Prof. Olivia Loksing Moy

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Olivia Loksing Moy is an associate professor of English specializing in British literature of the long nineteenth century.

Prof. Moy teaches at the City University of New York, Lehman College. Her research focuses on Romantic and Victorian literature, particularly nineteenth-century poetry and poetics, translation and world literatures, and the Gothic novel. She teaches courses in literature, literary criticism, bibliography, and rare books studies. In 2019, Moy was named a Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader (Nancy Weiss Malkiel Scholars Award) honoring faculty for research excellence, service, and commitment to campus inclusion. She is the author of The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) and co-editor of Victorian Verse: The Poetics of Everyday Life (Palgrave, 2023).

Prof. Moy is Director of The CUNY Rare Book Scholars and co-organizer of Activism in Academia. She currently serves as Vice President of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association and the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Moy chairs the Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Research Grant for Romantic-era research and the Rudikoff Book Prize for first monographs in Victorian studies. She serves as a judge for the ABAA’s National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest and is lead transcriber for a volume of The Michael Field Diaries project. She is a member of The Grolier Club in NYC.