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Department of English

Roger Moore

Principal Senior Lecturer

www.rogeremoore.com

Roger E. Moore is Principal Senior Lecturer in English at Vanderbilt, where he has taught since 1995. A specialist in early-modern English literature and religion, Moore is the author of scholarly articles on Christopher Marlowe, Sir Philip Sidney, and Geoffrey Chaucer, among others, in SEL, Religion and Literature and Studies in Philology. His most recent work explores nostalgia for monasteries and the monastic life in England from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, work that has inspired three articles on Jane Austen and his book, Jane Austen and the Reformation: Remembering the Sacred Landscape (Ashgate/Routledge 2016). The recipient of the Harriet S. Gilliam Award for Excellence in Teaching (2003) and the Ernest A. Jones Faculty Adviser Award (2008), he teaches courses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature and the English Reformation as well as introductory writing courses and surveys of British literature.

Moore served as Associate Dean from 2013-2020, and recently completed a three-year term as Senior Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Science (2021-24).  In the latter role, he oversaw all matters relating to undergraduate education.

Moore was appointed Traveling Lecturer by the Jane Austen Society of North America for the 2021-22 academic year. He served on the Board of Directors of the Nashville Ballet from 2015-2024. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Nashville Ballet and was Senior Warden of the Vestry at Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal) in 2017-18.

Representative publications

  • “Is Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen’s Most Religious Novel?” Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, 44 (2022):  73-91.
  • “Northanger Before the Tilneys: Austen’s Abbey and the Religious Past.”  Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal.  41 (2019):  119-137.
  • Jane Austen and the Reformation:  Remembering the Sacred Landscape (Ashgate, January 2016)
  • https://www.routledge.com/Jane-Austen-and-the-Reformation-Remembering-the-Sacred-Landscape/Moore/p/book/9781472432834
  • "The Hidden History of 'Northanger Abbey': Jane Austen and the Dissolution of the Monasteries" Religion and Literature 43.1 (Spring 2011): 55-80.
  • "Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Prophesying." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 50.1 (Winter 2010): 35-62.
  • "Quaker Writing in the Seventeenth-Century." in Teaching Early-Modern Prose. Eds. Margaret E. Ferguson and Susannah Monta. New York: MLA Press, 2010. 132-142.
  • "Religion." A Companion to Jane Austen. Eds. Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 314-322.
  • "'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.