Victorian literature, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Settler literature, Neo-Victorianism, the History of Emotions, Ecocriticism.
Biography
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.
She is the author of Dickens and Empire, which was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Award for Literary Scholarship in 2006, and The Victorian Novel in Context. She is the editor of Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation (with Andrew Maunder), Pirates and Mutineers of the Nineteenth Century, and Victorian Environments (with Michelle J. Smith). Grace is (as of January 2024) editor of the online Literary Encyclopedia, having been one of the Victorian section editors since 2019. Her other recent publications include an open access special issue, Fire Stories, which explores the interconnections between fire and emotions.
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.
In 2023 Grace was a Dickens Project Faculty Fellow. The first of her three talks, “Trollope Down Under: Representations of Bushfires and Wildfires in Nineteenth-Century Settler Culture,” may be viewed below.
Possible supervision
Victorian literature and culture; Charles Dickens; Ecocriticism; Emotions theory; Neo-Victorianism; Australian settler literature; Crime fiction.
Moore, G. (2023, November - December). "Smoke hundreds of metres high had cut the world in half": Emotions, trauma and memory in Ash mountain and The living sea of waking dreams [Invited]. Keynote presentation at the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (SPACLALS) Conference: Precarious Planet: Disability, Rights and Justice, Sydney, Australia.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Moore, G. (2023). Emotional rescue. New Zealand Listener, (21 October). [Commentary].
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
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, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. 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, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oox6B9q0n9k
Other Research Output
Moore, G. (2023, January). Representations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature. Dickens Project Faculty Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmuB7Vcu9a8
Other Research Output
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. (2022, June). Anthony Trollope and other visitors to New Zealand. Robert Louis Stevenson. University of the Third Age, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Research Presentation].
Other Research Output
Moore, G. (2022). 'A taste of hell': Fear of fire in the Australian settler imaginary. Sites, 19(2), 49-72. doi: 10.11157/sites-id521
Journal - Research Article
Moore, G. (2022). [Review of the book Romantic pasts: History, fiction and feeling in Britain, 1790-1850]. Emotions, 6, 362-364. doi: 10.1163/2208522X-02010173
Journal - Research Other
Moore, G. (2022, November). Respondent [Invited]: Oceanic materialities: Corals, cyclones and shipwrecks. Verbal presentation at the Global/Oceanic/Nineteenth Century Symposium & Workshop, [Hybrid].
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Chakrabarty, D., Ellis, L., Moore, G., Prentice, C., and Johnson, M. (2022, August). Roundtable discussion with Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty: The climate of history in a planetary age. The Centre for Research on Colonial Culture, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Public Discussion].
Other Research Output
Moore, G. (2022). "They would put out that fire like a couple of matches burning": Climate change and reciprocity in George R. Stewart's Fire. Occasion, 13, 155-167. Retrieved from https://arcade.stanford.edu/occasion_issue/fire-stories-1
Journal - Research Article
Moore, G. (2021). 'This book is about how we feel': Emotions scholarship, hope and climate activism [History of emotions: Where are we?]. Emotions, 5, 342-347. doi: 10.1163/2208522X-02010133
Journal - Research Other
Moore, G. (2021). "A few good seasons will restore prosperity to the land": Louisa Atkinson's depictions of drought. Victorian Review, 47(1), 5-9.
Journal - Research Article
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
Moore, G. (2021). [Review of the book Settler colonialism in Victorian literature]. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 32, 189-192. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.iNS32.6874
Journal - Research Other
Moore, G. (2020). "As closely bonded as we are": Animalographies, kinship, and conflict in Ceridwen Dovey's Only the Animals and Eva Hornung's Dog Boy. a|b: Auto|Biography Studies, 35(1), 207-229. doi: 10.1080/08989575.2020.1720194
Journal - Research Article
Moore, G. (2019, December). We keep down our remorse: Anthony Trollope and the emotional politics of agriculture. Verbal presentation at the Southern Circulations Symposium: Texts, Mobility, and the Production of Australasia, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Moore, G. (2019). 'I know not of a spot more odious': Anthony Trollope and the emotions of mining. Proceedings of Grounding Story: The 7th Biennial Association for the Study of Literature, Environment & Culture, Australia-New Zealand (ASLEC-ANZ) Conference. (pp. 33-34). Retrieved from https://aslecanz.org.au/conferences/7th-aslec-anz-biennial-conference
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Moore, G. (2019, November). 'To clear even one acre would be the work of Herculean toil': Violence in the bush in the writings of Louisa Atkinson. Verbal presentation at the Afterlives: Intimacy, Violence and Colonialism Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Moore, G. (2019). [Review of the book Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon]. Victorian Studies, 62(1), 140-142. doi: 10.2979/victorianstudies.62.1.15
Journal - Research Other
Moore, G. (October, 2019) Victorian climate change? Dark skies and fog everywhere: Representing changing climates. MindJam. Yonder, Queenstown, New Zealand. [Public Discussion].
Other Research Output
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. (co-curator), & McLean, T. (co-curator) (2018, 15 June-31 August). All the year round: Exploring the Nineteenth-century periodical. De Beer Gallery, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Exhibition].
Exhibition
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. (2018). Alternative families, natural disasters, and colonial settlement: Henry Kingsley's Australia. Victorians, 133(1), 44-57. doi: 10.1353/vct.2018.0004
Journal - Research Article
Moore, G. (2018). 'The road-makers eat meat three times a day': Anthony Trollope and the Australian meat trade. Meanjin, 77(1), 142-151.
Journal - Research Article
Moore, G. (2018). ‘Raising high its thousand forked tongues’: Campfires, bushfires, and portable domesticity in nineteenth-century Australia. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 26. doi: 10.16995/ntn.807
Journal - Research Article
Moore, G. (2018). Emotions. Victorian Literature & Culture, 46(3-4), 660-665. doi: 10.1017/S1060150318000505
Journal - Research Other
Moore, G. (2017, February). Refashioning the family: Colonial kinship in The recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn. Verbal presentation at the Family Ties Symposium: Exploring Kinship and Creative Production in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Moore, G. (2017). Nature. In S. Broomhall (Ed.), Early Modern emotions: An introduction. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2017). Perspectives on North and South (Marxism, historicism and ecocriticism). Idiom, 53(2), 11-13. [Commentary].
Journal - Research Other
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). '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). Turning the literary tides: William Clark Russell and the Victorian nautical novel [Review of the book William Clark Russell and the Victorian nautical novel: Gender, genre and the marketplace]. Journal of Victorian Culture, 22(2), 259-261. doi: 10.1080/13555502.2017.1303278
Journal - Research Other
McLean, T., & Moore, G. (2017). The concluding page of an Angrian story by Branwell Brontë. Notes & Queries, 64(4), 607-611. doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjx159
Journal - Research Article
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 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). ‘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. (2015). Exhibition catalogue essay, The art of regeneration. From the Fire Exhibition, The Dax Centre, Melbourne, Australia. [Exhibition Catalogue].
Other Research Output
Moore, G. (2015). Reading adventures. University of Melbourne Collections, 16, 11-14.
Journal - Research Other
Garrido, S., Baker, F. A., Davidson, J. W., Moore, G., & Wasserman, S. (2015). Music and trauma: The relationship between music, personality, and coping style [Opinion]. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 977. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00977
Journal - Research Other
Moore, G. (2015). Home was where the hearth is: Fire, destruction, and displacement in nineteenth-century settler narratives. Antipodes, 29(1), 29-42. doi: 10.13110/antipodes.29.1.0029
Journal - Research Article
Moore, G. (2014). Swashbucklers [Review of the books Treasure Neverland: Real and imaginary pirates and Women and English piracy]. Times Literary Supplement, 5823(7 November). [Book Review].
Journal - Research Other
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. (2014). The fiery outlaw: Incendiarism and the tarnishing of a bushranging folk hero. Australian Folklore, 29, 117-126.
Journal - Research Article
Moore, G., & Bristow, T. (2014). Alert, but not alarmed: Emotion, place, and anticipated disaster in John Kinsella's "Bushfire Approaching". Philological Quarterly, 93(3), 343-359.
Journal - Research Article
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. (2013). Fires, literature, politics and mateship in the bush. Agora, 48(4), 53-58.
Journal - Research Article
Moore, G. (2012). The racial other. In J. O. Jordan & N. Perera (Eds.), Global Dickens. Farmham, UK: Ashgate.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2012). Hard times for the teaching of Victorian novels? Professional Educator, 11(4), 12-13.
Journal - Research Other
Moore, G. (2012). The Victorian novel in context. New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 184p.
Authored Book - Research
Moore, G. (2011). Wuthering heights [Study guide]. St Kilda, Australia: Insight Publications, 72p.
Authored Book - Other
Moore, G. (2011). A christmas carol [Study guide]. St Kilda, Australia: Insight Publications, 72p.
Authored Book - Other
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). 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. (Ed.). (2011). Pirates and mutineers of the nineteenth century: Swashbucklers and swindlers. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 314p.
Edited 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. (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
Moore, G. (2009). Turkish robbers, lumps of delight, and the detritus of empire: The East revisited in Dickens's late novels. Critical Survey, 21(1), 74-87. doi: 10.31 67/cs. 2009.2
Journal - Research Article
Blair, K., Helfand, M., Joshi, P., Moore, G., & Wagner, T. (2008). Case studies in reading literary texts. In A. Warwick & M. Willis (Eds.), The Victorian literature handbook. (pp. 89-115). London, UK: Continuum. [Case Study].
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2008). P.D. James's The Skull Beneath the Skin: A melodrama without character? mETAphor, (2), 17-22.
Journal - Research Article
Moore, G. (2008). Twentieth‐century re‐workings of the Victorian novel. Literature Compass, 5(1), 134-144. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2007.00515.x
Journal - Research Article
Moore, G. (2007). Beastly criminals and criminal beasts: Stray women and stray dogs in Oliver Twist. In D. Denenholz Morse & M. A. Danahay (Eds.), Victorian animal dreams: Representations of animals in Victorian literature and culture. (pp. 201-306). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G., & Pyke, S. (2007). Haunting passions: Revising and revisiting "Wuthering Heights". Victorians Institute Journal, 35, 239-249.
Journal - Research Article
Moore, G. (2006). Colonialism in Victorian fiction: Recent studies. Dickens Studies Annual, 37, 251-286.
Journal - Research Article
Maunder, A., & Moore, G. (2004). Introduction. In A. Maunder & G. Moore (Eds.), Victorian crime, madness and sensation. (pp. 1-14). Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moore, G. (2004). Something to Hyde: The "strange preference" of Henry Jekyll. In A. Maunder & G. Moore (Eds.), Victorian crime, madness and sensation. (pp. 147-162). Burlington, UK: Ashgate.
Chapter in Book - Research
Maunder, A., & Moore, G. (Eds.). (2004). Victorian crime, madness and sensation. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 259p.
Edited 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. (2003). Virginia Woolf and the remaking of Victorian Britain. Virginia Woolf Bulletin, (13), 2-6.
Journal - Research Article
Moore, G. (2002). Swarmery and bloodbaths: A reconsideration of Dickens on class and race in the 1860s. Dickens Studies Annual, 31, 175-202.
Journal - Research Article
Moore, G. (2002). Reappraising Dickens's 'Noble Savage'. Dickensian, 98(458), 236-243.
Journal - Research Article