Research Interests for Michael Valdez Moses

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.

Areas of Interest:

British Literature
20th Century LieraGenre Theory
Commonwealth
Spanish-American Literature

Representative Publications

1. The Novel and the Globalization of Culture (1995), Oxford UP
2. Modernism and Cinema, edited by Michael Valdez Moses (2010), Edinburgh UP (a special issue of Modernist Cultures.)
3. Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1900-1939, edited by Michael Valdez Moses and Richard Begam (2007), Duke UP
4. The Writings of J.M. Coetzee, edited by Michael Valdez Moses (1994), Duke UP (a special issue of South-Atlantic Quarterly.)
5. Nation of the Dead: The Politics of Irish Literature 1890 to the Present (in progress)
6. Modernists as Critics, in The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms, edited by Peter Brooker, Andrzej Gasiorek, Deborah Parsons, and Andrew Thacker (January, 2011), Oxford University Press
7. The Dream Factory: Solaris, Cinema, and Simulacra, in The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh, edited by Steven M. Sanders and R. Barton Palmer (2011), University Press of Kentucky
8. Globalization and the Novel, in The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, edited by Brian W. Shaffer (2011), Blackwell
9. Savage Nations: Native Americans and the Western, in Philosophy of the Western, edited by Jennifer McMahon and B. Steve Csaki (2010), University Press of Kentucky
10. A Modernist Cinema?, edited by Michael Valdez Moses, Modernist Cultures, vol. 5 no. 1 (May, 2010), Edinburgh University Press
11. Nietzsche, in W. B. Yeats in Context, edited by David Holdeman and Ben Levitas (2010), Cambridge University Press
12. The Strange Ride of Wikus van de Merwe (Roundtable Review on District 9 ), Safundi, vol. 11 no. 1 (February, 2010)
13. King of the Amphibians: Elizabeth Costello and Coetzee's Metamorphic Fictions, edited by Mark Sanders and Nancy Ruttenburg, Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 25 no. 4 (December, 2009)
14. Kingdom of Darkness: Autonomy and Conspiracy in The X-Files and Millenium, in The Philosophy of TV Noir, edited by Steven M. Sanders and Aeon J. Skoble (2008), University Press of Kentucky
15. 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]
16. Disorientalism: Conrad and the Imperial Origins of Modernist Aesthetics, in Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1900-1939, edited by Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses (2007), Duke University Press
17. Blockbuster Wars: Revenge of the Zeitgeist---What Bruce Wayne and Anakin Skywalker Can Tell Us About America's Political Mood, Reason Online (September, 2005) (http://www.reason.com/hod/mvm093005.shtml.) [mvm093005.shtml]
18. The Rebirth of Tragedy: Yeats, Nietzsche, the Irish National Theatre, and the Anti-Modern Cult of Cuchulain, Modernism/Modernity, vol. 11 no. 4 (November, 2004)
19. Back to the Future: The Nostalgic Yet Progressive Appeal of Wizards, Hobbits, and Jedi Knights, Reason (July, 2003) [cr.mm.back.shtml]
20. Virtual Warriors: Nostalgia, the Battlefield, and Boomer Cinema, Reason (Jan. 2002) [cr.mm.virtual.shtml]
21. Magical Realism at World's End, Literary Imagination (Winter, 2001) (Republished electonically in Margin, Feb., 2002.) [html]
22. 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]
23. 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]
24. Rendezvous with Density: The FDR Memorial and the Clinton Era, Reason (Apr. 2001) [cr.mm.a.shtml]
25. 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.)
26. The Irish Vampire: Dracula, Parnell, and the Troubled Dreams of Nationhood, Journal x (Fall, 1997)
27. Solitary Walkers: Rousseau and Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K, South Atlantic Quarterly (Winter, 1994)
28. The Mark of Empire: Writing, History, and Torture in Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians, Kenyon Review (Winter, 1993)
29. Caliban and His Precursors: The Politics of Literary History and the Third World, in Theoretical Issues in Literary History, edited by David Perkins (1991), Harvard UP
30. Lust Removed from Nature, in New Essays on White Noise, edited by Frank Lentricchia (1991), Cambridge UP
31. The Sadly Rejoicing Slave: Beckett, Joyce, and Destructive Parody, Modern Fiction Studies (Winter, 1985)
32. The Lost Steps: The Faustian Artist in the New World, Latin American Literary Review (Spring-Summer, 1984)