• Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1987
• M.A., University of Virginia, 1982
• Beinecke and Rotary Fellow, New College, Oxford University, 1980
• A.B., magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1979

Research Interests:  

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 UP, 1995), and has edited several collections of critical essays including The Writings of J. M. Coetzee (Duke UP, 1994), Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1900-1939 (Duke UP, 2007), and Modernism and Cinema, (Edinburgh UP, 2010). His articles and reviews have appeared in Modernism/Modernity, Kenyon Review, Modernist Cultures, Latin American Literary Review, South Atlantic Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, Literary Imagination, Journal of Literary Studies, Safundi, Journal x, Margin, Reason, and essay collections from Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, Duke, and Kentucky University Presses and from Blackwell and Palgrave/St. Martin Presses. His main interests are in modern comparative literature (especially British, Irish and postcolonial), the history of film, and in 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 journal, Modernist Cultures, published by Edinburgh University Press, 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)

Books

•  The Novel and the Globalization of Culture.  Oxford UP, 1995 .
•  Nation of the Dead: The Politics of Irish Literature 1890 to the Present. in progress .

•  Modernism and Cinema. Edinburgh UP, 2010 (). (a special issue of Modernist Cultures)
•  Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1900-1939. Duke UP, 2007 ().
•  The Writings of J.M. Coetzee. Duke UP, 1994 (). (a special issue of South-Atlantic Quarterly)

•  "Modernists as Critics." The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms Ed. Peter Brooker, Andrzej Gasiorek, Deborah Parsons, and Andrew Thacker. Oxford University Press, January, 2011.
•  "The Dream Factory: Solaris, Cinema, and Simulacra." The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh Ed. Steven M. Sanders and R. Barton Palmer. University Press of Kentucky, 2011.
•  "Globalization and the Novel." The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction Ed. Brian W. Shaffer. Blackwell, 2011.
•  "Savage Nations: Native Americans and the Western." Philosophy of the Western Ed. Jennifer McMahon and B. Steve Csaki. University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
•  "A Modernist Cinema?."  Ed. Michael Valdez Moses. Edinburgh University Press, May, 2010.
•  "Nietzsche." W. B. Yeats in Context Ed. David Holdeman and Ben Levitas. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
•  "The Strange Ride of Wikus van de Merwe (Roundtable Review on District 9 )."  February, 2010.
•  "King of the Amphibians: Elizabeth Costello and Coetzee's Metamorphic Fictions."  Ed. Mark Sanders and Nancy Ruttenburg. December, 2009.
•  "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.
•  "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.
•  "Blockbuster Wars: Revenge of the Zeitgeist---What Bruce Wayne and Anakin Skywalker Can Tell Us About America's Political Mood."  September, 2005. (http://www.reason.com/hod/mvm093005.shtml) [mvm093005.shtml]
•  "The Rebirth of Tragedy: Yeats, Nietzsche, the Irish National Theatre, and the Anti-Modern Cult of Cuchulain."  November, 2004.
•  "Back to the Future: The Nostalgic Yet Progressive Appeal of Wizards, Hobbits, and Jedi Knights."  July, 2003. [cr.mm.back.shtml]
•  "Virtual Warriors: Nostalgia, the Battlefield, and Boomer Cinema."  Jan. 2002. [cr.mm.virtual.shtml]
•  "Magical Realism at World's End."  Winter, 2001. (Republished electonically in Margin, Feb., 2002) [html]
•  "Rendezvous with Density: The FDR Memorial and the Clinton Era."  Apr. 2001. [cr.mm.a.shtml]
•  "Agon in the Marketplace: The Major of Casterbridge as Bourgeois Tragedy."  Spring, 1988. (Republished in Julian Wolfrey, New Casebooks: The Mayor of Casterbridge, Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2000)
•  "The Irish Vampire: Dracula, Parnell, and the Troubled Dreams of Nationhood."  Fall, 1997.
•  "Solitary Walkers: Rousseau and Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K."  Winter, 1994.
•  "The Mark of Empire: Writing, History, and Torture in Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians."  Winter, 1993.
•  "Caliban and His Precursors: The Politics of Literary History and the Third World." Theoretical Issues in Literary History Ed. David Perkins. Harvard UP, 1991.
•  "Lust Removed from Nature." New Essays on White Noise Ed. Frank Lentricchia. Cambridge UP, 1991.
•  "The Sadly Rejoicing Slave: Beckett, Joyce, and Destructive Parody."  Winter, 1985.
•  "The Lost Steps: The Faustian Artist in the New World."  Spring-Summer, 1984.

•  State of Discontent: J.M. Coetzee's Anti-political Fiction. Reason  (July, 2008). (Review article of Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee) [html]
•  Big Daddy: The Dictator Novel and the Liberation of Latin America. Reason  (Aug. 2002). (Review article of The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa) [cr.mm.big.shtml]
•  The Poet as Politician: The ideological odyssey of W. B. Yeats. Reason  (Feb. 2001). (Review article of The Life of W. B. Yeats by Terence Brown, W. B. Yeats: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914 by R. F. Foster, and Yeat's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats by Brenda Maddox; republished in republished in Beyond Ben Bulben: Newsletter of the Australian Yeats Society, January, 2002, January, 2002.) [cr.mm.the.shtml]