Victorian literature, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Settler literature, Neo-Victorianism, the History of Emotions, Ecocriticism.
Grace Moore works on many aspects of Victorian literature and culture and her publications include work on Dickens, Trollope, pirates, fires, emotions and the environment, acclimatization, deforestation, climate change, crime writing, neo-Victorianism and animal studies.
Grace is at present writing a book about the novelist Anthony Trollope and his representation of environmental change across the globe, while also finishing up a project on settlers and their representation of Australian bushfires.
Prior to her arrival at Otago in 2019, Grace taught at the University of Melbourne for fourteen years, where she was a senior lecturer. Most recently, she was a senior research fellow with the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Grace has also taught at the University of Idaho, USA and the University of Bristol, UK, and she is a faculty member of the Dickens Project, based at UC Santa Cruz.
Recently, Grace gave a talk to the Friends of the Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz, as part of their 2023 Faculty Fellowship scheme – Trollope Down Under: Representations of bushfires and wildfires in 19th-century settler literature.
Victorian literature and culture; Charles Dickens; Ecocriticism; Emotions theory; Neo-Victorianism; Australian settler literature; Crime fiction.
Moore, G. (2023, April).
"I call him a savage": Adapting to Dickens on race. Invited presentation at the Dickens and Adaptation International Symposium, [Hybrid].
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Moore, G. (2023, March).
Trollope down under: Harry Heathcote of Gangoil, discussion chapters 7-12. Dickens Project Faculty Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz, CA. Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8lY0I1EckY
Other Research Output
Moore, G. (2023). 'A misfortune in the distance': Violence against the bush in the writings of Louisa Atkinson. In A. Wanhalla, L. Ryan & C. Nurka (Eds.),
Aftermaths: Colonialism, violence and memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. (pp. 167-178). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2023, February).
Trollope down under: Harry Heathcote of Gangoil, discussion chapters 1-6. Dickens Project Faculty Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz, CA. Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oox6B9q0n9k
Other Research Output
Moore, G. (2012).
The Victorian novel in context. New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 184p.
Authored Book - Research
Moore, G. (2004).
Dickens and empire: Discourses of class, race and colonialism in the works of Charles Dickens. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 224p.
Authored Book - Research
Moore, G. (2011).
A christmas carol [Study guide]. St Kilda, Australia: Insight Publications, 72p.
Authored Book - Other
Moore, G. (2011).
Wuthering heights [Study guide]. St Kilda, Australia: Insight Publications, 72p.
Authored Book - Other
Moore, G., & Smith, M. J. (Eds.). (2018).
Victorian environments: Acclimatizing to change in British domestic and colonial culture. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 317p.
Edited Book - Research
Moore, G. (Ed.). (2011).
Pirates and mutineers of the nineteenth century: Swashbucklers and swindlers. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 314p.
Edited Book - Research
Maunder, A., & Moore, G. (Eds.). (2004).
Victorian crime, madness and sensation. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 259p.
Edited Book - Research
Moore, G. (2023). 'A misfortune in the distance': Violence against the bush in the writings of Louisa Atkinson. In A. Wanhalla, L. Ryan & C. Nurka (Eds.),
Aftermaths: Colonialism, violence and memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. (pp. 167-178). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2023). We keep down our remorse: Anthony Trollope and the emotional politics of Australasian agriculture. In T. Ballantyne (Ed.),
The making and remaking of Australasia: Mobility, texts and 'southern circulations'. (pp. 155-168). London, UK: Bloomsbury.
doi: 10.5040/9781350283862.ch-008
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2021). 'Then came the high unpromising forests, and miles of loneliness': Louisa Atkinson's recasting of the Australian landscape. In S. Comyn & P. Fermanis (Eds.),
Worlding the south: Nineteenth-century literary culture and the southern settler colonies. (pp. 196-214). Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
doi: 10.7765/9781526152893.00018
Chapter in Book - Research
Whitlock, G., & Moore, G. (2019). Literature. In J. W. Davidson & J. Damousi (Eds.),
A cultural history of the emotions [Vol 6: In the modern and post-modern age]. (pp. 111-127). London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2017). 'So wild and beautiful a world around him': Trollope and Antipodean ecology. In D. Denenholz Morse, M. Markwick & M. W. Turner (Eds.),
The Routledge research companion to Anthony Trollope. (pp. 399-411). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2017). Beasts, birds, fishes, and reptiles: Anthony Trollope and the Australian acclimatization debate. In L. W. Mazzeno & R. D. Morrison (Eds.),
Animals in Victorian literature and culture: Contexts for criticism. (pp. 65-82). London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2017). Nature. In S. Broomhall (Ed.),
Early Modern emotions: An introduction. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2016). 'The heavens were on fire': Incendiarism and the defence of the settler home. In T. S. Wagner (Ed.),
Domestic fiction in colonial Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 63-74). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
doi: 10.4324/9781315653884
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2016). Surviving Black Thursday: The great bushfire of 1851. In T. S. Wagner (Ed.),
Victorian settler narratives: Emigrants, cosmopolitans and returnees in nineteenth-century literature. (pp. 129-140). Abindgon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2016). ‘The floodgates of inkland were opened’: Aestheticising the Whitechapel Murders. In K. Gelder (Ed.),
New directions in popular fiction: Genre, distribution, repoduction. (pp. 67-86). London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2014). Great Expectations, memories, and hopes dashed. In L. W. Mazzeno (Ed.),
Twenty-first century perspectives on Victorian literature. (pp. 169-184). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2013). From Bedford Falls to Punxsutawney: Refashioning
A Christmas Carol. In M. DiPaolo (Ed.),
Godly heretics: Essays on alternative Christianity in literature and popular culture. (pp. 221-238). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2012). The racial other. In J. O. Jordan & N. Perera (Eds.),
Global Dickens. Farmham, UK: Ashgate.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2011). Empires and colonies. In S. Ledger & H. Furneaux (Eds.),
Charles Dickens in context. (pp. 284-291). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2011). Introduction. In G. Moore (Ed.),
Pirates and mutineers of the nineteenth century: Swashbucklers and swindlers. (pp. 1-10). Farnham, UK: Ashgate.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2011). Neo-Victorian and pastiche. In P. K. Gilbert (Ed.),
A companion to sensation fiction. (pp. 627-638). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
doi: 10.1002/9781444342239.ch48
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2011). Pirates for boys: Masculinity and degeneracy in R. M. Ballantyne's adventure novels. In G. Moore (Ed.),
Pirates and mutineers of the nineteenth century: Swashbucklers and swindlers. (pp. 165-180). Farnham, UK: Ashgate.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2010). Rehabilitating the nineteenth century: The revisionist novel and the future of Victorian studies. In A. Maunder & J. Phegley (Eds.),
Teaching nineteenth century fiction. (pp. 183-195). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Chapter in Book - Research
