Title: Senior Lecturer, Director of Undergraduate Writing

Department: English

Office: 415 Alumni Hall
Phone: 343-2239
Fax: 343-8028
Email: roger.e.moore@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• B.A., Samford University
• M.A, Ph.D, Vanderbilt University

Research Area

• Renaissance Literature
• The English Reformation
• Religion and Literature
• Seventeenth-Century Prose

Current Research

• "Bare Ruined Choirs: The Cloister and the English Imagination from the Reformation to Romanticism" (book project)
• A book project on prophecy and inspiration in sixteenth-century literature
• "Jane Austen and the Reformation: The Politics of Sacred Space in 'Northanger Abbey' and 'Mansfield Park'," journal article (under submission)

Current Courses

• English 118W.02, "The Examined Life" (Fall 2007)

Professional Societies

• Modern Language Association
• American Academy of Religion
• Sixteenth-Century Studies Society

Professional Honors

• Harriet S. Gilliam Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Arts and Science, 2003

Publications

• SELECTED ARTICLES
• “Sidney’s ‘Defense’ of Prophesying: Prophetic Illumination and the Defense of Poesy,” forthcoming in SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
• "Austen and Religion." In The Blackwell Companion to Jane Austen. Eds. Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite (forthcoming)
• "Quaker Writing in the Seventeenth-Century." in Teaching Early-Modern Prose. Eds. Margaret E. Ferguson and Susannah Monta. New York: MLA Press, 2007. Forthcoming.
• "'I'll rouse my senses, and awake myself': Marlowe's The Jew of Malta and the Renaissance Gnostic Tradition." Religion and Literature 37.3 (2005): 37-58.
• "The Spirit and the Letter: Marlowe's Tamburlaine and Elizabethan Religious Radicalism." Studies in Philology 99 (2002): 123-151.