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Dr Dashiell Moore
BA (Honours) PhD (Sydney), FHEA (Advance HE)
ARC DECRA Fellow in English
Discipline of English and Writing
Discipline of English and Writing
Address
A20 - John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney
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Dr. Dashiell Moore is a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow in English and Writing, currently leading a research project on literary and historical connections between island carceral sites: the plantation, the reserve, and the detention centre.
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His research interests include:
- world literature (primarily, Australian, Pacific, and Caribbean writing)
- island studies
- postcolonial theory
- Indigenous studies
He also has secondary research interests in modern and contemporary American literature and the environmental humanities. He has published in the leading journals of the above fields, includingTextual Practice,Small Axe,Australian Literary Studies, andISLE.
Australia is often defined as an isolated island-continent, "girt by sea". Dr. Dashiell Moore's DECRA project aims to provide an alternative understanding of Australia's island narrative by analysing literary and historical connections between different carceral sites that have been represented across Australian history. By doing so, the project expects to offer new interpretations of interconnected narratives of Aboriginal Australian, South Sea Islander and migrant enclosure in Australian literature.
- 2025 - Secretary of the International Australian Studies Association
- 2025 - Roderick Visiting Fellowship. James Cook University
- 2025 - Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
- 2023 - Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching and Learning Excellence, University of Sydney
- 2023 - Educational Innovation Award, University of Sydney
- 2021 - Fellow. AdvanceHE
- 2021 - Dame Leonie Kramer Prize in Australian Poetry, University of Sydney
- 2019 - Dean's Citation for Excellence in Tutorials with Distinction, University of Sydney
Selected publications
The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean
(Oxford University Press, 2024)
Publications
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Books
- Moore, D. (2024). The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Book Chapters
- Moore, D. (2024). Lionel Fogarty's Poetics of Address and the Negative Lyric. In Ann Vickery (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry, (pp. 197-216). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
- Moore, D. (2019). What Happens in Small Rooms: DeLillo and the Terrorist Spectre. In Bootheina Majoul (Eds.), Terrorism in Literature: On Examining a Global Phenomenon, (pp. 96-113). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [More Information]
- Moore, D. (2019). Yankee Stadium as the People's Cathedral. In David Krell (Eds.), The New York Yankees in Popular Culture: Critical Essays, (pp. 69-192). New York: McFarland. [More Information]
Journals
- Moore, D. (2025). Book review: "Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene by Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell". Plumwood Mountain: an Australian journal of ecopoetry and ecopoetics. [More Information]
- Moore, D. (2024). 'Islands, Islands': An Archipelagic Reading of Ruth Park's 'Fishing in the Styx' (1993). Australian Literary Studies, 39(2). [More Information]
- Moore, D. (2023). "Mabo Decision Was .." Reading Mabo Through the Poetry of Lionel Fogarty. JASAL, 23(2), 1-11. [More Information]
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2025
- Moore, D. (2025). Book review: "Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene by Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell". Plumwood Mountain: an Australian journal of ecopoetry and ecopoetics. [More Information]
2024
- Moore, D. (2024). 'Islands, Islands': An Archipelagic Reading of Ruth Park's 'Fishing in the Styx' (1993). Australian Literary Studies, 39(2). [More Information]
- Moore, D. (2024). Lionel Fogarty's Poetics of Address and the Negative Lyric. In Ann Vickery (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry, (pp. 197-216). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
- Moore, D. (2024). The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
2023
- Moore, D. (2023). "Mabo Decision Was .." Reading Mabo Through the Poetry of Lionel Fogarty. JASAL, 23(2), 1-11. [More Information]
- Moore, D. (2023). Recuperating the Value of Nothing in Erna Brodber's Short Novel "Nothing's Mat". Small Axe, 27(2), 18-32. [More Information]
- Garcia, A., Olston, K., Aarts, J., Moore, D., Kaliyadan, S. (2023). SCANA: Supporting students’ academic language development at the University of Sydney. Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association, 31(2), 102-108. [More Information]
2022
- Moore, D. (2022). "like quetzalcoatl flying": Afro-Caribbean and Amerindian Entanglements in Kamau Brathwaite. Journal of West Indian Literature, 30(2), 81-185. [More Information]
- Moore, D. (2022). Book review: "Reading Interruptions: A review of Roe and Muecke". Overland, (246), 24-32. [More Information]
- Moore, D. (2022). Island Aesthetics and the Anthropocene in Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick". Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 29(4), 1267-1285. [More Information]
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2021
- Moore, D. (2021). 'A 40 years works feels / 40 more 40 thousand': Lionel Fogarty's hauntological poetics and the archive. Textual Practice, 36(11), 1868-1891. [More Information]
- Moore, D. (2021). 'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas': A parable for Australia. Overland. [More Information]
- Moore, D. (2021). “There and Elsewhere”: The Land Down Under and the World-Archipelago. L'Esprit Createur: a critical quarterly of French literature, 61(3), 78-94. [More Information]
2020
- Moore, D. (2020). Behrouz Boochani and the Penal Archipelago. Overland, (239), 49-60. [More Information]
- Moore, D. (2020). “Breaking language”: Performance and community in Suheir Hammad’s poetry. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 56(1), 110-125. [More Information]
2019
- Moore, D. (2019). "To be revised"/"What it is to be a God". Philament, 25, 77-80.
- Moore, D. (2019). What Happens in Small Rooms: DeLillo and the Terrorist Spectre. In Bootheina Majoul (Eds.), Terrorism in Literature: On Examining a Global Phenomenon, (pp. 96-113). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [More Information]
- Moore, D. (2019). Yankee Stadium as the People's Cathedral. In David Krell (Eds.), The New York Yankees in Popular Culture: Critical Essays, (pp. 69-192). New York: McFarland. [More Information]
2018
- Moore, D. (2018). Book review: "Dashiell Moore Reviews Lionel Fogarty". Cordite Poetry Review, (March 2018). [More Information]
2017
- Moore, D. (2017). A Poetics of a Politics. Cordite Poetry Review, (November). [More Information]
Selected Grants
2024
- Archipelagic Connections in Australian and Pacific Literature, Moore D, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
In the media
27/08/2024 - mentioned in Mirage News: Early Career Researchers Awarded $9m Funding 27 August