Mo Moulton


Mo Moulton is an American author and historian of 20th century Britain and Ireland, interested in gender, sexuality, and colonialism/postcolonialism. He is a professor of modern British and Irish history at the University of Birmingham.

Education and early life

Moulton was born in New York in 1979 and grew up in Massachusetts. He majored in history as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 2001. After working for non-profit organisations, he returned to graduate study at Brown University, earning a PhD in 2010.

Academic career

Moulton became a lecturer at Harvard University from 2010 until 2016 before moving to the University of Birmingham as a senior lecturer.
He was elected to the council of the British Association for Irish Studies for the 2021–2023 term.

Personal life

At Birmingham, Moulton is a founder of the College of Arts & Law Trans Support Network.