Gaywyn Moore

Gaywyn Moore

Gaywyn Moore earned her Ph.D. from The University of Kansas in Early Modern British Literature with a specialty in drama where she also received advanced training in writing pedagogy and served as the teaching mentor for incoming graduate teaching assistants. Additional specialties include queenship, early modern travel, utopian literature and theory, and YA adaptations of Shakespeare plays. As an associate professor at Missouri Western State University, Moore taught courses on Shakespeare, Drama, Introduction to the Major, Utopian Literature, Travel Literature, Literature and Adaptation, and Composition. Currently, Moore is a lecturer here at Santa Clara University, having taught CTW and C&I courses for Theatre and Dance, and CTW courses for the English department.

Moore is the author of several articles, including “English Women, Romance, and Global Travel in Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West, Part 1.” In Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World. Ed. Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Andrea (2019) and “‘You turn me into nothing’: Reformation of Queenship on the Jacobean Stage.” Mediterranean Studies (2013). She is also active in the Midwest Modern Language Association, having served as president in 2023 and organized the conference, “Going Public,” as well as editing the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (JMMLA) for the “Going Public” edition. She is currently researching seafaring labor practices as they apply to Shakespeare’s The Tempest, considering how maritime culture impacts a play framed by seafaring and grounded by labor disputes.