While my primary research is an examination of the uses of absence in contemporary American bipolar fiction, my interests range from prestige TV to self-referentiality in Caribbean fiction, which was the focus of my MPhil dissertation at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. I’ve served as a mentor and taught writing classes, world literature, prestige TV aesthetics, film analysis, and an upper division course on Capitalism in Contemporary American Cinema, for which I received a departmental teaching award.
Along with my compatriot Thomas Johnson, I created the television reading group in the English department, which is devoted to examining academic and industry trends in contemporary television.
My publications include:
“Consciousness, the Epistolary Novel and the Anglophone Caribbean Writer.” Journal of West Indian Literature, 22(2).
“Beyond the Flames: the Castries Fire, Traumatic Discourse and the Utility of Faith in Derek Walcott’s “A City’s Death by Fire” and Garth St. Omer’s “Another Place, Another Time.” Garth St. Omer: A Casebook, Peepal Tree Press, 2017.
“I-n-I Re-member Now”: A Rastafari Reading of HBO’s Westworld. Reading Westworld, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
When I’m not teaching, engaged in research, watching television or at the movies, I may often be found traversing, to borrow Jhumpa Lahiri’s expression, “unaccustomed earth” in search of avian inspiration, as an avid birder and nature enthusiast.
Fields of Study:
- 21st-Century American literature
- Film Studies and Prestige TV
- Postcolonial Studies
- Caribbean literature
Contact:
UF Email: mmoise@ufl.edu