Alys Moody
Alys Moody is Associate Professor of Literature at Bard College, where she teaches modernism, world literature, the literature and theory of decolonization, and feminist theory. Before coming to Bard, she taught at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia), the University of Waikato (Hamilton, New Zealand), and the University of Oxford, where she received her DPhil in English. She holds a BA in French and English and an MPhil in English from the University of Sydney.
She is the author of The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism (Oxford University Press, 2018) and, with Stephen Ross, is a co-editor of Global Modernists on Modernism: An Anthology(Bloomsbury, 2020), which won the 2021 Modernist Studies Association Prize for an Edition, Collection or Anthology. Her current book project is provisionally entitled World Hunger, World Literature: The Idea of the World from Decolonization to Third World Feminism.
Previous awards and fellowships include an Early Career Fellowship in the Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh, a Harry Ransom Center Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin, a Princeton University Library Research Grand, and a Humanities Travelling Fellowship from the Australian Academy of the Humanities, among others.