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Michael Valdez Moses

Associate Professor Emeritus of English
English
Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
303G Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


The Modernist as Event Planner · December 8, 2010 Lecture Modernist Studies Association Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
The Bourgeois Virtues in Film and Fiction · December 1, 2010 Lecture Institute for Humane Studies and The Liberty Fund, Marina del Rey, California
It may be well if we go to school in Asia: Pound, Yeats, Avant-garde Theatre and Noh Drama · November 1, 2010 Lecture Modernist Studies Association Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
The Poetry of Seamus Heaney · October 1, 2010 Lecture Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Where the Bodies are Buried: Seamus Heaney and the Troubles in Northern Ireland · October 1, 2010 Lecture Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Freedom and Utopia: Advanced Topics in Liberty · May 1, 2010 Lecture Institute for Humane Studies and The Liberty Fund, Arlington, Virgina
The Future of Literary Studies · May 1, 2010 Lecture The State and Stake of Literary Studies: A Conference, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC
Liberty, Individualism and Rebellion in the Films of John Ford and Akira Kurosawa: Advanced Topics in Liberty · January 22, 2009 Lecture Institute for Humane Studies and the LIberty Fund, Marina del Rey, California
Constitutionalism and Freedom in Kant and Hegel · January 22, 2009 Lecture Liberty Fund, San Diego, California
Manners, Morals, and Commercial Society · January 22, 2009 Lecture Liberty Fund, Hermosa Beach, California
The Globalization of Culture · January 22, 2009 Lecture Institute for Humane Studies Seminar on "Cinematic and Literary Traditions of Liberty", Chapman University, Orange, CA
Art and the Marketplace · January 22, 2009 Lecture Institute for Humane Studies Seminar on "Cinematic and Literary Traditions of Liberty", Chapman University, Orange, CA
A Portrait of the Artist as a Good Man: The Lives of Others · January 22, 2009 Lecture American Political Science Association Convention, Toronto, Canada
Literary Alexandria: C.P. Cavafy, E.M. Forster, and Lawrence Durrell · January 22, 2009 Lecture Duke Alumni College in Egypt, Alexandria, Egypt
The Lives of Others: Art and Tyranny · January 22, 2009 Lecture Institute for Humane Studies Seminar on "Cinematic and Literary Traditions of Liberty", Chapman University, Orange, CA
Literary and Cinematic Dystopias · January 22, 2009 Lecture Institute for Humane Studies Seminar on "Cinematic and Literary Traditions of Liberty", Chapman University, Orange, CA
Egypt and Opera: From Mozart's The Magic Flute to Verdi's Aida · January 22, 2009 Lecture Cairo, Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz: Egypt's Nobel Laureate · January 22, 2009 Lecture Duke Alumni College in Egypt, Lake Nasser, Egypt
Liberty and Responsibility in War Photography · February 2, 2008 Lecture Liberty Fund, Washington, DC
Wealth, Commerce, and Corruption in the Thought of Adam Ferguson, David Hume, and Adam Smith · February 2, 2008 Lecture Liberty Fund, BIg Sky, Montana
Liberty, Property, and Native America · February 2, 2008 Lecture Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, Indiana
Literature and Politics: Advanced Topics in Liberty · February 2, 2008 Lecture Institute for Humane Studies and the Liberty Fund, San Diego, California
Liberty, Progressivism and the Administrative State · February 2, 2008 Lecture Institute for Humane Studies and the Liberty Fund, Arlington, Virginia
Liberty and Development of Self · February 2, 2008 Lecture Liberty Fund, Clearwater, Florida
Sovereignty and the Right of Revolution · February 2, 2008 Lecture Duke University, Durham, NC
Ethics and narrative in Thomas Mann's "The Table of the Laws" · January 29, 2008 Lecture University of Toronto
Aesthetic Education in "The Lives of Others" · January 29, 2008 Lecture University of Toronto

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Co-convener - Working Group on Cinema and Modernity · 2014 - 2016 Projects & Field Work
Co-convener - Working Group on Political Theory · 2006 - 2013 Projects & Field Work

Service to the Profession


Contributing Editor - Reason · 2015 Editorial Activities
Contributing Editor - Reason · 2015 Editorial Activities
Co-Editor - Modernist Cultures · 2015 Editorial Activities
Director - Graduate Studies Advisory · 2014 - 2015 Committee Service
Director - Graduate Studies Advisory · 2011 - 2013 Committee Service
Editorial Board · 2009 Other
Director - Graduate Studies Advisory · 2005 - 2006 Committee Service
Conference Program Subcommittee · 2004 Committee Service ALSC,
General Editor - Forum: a Publication of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics · 2003 - 2006 Editorial Activities
General Editor - A Publication of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics · 2003 - 2004 Editorial Activities
President · 2003 - 2004 Event/Organization Administration Association of Literary Scholars and Critics,
Executive Council · 2002 - 2005 Committee Service ALSC,
Vice President · 2002 - 2003 Event/Organization Administration Association of Literary Scholars and Critics,
Conference Program Subcommittee · 2002 Committee Service ALSC,
External Honors Examiner · 2002 - 2003 Other Swarthmore College,
Chair - Executive Committee · 2000 Committee Service MLA Anglo-Irish Literature Discussion Group,
Director - Graduate Studies Advisory · 1999 Committee Service
Nominations Committee · 1998 Committee Service ALSC,
Consultant · 1996 Consulting Nine Colleges International Consortium,
Executive Committee · 1996 - 2001 Committee Service MLA Anglo-Irish Literature Discussion Group,
Editorial Board - Modern Fiction Studies, jouvert, Context. · 1995 - 2005 Editorial Activities Journal x,
Executive Council · 1995 - 1998 Committee Service ALSC,
Consulting Scholar · 1994 - 1995 Consulting National Humanities Center,

Service to Duke


Co-Director . PAL/FHI-MELON Seminar on "Melodrama" · 2015 - 2016 Curriculum Innovations
Faculty Search (Department) · 2015 - 2016 Committee Service
Provosts Committee for Five-Year Review of the Dean of Trinity College & Vice Provost for Undergraduate Eduation (University) · 2012 Committee Service Trinity College, Duke University
ECAS Interim Academic Standards (Other) · 2010 Committee Service
Faculty Search (Department) · 2006 - 2007 Committee Service
Duke Mitchell Fellowship (Foundation) · 2001 - 2003 Committee Service
Gerst Program for Political, Economic and Humanistic Studies (Department) · 1998 Committee Service
Duke University Athletic Council (University) · 1997 - 2003 Committee Service
Subcommitee On Programs, ECGF (Program) · 1997 Committee Service
SAC Self Study Steering (Other) · 1996 - 1997 Committee Service
SAC Subcommittee on Graduate Education (Other) · 1996 - 1997 Committee Service
Executive Commitee, Graduate Faculty (University) · 1995 - 1997 Committee Service
The Libray Council (University) · 1995 - 1998 Committee Service
Director of Graduate Studies (Department) · 1994 - 1996 Committee Service
20s Series (Student Organization) · 1994 - 1986 Committee Service
Executive Committee, Arts & Sciences Council (University) · 1994 - 1995 Committee Service
Graduate Placement (Department) · 1994 - 1996 Committee Service
Mentor . Preparing Minorities for Academic Careers · 1993 Consulting
Perkins Library Four Millionth Volume (University) · 1991 - 1992 Committee Service
Representative . Arts and Sciences Council · 1991 - 1995 Other
Academic Council (University) · 1991 - 1993 Committee Service
Interviewer . B.N. Duke Fellowships · 1990 Consulting
Assistant Director of Graduate Studies (Department) · 1988 - 1989 Committee Service
Academic Council (University) · 1988 - 1989 Committee Service
Guest Lectures (Department) · 1987 - 1988 Committee Service