Fellow in Focus: Professor Sean Moore

Recorded December 6th, 2023. A lunchtime 'in conversation' event
featuring Visiting Research Fellow Professor Sean Moore (University
of New Hampshire) in conversation with Professor Aileen Douglas
(School of English, TCD). Sean Moore's first book with Johns
Hopkins University Press in 2010, was awarded the Murphy Prize for
distinguished First Book from the American Conference for Irish
Studies. He worked as a Director of the UNH Honors Program in 2011,
serving a three-year term and returning to the faculty in 2014 to
accept research fellowships from the American Antiquarian
Society/National Endowment for the Humanities and Newport Mansions
for the 2014-2015 academic year for a book project on the colonial
slave and book trades. He received another National Endowment for
the Humanities fellowship for 2015-2016 to finish the book. Slavery
and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature,
Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814, was
published by Oxford University Press in 2019. His research project
as a Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity Long Room Hub is titled
The British Secret Service and the Scottish and Irish Book Trades,
1660-1829: An Inquiry in the History of Intelligence. Learn more
at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/