Michael Moon
Ph.D., John Hopkins University, 1989

Research Interests

Late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American literature and culture, including film, especially in relation to the history and theory of sexuality and of mass culture.   

Publications and Project

• A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from
  Henry James to Andy Warhol (1998)
• Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in "Leaves of Grass" (1991)
• editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Leaves of Grass
• several essay-collections in the fields of Queer Theory and American Studies
• currently writing about the work of so-called Outsider artist Henry Darger

Courses

• "Nature and Its Others,"
• "Serial Practices, Serial Forms,"
• "Contesting the Culture Concept: Pragmatism, Ethnography, Early Film."