Mo Moulton

Mo Moulton
Born	1979 New York
Occupation(s)	Historian, professor, author
Known for	Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England, The Mutual Admiration Society
Website	momoulton.com//

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. He is a professor of modern British and Irish history 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] He 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, he 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]

He was elected to the council of the British Association for Irish Studies for the 2021–2023 term. ^[8]

Personal life

At Birmingham, Moulton is 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 at Somerville College, Oxford. ^[11] Winner of the 2019 Agatha Award ^[12] and the 2020 Anthony Award, ^[13] in their respective non-fiction categories.

References

1. "Moulton, Mo, 1979". LC Name Authority File. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
2. Moulton, Mo (21 November 2016). "An American in Brexit Britain: Reflections After the Presidential Election". Catapult.
3. "Mo Moulton". University of Birmingham.
4. Smith, Antonia Parker (13 May 2020). "20 Questions for SHaCademics – Dr Mo Moulton". University of Birmingham.
5. "Mo Moulton". Rainbow Network. University of Birmingham. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
6. "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Harvard University. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
7. "Mo Moulton | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org.
8. "BAIS Council for 2021–2023". British Association for Irish Studies. 1 December 2020. Retrieved 2021-01-10– via Wordpress.
9. 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.
   • Convery, David (April 2016). The English Historical Review . 131 (549): 496–498. doi:10.1093/ehr/cew008.
   • Daly, Mary E. (April 2015). Contemporary British History . 29 (2): 287–289. doi:10.1080/13619462.2015.1031511. S2CID   145704753.
   • Delaney, Enda (9 August 2014). "Entangled connections". Irish Times .
   • Fanning, Bryan (Fall 2015). Studies . 104 (415): 347–351. JSTOR   24640675.
   • Gannon, D. (November 2014). Twentieth Century British History . 26 (4): 633–636. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hwu059.
   • 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.
   • 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.
10. Schwartz, Larry. "The Whitfield Book Prize". Minnesota State University Moorhead. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
11. 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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 .
12. Glyer, Mike (4 May 2020). "2019 Agatha Award Winners". File 770 .
13. 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