Lisa L Moore

College: Liberal Arts

Home Department: English

Education: Ph.D., Cornell University

Research interests:
Feminist theory; British and North American 18th-Century literature and culture; LGBT studies

Courses taught:
WGS 345 GAY AND LESBIAN LIT AND CUL

WGS 393 LESBIAN GENRES

Graduate: GRS 390J Theory in Action E389P Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolution WGS 392 Research Seminar in Women's and Gender Studies E389P Eighteenth-Century Feminisms E389P Feminist Theory Field Seminar E389P Problems in Gay and Lesbian Studies E 392M Acts of Union: Edgeworth, Austen, Scott E 389P Feminist Theory and Sexuality E 389P Fiction/Theory: Contemporary Lesbian Writing E 392L Inventing Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Prose E 392M Histories of the Novel: Burney, Edgeworth, Austen

Undergraduate: E379 Jane Austen E 316K Masterworks of Literature: Women's and Gender Studies Emphasis (large lecture) E370W Gay and Lesbian Literature and Culture E 370W Introduction to Women's Studies in the Humanities E 370W Feminist Literary Theory

Awards/Honors: Richards Teaching Fellowship (Department of English) Faculty Research Assignment, The University of Texas, 2007-08. Harry Ransom Fellowship, The University of Texas, 2006-07. Dean's Proposal Award, The University of Texas, 2006-07. Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Women's and Gender Studies Nominee, The University of Texas, 2005-06. Katherine Ross Richards Centennial Teaching Fellowship, The University of Texas, 2005-06. Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Grant, The University of Texas, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07. Faculty and Student Teams for Technology (FAST Tex) Grant, Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment, The University of Texas, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005. Harry Ransom Fellowship, The University of Texas, 2001. Outstanding Service Award, Women's Studies Program, The University of Texas, 2001. Dean's Fellowship, University of Texas, 2001. President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award, The University of Texas, 2000. Faculty Research Assignment, University Research Institute, The University of Texas, 1997. Lucia, John, and Melissa Gilbert Teaching Excellence Award in Women's and Gender Studies, 1996.

Recent Publications:Book:

Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Duke University Press, 1997). Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals: "Queer Gardens: Mary Delany's Flowers and Friendships," Eighteenth-Century Studies 39: 1 (2005), pp. 49-70. "Lesbian Migrations: Mary Renault's South Africa" GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 10: 1 (November 2003), 23-46. "Acts of Union: Sexuality and Nationalism, Romance and Realism in the Irish National Tale," Cultural Critique 44 (Winter 2000), 113-144. " 'Something More Tender Still Than Friendship': Romantic Friendship in Early Nineteenth-Century England," Feminist Studies 18: 3, Fall 1992, 499-520. (Reprinted in Martha Vicinus, ed., Lesbian Subjects: A Feminist Studies Reader ) " 'She was too fond of her mistaken Bargain': The Scandalous Relations of Gender and Sexuality in Feminist Theory," diacritics 21-22, Summer-Fall 1991, 89-101. "Sexual Agency in Manet's Olympia." Textual Practice, 3: 2, June 1989, 222-233. Book Chapters: "The Swan of Litchfield: Sarah Pierce and the Lesbian Landscape Poem," in Thomas Foster, ed., Long Before Stonewall: Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America (NYU Press, 2007). "My Homosexual Agenda," Burnt Orange Britannia: British Studies at the University of Texas, ed. Roger Louis (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005). "Teledildonics: Virtual Lesbians in the Fiction of Jeannette Winterson," Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism, ed. Elizabeth Grosz and Elspeth Probyn. London: Routledge, 1995, 104-127.

Creative Writing:

"The Body Remembers," poem appearing in The Austin Project Archive: Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic (University of Texas Press, forthcoming).