Gerald Moore (scholar)

For the pianist, see Gerald Moore.
For the American journalist, see Gerald_Moore_(journalist).

Gerald Moore (born 1924) is an independent scholar living in Worthing, England.[1] He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[2] He has taught at many universities, including Sussex, Hong Kong, Makerere, Ife, Port Harcourt, Jos and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His last teaching post was at Trieste. He is primarily a scholar of contemporary African anglophone and francophone poetry. With Ulli Beier, he edited the influential Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, a comprehensive anthology.[2]

Major works

As translator:

References

  1. Moore, Gerald (2002). "Senghor: Poet of Night". Research in African Literatures. 33 (4): 51–59. doi:10.1353/ral.2002.0117.
  2. 1 2 Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier, ed. (1998). The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry. London and New York: Penguin.


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