Ellen Moody

Education

• Ph.D., English, 1979. The Graduate School, City University of New York. Dissertation Title: Richardson, Romance, and Reverie. Advisor: Prof. Robert Adams Day
• B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Dept. Honors Award in English, 1969. Queens College of the City University of New York.
• Senior Year of Study Abroad, Chancellor's Scholarship, 1968-69. Leeds University, England.

Publications

Books

Published

• Trollope on the 'Net, London: The Hambledon Press and The Trollope Society, 27 January 2000.

Book Projects

• I was commissioned to write a topographical book to be called Jane Austen and Bath by Hambledon and London Ltd. I found myself unable to write more than an opening chapter on my trip to Bath and a critique of the biographical tradition.

  "'A Place of Refuge:' The Jane Austen movies. Working Title. Hambledon and London Ltd were sold to Continuum Books, and I am now embarked on a new book project. I am writing a four-part study of the Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice movies placed in the context of a systematic study of all the available Jane Austen movies, complete with an adequate taxonomy of the types of film (faithful, commentary, and free adaptation). I am analysing them as works of art in their own right with attention paid to Austen's novels and the body of work created by specific directors, writers, producers and actors elsewhere. I am looking to see if they constitute a subgenre of their own.

Poetry

• "Now hope has died," from Veronica Gambara's "Or passata e speranza," in Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv, edd. Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, Lesley Wheeler, preface by Annie Finch, introduction by D'Arcy Randall. Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2008.
• Amaro Lagrimar and Secret Sacred Woods, complete translations (two full books) of the poetry of Vittoria Colonna and Veronica Gambara, at Fiera Lingue, Poets Corner

Invited Lecture

• Partly Told in Letters: Trollope's Story-Telling Art,The 12th Annual Trollope Society Lecture, delivered 23 November 1999; published Trollopiana, February 2000 pp. 4-31.

Essays published

• In Progress: "Trollope on Television: Intertexuality in the Pallisers and Other Trollpe Films, Adaptations: Teaching British Literature of the Nineteenth Century and Film, ed. Abigail Burnham Bloom.
• “'People that marry can never part': An Intertextual Reading of Northanger Abbey, Persuasions Online:31:1, Winter
• "Jane Austen in French", published in Ekleksographia Wave Two, October 2009. at Ekleksographia
• "The Three Northanger Abbey films, published on Jane Austen Today and Jane Austen's World.
• "Jane's Aunt Jane Probably Stole that Lace", The Life and Times of Jane Leigh-Perrot, at the Jane Austen Centre, the online magazine of the Jane Austen Center and Costume Museum at Bath.
• "Continent Isolated: Anglocentricity in Austen Criticism:" Re-Drawing Austen: Picturesque Travels in Austenland [English translation of Italian title], edd. Beatrice Battaglia and Diego Saglia. Napoli: Liguori Editore, 2005. Pp. 325-338. Invited Essay for Roundtable to be published as part of a series of papers from and about conferences held at the University of Bologna, most centrally the one held on October 18, 2002: Jane Austen: Oggi e ieri [Then and Now].
• "Johnson-and-Boswell Forever!" in the Johnsonian Newsletter, LV:2 (2004): 22-26.
• "Taking Sides", Studies in the Novel, 36: 2 (2004): 251-69. An Invited Essay-Review of Leah Price's The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel, Neil McCaw, George Eliot and Victorian Historiography: Imagining the National Past, and Barbara Tepa Lupack, ed. Nineteenth-Century Women at the Movies: Adapting Classic Women's Fiction to Film.
• "Recent Trends in Feminist Scholarship: A Review-Essay" of Troost, Linda, ed. Eighteenth Century Women: Studies in Their Lives, Work, and Culture, Vol 1. New York: AMS Press, 2002 for the The East-Central Intelligencer: The Newsletter of the East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, N. S. 17/2 (2003), 24-31.
• "On Reading Divergent Fanny Burney d'Arblays", Burney Letter, 8:2 (Fall 2002), pp. 13-15
• Per Lettere: An Essay-Review on Per lettere: La scrittura epistolare femminile tra archivio e tipografia, secoli XV-XVII, ed. and introd. Gabriella Zarri, Rome: Viella. 1999. The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 33/2 (2001), 632-636.
• "On First Encountering Fanny Burney d'Arblay," Burney Letter, Vol 6 No 2 (Fall 2000), 10
• "A Calendar For Sense and Sensibility", Philological Quarterly, 79 (Fall 2000), 233-266.
• "Fanny is Us," Burney Letter, Vol 6 No 1 (Spring 2000), pp. 1&6
• "Jane Austen on Film." An Essay-Review on Jane Austen Goes to the Movies. Linda V. Troost, Editor. Issue No. 48 of Topic: A Journal of the Liberal Arts (Washington and Jefferson College, November 1997). The East-Central Intelligencer: The Newsletter of the East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies N.S. 12 (Sept. 1998), 12-17. This is accompanied by a bibliography of studies of film adaptations of Jane Austen's novels
• "Six Elegiac Poems, Possibly by Anne Cecil de Vere, Countess of Oxford", the original version of the essay and texts first published in English Literary Renaissance, 19 (1989), 152-70.
• "Orinda, Rosania, Lucasia et alia, Towards a New Edition of the Works of Katherine Philips". This version of an essay originally published in Philological Quarterly, 66 (1987), 325-354, has been updated to include new information and apperars with a reprint of Philips's once famous and today almost unknown translation of a pastoral "Golden Age" poem, "La Solitude" by Antoine Girard Saint-Amant (1594-1661) as "Solitude."
• with C. Perri, "Allusion Studies: An International Annotated Bibliography, 1921-77," Style, 13 (1979), 178-226

Reviews

• Trouille, Mary. Wife Abuse in eighteenth century France. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2000. For next January The Intelligencer.
• The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope's Novels: New Readings for the Twenty-First Century, Margaret Markwick, Deborah Denenholz Morse, and Reginia Gagnier, edds. Farnham Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing Co, 2009. To appear in Nineteenth-Century Contexts this coming winter/spring 20111
• MacCarthy, William. Anne Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2008. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, N. S. 23:3 (September 2009):54-60.
• Brundin, Abigail. Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation. Hampshire: Ashdate, 2008. For Renaissance Quarterly. It was written for the winter 2009 issue. Not yet published.
• Jennings, Judith. Gender, Religion, and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century: The 'Ingenious Quaker and Her Connections. Hampshire: Ashgate, 2006. Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, N.S. 22:3 (September 2008):21-25.
• Baker, William. A Critical Companion to Jane Austen: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work. New York: Facts on File, Infobase Publishing, 2008, Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, NS, 22:2 (2008):43-46.
• Seelig, Sharon Cadman. Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature: Reading Women's Lives, 1600-1680, Renaissance Quarterly, 60:2 (2007):675-677.
• Backscheider, Paula R. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2005. Appeared in The Eighteenth Century Intelligencer, N. S. 20:3 (September 2006):42-46.
• Couchman, Jane and Ann Crabb, ed., introd. Women's Letters Across Europe, 1400-1700. London: Ashgate, 2004. Appeared in Renaissance Quarterly, 49:3 (Fall 2006): 930-32
• McDonagh, Josephine. Child Murder & British Culture: 1720-1900. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Appeared in Keats-Shelley Journal, LIV (2005): 199-202.
• Crachun, Adriana. Fatal Women of Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Appeared in Keats-Shelley Journal, LIV (2005): 199-202.
• Borsay, Peter. The Image of Georgian Bath, 1700-200: Towns, Heritage, and History. Oxford University Press, 2000. Appeared in Scriblerian, 37:1 (Autumn 2004): 89-90.
• Gross, Gloria Sybil. In a Fast Coach with a Pretty Woman: Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson. AMS Press, 2002. Appeared in The East-Central Intelligencer: The Newsletter of the East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, N.S. 18:3 (Sept 2004): 30-32.
• Sol, Antoinette Marie. Textual Promiscuities: Eighteenth Century Critical Rewriting. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2002. in Burney Letter, 10:2 (Fall 2004): 13-14.
• Keane Angela. Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s. Cambridge University Press, 2000. A review for ECCB: The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. To appear in the volume for 2001, scheduled to be published in 2004.
• Anne Kelley, Catharine Trotter: An early modern writer in the vanguard of feminism in the Scriblerian, 36:1 (August 2003): 58-59.
• The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems A Critical Edition, Barbara McGovern and Charles H. Hinnant edd. in The Scriblerian, 33/2 (2001), pp. 203- 204.
• Tom W. N. Parker, Proportional Form in the Sonnets of the Sidney Circle in The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 31/1 (2000), 197-200.
• Moreland Perkins, Reshaping the Sexes in Sense and Sensibility in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 99:1 (January 2000), 141-43.
• Alistair Fox, The English Renaissance Identity and Representation in Elizabethan England in The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 29 (1998), 511-14
• Toni Bowers, The Politics of Motherhood: British Writing and Culture, 1680-1760 in The East-Central Intelligencer: The Newsletter of the East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, N.S. 10 (Sept. 1996), 19-21.

Scholarly online etexts; all archived on MARS at GMU

• An etext of Isabelle de Montolieu's Caroline de Lichtfield, with accompanying notes on the text, source, a contemporary translation and illustration, biography and selections from Ch�âteaux Suisses, Portrait Life, and working bibliography.
• An extext of Sophie Cottin's (n�ée Marie Risteau) Am�élie Mansfield, with an accompanying textual note and a bibliography.
• An etext edition of The Autobiography of Anne Murray, Lady Halkett, ed. John Gough Nicols (Westminster Camden Society), New Series, No. 13, 1875), corrected and supplemented by the more recent edition of the memoir by John Loftis, her diary, and essays. See essay and bibliography provided by Suzanne Trille (University of Edinburgh): Lady Anne Halkett (1621 (?)-1699), Diarist, Autobiographer, Political Writer, Woman of letters.
  
  

Web Publications; all archived on MARS at GMU

• Apollo's Muse, a program of words and music presenting the life and poetry of Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. Commissioned by Musica Dolce, a baroque ensemble: Linda Brand, Helena Brown, Donna Dean, Joanna Levine. A shortened version was first performed at Brunel University in February 2001.
• Anne Finch: I On Myself Can Live: A Study of the Life and Poetry of Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. Five of a planned eleven chapters.
• A Chronology of the Poems of Anne Finch, with notes, and texts of selected poems. The Chronology is complete.
• All the as yet unattributed and unpublished poems by Anne Finch
• Source Texts for Anne Finch's Translations, Adaptations, and Imitations
• Anne Finch and Mary Wortley Montagu: Sister Poets
• Anne Finch as a Translator: The Development of Her Technique in her Original Poetry through the Practice of Translation," with A Bibliography of Translation Studies
• An essay on translation: "On translating Veronica Gambara and Vittoria Colonna"
• Vittoria Colonna: Amaro Lagrimar: A Translation of all her poetry. Accompanied by a complete bibliography.
• Dark Voyage: A Literary Biography of Vittoria Colonna, including portraits of Vittoria Colonna, Ferrante Francesco d'Avalos, Marchese of Pescara, Outline of Planned Biography and First Chapter, "Pawn and Wife".
• A Review of Per lettera: La scrittura epistolare femminile tra archivio e tipografia, secoli XV-XVII, ed. and introd. Gabriella Zarri.
• Veronica Gambara: a portrait life, Under the Sign of Dido; an Essay on the Process of Translation; notes On the Attribution of the Poetry of Veronica Gambara to Vittoria Colonna; and Secret Sacred Woods: A Translation of all her poetry, including her famed Stanze.
• Anthony Trollope: British Novelist (1815-1881): includes complete chronlogy of Trollope's writing life; descriptions and reproductions of the original and 20th century illustrations of Trollope's novels (for 25 of his 47 novels); essay-postings from readings and discussions of Trollope's novels, short stories and one travel book; all with accompanying bibliographies.
• Jane Austen and Time, calendars drawn from the novels, accompanied by essays and bibliographies, and a chronology of her writing life.
• An Austen Miscellany: Recent editions of the novels; The Austen movies; Jane Austen and Bath; Readings of the Novels and Literary Criticism. Papers published on various sites on the Net (e.g., The Jane Austen Centre Online Magazine, Jane Austen's World)

Conference Papers; all available online at my website

• “People that marry can never part: real and romantic gothicism in Northanger Abbey.” Submitted proposal for breakout sessions for upcoming JASNA, Portland, Maine, October 28-31, 2010. "Jane Austen and the Abbey: Mystery, Mayhem and Muslin in Portland.”
• "What right have you to detain me here:" Rape in Clarissa. Accepted proposal for upcoming pane ASECS, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 18-21, 2010. 'He said, she said': Rape in 18th-Century Law, Fiction, and Moralist Writing. Chairperson: Mary Trouille.
• "How you all must have laughed: Such a witty masquerade:" Clarissa 1991. For panel at upcoming ASECS, Richmond, Virginia, March 26-29, 2009. "The Eighteenth-Century on Film. Chairperson: John O'Neill. Panelists: David Richter and Beatrice Fink.
• "The Gothic Northanger Abbey: A Re-Evaluation." For panel at upcoming EC/ASECS, Georgetown University, November 6-9, 2008. "Re-evaluating Austen." Chairperson: Elizabeth Lambert. Panelists: Manuel Schonhorn, Elizabeth Lambert, Ellen Moody
• "'A hole in the manuscript big enough to put your finger through:' the misframing of Anne Halkett's autobiography." For panel at ASECS 22-25 March 2006, Atlanta, Georgia. "Paratexts." Chair: Caroline Breashears. Panelists: Stephen Szilagyi, Pat Rogers, Evan Davis.
• "'Cast out from respectability a while:' Anne Murray Halkett's Life in the Manuscripts." (Working title). For panel at coming EC/ASECS 26-29 October 2006, at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Bibliography, Textual Studies, and Book History. Chair: Eleanor Shevlin. Panelists: Ellen Moody, William E. Rivers and John Heins
• "Trollope's Comfort Romances for Men: Heterosexual Male Heroism in his Work." For panel at upcoming Trollope Conference July 17-19, 2006: Trollope and Gender. Exeter University, Exeter, Devon, UK. "Performing Masculinity. Gender and Narrative Construction I." Chair: Deborah Denenholz Morse. Panelists : Ellen Moody, Michelle Mouton, David Skilton. My paper centers on Miss Mackenzie, Is He Popenjoy? and Ayala's Angel.
• "Women in Cyberspace." Panel at ASECS in 30 March - 2 April 2006, Montreal, Canada. "Eighteenth Century Women Writers After the Digital Turn." Roundtable for the Woman's Caucus. Other speakers: Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta, Suzan Van Duke, Universite of d'Utrecht Institut de Recherches en Histoire et Cultures. Chair: Lori Davis-Perry, United States Air Force Academy.
• "'I hate such parts as we have plaid today': In Praise of Anne Finch and Mary Wortley Montagu's Mordant Muse (emphasis added)". Panel at the EC/ASECS October 2004 meeting at Cape May. "Lives, Lyrics and the Healing Arts." Henry Fulton, Chair. Panelists: Mary Margaret Stewart, Ellen Moody, Luanne T. Frank.
• "Continent Not Isolated: Jane Austen Among French Women". Panel at the EC/ASECS October 2003 meeting at the University of Pittsburg at Greensboro: "English Literature in France." Margaret Koehler, Chair. Panelists: Walter Gershuny, Ellen Moody, Robert Frail.
• "A Website: Freedom of the Press Belongs to the Woman Who Owns One". Two panels, the first at the EC/ASECS October 2002 meeting at Rosemont College, Pennsylvania, and the second (a revised version) at the ISECS/ASECS August 2003 meeting at UCLA: "Publishing on the Web: Differing Approaches and Experiences. Theodore E. Braun, Chair. Panelists: Kevin Berland, Jack Lynch, Ellen Moody.

Further Projects

• An etext edition of The Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley, introd., notes by Thomas Taylor Lewis (Herefordshire and London: Camden Society, 1853). Vols 58-59. See Lady Brilliana Harley (1598-1645)
• An etext edition of An Apology for the life of George Anne Bellamy. (1731?-1788) Late of Covent Garden Theatre. Written by Herself. To which is annexed, her original letter to John Calcraft, Esq. advertised to be published in October 1767, but which was then violently suppressed. The second edition. In five volumes. Edited by Alexander Bicknell. London, printed for the author, and sold by J. Bell, 1785. See "Theatrical Literature" and George Anne Bellamy
• "Found in Translation." I hope eventually to produce two papers on the theme of the creative art of translation and cross-currents between French and English epistolary, sentimental, and gothic novels by women. My project is based on a comparative study of Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Victorine de Chastenay's Les Myst�ères d'Udolphe (published 1797) As part of this I've begun a study of Chastenay's Memoires and Radcliffe's A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794
• An essay on Sophie Cottin's life and work, with especial attention to Amž�¡��élie Mansfield. For Eighteenth-Century Women, a series published for ASECS
• "On Living in a New Country" I may turn this into a book, but I am going to start with an essay focused on "Anthony Trollope's Cosmopolitanism." This will be an essay on Trollope's sympathetic and analytical presentation of American and migrant English culture aspresented in his North America and Australia and New Zealand, with excursions into his other major travel writing (The West Indies and the Spanish Main and South Africa) and stories of American and other migrant communities, including the quixote satire, The American Senator and lesser known books and short stories (John Caldigate, Harry Heathcote of Gangoil, Dr Wortley's School; "The Courtship of Susan Bell," "Miss Ophelia Gledd," "Returning Home," "Aaron Trowe," "The Two Generals," "The Widow's Mite," "Journey to Panama," "Catherine Carmichael, or Three Years Running"). Begun as a contribution to Diana Archibald's projected collection of essays, Anti-Americanism in British Literature: Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist Views of America. Now I'm aiming to write just on Trollope's North America and Australia and New Zealand and send the essay to the journal, The Antipodes.

  Ongoing Internet Activity: Writing Available in Online Archives

  • Long time moderator of Trollope-l, organizer and facilitator and formerly a principal contributor to discussions of works by Trollope and other 19th century writers, e.g., Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Oliphant and Dickens. See Conversations on the Net and Anthony Trollope
  • Listowner of Eighteenth Century Worlds (1660-1830) and Women Writers Through the Ages. See also Fanny Burney D'Arblay
  • Formerly an organizer and contributor to conversations on criticism of Austen, minor 18th century women novelists on Janeites and Austen-l;
  • Also frequent contributor to C18-l, Victoria, WMST-l (Women's Studies group), on Arthurnet for a number of years (see a group of essays 'on Marie de France described in 1st issue of 1996 Arthuriana (http://dc.smu.edu/Arthuriana/), and Clary-l.

Published Appreciations

Acknowledged Assistance

• Tremblay, Isabella. A review of Isabelle de Montolieu (1751-1832). Caroline de Lichtfield, ou Mimoires d'une Famille Prussienne, ed. Ellen Moody. http://www .jimandellen.org/ montolieu/ caroline.show.html. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 22:4 (Summer 2010):739-741.
• Norton, Rictor. "Introduction" to his Sodomites, Mollies, Sapphists and Tommies, a volume in Eighteenth-Century British Erotica, gen. edd. Alexander Pettit and Patrick Spedding. Pickering and Chatto, 2004.
• Birchall, Diana. Preface to In Defense of Mrs Elton, to be republished with Mrs Elton in America as Mrs Elton in America and Other Stories by Egerton House, UK, 2004.
• Faber, Michel. The Crimson Petal. Edinburgh, 2001.
• Thorn, Michael. William Cowper. London: Greenwich Exchange, 1996
• Griffiths, Kelley. Writing Essays about Literature: A Guide and Style Sheet. Fifth Edition. Harcourt Brace College. 1993.

Essays On My Work

• P�ósfay, �Éva, "Isabelle de Montolieu (1751-1832) and Her Readers," The East-Central Intelligencer, N. S. 17:3 (2003), 10-12.
• Vivian-Neale, Henry. "Postings from the Internet," Trollopiana: The Journal of the Trollope Society, 34 (August 1996), 7-8.
• Letts, John, Chairman of the Trollope Society. "Interetiquette," Trollopiana: The Journal of the Trollope Society, 33 (May 1996), 4-6.

Employment History

• Lecturer/Instructor in English. George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, Va. 22030. 8/88-present.
• Professorial Lecturer in Literature. American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C.. Telephone: 1-202-885-2971. 8/86-12/91.
• Lecturer in English. University of Virginia, Northern Regional Center, 2990 Telestar Court, Falls Church, Va. 22042. Telephone: 703-876-6924. 8/86-6/88.
• Field Reader. Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, U. S. Dept. of Education, Application Control Center, GSA Building, Rm 3633, Washington, D. C. 1985.
• Graduate Fellow. Queens College, CUNY, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, N. Y. 11367. 9/74-6/76.
• Adjunct Lecturer. Brooklyn College, CUNY, Bedford Ave. and Ave. H., Brooklyn, New York. 11210. 9/72-6/74.
• Library Research Assistant. English Dept., Graduate School, CUNY, 33 West 42nd Street, N.Y., N.Y. 10036. 9/70-6/71.
• Administrative Assistant. John Waddington Ltd., Leeds, England. 1/70-6/70.
• Legal Secretary. Federal Aviation Agency, JFK Airport, New York. 7/63-8/65.

Honors and Awards

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