Michael Valdez Moses | Scholars@Duke

Michael Valdez Moses
Associate Professor with Tenure

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.

Office Hours

Monday and Wednesday 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. & by appointment.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor with Tenure, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1994

Contact Information

303G Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
mmoses@duke.edu (919) 684-8880

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Virginia 1987
- M.A., University of Virginia 1982
- Beinecke and Rotary Fellow, New College, Oxford University (U.K.) 1979 - 1980
- A.B., Harvard University 1979
Duke Appointment History
- Assistant Professor, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1987 - 1994
Recognition
In the News
- OCT 9, 2014 Reason
  
  Michael Valdez Moses: Taste is personal -- a primer in Nobel Prize-winning literature
- OCT 2, 2013
  
  Expressing Humanity During 'The Troubles:' The Poetry of Seamus Heaney
- SEP 25, 2013
  
  Duke to Honor Late Poet Seamus Heaney With Public Reading, Oct. 1
- MAY 30, 2013
  
  The Humanities in Transition
- MAY 29, 2013
  
  The Humanities: The Next Generation
Awards & Honors
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Begam, R., and M. V. Moses. Modernism, postcolonialism, and globalism: Anglophone literature, 1950 to the present. 2018, pp. 1–326. Scopus, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199980963.001.0001.
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  - Begam, R., and M. V. Moses. Modernism, postcolonialism, and globalism: Anglophone literature, 1950 to the present. 2018, pp. 1–326. Scopus, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199980963.001.0001.
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  - Valdez Moses, M. Nation of the Dead: The Politics of Irish Literature 1890 to the Present. 2015.
  - Valdez Moses, M. A Modernist Cinema. Edited by S. Klein, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015.
  - Moses, Michael Valdez, editor. Modernism and Cinema. Edinburgh UP, 2010.
  - Moses, Michael Valdez, and Richard Begam, editors. Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1900-1939. Duke UP, 2007.
  - Valdez Moses, M. The Novel and the Globalization of Culture. Oxford UP, 1995.
  - Moses, Michael Valdez, editor. The Writings of J.M. Coetzee. Duke UP, 1994.
- Academic Articles
  - Valdez Moses, M. “'We Discharge Ourselves on Both Sides'.” Vorticisim: New Perspectives, Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2011.
  - Moses Valdez, M. “A Modernist Cinema?.” Modernist Cultures, edited by M. Valdez Moses, vol. 5, Edinburgh University Press, May 2010. Manual, doi:10.3366/mod.2010.0002.
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  - Valdez Moses, M. “The Strange Ride of Wikus van de Merwe (Roundtable Review on District 9 ).” Safundi, vol. 11, no. 1, 2010.
  - Moses, M. V. ““King of the Amphibians”: Elizabeth costello and coetzee’s metamorphoric fictions.” Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 25, no. 4, Jan. 2009, pp. 25–38. Scopus, doi:10.1080/02564710903226775.
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  - Valdez Moses, M. “Risky Business: The President’s Column- - A Response to the NEA Report, Reading at Risk.” Alsc Newsletter, 2004.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “The rebirth of tragedy: Yeats, Nietzsche, the Irish national Theatre, and the anti-modern cult of Cuchulain.” Modernism Modernity, vol. 11, no. 3, 2004, pp. 561–79.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Scholarly Publishing and the Tenure Process: A Response to Stephen Greenblatt.” Literary Imagination, 2003.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Magical Realism at World’s End.” Literary Imagination, vol. 3, no. 1, 2001, pp. 105–33.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “The Irish Vampire: Dracula, Parnell, and the Troubled Dreams of Nationhood.” Journal X, 1997.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Solitary Walkers: Rousseau and Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K.” South Atlantic Quarterly, 1994.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “The Mark of Empire: Writing, History, and Torture in Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians.” Kenyon Review, 1993.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Agon in the Marketplace: The Major of Casterbridge as Bourgeois Tragedy.” South Atlantic Quarterly, 1988.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “The Sadly Rejoicing Slave: Beckett, Joyce, and Destructive Parody.” Modern Fiction Studies, 1985.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “The Lost Steps: The Faustian Artist in the New World.” Latin American Literary Review, 1984.
- Book Sections
  - Moses, M. V. “Worlds lost and founded: V. S. Naipaul as belated modernist.” Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism: Anglophone Literature, 1950 to the Present, 2018, pp. 197–219. Scopus, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199980963.003.0010.
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  - Moses, M. V. “Envisioning the scene of the modern: Modernism and European cinema.” The Modernist World, 2015, pp. 321–28. Scopus, doi:10.4324/9781315778334.
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  - Moses, M. V. “Irish modernist imaginaries.” The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism, 2014, pp. 206–20. Scopus, doi:10.1017/CCO9781139381697.019.
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  - Tuttle, J. S. Introduction. Vol. 30, 2013, pp. 217–18. Scopus, doi:10.5250/legacy.30.2.0217.
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  - Valdez Moses, M. “Fatal Women: Carmen, Salome, and the Seduction of the Nation-State.” Modernism and Opera, edited by R. Begam and M. Wilson Smith, University of California Press, 2013.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “The Dream Factory: Solaris, Cinema, and Simulacra.” The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh, edited by Steven M. Sanders and R Barton Palmer, University Press of Kentucky, 2011.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Globalization and the Novel.” The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, edited by Brian W. Shaffer, Blackwell, 2011.
  - Moses, M. V. “Modernists as Critics.” The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms, 2010. Scopus, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199545445.013.0009.
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  - Valdez Moses, M. “Savage Nations: Native Americans and the Western.” Philosophy of the Western, edited by Jennifer McMahon and B Steve Csaki, University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Nietzsche.” W. B. Yeats in Context, edited by David Holdeman and Ben Levitas, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Kingdom of Darkness: Autonomy and Conspiracy in The X-Files and Millenium.” The Philosophy of TV Noir, edited by Steven M. Sanders and Aeon J. Skoble, University Press of Kentucky, 2008.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Disorientalism: Conrad and the Imperial Origins of Modernist Aesthetics.” Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1900-1939, edited by Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses, Duke University Press, 2007.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Caliban and His Precursors: The Politics of Literary History and the Third World.” Theoretical Issues in Literary History, edited by David Perkins, Harvard UP, 1991.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Lust Removed from Nature.” New Essays on White Noise, edited by Frank Lentricchia, Cambridge UP, 1991.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Teaching Frankenstein from the Creature’s Perspective.” Approaches to Teaching Shelley’s Frankenstein, edited by Stephen C. Behrendt, MLA, 1990.
- Other Articles
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Fiction: Michael Valdez Moses on Mario Vargas Llosa's 'The War at the End of the World'.” Reason, 2013.
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  - Valdez Moses, M. “State of Discontent: J.M. Coetzee’s Anti-political Fiction.” Reason, July 2008.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Blockbuster Wars: Revenge of the Zeitgeist—What Bruce Wayne and Anakin Skywalker Can Tell Us About America’s Political Mood.” Reason Online, Sept. 2005.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Back to the Future: The Nostalgic Yet Progressive Appeal of Wizards, Hobbits, and Jedi Knights.” Reason, July 2003.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Wherever Green is Worn? Multiculturalism in Contemporary Ireland.” Reason, Feb. 2003.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Big Daddy: The Dictator Novel and the Liberation of Latin America.” Reason, Aug. 2002.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Rendezvous with Density: The FDR Memorial and the Clinton Era.” Reason, Apr. 2001.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “The Poet as Politician: The ideological odyssey of W. B. Yeats.” Reason, Feb. 2001.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Beckett Unbound.” The Weekly Standard, Dec. 1996.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Vargas Llosa Visits His Animal.” The Weekly Standard, July 1996.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “The Moore-ish Church.” Books in Canada, Feb. 1996.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “The not-so-fictional world of Don DeLillo.” The News and Observer, June 1991.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Review of Writing the Apocalypse: Historical Vision in Contemporary U. S. and Latin American Fiction by Lois Parkinson Zamora.” American Literature, Mar. 1991.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “After the Wall: The Restructuring of Poststructuralism.” Contemporary Literature, 1991.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Reviews of 'Bennett, Wells and Conrad: Narrative in Transition' by Linda Anderson and 'H.G. Wells' by Michael Draper.” Modern Fiction Studies, 1990.
  - Valdez Moses, M. “Review of Dreadful Games: The Play of Desire in the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Nancy Morrow.” South Atlantic Review, Jan. 1990.
  - Moses, M. V. “A New Production: 2004 Presidential Address.” Alsc Newsletter.
  - Moses, M. V. “Risky Business: The President's Column --- A Response to the NEA Report, 'Reading at Risk'.” Alsc Newsletter.
  - Moses, M. V. “Risky Business: The President's Column --- A Response to the NEA Report, 'Reading at Risk'.” Reading at Risk: A Forum, a Special Issue of Forum: A Publication of the Alsc, vol. 2, no. Spring.
- Digital Publications
  - Moses, M. V. Taste is Personal: A Primer in Nobel Prize-Winning Literature - The Subjective Theory of Value in Action. 8 Oct. 2014.
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  - Moses, M. V. Viva Mario! (a tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa). 9 Oct. 2010.
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  - Valdez Moses, M. Modern Day Frankensteins: The Return of Mulder and Scully. Aug. 2008.
  - Valdez Moses, M. Virtual Warriors: Nostalgia, the Battlefield, and Boomer Cinema. Jan. 2002.
Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
Presentations & Appearances
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
- Co-convener. Working Group on Cinema and Modernity. 2014 - 2016 2014 - 2016
- Co-convener. Working Group on Political Theory. 2006 - 2013 2006 - 2013
Service to the Profession
- Co-Editor. Modernist Cultures. 2015 2015
- Contributing Editor. Reason. 2015 2015
- Contributing Editor. Reason. 2015 2015
- Director. Graduate Studies Advisory . 2014 - 2015 2014 - 2015
- Director. Graduate Studies Advisory . 2011 - 2013 2011 - 2013
- Editorial Board. 2009 2009
- Director. Graduate Studies Advisory . 2005 - 2006 2005 - 2006
- Conference Program Subcommittee. ALSC. 2004 2004
- General Editor. A Publication of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. 2003 - 2004 2003 - 2004
- General Editor. Forum: a Publication of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. 2003 - 2006 2003 - 2006
- President. Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. 2003 - 2004 2003 - 2004
- Conference Program Subcommittee. ALSC. 2002 2002
- Executive Council. ALSC. 2002 - 2005 2002 - 2005
- External Honors Examiner. Swarthmore College. 2002 - 2003 2002 - 2003
- Vice President. Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. 2002 - 2003 2002 - 2003
- Chair. Executive Committee. MLA Anglo-Irish Literature Discussion Group. 2000 2000
- Director. Graduate Studies Advisory . 1999 1999
- Nominations Committee. ALSC. 1998 1998
- Consultant. Nine Colleges International Consortium. 1996 1996
- Executive Committee. MLA Anglo-Irish Literature Discussion Group. 1996 - 2001 1996 - 2001
- Editorial Board. Modern Fiction Studies, jouvert, Context.. Journal x. 1995 - 2005 1995 - 2005
- Executive Council. ALSC. 1995 - 1998 1995 - 1998
- Consulting Scholar. National Humanities Center. 1994 - 1995 1994 - 1995
Service to Duke
- Co-Director. PAL/FHI-MELON Seminar on "Melodrama". 2015 - 2016 2015 - 2016
- Faculty Search. 2015 - 2016 2015 - 2016
- Trinity College. Provosts Committee for Five-Year Review of the Dean of Trinity College & Vice Provost for Undergraduate Eduation. 2012 2012
- ECAS Interim Academic Standards . 2010 2010
- Faculty Search . 2006 - 2007 2006 - 2007
- Duke Mitchell Fellowship. 2001 - 2003 2001 - 2003
- Gerst Program for Political, Economic and Humanistic Studies. 1998 1998
- Duke University Athletic Council. 1997 - 2003 1997 - 2003
- Subcommitee On Programs, ECGF. 1997 1997
- SAC Self Study Steering. 1996 - 1997 1996 - 1997
- SAC Subcommittee on Graduate Education. 1996 - 1997 1996 - 1997
- Executive Commitee, Graduate Faculty. 1995 - 1997 1995 - 1997
- The Libray Council. 1995 - 1998 1995 - 1998
- 20s Series. 1994 - 1986 1994 - 1986
- Director of Graduate Studies. 1994 - 1996 1994 - 1996
- Executive Committee, Arts & Sciences Council. 1994 - 1995 1994 - 1995
- Graduate Placement. 1994 - 1996 1994 - 1996
- Mentor. Preparing Minorities for Academic Careers. 1993 1993
- Academic Council. 1991 - 1993 1991 - 1993
- Perkins Library Four Millionth Volume . 1991 - 1992 1991 - 1992
- Representative. Arts and Sciences Council. 1991 - 1995 1991 - 1995
- Interviewer. B.N. Duke Fellowships. 1990 1990
- Academic Council. 1988 - 1989 1988 - 1989
- Assistant Director of Graduate Studies. 1988 - 1989 1988 - 1989
- Guest Lectures. 1987 - 1988 1987 - 1988

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Duke Appointment History

In the News

Awards & Honors

Global Scholarship

Expertise

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Other Articles

Digital Publications

Recent Courses

Presentations & Appearances

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

Service to the Profession

Service to Duke