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Mo Moulton | |
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| Born | 1979 New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, lecturer, author |
| Known for | Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England, The Mutual Admiration Society |
| Website | momoulton |
Mo Moulton (born 1979)[1] is an American[2] author and historian of 20th century Britain and Ireland, interested in gender, sexuality, and colonialism/postcolonialism. They are a senior lecturer in the history of race and empire at the University of Birmingham.[3][4]
Education and early life
[edit]Moulton was born in New York in 1979 and grew up in Massachusetts.[5] They majored in history as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 2001.[6] After working for non-profit organisations, they returned to graduate study at Brown University, earning a PhD in 2010.[3]
Academic career
[edit]Moulton became a lecturer at Harvard University from 2010 until 2016 before moving to the University of Birmingham[3] as a senior lecturer.[7]
They were elected to the council of the British Association for Irish Studies for the 2021–2023 term.[8]
Personal life
[edit]Moulton identifies as "queer, trans, and nonbinary" and uses singular they as their preferred pronoun. At Birmingham, they are a founder of the College of Arts & Law Trans Support Network.[5]
Bibliography and book awards
[edit]- Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England (Cambridge University Press, 2014).[9] Runner-up (proxime accessit) for The Whitfield Prize in 2015[10]
- The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women (Basic Books, 2019) about The Mutual Admiration Society at Somerville College, Oxford.[11] Winner of the 2019 Agatha Award[12] and the 2020 Anthony Award,[13] in their respective non-fiction categories.
References
[edit]- ^ "Moulton, Mo, 1979". LC Name Authority File. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
- ^ Moulton, Mo (21 November 2016). "An American in Brexit Britain: Reflections After the Presidential Election". Catapult.
- ^ a b c "Mo Moulton". University of Birmingham.
- ^ Smith, Antonia Parker (13 May 2020). "20 Questions for SHaCademics – Dr Mo Moulton". University of Birmingham.
- ^ a b "Mo Moulton". Rainbow Network. University of Birmingham. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
- ^ "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Harvard University. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ^ "Mo Moulton | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org.
- ^ "BAIS Council for 2021–2023". British Association for Irish Studies. 1 December 2020. Retrieved 2021-01-10 – via Wordpress.
- ^ Reviews of Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England:
- Aveyard, Stuart (January 2016). Journal of British Studies. 55 (1): 221–223. doi:10.1017/jbr.2015.192. S2CID 164905172.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Convery, David (April 2016). The English Historical Review. 131 (549): 496–498. doi:10.1093/ehr/cew008.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Daly, Mary E. (April 2015). Contemporary British History. 29 (2): 287–289. doi:10.1080/13619462.2015.1031511. S2CID 145704753.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Delaney, Enda (9 August 2014). "Entangled connections". Irish Times.
- Fanning, Bryan (Fall 2015). Studies. 104 (415): 347–351. JSTOR 24640675.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Gannon, D. (November 2014). Twentieth Century British History. 26 (4): 633–636. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hwu059.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Gallagher, Niamh (26 June 2014). "Niamh Gallagher relishes a stimulating and valuable study of a neglected period of history". Times Higher Education.
- MacRaild, Donald M. (July 2015). Cultural and Social History. 12 (3): 436–438. doi:10.1080/14780038.2015.1050887. S2CID 147092738.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Moran, James (January 2015). "Enemies within". Dublin Review of Books (63).
- Mulholland, Marc (December 2015). Continuity and Change. 30 (3): 425–427. doi:10.1017/s0268416015000314. S2CID 152260853.
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- Aveyard, Stuart (January 2016). Journal of British Studies. 55 (1): 221–223. doi:10.1017/jbr.2015.192. S2CID 164905172.
- ^ Schwartz, Larry. "The Whitfield Book Prize". Minnesota State University Moorhead. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
- ^ Reviews of The Mutual Admiration Society:
- Freeman, Laura (8 November 2019). "Mutual Admiration Society by Mo Moulton review — Oxford beware: brainy girls". The Times.
- Higgins, Charlotte (21 November 2019). "Mutual Admiration Society by Mo Moulton review – the pioneering club of Dorothy L Sayers". The Guardian.
- Hirsch, Pam (July 2020). Journal of British Studies. 59 (3): 693–694. doi:10.1017/jbr.2020.8. S2CID 225609596.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Hopper, Briallen (27 January 2020). "Writing together". Los Angeles Review of Books.
- Hurd, Crystal (2019). Sehnsucht: The C.S. Lewis Journal. 13: 132–134. JSTOR 48579737.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Mundow, Anna (25 October 2019). "'The Mutual Admiration Society' Review: The Case of the Lifelong Friends". The Wall Street Journal.
- Prescott, Barbara L. (Spring–Summer 2020). Mythlore. 38 (136): 163–188. ProQuest 2399148000.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Ramsey, Michael L. (11 April 2020). "Oxford's Mutual Admiration Society championed female pioneers". The Roanoke Times.
- Read, Sophie (7 November 2019). "Sophie Read enjoys a vivid account of how four women who met at Oxford before the First World War went on to forge lives and careers for themselves". Times Higher Education.
- Scholes, Lucy (29 November 2019). "Mutual Admiration Society — Dorothy L Sayers and her rule-breaking friends". Financial Times.
- "Nonfiction book review". Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ Glyer, Mike (4 May 2020). "2019 Agatha Award Winners". File 770.
- ^ Schaub, Michael (19 October 2020). "Winners of Anthony Awards Announced at Bouchercon". Kirkus Reviews.
External links
[edit]- Home page
- Mo Moulton publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Interview with Moulton about Mutual Admiration Society, History: The Journal of the Historical Association, 16 December 2019
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