Dashiell Moore's research interests include world literature, island studies, postcolonial theory, and Indigenous studies, with a particular concentration in Australian and Caribbean writing.
Moore grew up in Kangaroo Valley, Tharawal Country, before studying a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Doctor of Philosophy in English at the University of Sydney, supervised by Peter Minter, Isabelle Hesse, and Sarah Gleeson-White.
As an early career researcher, Moore explores the effect of distance and difference in shaping literary aesthetics, historical dynamics, and intercultural power relations, which was a key focus in his monograph on Aboriginal Australian and Caribbean literatures, The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean (OUP 2024).
In 2024, Moore was awarded a DECRA Fellow (2025-2027) that he is undertaking through the University of Sydney. As a DECRA Fellow, Moore is examining literary and historical connections between island carceral sites: the plantation, the reserve, and the detention centre.
He is a Roderick Visiting Fellowship at James Cook University in 2025.
