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

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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 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, graduating

Phi Beta Kappa The Phi Beta Kappa Society () is the oldest academic honor society in the United States, and the most prestigious, due in part to its long history and academic selectivity. Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal a ...

in 2001. After working for

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organisations, they returned to graduate study at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

, earning a PhD in 2010.

Academic career

Moulton became a lecturer at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

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 Singular ''they'', along with its inflected or derivative forms, ''them'', ''their'', ''theirs'' and ''themselves'' (or ''themself''), is a gender-neutral third-person pronoun. It typically occurs with an unspecified antecedent, in sentence ...

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 The Whitfield Prize (or Whitfield Book Prize) is a prize of £1,000 awarded annually by the Royal Historical Society to the best work on a subject of British or Irish history published within the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland during the cal ...

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. Winner of the 2019

Agatha Award The Agatha Awards, named for Agatha Christie, are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write in the traditional mystery subgenre: "books typified by the works of Agatha Christie . . . loosely defined as mysteries that contain no expli ...

and the 2020

Anthony Award The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986. The awards are named for Anthony Boucher (1911–1968), one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America. Among the m ...

, in their respective non-fiction categories.

References

External links

Home page
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Interview with Moulton about ''Mutual Admiration Society''
'' History: The Journal of the Historical Association'', 16 December 2019 {{DEFAULTSORT:Moulton, Mo 1979 births Living people 21st-century American historians American non-binary writers American emigrants to the United Kingdom LGBT historians Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Brown University alumni Harvard University faculty Academics of the University of Birmingham Place of birth missing (living people) Historians from New York (state) Historians from Massachusetts Transgender academics