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David Moss

Faculty Member

Grant Moss

Biography

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. in English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.
M.A. in English, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 1989.
B.A. in English, Washington University in St. Louis, 1987.

RESEARCH

My research focuses on Renaissance literature and art history, and deals with the intersection of text and image during the early modern period. My current research focuses on the ways in which representations of Queen Elizabeth I serve to construct English ideas of female authority. In particular, I analyze the relationship between the representations of the queen by artists, writers and politicians and those representations over which Elizabeth herself exercised some degree of control and agency_ her verse and her speeches as well as her progresses and other public displays. My interests also include popular culture and how that culture interprets early modern literature and history, as well as how popular culture deals with gender and queer sexuality.

TEACHING

My teaching interests tend to reflect my research interests_ I frequently teach such courses as Shakespeare, Tudor literature, Stuart literature, and the first semester of the British literature survey. I have developed and taught courses on tragedy, gender studies, critical theory, revenge drama, Christopher Marlowe, and Elizabeth I.

SERVICE

I was chair of the English department's RTP committee from 2022 - 2024 and am currently on the CHSS ELLA Grant committee and the CHSS FEA Award committee. I was chair of the department of English and Literature from 2015 - 2018. I was Associate Writing Program Administrator for the English Department from 2008 - 2012, and was director of the 2011 London Study Abroad Program.

Education

PhD, University of North Carolina, 2001

Major: English Renaissance Literature

MA, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 1989

Major: English Literature

BA, Washington University, 1987

Major: English Literature

Teaching

ENGL 2010

Intermediate Academic Writing CC, Spring 2025

ENGL 2010

Intermediate Academic Writing CC, Spring 2025

ENGL 481R

Internship, Spring 2025

ENGL 2850

Literary History I, Spring 2025

ENGL 4650

Studies in Shakespeare, Spring 2025

Presentations

Moss, Grant , Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, "Queering the Bard_ Making Shakespeare Relevant for Twenty-First-Century Students", PCA/ACA, New Orleans, LA. (April 17, 2025)
Moss, Grant , Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, "Six Plus The Five_ How Popular Culture Can Shape How We Teach Women's History", PCA/ACA, Chicago, IL. (March 30, 2024)
Moss, Grant (Presenter & Author), PCA/ACA Annual Meeting, "‘If you’re here because of Nanette, why?’ Hannah Gadsby’s Return to Comedy, ", Popular Culture Association, Online. (April 15, 2022)
Moss, Grant (Presenter & Author), PCA/ACA Annual Conference, "‘Laughter is not our medicine.’ Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette and the Balm of Comedy", Popular Culture Association, Washington, DC. (April 19, 2019)
Moss, Grant (Presenter & Author), PCA/ACA Annual Conference, "Does This Car Make Me Look Gay? Homophobia, the VW Beetle, and the Curse of the Chick Car ", Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, LA. (April 4, 2015)
Moss, Grant (Presenter & Author), Southeast Medieval Association Conference, "Reading Richard III as Fabliaux", Southeast Medieval Association, Atlanta, GA. (October 17, 2014)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Moss, Grant , Benko, Steven A., (2020) "“‘Laughter is not our medicine.’ Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette and the Balm of Comedy” " . Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press.
Moss, Grant , (2011) "“Queens Rule.” Review of Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England. " (Issue: 3/Summer, vol. 47). New York City, NY: Papers on Language and Literature.

Awards

Sabbatical

UVU - July 1, 2018

Sabbatical allowed me to complete two conference presentations, and develop one of them into a book chapter, "'Laughter is not our medicine': Hannah Gadsby's Nanette and the Balm of Comedy.