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Mo Moulton (born 1979) is an American author and historian of 20th century Britain and Ireland, interested in gender, sexuality, and colonialism/postcolonialism. They are a senior lecturer in the history of race and empire at the University of Birmingham.

Education and early life

Moulton was born in New York in 1979 and grew up in Massachusetts. They majored in history as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 2001. After working for non-profit organisations, they returned to graduate study at Brown University, earning a PhD in 2010.

Academic career

Moulton became a lecturer at Harvard University from 2010 until 2016 before moving to the University of Birmingham as a senior lecturer.

They were elected to the council of the British Association for Irish Studies for the 2021–2023 term.

Personal life

Moulton identifies as "queer, trans, and nonbinary" and uses singular they as their preferred pronoun. At Birmingham, they are a founder of the College of Arts & Law Trans Support Network.

Bibliography and book awards

• Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Runner-up (proxime accessit) for The Whitfield Prize in 2015
• 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. Winner of the 2019 Agatha Award and the 2020 Anthony Award, 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Convery, David (April 2016). The English Historical Review. 131 (549): 496–498. doi:10.1093/ehr/cew008.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Daly, Mary E. (April 2015). Contemporary British History. 29 (2): 287–289. doi:10.1080/13619462.2015.1031511. S2CID 145704753.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Delaney, Enda (9 August 2014). "Entangled connections". Irish Times.
   • Fanning, Bryan (Fall 2015). Studies. 104 (415): 347–351. JSTOR 24640675.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Gannon, D. (November 2014). Twentieth Century British History. 26 (4): 633–636. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hwu059.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • 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

• 1979 births
• Living people
• 21st-century American historians
• American non-binary writers
• American emigrants to the United Kingdom
• American LGBTQ historians
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
• Brown University alumni
• Harvard University faculty
• Academics of the University of Birmingham
• Historians from New York (state)
• Historians from Massachusetts
• Transgender academics
• 21st-century American non-fiction writers
• LGBTQ people from Massachusetts
• LGBTQ people from New York (state)