Lisa L. Moore is Archibald A. Hill Professor of English and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and the Director of the LGBTQ Studies Program at The University of Texas at Austin. Moore's research and teaching interests include eighteenth-century British, Irish and American literatures, womens and lesbian art and literature, LGBTQ studies, and literary form, especially poetry and the novel.
She is the author or editor of five books, including "Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes," which won the Lambda Literary Award. Her articles, essays and reviews have appeared in venues including Critical Inquiry, Eighteenth-Century Studies, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and Feminist Studies.
In addition to her chapbook, "24 Hours of Men" (Dancing Girl Press, 2018), Moore has published poems in recently in Nimrod International Journal, The Fourth River, and Borderlands Texas Poetry Review. Her poem Anthropomorphic Harp won the Art/Lines Juried Poetry Prize from The Museum of Fine Arts-Houston, and Cowgirl Filibuster was chosen as the Split This Rock Poem of the Week.
Her creative non-fiction, literary essays and reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Diversity and Democracy, The Women's Review of Books, and other venues.
Ph.D.
in English Literature, minor in Women's and Gender Studies, Cornell University, 1991
M.A.
in English Literature, Cornell University, 1989
B.A.
in English Literature, Queen's University, Canada, 1986
18th century English and American literature; women's literature; LGBTQ literature; LGBTQ studies; poetry; feminist and queer theory; history of sexuality
Co-Director,
Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies (2011 - 2012)
Co-Chair,
LGBT/Sexualities Research Cluster, Center for Womens and Gender Studies (2006 - 2012)
Member,
Squaw Valley Poetry Workshop
Advisory or Editorial Board Member,
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 18thConnect: Eighteenth-Century Scholarship Online
Manuscript, Poetry and Article Reviews,
Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Eighteenth-Century Studies, GLQ, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Duke University Press, Minnesota Unive
Award, Prize and Fellowship Committees,
American Academy in Berlin Poetry Fellowship, Lambda Literary Foundation Book Awards, 2013. American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellows Program, Fullbright Scholars
Mentoring,
American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellowship, 2010-14, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Program, 2009-10.
External promotion reviews,
University of Toronto, 2012; University of North Texas, 2009; Johns Hopkins University, 2008; University of California, Santa Cruz, 2001.
Member,
national Women's Studies Association
Member,
Modern Language Association
Member,
American Society for Eighteenth-Century studies
Member,
The Austin Project
Founder and Chair,
P.S. Poets and Scholars Reading Series
Director,
Oxford University Study Abroad Program
Moore, L. (2018). 24 Hours of Men: Dancing Girl Press. (View)
Moore, L. (2015). The Collected Poems of Anna Seward (, Vol. 1 & 2): Routledge. (View)
Moore, L., Brooks, J. & Wigginton, C. (2012). Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions: Oxford University Press. (View)
Moore, L. (2011). Sister Arts: The erotics of Lesbian Landscapes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (View)
Moore, L., Jones, O., Jones, J. & Bridgforth, S. (2010). Experiments in Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia and the Austin Project. Austin: UT Press. (View)
Moore, L. (1997). Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel. Durham: Duke University Press. (View)
Distinguished Service Award
- The University of Texas at Austin (2020)
Liberal Arts Student Council Endowed Teaching Award
- The University of Texas at Austin (2013)
Choice Academic Book of the Year
- Choice Magazine (2012)
Award for LGBT studies
- Lambda Literary Foundation (2012)
Lambda Literary Foundation Award for LGBT Studies
- Lambda Literary Foundation (2012)
Humanities Research Award
- College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin (2011 - 2014)
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
- The University of Texas at Austin (2011)
Silver Spurs Teaching Fellowship
- The University of Texas at Austin (2010)
Lynne Milburn Award for GLBTQ Achievements
- Pride and Equity Faculty-Staff Association, UT Austin (2009)
Paula Backscheider Archival Fellowship
- American Society for Eighteenth-Century studies (2006 - 2007)
Presidents Associates Teaching Excellence Award
- The University of Texas at Austin (2000)
The Lucia, John, and Melissa Gilbert Award for Teaching Excellence in Womens and Gender Studies
- The University of Texas at Austin (1997)
Art/Lines Juried Poetry Prize
- The Museum of Fine Arts-Houston
Services for Students with Disabilities Faculty Award
- The University of Texas at Austin
