Judith K. Moore

Background

Judith K. Moore was born on May 4, 1939, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. She is a daughter of Richard Crosse and Vera (Jackson) Crosse.

Education

Judith received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Oklahoma in 1965. Later, in 1967, she attained her Master of Arts degree in English from the same university. Then, Moore continued her education at Cornell University, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English in 1970.

Career

In 1970, Judith began her career as an assistant professor of English at Fisk University in Nashville, a post she held till 1971. Between 1978-1984, Moore served as an assistant professor of English at the State University of New York at Oswego. In 1984, she was appointed a professor of English at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Currently, Judith is a professor emeritus of the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Achievements

• Judith K. Moore gained prominence as a writer, who penned such books, as "A Zeal for Responsibility: The Struggle for Professional Nursing in Victorian England, 1868-1883" and "The Appearance of Truth: The Story of Elizabeth Canning and Eighteenth-Century Narrative".

Works

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  • The Appearance of Truth: The Story of Elizabeth Canning and Eighteenth-Century Narrative

    (This study examines both the trial record and the various...)

    1994
  • A Zeal for Responsibility: The Struggle for Professional Nursing in Victorian England, 1868-1883 1988

Views

Quotations: "All of my work is about blurring familiar lines of distinction, including the lines between men and women. Meanings and conflicts occur in relationships not in isolation. I don’t find a conflict between writing scholarship and writing creatively."

Interests

• Reading, traveling, pets, opera

Connections

Judith married Robert S. Moore in 1959. The couple divorced in 1981. In 1987, she married Ted Herlinger, a multimedia artist, who died in 2015.

Judith is a mother of two children — Neith and Dawson.

Father:

Richard Crosse

Mother:

Vera (Jackson) Crosse

First husband:

Robert S. Moore

Second husband:

Ted Herlinger