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Teaching Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Literature, moral philosophy, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British poetry and prose<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n

British Romanticism<\/p>\n

Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Books<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Unpublished Letters of Thomas Moore<\/i>. 2 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013.<\/p>\n

[Explanatory notes.] Byron, Lord George Gordon.\u00a0<\/span>Selected Poetry of Lord Byron<\/em>. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. New York: Random House, 2002, 671-742.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron and Thomas Moore<\/em>. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Articles and Book Chapters<\/h4>\n

“Byron: Libertine, Friend, and Lover.\u201d\u00a0The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron<\/em>. Eds.\u00a0Alan Rawes and Jonathon Shears. Oxford: OUP, 2024, pp. 263-76.<\/p>\n

\u201cThomas Moore: Then & Now\u201d. <\/span>Then & Now: Romantic-Era Poets in the Encyclopaedia Britannica Eleventh Edition 1910-1911<\/i>. Ed. Kim Blank. 2023. <\/span>https:\/\/eb11.uvic.ca\/moore_thomas.html<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cByron, Caroline Lamb, and Samuel Rogers: Unpublished Passages from Moore’s Letters.<\/span>\u201d Byron Journal<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>46, no. 1 (2018) 63-68.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn Memoriam: Charles E. Robinson.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Byron Journal<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>45, no. 1 (2017), 1-2.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThomas Moore.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets<\/em>. Ed. Gerald Dawe. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2017, 61-73.<\/p>\n

\u201cThomas Moore and the Prince of Pleasure: George IV as Satirical Inspiration.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Thomas Moore and\u00a0<\/em>Romantic Inspiration: Poetry, Music, and Politics<\/em>. Eds. Sarah McCleave and Brian G. Caraher. New York: Routledge, 2017, 169-84.<\/p>\n

\u201cSamuel Rogers: A Passion for Little Girls.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>The Wordsworth Circle<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>42, no. 3 (Summer 2011), 217-25.<\/p>\n

\u201cMourning for Venice: Byron\u2019s \u2018Venice: An Ode\u2019 and Moore\u2019s Poetic Response.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Bulletin of the\u00a0<\/em>Societe Fran\u00e7aise des Etudes Byronniennes.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(2010), 93-99.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThomas Moore: After the Battle.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>The Blackwell Companion to Irish Literature<\/em>. Ed. Julia M. Wright. 2 vols. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, vol. 1, 310-25.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u201c\u2018Little\u2019s leadless pistol\u2019: Byron\u2019s Turn from Erotic Poetry to Popeian Satire.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Lord Byron:<\/em>\u00a0\u201cCorrespondence(s)\u201d<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Christiane Vigouroux. Paris: Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier de Guibert, 2008, 365-72.<\/p>\n

\u201cLord Byron\u2019s Canons: Introduction.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Romanticism on the Net<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>43 (2006).<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Standard of Revolt: Revolution and National Independence in Moore\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Lalla Rookh.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Romanticism on the Net<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>40 (2005).<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cA Romantic Satirist in the Age of Peel: Eight New Poems by Thomas Moore.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Keats-<\/em>Shelley Journal<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>54 (2005), 42-62.<\/p>\n

\u201cThomas Moore in Ireland and America: The Growth of a Poet\u2019s Mind.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Romanticism<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>10.1 (2004), 41-62.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u201c\u2018The Ninth of November, Lord Mayor\u2019s Day, An Ode\u2019: A Burlesque Newly Attributed to Thomas Moore.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Victorian Periodicals Review<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>36, no. 4 (Winter 2003), 364-72.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cReading and Writing Thomas Moore\u2019s Biography of Byron.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Byronic Negotiations<\/em>. Ed. Katrina Bachinger. Vienna: Peter Lang Europ\u00e4ischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2002, 24-39.<\/p>\n

\u201cByron\u2019s \u2018Impromptu on a Recent Incident\u2019: A New Text of a Regency Squib.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Keats-Shelley Journal\u00a0<\/em>47 (1998), 29-31.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018My bright twin sister of the sky\u2019:\u00a0<\/span>Manfred<\/em>, Moore\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Loves of the Angels<\/em>, and the Shadow of Augusta Leigh.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Byron Journal<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>26 (1998), 29-38.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u201c\u2018The bright sun was extinguish\u2019d\u2019: The Bologna Prophecy and Byron\u2019s \u2018Darkness.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span>The Wordsworth\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Circle<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>28, no. 3 (Summer 1997), 183-92.<\/p>\n

Selected Speeches and Presentations<\/h4>\n

\u201c\u2018Bright, ruin\u2019d spirit\u2019: Thomas Moore and the Byron Legend. \u201d48th International Byron Society Conference, Athens and Messolonghi, Greece (1-7 July 2024).<\/p>\n

\u201cByron, Thomas Moore, and Don Juan<\/em>\u201d Byron\u2019s Don Juan<\/em>: A Bicentennial Symposium, DePaul University, Chicago (19 October 2019).<\/p>\n

\u201cByron and Metaphysics.\u201d 42nd<\/sup> International Byron Society Conference, Paris, France (4-7 July 2016).<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the Ashes: Byron\u2019s Memoirs and Moore\u2019s Reconstruction of Byron\u201d. South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference 86, Atlanta, Georgia (November 7-9, 2014).<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018My Inheritance of Storms\u2019: Byron\u2019s Body and Byron\u2019s Poetry.\u201d 36th<\/sup> International Byron Society Conference, Boston, USA (26-31 July 2010).<\/p>\n

\u201cThomas Moore: After the Battle.\u201d International Perspectives on Thomas Moore, Queen\u2019s University, Belfast, Ireland (4-5 April 2009).<\/p>\n

\u201cEditing the Unpublished Correspondence of Thomas Moore.\u201d Thomas Moore: Texts\/ Contexts\/Hypertext, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland (28-29 November 2008).<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Little’s Leadless Pistol\u2019: Byron’s Turn from Erotic Poetry to Satire.\u201d 32nd<\/sup> International Byron Society Conference, Sorbonne, Paris, France (14-17 June 2006).<\/p>\n

\u201cMourning for Venice: Byron\u2019s \u2018Venice: An Ode\u2019 and Moore\u2019s \u2018Extract VI.\u2019\u201d 31st<\/sup> International Byron Society Conference, Dublin, Ireland (1-5 August 2005).<\/p>\n

[Session chaired] \u201cLord Byron and Romantic Politics.\u201d Annual Byron Society Session, Modern Language Association Convention (December 28-30, 2002)<\/p>\n

\u201cMoore\u2019s Biography of Byron: Strategy, Reception, Influence.\u201d 21st<\/sup> International Byron Society Conference, Salzburg, Austria (1-3 August 1995).<\/p>\n

Other Professional Activity and\/or Awards<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Peyton Richter Award\u2013awarded\u00a0for excellence in interdisciplinary teaching (2013)<\/p>\n

Member, Board of Directors, Byron Society of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13125,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13125"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50227,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35970\/revisions\/50227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}