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Kaitlin Moore

Assistant Professor, Literature

Contact

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  • Phone: (336) 758-3256
  • Office: C5H Tribble Hall

Degrees

  • PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • BA, University of Pennsylvania
  • Poupou Huia Te Reo, Te Wānanga o Raukawa

Areas of Interest

  • Indigenous Literatures
  • Ecopoetics
  • Environmental Humanities
  • Literatures of the Pacific and Oceania
  • New Media and Game Studies
  • Science and Literature

Courses at Wake Forest

  • First Year Seminar: Indigenous Video Games
  • ENG 150 Playing to Save the Planet: Video Games as Environmental Literature
  • ENG 341/ENV 302 Testing Grounds and Terminal Beaches: Irradiated Literatures
  • ENG 359 Navigating New Zealand: Māori Cosmologies, Kaitiakitanga, and Keri Hulme
  • ENG 371 Irradiated Spacetimes

Selected Publications

  • “Caesium Spacetimes: atomically-standardized time and atomically-irradiated space in a nuclear Pacific.” Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture 2, no. 3 (2026): pp. 1-22.
  • “THIS WHOLE PLACE IS A FISH: Refuse, refuge, and subjectivities of surplus in a Moeraki Midden.” Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies 12, no. 2 (July 2025): pp. 135-149.
  • “Eternal sunshine and the “Gestaltized” mind: the broken promise of the posthuman in NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139.” Journal of Games Criticism 6.A. (Dec. 2024): pp. 1-18.
  • “‘I’m traversing my own death throes’: haunting the queer spacetime of Dear Esther (2012).” Extrapolation 64, no. 3 (19 December 2023): 187-211.
  • “Come Armageddon or high water:” Kānaka Maoli cosmologies in the ecopoetry of On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World).” Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics, edited by Julie Fiedorczuk, Mary Newell, Bernard Quetchenbach, and Orchid Tierney (September 2023): pp. 272-281.

Awards & Fellowships

National

  • Jan.-Mar. 2027 American Philosophical Society Fellow at the University of Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
  • May 2026 First Book Institute Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies, Pennsylvania State University
  • Mar. 2023 Northeast Modern Language Association Graduate Student Caucus Essay Award

Wake Forest University

  • Summer 2026 Humanities Institute Summer Writing Grant
  • Summer 2025 William C. Archie Fund for Faculty Excellence for Foreshore Cosmologies