Michelle E. Moore
Assistant Professor, English



Tel.: (630) 942-2793
Fax.: (630) 942-3711
Room: IC 3081D
e-mail: moorem@cod.edu


Areas of Research Interest:
• American Literature
• Critical Theory
• Popular Culture
• Film


Recent Courses Taught:
English 2223 American Literature From the Colonial Period Through the Civil War
English 2224 American Literature From the Civil War to the Present
English 2227 Modern European Literature
English 1154 Film As Literature
English 1135 Intro to Film Art
English 2226 Masterpieces of World Literature
English 2290 Postmodernism
English 1101, 1102, 1103


Current Projects:
-Researching and writing a study on vampiric metaphors in modernist fiction and film.
-Writing an article on Willa Cather's _Song of the Lark_ and turn-of-the-century Chicago

Selected Publications, Presentations, Performances, Books:
“‘The Unsleeping Cabal’: Faulkner’s Fevered Vampires and the Other South” _Faulkner Journal_ forthcoming Spring 2010.

“‘If This Was A Rape, Then Why Would She Be a Whore?’: Rape in Todd Solondz’ Films”_ Rape in Art Cinema_, ed. Dominique Russell. Continuum Press. Forthcoming Fall 2009.

"Killers and Diers": White Noise, Violence, Genre” Academic Exchange Quarterly 11.1 (Spring 2007): 66(5)

“‘The Most Extraordinary Effect’: Teaching Ambiguity in The Turn of the Screw,” Approaches to Teaching James’s The Turn of the Screw, Daisy Miller, and Other Short Fiction, eds. Kimberly C. Reed and Peter G. Beidler, Approaches to Teaching World Literature (New York: MLA, 2005).

“Bharati Mukherjee” Great World Writers: Twentieth Century, ed. Patrick M. O’Neill (Tarrytown, New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2004).

Recent Presentations:

“Like the Buildings in a City Block”: Chicago’s Cliff Dwellers and The Song of the Lark" 12th International Cather Seminar, Chicago, IL July 2009.

"Hot For Teacher: Film Representations of the Student Sex Scandals" Teachers, Teaching, and the Movies Conference, Charleston, SC October 2007.

“The Man Whom He would Be if He Could Metamorphose Into”: Vampires, Slavery, and Male Sexuality in Absalom, Absalom!” Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, Oxford, MS July 2007.

“Unlimited Quantities of M-M-M Food”: The Modern Artist as Cannibal in the Postwar American Novel,” Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL November 2006.

Chair “Modernist Literary Histories: Retrospection, Reinvention, Redistribution,” Modernist Studies Association Conference 8, Tulsa, OK, October 2006.

“‘I Drank Your Blood’: Vampires, Violence, and Beloved,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, March 2003

“‘She’s Just a Stranger’: Confidence Games and the Representation of Murder,” Fakes and Forgeries, Conmen and Counterfeits Conference, Durham, England, July 2002.

Education:
Ph.D. SUNY at Binghamton

M.A. SUNY at Binghamton

B.A. Dickinson College

Awards and Recognitions:
Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005