Michael Moon (professor)

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Michael Moon is an American literary academic, formerly a professor in the English department at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, United States. He currently works in interdisciplinary studies at Emory University. He previously taught at Duke University. His primary research focuses on 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 currently writing about the work of so-called "Outsider" artist Henry Darger. 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, Ethnography, Early Film."

He is the author of A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol (1998) and Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass (1991). He is also the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Leaves of Grass and several essay-collections in the fields of Queer Theory and American Studies.