University of Western Sydney

Faculty Member, School of Humanities and Communication Arts

Senior Lecturer in Modern European History

School of Humanities and Communication Arts

About

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Cultural and intellectual history of modern Europe; history of sexuality, psychiatry, psychoanalysis and biomedical sciences; the history of continental philosophy and of historiographic scholarship.

Alison Moore is a researcher at the University of Western Sydney and teaches in the History and Political Thought major in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts. 

Research specialisations:
European history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; intellectual history; history of sexuality; history of ideas about Nazism and the Holocaust; ethical debates about the aestheticisation of suffering; concepts of sexual perversion and sadomasochism; notions of feminine sexual frigidity; symbolism and representation of excretion; history of psychoanalysis; history and theory of historiography;exoticism in visions of bodies and spiritual transformation; French gender and nationalist imagery

Current and Recent Projects:

1. Frigidity: An Intellectual History, co-authored with Professor Peter Cryle (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011) Its out!

2. Sexual Myths of Modernity: Sadism, masochism and historical teleology (monograph contracted to Lexington Books)

3. Gendered Signs and Sexual Symbols in the History of French Political Culture (completed edited contracted to Cambria, forthcoming early 2012)

4. The Anal Imagination: Psychoanalysis, capitalism and excretion (monograph project near completion)

5. Cultural Historiography and the History of Humanities Interdisciplinarity (new monograph project)