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Professor Nicole Moore

Professor Nicole Moore

Professor
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School of Humanities & Social Sciences

Nicole Moore isProfessorin English and Media Studies at Ƶ. From September 2022 to July 2023 she was the Visiting Professor of Australian Studies in the Centre for American and Pacific Studies at the University of Tokyo.From 2018-2022 she was Associate Dean for,fostering research, curationand partnerships utilising world-class manuscript materials and rare books.

Her main research interests include Australian literature broadly, comparative literature, the cultural Cold War, and book history, with a special interest in censorship. Her 2012 bookwon the Walter McCrae Russell award from the Association for the Study of Australian Literatureand was shortlisted for a Queensland Literary Award, the Penny Pether prize from the Australian Law, Literature and the Humanities Association, and the Prime Minister's Literary Award in Australian History. Recent edited collections pursue the topics of , , and . Her research pursues issues at stake in the political cultures of reading and writing, and the complex relations of literature, governance and history within and across national boundaries.

Current Projects

An ARC Future Fellowship enabledher biography of the prominent Australian writer Dorothy Hewett, which she is currently completing for Melbourne University Press.

A new ARC Discovery Project with Dr Christina Spittel funds a history of the mid-century publisher the Australasian Book Society, exploring the exceptional impact of this breakthrough literary endeavour in the broader context of Australia's cultural Cold War.

Nicole editsthe at Anthem Press (London). She is a member of the editorial boards ofAustralian Literary Studies, Hecate: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Women's Studies, theJournal of Australian Studies, the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (JASAL)andStudies in Australasian Cinema, and acts as a referee for various national and international presses, journals, and research funding bodies.Prof. Moore has held visiting fellowships at the Menzies Centre, Kings College London; the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge; the National Archives of Australia, and the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University.

Research Supervision

To inquire about supervision of higher degree research, please contact Professor Moore on n.moore@unsw.edu.au.

Recently awarded PhDs:

Dr Sandeep Singh - Poetry, postcolonialism and the Cold War in South East Asia: Four case studies

Dr Gayani Ranawake - Effective communication in contemporary science writing

Dr Priyanka Shivadas - A comparative study of contemporary Indigenous literature in Australia and India
Phone
+61 2 5114 5231
E-mail
n.moore@unsw.edu.au
Location
Blg 28 Rm 105 School of Humanities and Social Sciences Ƶ
  • Books | 2017
    Moore NR; Birns N; Shieff S, 2017, Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature, Moore NR; Birns N; Shieff S, (eds.), Modern Languages Association, New York
    Books | 2016
    Moore N; Spittel C, 2016, Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic: Reading through the Iron Curtain
    Books | 2015
    Moore N, 2015, Censorship and the Limits of the Literary: A Global View, Moore N, (ed.), Bloomsbury Academic, New York,
    Books | 2012
    Moore N, 2012, The Censor's Library, 1st, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Qld., http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1174/The%20Censor's%20Library-%20Uncovering%20the%20Lost%20History%20of%20Australia's%20Banned%20Books
    Books | 2009
    2009, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature, Jose N; Heiss A; Goldsworthy K; McCooey D; Minter P; Moore N; Webby E, (eds.), Allen & Unwin, Sydney
    Books | 2008
    Bullock M; Moore N, 2008, Banned in Australia, Original, AustLit, e-resource,
  • Book Chapters | 2023
    Moore N, 2023, 'The Novel at Arms: Rereading Australian Mid-century Realism', in Carter D (ed.), The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 336 - 353,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Moore N, 2022, 'Making a literary working class in the cultural Cold War: The Australasian Book Society', in Barnhisel G (ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Culture, Bloomsbury, New York, pp. 307 - 324,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Moore N; Hunt C; Leonard P, 2020, 'Australia', in Helgesson S; Neumann B; Rippl G (ed.), Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures, De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 511 - 530,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Moore N, 2020, 'Print Censorship and the Cultural Cold War: Books in a Bounded World', in Hammond A (ed.), Palgrave Handbook to Cold War Literature, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 43 - 61,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Moore N, 2019, ''Put on Dark Glasses or a Blind Man's Head': Poetic Defamation and the Question of Feminist Privacy in 1970s Australia', in Arrow M; Woollacott A (ed.), Everyday Revolutions: Gender, Sexuality and Society in 1970s Australia, Australian National University EPress, Canberra, pp. 295 - 312,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Moore NR; Birns N; Shieff S, 2017, 'Introduction', in Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature, Modern Languages Association, New York, pp. 1 - 14
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Moore NR; Birns N, 2017, 'Relocating Literary Sensibility: Colonial Australian Print Culture in the Digital Age', in Moore N; Birns N; Shieff S (ed.), Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature, Modern Languages Association, New York, pp. 15 - 28
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Moore NR, 2016, 'Censorship and Literature', in Rabinowitz P (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Moore NR, 2016, 'Sedition as Realism: Frank Hardy's Power without Glory parts the Iron Curtain', in Moore NICOLE; Spittel C; Moore N (ed.), Reading Through the Iron Curtain Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic, Anthem Press, London, pp. 93 - 116
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Moore NR, 2016, 'Zola to Roth: Literature in the Dock in Australia', in Blume PF (ed.), Buch Macht Geschichte: Beiträge zur Verlags- und Medienforschung, De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 311 - 328
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Spittel C; Moore N, 2016, 'South by East: World Literature's Cold War Compass', in Spittel ; Moore N (ed.),
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Moore N, 2015, 'Literary censorship internationally: Introduction', in Moore NR (ed.), Censorship and the Limits of the Literary: A Global View, Bloomsbury Academic, New York,
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Moore N, 2015, 'Red Love as Seditious Sex: Bans on proletarian women's writing in Australia in the 1930s', in Barraclough R; Bowen-Struyk H; Rabinowitz P (ed.), Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 39 - 58,
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Moore N, 2015, 'Surrealism to Pulp: The limits of the literary and Australian Customs', in Censorship and the Limits of the Literary: A Global View, Bloomsbury Academic, New York,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Moore N, 2013, 'The Catcher in the Rye Gets Caught in the Net : Censorship and the Parliamentary Library', in Genoni P; Dalziell T (ed.), Telling Stories: Australian Literary Cultures 1935-2012, edn. Original, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 180 - 187
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Moore N, 2012, ''Because They Were White, Baby, and they Ruled the World': Die australische Zensur von James Baldwins Another Country', in Laux C; Zeckert PF (ed.), Flachware: Fussnoted der Leipziger Buchwissenschaft, edn. First, Plottner Verlag, Leipzig; London, pp. 147 - 168
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Moore N; Spittel C, 2012, 'Bobbin' Up in the Leseland: Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic', in Kirkpatrick P (ed.),
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Moore N, 2010, 'Articulate Contraband', in Jaehrling S (ed.), Banned Books in Australia, edn. First, University of Melbourne, Carlton Victoria Australia, pp. 9 - 15
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Moore N, 2009, 'Australian Literature 1900-1950', in Jose N; Heiss A; Minter P; Webby E; Moore N; Goldsworthy K; McCooey D (ed.), Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature, edn. hb, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 23 - 30
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Moore N, 2009, 'Introduction', in Capiello R (ed.), Oh Lucky Country, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. v - xi
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Bullock M; Moore N, 2008, 'Introduction', in Bullock M; Moore N (ed.), Banned in Australia, edn. Original, AustLit, e-resource, pp. N/A - N/A,
    Book Chapters | 2007
    Moore N, 2007, 'The Work of Dorothy Hewett', in Birns N; McNeer R (ed.), Companion to Australian Literature, edn. First, Boydell and Brewer/University of Rochester Press, New York, pp. 321 - 334
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Moore N, 2006, '"Mother is, like, history"', in McMahon E; Olubas B (ed.), Women Making Time: Contemporary Feminist Critique and Cultural Analysis, edn. First, University of WA Press, Perth, pp. 172 - 190
    Book Chapters | 1997
    Moore N, 1997, '“’Threatened People Don’t Breed’: The Maternal Strike in Australian Women’s Writing"', in Johnson A; Lee M; Schlunke K; Forward FS; Hodge B (ed.), Off The Sheep’s Back: New Humanities, edn. Original, School of Humanities, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, NSW, pp. 27 - 42
  • Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Hidden Journey from Australia to the Second World: Asychronous Cold War poetics and transnational dissent', ,
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, '"'I'll Tell My Mother': Dorothy Hewett and Literary Feminism after #MeToo"',
    Journal articles | 2017
    Moore NR, 2017, 'Editorial', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 17, pp. 1 - 3,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Kennedy R; Leane J; McGrath A; Moore N; Nugent M, 2016, 'Roundtable: Message from Mungo and the Scales of Memory', AUSTRALIAN HUMANITIES REVIEW, pp. 247 - 259,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Moore N; Kennedy R; Leane J; McGrath A; Nugent M, 2016, 'Roundtable: Message from Mungo and the Scales of Memory', Australian Humanities Review, pp. 247 - 259,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Moore N, 2016, 'Review of *The Red Professor: The Cold War Life of Fred Rose*', Australian Literary Studies,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Moore NR, 2016, 'Performing 1971: Dorothy Hewett's The Chapel Perilous - for Reading Australia', Westerly, 61, pp. 126 - 143,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Moore NR, 2015, ''A recognised trouble-maker wherever he goes': Narrated Surveillance, Redacted Recognition and the International Reach of Australia's Cultural Cold War', Australian Literary Studies, pp. 52 - 69
    Journal articles | 2015
    Moore NR, 2015, '‘A recognised trouble-maker wherever he goes’: Narrated Surveillance, Redacted Recognition and the International Reach of ASIO’s Cultural Cold War', Australian Literary Studies, 30, pp. 52 - 69,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Moore N; Birns N; Shieff S, 2014, 'Naming the Nation: A Poetic Retrospect', Antipodes, 28, pp. 263 - 266
    Journal articles | 2014
    Moore NR, 2014, 'Placing Sociality, Intimacy, Authority: Dorothy Hewett in the Biographical Frame',
    Journal articles | 2013
    Moore N, 2013, 'Censorship is', Australian Humanities Review, 54, pp. 45 - 65,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Moore N, 2012, 'Review of Selected Prose of Dorothy Hewett', Transnational Literature, 4, pp. np - np,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Moore N, 2011, 'Impossible Literary Histories', Australian Literary Studies, 25, pp. 49 - 60,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Moore N, 2010, 'Editorial', Australian Feminist Studies, 25, pp. 255 - 256,
    Journal articles | 2007
    Moore N, 2007, 'Art Makes the World: Obituary for Mona Brand', Overland, 189, pp. 93 - 94
    Journal articles | 2007
    Moore N, 2007, 'Betty Roland interviewed by Nicole Moore', Southerly, 67, pp. 362 - 376
    Journal articles | 2007
    Spongberg M; Moore N, 2007, 'Australian Feminist Studies: Editorial', Australian Feminist Studies, 22, pp. 1 - 2,
    Journal articles | 2005
    Moore N, 2005, ''National Parapraxis: Memory and Forgetting in Australian Censorship History.'', Australian Historical Studies, 36, pp. 296 - 314
    Journal articles | 2005
    Moore N, 2005, ''Treasonous Sex: Birth Control Obscenity Censorship and White Australia.'', Australian Feminist Studies, 20, pp. 319 - 342,
    Journal articles | 2005
    Moore N, 2005, 'An Indecent Obsession: Dr Nicole Moore on Australian Censorship Regimes', Memento, 30
    Journal articles | 2004
    Moore N, 2004, '"Remember Love and Struggle? Jean Devanny's Sugar Heaven and Contemporary Australian Political Fiction', Australian Literary Studies, 21, pp. 251 - 263
    Journal articles | 2004
    Moore N, 2004, 'Remember love and struggle? Reading Jean Devanny's Sugar Heaven in contemporary Australian contexts', Australian Literary Studies, 21, pp. 251 - 263,
    Journal articles | 2003
    Moore N, 2003, 'The Absolutely Incredible Obscenity of Letty Fox', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (JASAL), 21, pp. 67 - 79,
    Journal articles | 2002
    Moore N, 2002, 'Dorothy Hewett - Twentieth-century writer', OVERLAND, pp. 15 - 17,
    Journal articles | 2002
    Moore N, 2002, 'Dorothy Hewett: Twentieth-century Writer. (Commissioned Tribute)', Overland, 169, pp. 15 - 17
    Journal articles | 2002
    Moore N, 2002, 'Interrupting Maternal Citizenship: Birth control in mid-wave women's writing', Australian Feminist Studies, 17, pp. 151 - 164,
    Journal articles | 2002
    Moore N, 2002, 'Obscene and Over Here: National Sex and the Love Me Sailor Obscenity Trial', Australian Literary Studies, 20, pp. 316 - 329
    Journal articles | 2002
    Moore N, 2002, 'Review of *Authority and Influence: A ustralian Literary Criticism 1950-2000*, edited by Delys Bird, Robert Dixon, and Christopher Lee', Australian Literary Studies,
    Journal articles | 2001
    Moore N, 2001, 'A Monster of Indecision: Abortion, Choice and Commodity Culture in Christina Stead's The Beauties and Furies', Southerly, 61, pp. 142 - 157
    Journal articles | 2001
    Moore N, 2001, 'The Politics of Cliche: Abortion, Sex and Class in Australian Realism', Modern Fiction Studies, 47, pp. 69 - 91
    Journal articles | 2001
    Moore N, 2001, 'The Rational Natural: Conflicts of the Modern in Eleanor Dark', Hecate, 27, pp. 19 - 31
    Journal articles | 2001
    Moore N, 2001, 'The politics of cliche: Sex, class, and abortion in Australian realism', MODERN FICTION STUDIES, 47, pp. 68 - 91,
    Journal articles | 2001
    Moore N, 2001, 'To be rid, to be rid of it ...: Abortion and the Cosmopolitan Modern in Dymphna Cusack's Jungfrau', Australian Studies, 16, pp. 59 - 81
    Journal articles | 2000
    Moore N, 2000, 'Female Curiosity and Colonial Scripts. Review Essay', Australian Feminist Studies, 15, pp. 284 - 286
    Journal articles | 2000
    Moore N, 2000, 'That Critical Juncture: Maternalism in Australian Feminist Anti-Colonial History', Journal of Australian Studies, 66, pp. 95 - 102
    Journal articles | 2000
    Moore N, 2000, '‘That critical juncture’: Maternalism in anti‐colonial feminist history', Journal of Australian Studies, 24, pp. 95 - 102,
    Journal articles | 1999
    Moore N, 1999, 'Future Now', Southerly, 59, pp. 27 - 36
    Journal articles | 1999
    Moore N, 1999, 'Until Then. Review Essay', Overland, 157, pp. 93 - 94
    Journal articles | 1998
    Moore N; Hewett D, 1998, 'Jill-of-all-trades - Dorothy Hewett talks to Nicole Moore, Faulconbridge, Sunday 12 July 1998', OVERLAND, pp. 34 - 41,
    Journal articles | 1998
    Moore N, 1998, 'Asking for More: The Impact of Dorothy Hewett', Overland, 153, pp. 26 - 31
    Journal articles | 1998
    Moore N, 1998, 'Barmaids: a history of women's work in pubs', Women's Writing, 5, pp. 265 - 290,
    Journal articles | 1998
    Moore N, 1998, 'Jill-of-all-Trades: Dorothy Hewett talks to Nicole Moore', Overland, 153, pp. 34 - 41
    Journal articles | 1996
    Moore N, 1996, ''Me Operation': Abortion and Class in Australian Women's Novels 1920s-1950', Hecate, 22, pp. 27 - 46
    Journal articles | 1992
    Moore N, 1992, 'The Burdens Twain or Not Forgetting Yourself: The Writing of Betty Roland's Life', Hecate, 18, pp. 6 - 26
  • Other | 2018
    Moore NR (ed.), 2018, Special Issue Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, ,
    Conference Papers | 2008
    Moore N, 2008, 'UnAustralia the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia annual conference, 6-8 December 2006', in Australian Feminist Studies, pp. 155 - 157,
  • Media | 2021
    2021, “Dorothy Hewett: 1923-2002”.,
    Media | 2021
    2021, “‘Famously Fed Up’: How the Feminist Writer Kate Jennings Changed Australia.”,