Mo Moulton
American author and historian
Mo Moulton | |
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| Born | 1979 New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, lecturer, author |
| Known for | Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England, The Mutual Admiration Society |
| Website | momoulton |
Mo Moulton (born 1979)[1] is an American[2] author and historian of 20th century Britain and Ireland, interested in gender, sexuality, and colonialism/postcolonialism. They are a senior lecturer in the history of race and empire at the University of Birmingham.[3][4]
Education and early life
Moulton was born in New York in 1979 and grew up in Massachusetts.[5] They majored in history as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 2001.[6] After working for non-profit organisations, they returned to graduate study at Brown University, earning a PhD in 2010.[3]
Academic career
Moulton became a lecturer at Harvard University from 2010 until 2016 before moving to the University of Birmingham[3] as a senior lecturer.[7]
They were elected to the council of the British Association for Irish Studies for the 2021–2023 term.[8]
Personal life
Moulton identifies as "queer, trans, and nonbinary" and uses singular they as their preferred pronoun. At Birmingham, they are a founder of the College of Arts & Law Trans Support Network.[5]
Bibliography and book awards
- Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England (Cambridge University Press, 2014).[9] Runner-up (proxime accessit) for The Whitfield Prize in 2015[10]
- The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women (Basic Books, 2019) about The Mutual Admiration Society.[11] Winner of the 2019 Agatha Award[12] and the 2020 Anthony Award,[13] in their respective non-fiction categories.
References
- ^ "Moulton, Mo, 1979". LC Name Authority File. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
- ^ Moulton, Mo (21 November 2016). "An American in Brexit Britain: Reflections After the Presidential Election". Catapult.
- ^ a b c "Mo Moulton". University of Birmingham.
- ^ Smith, Antonia Parker (13 May 2020). "20 Questions for SHaCademics – Dr Mo Moulton". University of Birmingham.
- ^ a b "Mo Moulton". Rainbow Network. University of Birmingham. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
- ^ "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Harvard University. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ^ "Mo Moulton | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org.
- ^ "BAIS Council for 2021–2023". British Association for Irish Studies. 1 December 2020. Retrieved 2021-01-10 – via Wordpress.
- ^ Reviews of Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England:
- Aveyard, Stuart (January 2016). Journal of British Studies. 55 (1): 221–223. doi:10.1017/jbr.2015.192. S2CID 164905172.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Convery, David (April 2016). The English Historical Review. 131 (549): 496–498. doi:10.1093/ehr/cew008.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Daly, Mary E. (April 2015). Contemporary British History. 29 (2): 287–289. doi:10.1080/13619462.2015.1031511. S2CID 145704753.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Delaney, Enda (9 August 2014). "Entangled connections". Irish Times.
- Fanning, Bryan (Fall 2015). Studies. 104 (415): 347–351. JSTOR 24640675.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Gannon, D. (November 2014). Twentieth Century British History. 26 (4): 633–636. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hwu059.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Gallagher, Niamh (26 June 2014). "Niamh Gallagher relishes a stimulating and valuable study of a neglected period of history". Times Higher Education.
- MacRaild, Donald M. (July 2015). Cultural and Social History. 12 (3): 436–438. doi:10.1080/14780038.2015.1050887. S2CID 147092738.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Moran, James (January 2015). "Enemies within". Dublin Review of Books (63).
- Mulholland, Marc (December 2015). Continuity and Change. 30 (3): 425–427. doi:10.1017/s0268416015000314. S2CID 152260853.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Aveyard, Stuart (January 2016). Journal of British Studies. 55 (1): 221–223. doi:10.1017/jbr.2015.192. S2CID 164905172.
- ^ Schwartz, Larry. "The Whitfield Book Prize". Minnesota State University Moorhead. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
- ^ Reviews of The Mutual Admiration Society:
- Freeman, Laura (8 November 2019). "Mutual Admiration Society by Mo Moulton review — Oxford beware: brainy girls". The Times.
- Higgins, Charlotte (21 November 2019). "Mutual Admiration Society by Mo Moulton review – the pioneering club of Dorothy L Sayers". The Guardian.
- Hirsch, Pam (July 2020). Journal of British Studies. 59 (3): 693–694. doi:10.1017/jbr.2020.8. S2CID 225609596.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Hopper, Briallen (27 January 2020). "Writing together". Los Angeles Review of Books.
- Hurd, Crystal (2019). Sehnsucht: The C.S. Lewis Journal. 13: 132–134. JSTOR 48579737.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Mundow, Anna (25 October 2019). "'The Mutual Admiration Society' Review: The Case of the Lifelong Friends". The Wall Street Journal.
- Prescott, Barbara L. (Spring–Summer 2020). Mythlore. 38 (136): 163–188. ProQuest 2399148000.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Ramsey, Michael L. (11 April 2020). "Oxford's Mutual Admiration Society championed female pioneers". The Roanoke Times.
- Read, Sophie (7 November 2019). "Sophie Read enjoys a vivid account of how four women who met at Oxford before the First World War went on to forge lives and careers for themselves". Times Higher Education.
- Scholes, Lucy (29 November 2019). "Mutual Admiration Society — Dorothy L Sayers and her rule-breaking friends". Financial Times.
- "Nonfiction book review". Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ Glyer, Mike (4 May 2020). "2019 Agatha Award Winners". File 770.
- ^ Schaub, Michael (19 October 2020). "Winners of Anthony Awards Announced at Bouchercon". Kirkus Reviews.
External links
- Home page
- Mo Moulton publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Interview with Moulton about Mutual Admiration Society, History: The Journal of the Historical Association, 16 December 2019
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Agatha Award winners
- Elizabeth George (1988)
- Jill Churchill (1989)
- Katherine Hall Page (1990)
- Mary Willis Walker (1991)
- Barbara Neely (1992)
- Nevada Barr (1993)
- Jeff Abbott (1994)
- Jeanne M. Dams (1995)
- Anne George (1996)
- Sujata Massey (1997)
- Robin Hathaway (1998)
- Donna Andrews (1999)
- Rosemary Stevens (2000)
- Sarah Strohmeyer (2001)
- Julia Spencer-Fleming (2002)
- Jacqueline Winspear (2003)
- Harley Jane Kozak (2004)
- Laura Durham (2005)
- Sandra Parshall (2006)
- Hank Phillippi Ryan (2007)
- G. M. Malliet (2008)
- Alan Bradley (2009)
- Avery Aames (2010)
- Sara J. Henry (2011)
- Susan M. Boyer (2012)
- Leslie Budewitz (2013)
- Terrie Farley Moran (2014)
- Art Taylor (2015)
- Cynthia Kuhn (2016)
- Kellye Garrett (2017)
- Dianne Freeman and Shari Randall (2018) (tie)
- Tara Laskowski (2019)
- Erica Neubauer (2020)
- Hank Phillippi Ryan (2013)
- Hank Phillippi Ryan (2014)
- Margaret Maron (2015)
- Louise Penny (2016)
- Louise Penny (2017)
- Ellen Byron (2018)
- Ann Cleeves (2019)
- Louise Penny (2020)
- Carolyn G. Hart (1988)
- Elizabeth Peters (1989)
- Nancy Pickard (1990)
- Nancy Pickard (1991)
- Margaret Maron (1992)
- Carolyn Hart (1993)
- Sharyn McCrumb (1994)
- Sharyn McCrumb (1995)
- Margaret Maron (1996)
- Kate Ross (1997)
- Laura Lippman (1998)
- Earlene Fowler (1999)
- Margaret Maron (2000)
- Rhys Bowen (2001)
- Donna Andrews (2002)
- Carolyn Hart (2003)
- Jacqueline Winspear (2004)
- Katherine Hall Page (2005)
- Nancy Pickard (2006)
- Louise Penny (2007)
- Louise Penny (2008)
- Louise Penny (2009)
- Louise Penny (2010)
- Margaret Maron (2011)
- Louise Penny (2012)
- Rhys Bowen (2011)
- Catriona McPherson (2012)
- Caroline and Charles Todd (2013)
- Rhys Bowen (2014)
- Laurie R. King (2015)
- Catriona McPherson (2016)
- Rhys Bowen (2017)
- Sujata Massey (2018)
- Edith Maxwell (2019)
- Rhys Bowen (2020)
- Barbara D'Amato (1993)
- Jean Swanson and Dean James (1994)
- Alzina Stone Dale (1995)
- Willeta L. Heisin (1996)
- Willeta L. Heisin (1997)
- Alzina Stone Dale (1998)
- Daniel Stashower (1999)
- Jim Huang (2000)
- Tony Hillerman (2001)
- Jim Huang (2002)
- Elizabeth Peters and Kristen Whitbread (2003)
- Jack French (2004)
- Melanie Rehak (2005)
- Chris Roerden (2006)
- Jon Lellenberg (2007)
- Kathy Lynn Emerson (2008)
- Elena Santangelo (2009)
- John Curran (2010)
- Leslie Budewitz (2011)
- John Connolly (2012)
- Daniel Stashower (2013)
- Hank Phillippi Ryan (2014)
- Martin Edwards (2015)
- Jane K. Cleland (2016)
- Mattias Bostrom (2017)
- Jane Cleland (2018)
- Mo Moulton (2019)
- Christina Lane (2020)
- Robert Barnard (1988)
- Sharyn McCrumb (1989)
- Joan Hess (1990)
- Margaret Maron (1991)
- Aaron Elkins and Charlotte Elkins (1992)
- M. D. Lake (1993)
- Dorothy Cannell (1994)
- Elizabeth Daniels (1995)
- Carolyn Wheat (1996)
- M. D. Lake (1997)
- Barbara D'Amato (1998)
- Nancy Pickard (1999)
- Jan Burke (2000)
- Katherine Hall Page (2001)
- Margaret Maron and Marcia Talley (2002)
- Elizabeth Foxwell (2003)
- Elaine Viets (2004)
- Marcia Talley (2005)
- Toni Kelner (2006)
- Donna Andrews (2007)
- Dana Cameron (2008)
- Hank Phillippi Ryan (2009)
- Mary Jane Maffini (2010)
- Dana Cameron (2011)
- Dana Cameron (2012)
- Art Taylor (2013)
- Art Taylor (2014)
- Barb Goffman (2015)
- Art Taylor (2016)
- Gigi Pandian (2017)
- Leslie Budewitz and Tara Laskowski (2018) (tie)
- Shawn Reilly Simmons (2019)
- Barb Goffman (2020)
- Cindy Callaghan (2018)
Young Adult Fiction
- Penny Warner (2001)
- Daniel J. Hale & Matthew LaBrot (2002)
- Kathleen Karr (2003)
- Blue Balliett (2004)
- Peter Abrahams (2005)
- Nancy Means Wright (2006)
- Sarah Masters Buckey (2007)
- Chris Grabenstein (2008)
- Chris Grabenstein (2009)
- Sarah Smith (2010)
- Chris Grabenstein (2011)
- Penny Warner (2012)
- Chris Grabenstein (2013)
- Penny Warner (2014)
- Amanda Flower (2015)
- Penny Warner (2016)
- Cindy Callaghan (2017)
- Frances Schoonmaker (2019)
- Richard Narvaez (2020)
for Lifetime Achievement
- Phyllis A. Whitney (1990)
- Mignon G. Eberhart (1994)
- Mary Stewart (1996)
- Emma Lathen (1997)
- Charlotte MacLeod (1998)
- Patricia Moyes (1999)
- Dick Francis (2000)
- Mildred Benson (2001)
- Tony Hillerman (2002)
- Barbara Mertz, Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels (2003)
- Marian Babson (2004)
- H.R.F. Keating (2005)
- Robert Barnard (2006)
- Carolyn Hart (2007)
- Peter Lovesey (2008)
- Anne Perry (2009)
- Mary Higgins Clark (2010)
- Sue Grafton (2011)
- Simon Brett (2012)
- Aaron Elkins (2013)
- Dorothy Cannell, Joan Hess and Margaret Maron (2014)
- Sara Paretsky (2015)
- Katherine Hall Page (2016)
- Charlaine Harris (2017)
- Nancy Pickard (2018)
Poirot Award
- David Suchet (2003)
- Ruth Cavin (2004)
- Angela Lansbury (2005)
- Douglas G. Greene (2006)
- Janet Hutchings and Linda Landrigan (2008)
- Kate Stine and Brian Skupin (2009)
- William Link (2010)
- Janet Rudolph (2011)
- Lee Goldberg (2012)
- Tom Schantz (2014)
- Barbara G. Peters (2016)
- Martin Edwards (2017)
- Brenda Blethyn (2018)
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