Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies

Jane Moody BA, DPhil (Oxford)

Office: L/A/202
Tel: internal 3337, external 01904 433337
E-mail: jsm9@york.ac.uk
Department: English and Related Literature

Jane Moody was educated at Oxford University and then took up a Research Fellowship at Cambridge University. She came to York as a Lecturer in 1997 and was promoted to a Personal Chair in 2004. Her monograph, Illegitimate Theatre in London, 1770-1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2000), described by one reviewer as ‘a theoretical and historical milestone’, was runner-up for the Society of Theatre Research Book Prize, the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, and the MLA’s prize for a first book. Recent books include Theatre and Celebrity in Britain, 1660-2000 (Palgrave, 2005), edited with Mary Luckhurst, and The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730-1830 ( Cambridge, 2007), edited with Daniel O’Quinn. Essays include ‘Illusions of Authorship’ (runner-up for the Gerard Kahan Prize of the American Society for Theatre Research in 1999) in Nineteenth Century British Women Playwrights ed. Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin (Cambridge UP, 1999); ‘Dictating to the Empire: Performance and Theatrical Geography in Eighteenth Century Britain’ in the Cambridge Companion; ‘Stolen Identities: Character, Mimicry and the Invention of Samuel Foote’ in Theatre and Celebrity; and ‘The Drama of Capital: Risk, Belief and Liability on the Victorian Stage’ in Victorian Literature and Finance, ed. Francis O’Gorman (Oxford, 2007). She is currently completing a monograph on literary and theatrical censorship in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

RESEARCH SUPERVISION

Jane Moody is happy to receive applications from students in areas such as Romantic and nineteenth-century literature and culture; eighteenth and nineteenth-century theatre and performance history; literature and censorship. Prospective students are invited to contact her via email: jsm9@york.ac.uk

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member, AHRC Peer Review College
Editorial Board member: British Women Playwrights at 1800, since its inception in 1998. This website has become the major hub for research in the electronic editing of theatre texts.
Adviser, "The Professional Female Playwright." A year-long project of dramatic readings and public lectures at theatres in New York City organized by the playwright and dramaturg Mallory Catlett, and sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the NYSCA Theater Program Technical Assistance Fund.
Member: Modern Language Assocation (MLA); American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS); British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS); North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR); British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS), British Society for Theatre Research.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books

Illegitimate Theatre in London, 1770-1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Theatre and Celebrity in Britain, 1660-2000, ed. Mary Luckhurst and Jane Moody (Palgrave, 2005)
The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730-1830, ed. Jane Moody and Daniel O’Quinn ( Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Articles

"Writing for the Metropolis: Illegitimate Performances of Shakespeare in Early Nineteenth-Century London," Shakespeare Survey 47 (1994), pp. 61-9. Reprinted in Shakespeare: The Critical Complex edited by Stephen Orgel and Sean Keilen, 10 volumes (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999), vol. 8, pp. 223-31.
"'Fine Word, Legitimate!' Towards a Theatrical History of Romanticism," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 38 (1996), special issue on Romantic Performances, pp. 223-44.
"Illusions of Authorship" in Tracy C. Davis & Ellen Donkin, eds., Nineteenth Century British Women Playwrights (Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 99-124.
"Suicide and Translation in the Dramaturgy of Elizabeth Inchbald and Anne Plumptre" in Women in British Romantic Theatre ed. Catherine B. Burroughs (Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 257-84.
"Romantic Shakespeares" in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage edited by Sarah Stanton and Stanley Wells (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 37-57.
"Shakespeare and the Immigrants: Nationhood, Psychology and Xenophobia in Victorian London" in Gail Marshall and Adrian Poole, eds., Victorian Shakespeares: Narratives, Images, Performances, 2 vols (Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), vol. 1, edited by Gail Marshall, pp. 99-118.
"The Theatrical Revolution, 1776-1843" in The Cambridge History of British Theatre, 3 volumes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), volume 2, edited by Joseph Donohue, pp. 199-215.
Stolen Identities: Character, Mimicry and the Invention of Samuel Foote’ in Theatre and Celebrity in Britain, 1660-2000, ed. Mary Luckhurst and Jane Moody (Palgrave, 2005)
‘Dictating to the Empire: Performance and Theatrical Geography in Eighteenth Century Britain’ in The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730-1830 ( Cambridge University Press, 2007)
'Thomas Brown [alias Thomas Moore], Censorship and Regency Cryptography’ in European Romantic Review 18.2 (2007)
‘The Drama of Capital: Risk, Belief and Liability on the Victorian Stage’ in Victorian Literature and Finance, ed. Francis O’Gorman ( Oxford, 2007).
'Inchbald, Holcroft and the Censorship of Jacobin Theatre’ in Women’s Romantic Theatre: History, Agency, Performativity, ed. Keir Elam (Ashgate, forthcoming 2008)