Michael Moon is an American literary academic. He received his Ph.D in 1989 from Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

 for the thesis Whitman in revision : the politics of corporealilty and textuality in the first four editions of Leaves of grass He has been a professor

Professor

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 in the English

English studies

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 department at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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, in Baltimore

Baltimore

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, United States

United States

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. He currently works in interdisciplinary studies at Emory University

Emory University

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. He previously taught at Duke University

Duke University

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. His primary research focuses on late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American literature

American literature

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 and culture, including film, especially in relation to the history and theory of sexuality

Human sexuality

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 and of mass culture. He is currently writing about the work of so-called "Outsider" artist Henry Darger

Henry Darger

Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a custodian in Chicago, Illinois...

. He regularly teaches across a broad historical and theoretical range; graduate seminars in recent years have included "Nature and its Others", "Serial Practices, Serial Forms", and "Contesting the Culture Concept: Pragmatism

Pragmatism

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, Ethnography

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, Early Film."

He is mentioned by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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 in her memoir, A Dialogue on Love (2000), where she names him as a close friend and current living companion.

He is the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Leaves of Grass and several essay-collections in the fields of Queer Theory

Queer theory

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 and American Studies

American studies

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.

Books

• A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James
  Henry James
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   to Andy Warhol
  Andy Warhol
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  (1998)

Disseminating Whitman (Harvard University Press, 1991)

Darger's Resources (Duke University Press, 2012 forthcoming)