Olivia Loksing Moy

Associate Professor

Contact

Pronouns: she/her/hers
olivia.moy@lehman.cuny.edu
718-960-6094
Carman Hall 392

Education

A.B., Princeton University
M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D., Columbia University

Biography

Olivia Loksing Moy specializes in British literature of the long nineteenth-century with interests in poetic theory and Gothic literature. She teaches courses in Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist poetry, as well as the history of the book. She serves as faculty on the (Dis)ability Studies minor and is the founding director of The CUNY Rare Book Scholars. Professor Moy serves as Vice President of the Keats-Shelley Association of America and the Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA). She is on the advisory council for the American Trust for the British Library and an active member of The Grolier Club. Along with Dhipinder Walia and Lise Esdaile, she is co-organizer of the longstanding Activism in Academia Symposia.

Moy is the author of The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), co-editor of Victorian Verse: The Poetics of Everyday Life (Palgrave, 2023) and, with Marco Ramírez Rojas, editor and translator of Julio Cortázar’s Imagen de John Keats. She is also a contributor to the Michael Field Diaries Project and volume lead for the 1910 diaries. Moy's essays and articles have been published in Comparative Literature, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Victorian Poetry, Victorian Studies, Women's Writing, Romantic Circles, Studies in Romanticism, The Tennyson Research Bulletin, The Keats Letters Project, V21collective.org, and PUBLICBOOKS. She is a contributor to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and World Literature.

In 2019, Moy was named a Nancy Weiss Malkiel Scholar by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson Foundation) for her excellence in research, teaching, and scholarship. Between 2014 and 2022, Moy served as director of the English Honors Program (EHP), the Lehman Scholars Program (LSP), and the Macaulay Honors College at Lehman (MHC). She is the recipient of a Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. research grant and the 2021 Bigger 6 | Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies article award.

For further information, see Professor Moy's personal website.

Selected Publications

• The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry, Edinburgh University Press. (2022). (web link)
• Victorian Verse: The Poetics of Everyday Life, Palgrave, 2023. (web link)
• “Reading in the Aftermath: An Asian American Jane Eyre.” Special issue: Critical Race Theory and the Present of Victorian Studies, Victorian Studies 62, no. 3 (Spring 2020): 406-420. (web link)
• “From Hampstead to Buenos Aires and Beyond: Anticipating Worlds in Julio Cortázar’s Imagen de John Keats.” Comparative Literature 72, no. 4 (Dec. 2020). (web link)
• “He Star’d Across the Atlantic: The Cortázar-Keats Connection,” Studies in Romanticism 59, no. 3 (Fall 2020): 351-378. (web link)
• “To Carry Keats in Your Pocket: Julio Cortázar’s Everyman Poet.” Romantic Circles Praxis (July 2020). (web link)
• Julio y John, caminando y conversando: Selections from Imagen de John Keats. Edited and translated with Marco Ramírez Rojas. Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. Series VIII: Fall 2019. (web link)
• “Simian, Amphibian, and Able: Reevaluating Browning’s Caliban.” Victorian Poetry 56, no. 4 (Winter 2018): 381-411. (web link)
• “The University and the Station: A Brontë Bicentenary in Taiwan.” PUBLICBOOKS.org. April 13, 2017. (web link)
• "Radcliffe's Poetic Legacy: Female Confinement in 'The Gothic Sonnet.' Women's Writing 22, no. 2 (2015): 376-94. (web link)
• "King Arthur and Chiasmus in Tennyson's Idylls of the King." Tennyson Research Bulletin 10, no. 3 (2015): 266-79.