Dan Moos
Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies
Spring 2008
- Critical Race Theory (AFRS 305)
| Phone | (207) 798-4185 |
| Title | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Department | ENGLISH |
| 2nd Title | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| 2nd Department | AFRICANA STUDIES |
| Work Location | 104 Massachusetts Hall |
| dmoos@bowdoin.edu |
Education:
B.A. Geological Sciences
M.A. Utah State University
M.A. SUNY (Buffalo)
Ph.D. SUNY (Buffalo) 2003
Teaching Areas:
African-American Literature; Early African-American Film; American Culture at the Turn-Of-The-Century; African-American Utopias; Literature of the American West; Early American Film.
Research Interests:
Presently I am working on a study of representations of all-black towns in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This study will look at the ways in which these racially separate, yet very American, towns were marketed, promoted, and held together, as well as look at their legacy - both real and imagined. My forthcoming book, Outside America: Race, Ethnicity, and the Role of the American West in National Belonging studies western "outsiders" such as African-American pioneers, Mormons, and Native Americans who participated in Indian shows and in Buffalo Bill's Wild West to see how these individuals embraced the terms of western mythology in order to forge a kind of cultural citizenship within a nation that effectively (and often legally) excluded them. I am also editing a collection of essays on the Harlem Renaissance; this collection focuses primarily on the multiple Renaissances in the United States in the 1920s and the connections between the Harlem Renaissance and more mainstream, often middlebrow, African-American culture at the time. My last - and most fun -- project is an essay on the 1930s singing cowboy films of African-American crooner, Herb Jeffries.