Gerald Moore (scholar)

Gerald Moore (born 1924) is an independent scholar living in Udine, Italy.[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 at 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. 
  2. ^ a b Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier, ed (1998). The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry. London and New York: Penguin.