Faculty

Dr. Joseph Moser Assistant Professor

Contact Information:
Room: Miller Hall, Room 23
Phone: 978-665-4844
Email: jmoser1@fsc.edu

Office Hours: Fall 2009 ~ Mon & Wed 2:00-3:15

Education:

Ph.D. English, University of Texas, 2008, Irish Literature and Film; Gender Studies

M.A. English, University of Texas, 2003, Ethnic and Third World Literature

B.F.A. English, Emerson College, summa cum laude, 2000, Creative Writing, Literature & Publishing

Courses Taught:

Writing I
Honors English
Literature & Film

Research Interests:

Irish and Irish-American film and literature; violence in popular culture; sports and prison films; the representation of gender and race/ethnicity in film; literary and film genres; detective fiction; war fiction and non-fiction; French literature and film; Japanese film; Korean film

Current Projects:

Patriarchs, Pugilists, and Peacemakers: Interrogating Masculinity in Irish Film (manuscript in progress)

Representative Publications:

“Genre Politics: Bloody Sunday as documentary and discourse.” In Genre and Cinema:Ireland and Transnationalism, ed. Brian McIlroy. (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 245-60.

“Fighting Within the Rules: Masculinity in the Films of Jim Sheridan.” In National Cinemas and Beyond, ed. John Hill and Kevin Rockett. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004), pp. 89-96.

Professional Affiliations:

American Conference for Irish Studies, American Culture Association, MLA