David Chioni Moore
Professor of International Studies and English, Chair of International Studies, and Director of Critical Theory at Macalester College
Literary and cultural interactions in the Black Atlantic world; the post-colonial and/as the post-Soviet; comparative literature; cultural theory; archives; translation; the transnational Langston Hughes.
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David Moore’s primary interests are in literary and cultural interactions in the 20th and 21st century Black Atlantic world, most notably in African/African-American connections — all seen in a global or “Afro-planetary” framework. Significant allied interests include translation, postcolonial studies, the post-Soviet sphere, archives, and globalization writ large.
David Moore has published widely on these topics in journals such as PMLA, Diaspora, Transition, Ab Imperio, Research in African Literatures, Callaloo, Genre, Safundi, the Langston Hughes Review, the Journal of Anthropological Research, Profession, the Slavic and East European Journal, Resources for American Literary Study, the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; and Accounting, Organizations and Society. He is co-editor with Martin Bernal of Black Athena Writes Back (Duke University Press, 2001). Larger projects include a fourteen-language presentation of the translations of Ferdinand Oyono’s 1956 novel Une Vie de Boy, and ongoing editions of historical writings by Langston Hughes and his correspondents.
Professor Moore teaches more widely than he researches, with courses on the above topics plus on postcolonial theory, global food studies, the global Langston Hughes, contagion narratives, the global Barack Obama, and artificial intelligence.
BA magna cum laude, Brown University, 1986: Applied Mathematics, Semiotics, and Comparative Literature
Université de Dakar, Senegal, 1986-87
PhD in Literature, Duke University, 1996
Profoessor Moore’s Oyono Research
Tips from Professor Moore
- How to Read
- Paper writing standards and advice
- Tips on how to ask faculty for a recommendation
- Choosing a graduate school
- MFA in Writing and/or the M.A. in Journalism
- Master’s of International Affairs Degree
Professor Moore’s syllabi
- INTL 111 – Introduction to International Studies: Literature and Global Culture
- INTL 290 – World to Table: Global Food Studies
- INTL 294 – Thinking Internationally About (and With) AI and ChatGPT
- INTL 367 – Postcolonial Theory
- INTL 384 – Langston Hughes: Global Writer
- INTL 488 – Senior Seminar: Thinking on a World Scale