Dr Nicole Moore
Sugar Heaven
Australian Feminist Studies
Dr Nicole Moore
Position: Senior Lecturer in English
Contact Details
Office: W6A 637
Phone: 61-2-9850 6792
Fax: 61-2-9850 6593
Email: nicole.moore@humn.mq.edu.au
Qualifications
BA (Hons) University of Sydney
PhD University of Queensland
Profile
Dr Moore is on long-service and maternity leave from March 2008.
Nicole's main research is in the fields of Australian literature and Australian Studies, and she also pursues interdisciplinary research in gender studies and cultural history. She teaches units on Australian literature and culture in the undergraduate program, as well as Australian Studies. She is currently working on an ARC-funded history of literary censorship in Australia . She supervises Higher Degree Research projects in all areas of Australian literature, comparative postcolonial and Indigenous writing and creative writing.
Nicole is Co-Director of the Centre for Cultural History at Macquarie and a member of the Centre for the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature. She is reviews editor of Australian Feminist Studies.
Research
Research interests
Australian literature, working-class writing, women’s writing, gender and sexuality in culture, national and colonial literary culture, resistant writing and the politics of culture, censorship and literary obscenity.
Research funding
ARC Discovery Grant, 2005-2007.
Margaret George Award, National Archives of Australia, 2005.
Macquarie University Early Career Research Grant 2002.
University of Tasmania Internal Research Grant 2001.
Current research
Literary censorship in Australia: Dr Moore’s current research is an ARC funded study of literary censorship in twentieth-century Australia. The project explores the categories through which books and publications of many kinds have been banned by federal and state governments, demonstrating the ways in which these have both changed and remained constant. In order to discern these categories, the project is also a systematic treatment of the archived files of censorship bodies, assisted by three months research in the National Archives of Australia as Margaret George Award research fellow, in 2005. Dr Marita Bullock is employed as research assistant on the project.
The Censor’s Library is forthcoming with Miegunyah Press.
Banned in Australia is the first complete bibliography of all literary books banned by the federal censors in Australia in the twentieth century. Co-authored with Dr Bullock, the dataset is available as a work-in-progress subset of the subscription Austlit Gateway resource at: http://www.austlit.edu.au/specialistDatasets/Banned
Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature: Nicole is contributing editor to a new anthology of Australian literature (1500 pages, Allen and Unwin, 2009), hosted by the Centre for the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature and the English Department at Macquarie , funded by an ARC Linkage Grant: http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/anthology/index.htm . She is responsible for material from 1900-1950 of all genres (98,000 words), a section introduction and 50 biographical author entries.
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Selected publications
Scholarly Edition
Sugar Heaven, by Jean Devanny [1936]. Vulgar Press: Carlton, Vic., 2002. Editor and Introduction. Including essays by Devanny, Carole Ferrier, Amanda Lohrey and a critical bibliography of work on Devanny.
Edited
New Urgencies in Australian Studies. Co-edited with Michelle
Arrow. Special Issue of Australian Humanities Review, No.38, 2006. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/
Feminist Histories/Histories of Feminisim. Special Issue Australian Feminist Studies. Co-edited with Mary Spongberg, 20.48, 2005.
Vision Splendid. Special Issue Journal of Australian Studies. Co-edited with Richard Nile. University of Queensland Press and API Network. No. 66, December 2000.
Reviews Editor, Australian Feminist Studies, 2005 - http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08164649.asp
Reviews Editor, Australian Humanities Review, 2000-2005.
Book Chapters
“Introduction.” Oh Lucky Country by Rosa Cappiello. Sydney: Sydney University Press, forthcoming 2008.
“The work of Dorothy Hewett.” Companion to Australian Literature. Eds. Nicholas Birns and Rebecca McNeer. New York: Boydell and Brewer/University of Rochester Press, 2007.
“Mother is, like, history.” Women Making Time: Contemporary Feminist Critique and Cultural Analysis. Eds. Brigitta Olubas and Elizabeth McMahon. University of Western Australia Press, 2006. 172-190.
Journal Articles
“An interview with Betty Roland.” Southerly Special Issue: Tribute to Elizabeth Webby. 67.1-2 (2007): 362-76.
“Secrets of the censors: Obscenity in the Archives.” Public Lecture at the National Archives of Australia, 2 May 2005
http://www.naa.gov.au/about-us/research-grants/margaret-george-award/former/moore-paper-2004-old.aspx
”An Indecent Obsession: Dr Nicole Moore on Australian Censorship Regimes.” Memento: News from the National Archives. Number 30 Spring/Summer 2005.
http://www.naa.gov.au/naaresources/publications/memento/pdf/memento30.pdf
“National Parapraxis: Sex and Forgetting in Australian Censorship History.” Australian Historical Studies Special Issue: History of Sexuality, 37.126 (2005): 296-314.
“Treasonous Sex: Birth Control Obscenity and White Australia .” Australian Feminist Studies Special Issue: New Directions in Women's History, 20.48 (2005): 319-342.
“Remember Love and Struggle? Jean Devanny's Sugar Heaven and Contemporary Australian Political Fiction.” Australian Literary Studies 21.3 (2004): 251-263.
“The Absolutely Incredible Obscenity of Letty Fox .” Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (JASAL) 2 (2003): 67-79.
“Obscene and Over Here: National Sex and the Love Me Sailor Obscenity Trial.” Australian Literary Studies 20.4 (2002): 316-329.
“Dorothy Hewett: Twentieth Century Writer.” Tribute. Overland 169 (2002): 15-17.
“Interrupting Maternal Citizenship: Birth Control in Mid-wave Women's Writing.” Australian Feminist Studies 17.38 (2002): 151-164.
“To be rid, to be rid of it …': Abortion and the Cosmopolitan Modern in Dymphna Cusack's Jungfrau .” Australian Studies ( London , UK ). 16.2 (2001)
“The Politics of Cliché: Sex, Class and Abortion in Australian Realism.” Modern Fiction Studies , Working Class Fiction special issue, 47.1 (2001): 69-91.
“A Monster of Indecision: Abortion, Choice and Commodity Culture in Christina Stead's The Beauties and Furies .” Southerly 61.2 (2001): 142-157.
“The Rational Natural: Conflicts of the Modern in Eleanor Dark.” Hecate Eleanor Dark special issue, 27.1 (2001): 19-31.
“That Critical Juncture': Maternalism in Australian Feminist Anti-Colonial History.” The Vision Splendid , University of Queensland Press, Journal of Australian Studies 66, Dec. (2000): 95-102.
“Future Now.” Southerly , 60th Anniversary Issue, 59.3 & 4 (1999): 27-36.
“Asking for More: The Impact of Dorothy Hewett.” Overland 153 (1998): 26-31.
“Jill-of-all-Trades: Dorothy Hewett talks to Nicole Moore.” Overland 153 (1998): 34-41. Interview. Republished Jacket 9, October 1999. http://jacketmagazine.com/09/moor-iv-hewe.html
“Me Operation': Abortion and Class in Australian Women's Novels, 1920s –1950.” Hecate 22.1 (1996): 27-46.
“The Burdens Twain or Not Forgetting Yourself: The Writing of Betty Roland's Life.” Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Studies 18.1 (1992): 6-26.
Teaching
- ENGL276 Reading Theory
- ENGL270 Australain Literature
- AUST200 Australian Studies: Australian Perspectives
- ENGL361 Beyond the Frontiers: Literature and Culture in Colonial Australia
- ENGL445 Struggle and Becoming: Literature and social protest in Australia.
- LIT815 Australian Women’s Writing
Administrative Roles
Infrastructure Block Grants Committee
Macquarie University
Australian History Museum Management Committee
Conferences:
‘Sex and Sedition: Censorship Then and Now.’ Inaugural symposium, Centre for Cultural History, Macquarie University, May 2007.
‘New Urgencies in Australian Studies.’ Co-convened with Dr Michelle Arrow. Symposium at The Mint, September 2004.