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Michael Moon

Department of English
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles St.
Baltimore MD 21218

Tel. (410) 516-4075 (office)


Relevant publications:
[ Books ] [ Edited Volumes ] [ Selected Articles ]

* Books

Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass (Harvard University Press, 1991).

A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol (Duke University Press, 1998).

* Edited Volumes

The Norton Critical Edition of Leaves of Grass (Norton, 2002).

Co-editor (with Cathy N. Davidson), Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from "Oroonoko" to Anita Hill (Duke University Press, 1995).

Co-editor (with Ronald Butters and John M. Clum), Displacing Homophobia: Gay-Male Perspectives on Literature and Culture (Duke University Press, 1990).

* Selected Articles

"Preface" to Eric Michaels, Unbecoming: An AIDS Diary (Duke University Press, 1997).

"Nineteenth Century Discourses on Childhood Gender Training: The Case of Louisa May Alcott's Little Men and Jo's Boys," in Martin Duberman, ed., Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures (New York: New York University Press, 1997), pp. 209-215.

"Oralia: Hunger for Women's Performance in Joseph Cornell's Boxes and Diaries," Women & Performance 8:2 (1996), 39-59.

(co-authored with Eve Kosof sky Sedgwick), "Confusion of Tongues," in Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies, edited by Betsy Erkkila and Jay Grossman (Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 23-29.

"Memorial Rags: Emerson, Whitman, AIDS and Mourning," in Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature, edited by George E. Haggerty and Bonnie Zimmerman (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1995), pp. 233-40.

"Walt Whitman" (entry), A Companion to American Thought, edited by Richard Wightman Fox and James T. Kloppenberg (New York: Blackwell, 1995), pp. 726-728.

"Introduction" to Guy Hocquenghem, Homosexual Desire (Duke University Press, 1993), pp. 9-21.

"Whitman and Sexuality," Walt Whitman Centenary Exhibitions Catalog, New York City Museum Consortium, 1992, pp. 19-20.

"Rereading Whitman under Pressure of AIDS: His Sex Radicalism and Ours," in Robert K. Martin, ed., The Life After the Life: The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman (University of Iowa Press, 1992), pp. 53-66.

"A Small Boy and Others: Sexual Disorientation in Henry James, Kenneth Anger, and David Lynch," Hortense J. Spillers, ed., Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text, Essays from the English Institute (New York: Routledge, 1991).

"Disseminating Whitman," South Atlantic Quarterly 88:1 (Winter 1989), 247-265; reprinted in Ronald R. Butters, John M. Clum, and Michael Moon, eds., Displacing Homophobia: Gay-Male Perspectives on Literature and Culture (Duke University Press, 1989), pp. 235-253.

"'The Gentle Boy from the Dangerous Classes': Pederasty, Domesticity, and Capitalism in Horatio Alger," Representations 19 (Summer 1987), 87-110; reprinted in Philip Fisher, ed., The New American Studies (University of California Press, 1991), pp. 260-83.

"Sexuality and Visual Terrorism in The Wings of the Dove," Criticism 28:4 (Fall 1986), 427-443; reprinted in Reading with a Difference: Gender, Race, and Cultural Identity, edited by Arthur F. Marotti et al. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993), pp. 151-67.


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