Lisa L Moore

Interests

Transatlantic eighteenth-century and Romantic literatures; Anglo-American women's literature (specializing in 20th-century lesbian literature); feminist and queer theory and the history of sexuality.

Biography

Associate Professor Lisa Moore joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 1991 and is currently Associate Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies. Professor Moore is the author of Sister Arts:  Lesbian Genres and the Erotic Landscape (Minnesota, 2011) and  Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Duke, 1997).  She is the editor, with Omi Osun Jones and Sharon Bridgforth, of Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic:  Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project (Texas, 2010) and, with Joanna Brooks and Caroline Wigginton, of Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolution (Oxford, 2011).  She has published articles and reviews in journals including GLQ, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Cultural Critique, Textual Practice, Signs, Albion, and Modern Philology.   In 2002 she was a Visiting Professor at Université de Paris X (Nanterre).

Graduate Courses Taught:

• 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
• WGS 393 LESBIAN GENRES

Undergraduate Courses Taught:

• 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
• WGS 345 GAY AND LESBIAN LIT AND CUL

Awards/Honors:

• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, 2011.
• Silver Spurs Teaching Fellowship Award, 2010
• 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.