Contact
Michael Moir, Jr.
Assistant Professor
English and Modern Language
English Building, room 239
Email: michael.moir@gsw.edu
Phone: 229-931-3012
Education
- Ph.D., The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
- M.A., The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
- B.A., Muhlenberg College
Research Interests
- 20th-century British Literature
- Irish Literature
- Postcolonial Literature
- Space and Place in Literature
Courses Taught
- Composition I
- Composition II
- World Literature
- Postcolonial World Literature
- Irish Literature (Special Topics)
- Modern Poetry
- Modern British Literature
- Weird Fiction (Special Topics)
Recent Publications
- "'In a Paradise for White Gods He Grows Old': The Instability of Pastoral Space in Richard Murphy's The God Who Eats Corn." Making Integral: Critical Essays on Richard Murphy. Cork University Press. (Forthcoming).
- "'The Pause Before the Souffle Falls': MacNeice, Auden, and the Travel Book as Idyll." Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. (2016).
- "Childe Louis to the Broadcast Tower Came: Louis MacNeice and the Development of Postmodern Poetic Drama." Beyond Realism: Experimental and Unconventional Irish Drama Since the Revival. Ed. by Joan Fitzpatrick Dean and Jose Lanters. Rodopi Press. (2014)
- "'Like the tombs of nameless kings': The West of Ireland in the Poems of Louis MacNeice."Etudes Irlandaises. (Spring 2013)
- "As Above, So Below: Double-Plotting and Notions of Aristocracy in The Countess Cathleenand The Player Queen." New Hibernia Review. (Winter 2010).
