Rate My Professor Grace Moore

Associate Professor Grace Moore is a leading scholar of Victorian literature and culture in the English and Linguistics programme at the University of Otago, where she joined in 2019 as part of the School of Arts in the Division of Humanities. She earned her BA and PhD from the University of Exeter in the UK and her MA from the College of William & Mary in the USA. Prior to Otago, Moore held a senior lecturer position at the University of Melbourne for fourteen years and served as a senior research fellow with the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. She has also taught at the University of Bristol in the UK and the University of Idaho in the USA. Additionally, she is a faculty member of the Dickens Project at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and was a Faculty Fellow there in 2023.

Moore's research specializations include Victorian literature, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, settler literature, neo-Victorianism, the history of emotions, and ecocriticism. Her key publications feature the monograph Dickens and Empire, shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Award for Literary Scholarship in 2006, and The Victorian Novel in Context. She edited Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation (with Andrew Maunder), Pirates and Mutineers of the Nineteenth Century, and Victorian Environments (with Michelle J. Smith). Moore guest-edited the open access special issue Fire Stories, which explores interconnections between fire and emotions. Her current projects include a book on Anthony Trollope's representations of environmental change across the globe and research on settlers' depictions of Australian bushfires. Since January 2024, she has been editor of the online Literary Encyclopedia, previously serving as Victorian section editor since 2019. Moore has contributed to public engagement through lectures, including an appearance on The Academic Minute in March 2025 on literature and fire, and recent reviews in the Times Literary Supplement on Charles Dickens's Pictures from Italy (2026) and Anthony Trollope (2025).