669
Location: John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff

Research Group

Cultural Criticism / English Literature

Postgraduate Students

I would welcome applications from potential graduate students interested in researching Romantic-era poetry and prose, especially satire, popular fiction, and women’s writing.

Current PhD Supervision

I am currently bringing to completion PhD supervision of the following two theses: ‘Romantic Women Writers and the Arthurian Legend’ and ‘Playing with Dolls: Feminine Subjectivity and the Posthuman’.

Research Interests

My research to date has focused on British and Irish Romanticism, specifically the Irish poet and satirist Thomas Moore as well as the work of Mary Wollstonecraft.   I edited the first scholarly edition of The Satires of Thomas Moore and am currently completing a monograph on Thomas Moore’s literary legacy in the Romantic period. 

I am author of Mary Wollstonecraft (1997) and editor of a selection of essays, also entitled Mary Wollstonecraft (2012).  I am co-author, with John Strachan, of Key Concepts in Romantic Literature (2010).

Grants Awarded

 
Sept. 2008 British Academy Small Research Grant of £1,670
Sept. 2006 British Academy Overseas Conference Grant of £500
March 2005
Cardiff University Research Travel Scheme Grant of £4,340
Feb. 2003 British Academy Overseas Conference Grant award of £429
Sept. 2001-Jan.2002 AHRB Research Leave Award of £11,640 to bring to completion The Satires of Thomas Moore, vol. 5 British Satire, 1785-1840

Selected Publications

Books

  • Ed. Mary Wollstonecraft, International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, xxiv + 586 pp.
  • Key Concepts in Romantic Literature, 1789-1830, with John Strachan, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010, xi + 336 pp.
  • Ed. The Satires of Thomas Moore, Volume 5, British Satire, 1785-1840, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003, xxxvi + 529 pp. (with Introduction, Headnotes and Explanatory Notes).
  • Mary Wollstonecraft, Writers and Their Works, Plymouth: Northcote House Press in association with the British Council, 1999, xi + 93 pp.
  • The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism, ed. with Catherine Belsey.  Second Edition.  London: Macmillan, 1997, xii + 265 pp. (with Introduction, Notes and Glossary).

Chapters and Articles

‘Celtic Romantic Poetry: Scotland, Ireland, Wales’, in A Companion to Romantic Poetry. ed. Charles Mahoney (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), pp. 251-67.

‘“Transatlantic Tom”: Thomas Moore in North America’, in Ireland and Romanticism: Politics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 77-93.

‘Jane Elizabeth Moore’, Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, ed. Stephen C. Behrendt, Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press (2008), 18pp. http://iwrp.alexanderstreet.com

‘Radical Satire, Politics and Genre: The Case of Thomas Moore’, Journal of Irish and    Scottish Studies, 1: 1 (2007), pp. 145-59.

‘Thomas Moore as Irish Satirist’, in Scotland, Ireland and the Romantic Aesthetic, ed. David Duff and Catherine Jones (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2007), pp. 152-171.

‘“Parallelograms and Circles”: Robert Owen and the Satirists’, in Wales and the Romantic Imagination, ed. Damian Walford Davies and Lynda Pratt (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007), pp. 243-67.

Publications

Books

Ed. Mary Wollstonecraft, International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, xxiv + 586 pp.

Key Concepts in Romantic Literature, 1789-1830, with John Strachan, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010, xi + 336 pp.

Ed. The Satires of Thomas Moore, Volume 5, British Satire, 1785-1840, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003, xxxvi + 529 pp. (with Introduction, Headnotes and Explanatory Notes).

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writers and Their Works, Plymouth: Northcote House Press in association with the British Council, 1999, xi + 93 pp.

The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism, ed. with Catherine Belsey.  Second Edition.  London: Macmillan, 1997, xii + 265 pp. (with Introduction, Notes and Glossary).

The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism, ed. with Catherine Belsey, London: Macmillan, 1989, x + 263 pp. (with Introduction, Notes and Glossary).

Journal editorship

With Marysa Demoor, ‘Essays from ESSE: Proceedings of the Women’s Studies Section at the European Society for the Study of English conference, Bordeaux 1993’, BELLS 7, Barcelona: University of Barcelona Press (1996).

Encyclopedia entries

Twenty entries (new or heavily revised) in The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 7th edn, ed. Dinah Birch (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), on Adeline Mowbray, Charlotte Dacre, Cheap Repository Tracts, Maria Edgeworth, William Godwin, Felicia Hemans, The Improvisatrice, The Italian, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Isabella Lickbarrow, Lady Morgan, Political Justice, Records of Women, Sappho and Phaon, Series of Plays, Mary Tighe, Vancenza, Mary Wollstonecraft, Wrongs of Woman, Zoyfloya.

Journal articles/ chapters in books / web publications

Celtic Romantic Poetry: Scotland, Ireland, Wales’, in A Companion to Romantic Poetry. ed. Charles Mahoney (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), pp. 251-67.

‘“Transatlantic Tom”: Thomas Moore in North America’, in Ireland and Romanticism: Politics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 77-93.

Jane Elizabeth Moore’, Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, ed. Stephen C. Behrendt, Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press (2008), 18pp. http://iwrp.alexanderstreet.com

Biographical entry (2,000 words) on Robert Owen (2008) for The Literary Encyclopedia, online at http://www.litencyc.com

Radical Satire, Politics and Genre: The Case of Thomas Moore’, Journal of Irish and    Scottish Studies, 1: 1 (2007), pp. 145-59.

Thomas Moore as Irish Satirist’, in Scotland, Ireland and the Romantic Aesthetic, ed. David Duff and Catherine Jones (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2007), pp. 152-171.

‘“Parallelograms and Circles”: Robert Owen and the Satirists’, in Wales and the Romantic Imagination, ed. Damian Walford Davies and Lynda Pratt (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007), pp. 243-67.

Wollstonecraft’s Secrets’ Women’s Writing 4: 2 (1997), pp. 247-60.

Leçons de vertu: L'influence des leçons de Mary Wollstonecraft sur la sexualité féminine auprès des pédagogues et des réformatrices américaines pendant les années 1820-1830’, in L' Éducation Des Femmes En Europe Et En Amérique Du Nord De La Renaissance À 1848: Réalités Et Représentations, ed. Guyonne Leduc, Paris: L'Harmattan (1997), pp. 409-18.

Promises, Promises: the Fictional Philosophy in Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman’, in The Feminist Reader.  Second Edition.  Ed. Catherine Belsey and Jane Moore (1997), pp. 133-47.

Problematising Postmodernism’, in Critical Dialogues: Current Issues in English Studies in Germany and Britain, ed. Isobel Armstrong and Hans-Werner Ludwig, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (1995), pp. 131-41.

Theorizing the Body’s Fictions’, in Theorizing Culture: An Interdisciplinary Critique After Postmodernism, ed. Barbara Adam and Stuart Allen, London: UCL Press (1995), pp. 70-86.

Sex, Slavery and Rights in Mary Wollstonecraft's “Vindications”’, in The Discourse of Slavery: Aphra Behn to Toni Morrison, ed. Betty J. Ring and Carl Plasa, London and New York: Routledge (1994), pp. 18-39.

Unseating the Philosopher-Knight’, in Political Gender: Texts and Contexts, ed. Sally Ledger, Josephine McDonagh and Jane Spencer, London: Harvester Wheatsheaf (1994), pp. 71-84.

Plagiarism With A Difference: Subjectivity in “Kubla Khan” and Letters Written During A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark’, in Beyond Romanticism: New approaches to texts and contexts 1780-1832, ed. Stephen Copley and John Whale, London and New York: Routledge (1992), pp. 140-59.

A to Z entries’, Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature, ed. Claire Buck, London: Bloomsbury (1992).

An Other Space: A Future for Feminism?’, in New Feminist Discourses, ed. Isobel Armstrong, London and New York: Routledge (1992), pp. 65-79.

Feminist Criticism in the Wake of Virginia Woolf’, in La Huella de Virginia Woolf, ed. Mercedes Bengoechea, Universida de Alcalá de Henares: Servicio de Publications (1992), pp. 157-76.

Promises, Promises: the Fictional Philosophy in Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman’, in The Feminist Reader, ed. Catherine Belsey and Jane Moore (1989), pp. 155-73.

Review essays

Ms. en Abyme’, Women: A Cultural Review, 6: 2 (1995), pp. 253-55.

Feminist Literary Criticism’, Archiv: für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 144 (1992), pp. 139-42.

Women and Literature’, Literature and History, 2: 1 (1991), pp. 85-90.

Book reviews

Ronan Kelly, Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore (Dublin: Penguin Ireland, 2008), Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. 29 (1010), pp. 155-6.

Murray Pittock, Scottish and Irish Romanticism (Oxford, 2008), Estudios Irlandeses, 4, (2009), pp. 135-6. 

Heather Glen and Paul Hamilton eds., Repossessing the Romantic Past (Cambridge, 2006), Nineteenth-Century Literature 62: 4 (2008), pp. 534-7.

Ian Haywood, The Revolution in Popular Literature: Print, Politics, and the People, 1790-1860, British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin & Review, 27 (2005), pp. 28-9.

Janet Todd, Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life, Women’s Writing, 8: 2 (2001), pp. 344-46.

Joan Landes, ed., Feminism, the Public and the Private, Women’s Writing, 7: 1 (2000), pp. 130-1.

Alison Light, Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars, Literature and History, 1, 1 (1992), pp. 108-9.

Deirdre Bair, Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography, Times Educational Supplement (June 1990), p. 7.

Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément, The Newly Born Woman, Quinquereme: New Studies in Modern Language, 11 (1988), pp. 108-9.

Colin MacCabe, Theoretical Essays, Film, Linguistics, Literature, Textual Practice, 1 (1987), pp. 221-23.

Diane Macdonell, Theories of Discourse: An Introduction, Women’s Review, 9 (1986), p. 40.

Anne Oakley, Telling the Truth About Jerusalem, Marxism Today (October 1986), p. 57.

Research

Current Projects

Book:
A monograph on Thomas Moore’s literary legacy in the Romantic period.

Essays:
‘Thomas Moore, Marsh’s Library and Irish Anacreontics’ (in preparation).
‘Poetry, Parody and Plagiarism: The Literary Relationship of Mangan and Moore’, in Sinéad Sturgeon ed., The Man in the Cloak: A Revaluation of James Clarence Mangan, forthcoming Palgrave Macmillan 2013.

Biography

Teaching

1990-date (Successively) Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader in English Literature, Cardiff University
1994-95 Visiting Professor at Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille III
1989-90 Lecturer in English Literature, Trinity College Dublin.

Teaching Interests

Teaching offered on the BA programme in English Literature includes modules in Romantic poetry (years 2 and 3) and modernist fiction (year 3). I also teach an optional module on 'British Romantic Women's Poetry' for the MA in English Literature.