Moore, Lisa L.
Associate Professor

Education: Ph.D. Cornell 1991
Office Location: PAR 217
Office Hours: TTh 2:30-4:00p
Phone: (512) 471-1837
llmoore@mail.utexas.edu

Associate Professor Lisa Moore was born in Canada. She 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. A leading scholar in eighteenth-century queer studies, Professor Moore is the author of Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Duke UP) and more than thirty articles, essays and reviews. She has given lectures on her research all over the world including at Cambridge University, the Clark Institute for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies, Miami University, the University of Colorado, the City University of New York, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Yukon College. In 2002 she was a Visiting Professor at Université de Paris X (Nanterre). 

Research Interests: Professor Moore's research and teaching interests include 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.

Recent Publications: “The Swan of Litchfield: Sarah Pierce and the Lesbian Landscape Poem,'' in Thomas A. Foster, ed., Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America (New York: NYU Press, 2007), pp. 253-278

''Queer Gardens: Mary Delany's Flowers and Friendships,'' Eighteenth Century Studies (October 2005).

''Lesbian Migrations: Mary Renault's English Novels.'' GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2003. pgs. 23-46.

''Acts of Union: Sexuality and Nationalism, Romance and Realism in the Irish National Tale.'' Cultural Critique, 2000.

Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel. Duke University Press, 1997.

''Teledildonics: Virtual Lesbians in the Fiction of Jeannette Winterson.'' In Grosz, ed., Sexy Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Feminism. Routledge, 1994.

''`Something More Tender Still Than Friendship': Romantic Friendship in Early Nineteenth Century England.'' Feminist Studies, 1991.

''`She Was Too Fond of Her Mistaken Bargain': Gender and Sexuality in Feminist Theory,'' diacritics, 1991.

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