A Modernist Cinema
Film Art from 1914 to 1941
Edited by Scott W. Klein and Michael Valdez Moses
Author Information
Scott W. Klein is Professor of English and Artistic Director of the Secrest Artists Series at Wake Forest University, North Carolina. He is the author of The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis: Monsters of Nature and Design the editor of the Oxford World's Classics edition of the 1928 edition of Wyndham Lewis's Tarr, and with Mark Antliff the editor of the essay collection Vorticism: New Perspectives. He has published essays in such journals as ELH, Modernist Cultures, Twentieth Century Literature, and The James Joyce Quarterly, and is on the editorial boards of the Oxford Complete Writings of Wyndham Lewis edition and of the The Journal of Wyndham Lewis.
Michael Valdez Moses is Professor of Literature and the Humanities in the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy and in the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University, and Associate Emeritus Professor at Duke University, where he was a faculty member of the English Department from 1987 to 2019. He is the author of The Novel and the Globalization of Culture (1995), co-editor of Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1900-1939 (2010) and Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism: Anglophone Literature, 1950 to the Present (2019), and editor of The Writings of J. M. Coetzee (special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, 1994) and Modernism and Cinema (special issue of Modernist Cultures, 2010). He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University, a Duke Endowment Fellow at the National Humanities Center, USIA Visiting Professor at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and at Université Cadi Ayyad in Marrakech, and the MacLean Distinguished Visiting Professor at Colorado College. He is former Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department of Duke University and a founding co-editor of the journal, Modernist Cultures.
Contributors:
Richard Begam, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Maurizia Boscagli, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Enda Duffy, John P. Arnhold Presidential Dept. Chair in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Laura Frost is the author of The Problem With Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents and Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism
Andrzej Gasiorek, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham
Scott W. Klein, Professor of English, Wake Forest University
Douglas Mao, Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University
Jesse Matz, Professor of English, Kenyon College
Tyrus Miller, Dean of the School of Humanities and Professor of Art History and English, University of California, Irvine
Michael Valdez Moses, Professor of Literature and the Humanities in the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy and in the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University, and Associate Emeritus Professor, Duke University
Michael North teaches English at UCLA. He is the author of a number of books, including, most recently, Novelty: A History of the New (2013) and What Is the Present?(2018)
Elizabeth Otto is a scholar of gender, modern art, and media culture and the author of Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics (MIT Press, 2019) and Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt (Jovis, 2005)
Carrie Preston, Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Arvind and Chandan Nandlal Kilachand Professor and Director of Kilachand Honors College, Boston University
Lisa Siraganian, J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities, Associate Professor, and Chair of the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature, Johns Hopkins University
Michael Wood, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, Princeton University
