• 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, 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)

Books

•  The Novel and the Globalization of Culture.  Oxford UP, 1995 .
•  Nation of the Dead: The Politics of Irish Literature 1890 to the Present. (2010) . (work in progress)

•  Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1900-1939. Duke UP, 2007 (). (co-edited with Richard Begam)
•  The Writings of J.M. Coetzee. Duke UP, 1994 (). (a special issue of South-Atlantic Quarterly)

•  "'King of the Amphibians:' Elizabeth Costello and Coetzee's Metamorphic Fiction."  Ed. Mark Sanders and Nancy Ruttenburg. 2009.
•  "Nietzsche: "The Strong Enchanter"." Yeats in Context Ed. Ben Levitas and David Holdeman. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 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.
•  "Introduction." Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1900-1939 Ed. Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses. Duke University Press, 2007.
•  "The Rebirth of Tragedy: Yates, Nietzsche, the Irish National Theatre, and the Anti-Modern Cult of Cuchulain."  November, 2004.
•  "Magical Realism at World's End."  Winter, 2001. (Republished electonically in Margin, Feb., 2002) [html]
•  "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.
•  "Teaching Frankenstein from the Creature's Perspective." Approaches to Teaching Shelley's Frankenstein Ed. Stephen C. Behrendt. MLA, 1990.
•  "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 Sadly Rejoicing Slave: Beckett, Joyce, and Destructive Parody."  Winter, 1985.
•  "The Lost Steps: The Faustian Artist in the New World."  Spring-Summer.