Robbie Moore is Lecturer in English at the School of Humanities. His research focusses on space and place in late-Victorian and modernist literature and culture, and particularly on the emergence of new forms of urban development and urban experience.

Biography

Before joining the University of Tasmania, Robbie was a lecturer and tutor at the University of Sydney, after completing a Masters at the University of Sydney and a PhD at the University of Cambridge.

Career summary

Qualifications

Memberships

Professional practice

Australasian Modernist Studies Network

British Association for Modernist Studies

Modernist Studies Association

Henry James Society

Administrative expertise

Robbie has been the First Year Coordinator for the English program since 2014. He was a member of the Senate’s Student Experience Committee (2019), and is currently a member of the University Learning and Teaching Committee and the School of Humanities Learning and Teaching Committee.

Teaching

Modernism, Victorian, narrative theory

Teaching expertise

Robbie coordinates and has helped to design and develop the first-year units English: Creative and Critical Reading (HEN106) and English: Texts and Traditions (HEN102). As a subject specialist he has redeveloped Nineteenth-Century Sensation and Spectacle (HEN203) and contributed to the development of Modernism (HEN313). He has contributed lectures, workshops, tutorials, and online activities in a broad range of the English program units, including units on narrative theory, critical theory, utopianism, the non-human, academic research skills, and the literary canon.

Teaching responsibility

Robbie coordinates and/or teaches in the following units:

English 1B (HEN102)

19^th Century British Literature (HEN203/303)

Modernism (HEN313)