Sean Moore, Associate Professor of English, University of New Hampshire

Sean Moore is the Editor of the international journal Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is the author of Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution: Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010), which won the Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book from the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS). He has published in PMLA, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Atlantic Studies, the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, and other journals and essay collections. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Ireland as a graduate student, and has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), American Antiquarian Society (AAS), Library Company of Philadelphia, Folger Library, John Carter Brown Library, Newport Mansions, and other institutions.

"The power of this overall argument owes its success, as much as anything, to the effectiveness of the book's structure. Each of the book's five chapters has a dual focus: first, on the history of one of the major pre- Revolutionary libraries in the North American colonies, and second, on a particular literary text circulating among that library's members that illuminates a particular community of readers in a unique way." -- Ezra Tawil, Modern Language Review

"Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries will be of interest to scholars eager to learn more about the specific institutions Moore has studied as well as the reading lists of their members... I hope future historians will pick up the important work that Moore has started and draw connections between the books in these libraries and the actions of the men who supported them." -- Joseph Rezek, Boston University, Libraries: Culture, History, and Society

"...powerful and indignant... brave and passionate..." -- David Wormesley, SEL