SEAN MOORE

Assistant Professor of English
Office Location: Hamilton Smith 117
Office Phone: 603-862-3827
Email: sean@unh.edu

Office Hours, 2009-2010:  Tuesdays 2-4 & By Appointment

Spring 2009 courses:

English 555:  Introduction to Irish Studies

English 768:  Literature of the Later Eighteenth Century

Education and Interests:

PhD Duke University 2003

Sean Moore’s teaching and scholarly interests include the literature of the long eighteenth century, Irish Studies, satire, postcolonial theory, economic criticism, and the history of the book.  His current research concerns eighteenth-century advertising and shopping, investigating the relationship of branded British products such as books to the dissemination of ideas of British political rights and identity in the American colonies.  His forthcoming book, Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution:  Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), argues that Jonathan Swift helped to mobilize the Irish print media for the promotion of Ireland’s cultural, political, and economic sovereignty.  He is also editing Ireland and the Enlightenment, a special issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies exploring the influence of French thought on Ireland and the rise of an indigenous Irish Enlightenment.  His articles have appeared in PMLA, Atlantic Studies, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and other journals and essay collections.  He is the recipient of the 2009 Richard H. Rodino Prize from the Ehrenpreis Center for Swift Studies in Münster, Germany and has held fellowships from the John Carter Brown Library, Folger Shakespeare Library, the University of New Hampshire, and the Fulbright Scholarship Board. 

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications:

Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution:  Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland ( Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)

Ireland and Enlightenment, a special issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies (forthcoming, 2010).

“Devouring Posterity:  A Modest Proposal, Empire, and Ireland 's ‘Debt of the Nation,’” PMLA 122.3 (May 2007): 679-695.  (winner of the Richard H. Rodino Prize).

“‘Our Irish Copper-Farthen Dean’”:  Swift’s Drapier’s Letters, the “Forging” of a Modernist Anglo-Irish Literature, and the Atlantic World of Paper Credit.”  Atlantic Studies 2.1 (April 2005):  65-92.