Alexandra Moore
Director; Professor
Human Rights Institute; English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Background
Alexandra Moore’s publications include Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture (2015) and Regenerative Fictions: Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis, and the Nation as Family (2004). She has also co-edited many volumes, including most recently: The Guantanamo Artwork and Testimony of Moath al-Alwi: Deaf Walls Speak(2023); Technologies of Human Rights Representations (2022); Writing Beyond the State: Post-Sovereign Approaches to Human Rights in Literary Studies (2020); Witnessing Torture: Perspectives of Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers (2018); and The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights (2015).
Her current research focuses on human rights violations in the global war on terror. Moore is the editor of the Human Rights Series at SUNY Press as well as the Studies in Literature, Culture, and Human Rights Series at Palgrave.
Select Publications
- “Genres of Slavery and Human Rights.” Cambridge Companion to Slavery in Global Literatures, edited by Laura T. Murphy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 13-26.
- Dossier: Cultural Renditions of Guantánamo in the War on Terror. Edited by Alexandra S. Moore. Humanity 13.3 (Winter 2022-23).
- “Across the Threshold of Detectability at Guantánamo in the Work of Debi Cornwall.” ASAP Journal 6.1 (2021). DOI:
Education
- PhD, MA, University of Rochester
- MPA, Syracuse University
- MA, University of Rochester
Research Interests
- Human Rights in Literature and Visual Culture
- Postcolonial Studies
- Critical Theory
- Feminist Theory
Teaching Interests
- Human Rights in Literature and Visual Culture
Awards
- University Award for Excellence in International Education, , 2019-20