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Michael Valdez MosesMichael Valdez Moses  
Associate Professor

Office Location: 319 Allen
Office Phone: 919-684-8880
Email Address: mmoses@duke.edu

Teaching (Fall, 2008):

  • Focus 99fcs.09, Special topics in focus Synopsis
    See instru, Th 06:00 PM-07:30 PM
  • English 139cs.01, Sp top british lit iii Synopsis
    Social sciences 124, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

Office Hours:

Tuesdays and Thursdays: 2:45pm - 4:15pm
and by appointment.

Education and Interests:

Ph.D., University of Virginia
British and Irish Literature; 20th Century/Modernist Studies
Michael Valdez Moses grew up in Los Angeles and was educated at Harvard, New College, Oxford, and the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Novel and the Globalization of Culture (Oxford, 1995), editor of a collection of critical essays, The Writings of J. M. Coetzee (Duke, 1994), and co-editor of Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1900-1939 (Duke, 2007). His articles and reviews have appeared in Modernism/Modernity, Kenyon Review, Latin American Literary Review, South Atlantic Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, Literary Imagination, Journal x, Reason, and essay collections from Harvard, Cambridge, and Duke University Presses. His main interests are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British, Irish, comparative European, and postcolonial literatures and culture. His research and teaching encompass the interdisciplinary study of literature, political philosophy, and economics. Professor Moses is currently at work on a book project, Nation of the Dead: The Politics of Irish Literature, 1890 to the Present. He is co-editor of the web-based journal, Modernist Cultures, contributing editor to Reason, and a member of the advisory boards of Modern Fiction Studies, jouvert, and CONTEXT. Professor Moses is an affiliated member of the faculty in the Program in Literature and a founding member of the Gerst Program for Political, Economic, and Humanistic Studies at Duke. He is former Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1.  The Novel and the Globalization of Culture. Oxford UP, 1995.
  2.  Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1900-1939.  Duke UP, 2007  (co-edited with Richard Begam)
  3.  The Writings of J.M. Coetzee.  Duke UP, 1994.  (a special issue of South-Atlantic Quarterly)
  4.  Nation of the Dead: The Politics of Irish Literature 1890 to the Present.  2009. (work in progress)
  5. M. Moses. "'King of the Amphibians:' Elizabeth Costello and Coetzee's Metamorphic Fiction." Journal of Literary Studies  ((forthcoming) 2009)
  6. M. Moses. "Nietzsche: "The Strong Enchanter"." Yeats in Context. Ed. Ben Levitas and David Holdeman. Cambridge University Press, (forthcoming) 2009.
  7. "Kingdom of Darkness: Autonomy and Conspiracy in The X-Files and Millenium." The Philosophy of TV Noir. Ed. Steven M. Sanders and Aeon J. Skoble. University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 
  8. "Disorientalism: Conrad and the Imperial Origins of Modernist Aesthetics." Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1900-1939. Ed. Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses. Duke University Press, 2007.
  9. M. Moses and R. Begam. "Introduction." Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1900-1939. Ed. Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses. Duke University Press, 2007.
  10. "The Rebirth of Tragedy: Yates, Nietzsche, the Irish National Theatre, and the Anti-Modern Cult of Cuchulain." Modernism/Modernity 11.4 (November, 2004)
  11. "Magical Realism at World's End." Literary Imagination  (Winter, 2001)  Republished electonically in Margin, Feb., 2002 [html]
  12. "The Irish Vampire: Dracula, Parnell, and the Troubled Dreams of Nationhood." Journal x  (Fall, 1997)
  13. "Solitary Walkers: Rousseau and Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K." South Atlantic Quarterly  (Winter, 1994)
  14. "The Mark of Empire: Writing, History, and Torture in Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians." Kenyon Review  (Winter, 1993)
  15. "Caliban and His Precursors: The Politics of Literary History and the Third World." Theoretical Issues in Literary History. Ed. David Perkins. Harvard UP, 1991. 
  16. "Lust Removed from Nature." New Essays on White Noise. Ed. Frank Lentricchia. Cambridge UP, 1991. 
  17. "Teaching Frankenstein from the Creature's Perspective." Approaches to Teaching Shelley's Frankenstein. Ed. Stephen C. Behrendt. MLA, 1990. 
  18. "Agon in the Marketplace: The Major of Casterbridge as Bourgeois Tragedy." South Atlantic Quarterly  (Spring, 1988)  Republished in Julian Wolfrey, New Casebooks: The Mayor of Casterbridge, Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2000
  19. "The Sadly Rejoicing Slave: Beckett, Joyce, and Destructive Parody." Modern Fiction Studies  (Winter, 1985)
  20. "The Lost Steps: The Faustian Artist in the New World." Latin American Literary Review  (Spring-Summer)

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