UNCA -- Literature and Language -- Merritt Moseley

I enjoy teaching and students and I like to teach a lot of different things; I sometimes teach the department’s major courses in The American Literary Tradition, The Art of the Novel, Masterpieces of Drama, and Modern Literature, as well as special topics from time to time. I regularly teach in the Humanities program, usually in 124. My scholarship in recent years has been focused on contemporary British novelists; I’ve published books on David Lodge, Kingsley Amis, and Julian Barnes, and am the editor of the Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes on British Novelists Since 1960 (four volumes, the most recent appearing in 2003) and Booker Prize Novels, 1969-2005. My most recent book was an edited anthology, The Academic Novel: New and Classic Essays, published in 2007 by Chester Academic Press (England). I review books regularly, too, and this along with my own scholarship keeps me reading a great deal of recent fiction which, fortunately, is one of the things I most love to do. In June 2008 I was one of the keynote speakers at a conference called Julian Barnes and the European Tradition at Liverpool Hope University.

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Merritt Moseley Professor Key Center Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina M.A., University of North Carolina B.A., Huntingdon College (Alabama) Recent teaching: Lit 179: Martin Luther King Lit 373: Recent South Asian Fiction Honors 373: The Sixties Lit 356: The Art of the Novel Contact information: Office: 239 Karpen Hall Office Phone: (828)251-6583 moseley@unca.edu http://www.unca.edu/~moseley/
Recent publications: “J. M. Coetzee (1940 - ),” in Dictionary of Literary Biography (Volume 329): Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature, Part 1: Agnon-Eucken (Detroit: Gale, 2007): 346-365. (co-authored with Michael Marais) Understanding Michael Frayn (Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2006). Dictionary of Literary Biography (Volume 326): Booker Prize Novels, 1969-2005 (Editor). Gale, 2006. “Amis, Father and Son,” in Brian W. Shaffer, Ed., A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005): 302-13. “Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot,” in Brian W. Shaffer, Ed., A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005): 481-92. (co-edited, with Brian Hook and Katherine Peters) The Asheville Reader: The Ancient World Acton, MA: Copley, 2004. "The Year in British and Irish Novels," Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 2002 (Detroit: Gale, 2003): 54-69.Editor, Dictionary of Literary Biography: British and Irish Novelists Since 1960 (volume 271), 2003. "Julian Barnes and the Displacement of Adultery," Philological Association of the Carolinas, Charleston, SC, March 3, 2001. "Jonathan Coe," in Dictionary of Literary Biography (volume 231): British Novelists Since 1960, Second Series. Detroit: Gale, 2000: 67-73. "Isabel Colegate," in Dictionary of Literary Biography (volume 231): British Novelists Since 1960, Second Series. Detroit: Gale, 2000: 74-83. "Jim Crace," in Dictionary of Literary Biography (volume 231): British Novelists Since 1960, Second Series. Detroit: Gale, 2000: 84-93. "Helen Fielding," in Dictionary of Literary Biography (volume 231): British Novelists Since 1960, Second Series. Detroit: Gale, 2000: 112-117. "Shena Mackay," in Dictionary of Literary Biography (volume 231): British Novelists Since 1960, Second Series. Detroit: Gale, 2000: 126-134. "Ferdinand Mount," in Dictionary of Literary Biography (volume 231): British Novelists Since 1960, Second Series. Detroit: Gale, 2000: 207-220. "Nicholas Shakespeare," in Dictionary of Literary Biography (volume 231): British Novelists Since 1960, Second Series. Detroit: Gale, 2000: 250-256. "Tom Sharpe," in Dictionary of Literary Biography (volume 231): British Novelists Since 1960, Second Series. Detroit: Gale, 2000: 257-266. "Colin Thubron," in Dictionary of Literary Biography (volume 231): British Novelists Since 1960, Second Series. Detroit: Gale, 2000: 274-282. "The Year in British Fiction," Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 2000. Detroit: Gale, 2001: 42-63. "Auberon Alexander Waugh" (obituary), Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 2000. Detroit: Gale, 2001: 278-80. "The Modern World," The World and I (September 2000): 221-27. "The Booker Prize for 1999," The Sewanee Review CVIII (Fall, 2000): 648-55. "A Great Figure in Modern Letters" (review of Selected Letters of Rebecca West), Sewanee Review CVIII (Summer, 2000): lxxxiv-xci. For Effective Teaching (http://www.unca.edu/et/books.htm): Teaching with Technology: Seventy-Five Professors from Eight Universities Tell Their Stories. Edited by David G. Brown. Bolton, MA: Anker, 2000; (Review). Teaching With Your Mouth Shut. By Donald Finkel. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2000.
Personal statement: I enjoy teaching and students and I like to teach a lot of different things; I sometimes teach the department’s major courses in The American Literary Tradition, The Art of the Novel, Masterpieces of Drama, and Modern Literature, as well as special topics from time to time. I regularly teach in the Humanities program, usually in 124. My scholarship in recent years has been focused on contemporary British novelists; I’ve published books on David Lodge, Kingsley Amis, and Julian Barnes, and am the editor of the Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes on British Novelists Since 1960 (four volumes, the most recent appearing in 2003) and Booker Prize Novels, 1969-2005. My most recent book was an edited anthology, The Academic Novel: New and Classic Essays, published in 2007 by Chester Academic Press (England). I review books regularly, too, and this along with my own scholarship keeps me reading a great deal of recent fiction which, fortunately, is one of the things I most love to do. In June 2008 I was one of the keynote speakers at a conference called Julian Barnes and the European Tradition at Liverpool Hope University.
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