
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
Recent Publications:
Swift, the Book, and the Irish
Financial Revolution: Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial
Ireland and Enlightenment, a special issue of Eighteenth-Century
Studies (forthcoming, 2010).
“Devouring Posterity: A Modest Proposal, Empire, and
“‘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.”
