Professional Biography

Before joining the faculty of Penn GSE as a Lecturer in 2011, Robert Moore held faculty appointments in departments of Anthropology (National University of Ireland, NYU, Reed College) and Linguistics (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Northern Illinois University, Reed College). He has also held research positions at Dublin City University (2007-2008) and the University of Chicago (2002-2003).

Research Interests and Current Projects

Robert Moore’s linguistic and ethnographic research has included a long-term study of language obsolescence and heritage language maintenance in the Warm Springs Reservation community (Oregon, USA) and studies of the sociolinguistics of contemporary Ireland with special attention to the politics of accent in Irish English. In addition to studies based on these two ongoing ethnographic projects, his publications include a series of critical interventions into the public and scholarly discourse of language endangerment, studies of the politics and policy of multilingualism in contemporary Europe and the US, of the culture history of American Indians in the Pacific Northwest, and of the semiotics of brands and branding.