Michael Moon

Michael Moon is a Professor and the Co-Director of Graduate Studies at the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University.  He has also taught at Johns Hopkins University and Duke University.  His research interests encompass 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.  He is the author of A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol (Duke University Press, 1991) and Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass (Harvard University Press, 1993).  He is also the editor of Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill (Duke University Press, 1995).  He was one of Eve Sedgwick’s closest friends and collaborators.