Dr Nicole Moore is a Lecturer in the English Department at Macquarie University in Sydney. She previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at Macquarie, after lecturing in the School of English, Journalism and European languages at the University of Tasmania. She has a PhD from the English Department at the University of Queensland. She is the editor of a scholarly edition of Jean Devanny's 1936 novel Sugar Heaven for Vulgar Press, 2002. Her research in the broad area of twentieth-century Australian literary and cultural history has been focussed on intersections of sex and class. Recent publications: “Dorothy Hewett: Twentieth Century Writer.” Tribute Overland 169 (2002): 15- 17. “Obscene and Over Here: National Sex and the Love Me Sailor Obscenity Trial.” Australian Literary Studies 20.4 (2002): 316-329. “Interrupting Maternal Citizenship: Birth control in mid-wave women’s writing.” Australian Feminist Studies 17.38 (2002): 151-164. “‘To be rid, to be rid of it …’: Abortion and the Cosmopolitan Modern in Dymphna Cusack’s Jungfrau.” Australian Studies (London, UK). 16.2 (2001): 59-81. “The Politics of Cliché: Reading Sex and Class in Australian Realism.” Modern Fiction Studies, Working Class Fiction special issue, 47.1 (2001): 69-91. “A Monster of Indecision: Abortion, Choice and Commodity Culture in Christina Stead’s The Beauties and Furies.” Southerly 61.2 (2001). “The Rational Natural: Conflicts of the Modern in Eleanor Dark.” Hecate Eleanor Dark Special Issue, 27.1 (2001): 19-31. Vision Splendid, a coedited special issue of the Journal of Australian Studies, with Richard Nile. University of Queensland Press and API Network, No. 66, December 2000. “’That Critical Juncture’: Maternalism in Australian Feminist Anti-Colonial History.” Vision Splendid, University of Queensland Press, special issue Journal of Australian Studies 66, Dec. (2000): 95 -102. "Jill-of-all-Trades: Dorothy Hewett talks to Nicole Moore": Jacket #9, October, 1999. Recent reviews: Review of Delys Bird, Robert Dixon, Chris Lee (eds.), Authority an Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000. St Lucia: UQP, 2001. Australian Literary Studies 20.3 (2002): 271-273. Review of Pierre Bourdieu, Masculine Domination, Polity, 2001. Australian Feminist Studies 17.1 (2002): 109-110. “Real Questions.” Review of Susan Lever, Real Relations: Australian Fiction, Realism, Feminism and Form, Halstead Press 2000. Overland 166 (2002): 122-23. Teresa Petersen, The Enigmatic Christina Stead: A Provocative Rereading, Melbourne University Press 2001. Southerly 61.2 (2001). “'Female curiosity'‚ and colonial scripts.” Review of Deirdre Coleman, (ed), Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies: Two Women’s Travel Narratives of the 1790s, Leicester University Press 1999 and Nancy L. Paxton, Writing Under the Raj: Gender, Race and Rape in the British Colonial Imagination, 1830-1947, Rutgers University Press, 1999. Australian Feminist Studies, 15.32 (2000): 284-86. “A Rhythm of Opposites.” Review of Dorothy Hewett, Neap Tide, Penguin 1999. Overland 157, Summer 1999. 92-94. “Until Then.” Review of New Oxford Literary History of Australia, ed. Bruce Bennett and Jennifer Strauss, Oxford 1998. Overland 157, Summer 1999. 95-96. “Speaking Together: Collecting Indigenous Voices.” Review of Indigenous Australian Voices: A Reader, eds. Jennifer Sabbioni, Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith. New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Rutgers UP, 1998. Southern Review, 32.2 (1999): 256-8 Nicole Moore may be contacted by email