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Roger E. Moore

Title: Senior Lecturer, Director of Undergraduate Writing, and Special Assistant to the Dean

Department: English

Office: 206 Warren Center
Phone: 343-2239
Fax: 343-8028
Email: roger.e.moore@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

  • B.A., Samford University
  • M.A, Ph.D, Vanderbilt University

Research Area

  • Renaissance Literature
  • The English Reformation
  • Religion and Literature
  • Seventeenth-Century Prose

Current Research

  • "Bare Ruined Choirs: The Cloister and the English Imagination from the Reformation to Romanticism" (book project)
  • "Robert Burton in the Cloister: Monasticism and 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' (in progress)

Current Courses

  • English 208A.01, "Representative British Writers to 1660"

Professional Societies

  • Modern Language Association
  • American Academy of Religion
  • Sixteenth-Century Studies Society

Professional Honors

  • Ernest A. Jones Faculty Adviser Award, College of Arts and Science, 2008
  • Harriet S. Gilliam Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Arts and Science, 2003
  • Fellow, 2011-2012 Faculty Fellows Program, "Sacred Ecology: Landscape Transformations for Ritual Practice," Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
  • Fellow, "Divine Art/Infernal Machine: Attitudes Toward Printing in the Age of the Hand Press," Folger Shakespeare Library seminar, Fall 1999
  • Fellow, NEH Summer Seminar, "The English Reformation: Literature, History, Art", Ohio State University, 1999

Publications

  • RECENT ARTICLES
  • "The Hidden History of 'Northanger Abbey': Jane Austen and the Dissolution of the Monasteries" Religion and Literature 43.1 (Spring 2011): 55-80.
  • "Sir Philip Sidney’s Defense of Prophesying." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 50.1 (Winter 2010): 35-62.
  • "Quaker Writing in the Seventeenth-Century." in Teaching Early-Modern Prose. Eds. Margaret E. Ferguson and Susannah Monta. New York: MLA Press, 2010. 132-142.
  • "Religion." A Companion to Jane Austen. Eds. Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 314-322.
  • "'I'll rouse my senses, and awake myself': Marlowe's The Jew of Malta and the Renaissance Gnostic Tradition." Religion and Literature 37.3 (2005): 37-58.
  • "The Spirit and the Letter: Marlowe's Tamburlaine and Elizabethan Religious Radicalism." Studies in Philology 99 (2002): 123-151.