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Additional Programs .:

Select One African American Studies Asian Studies Central and Southwest Asian Studies Program Creative Writing Program Film Studies Human and Family Development Minor Intercultural Youth and Family Development Program (M.A.) Irish Studies Program International Development Studies Latin American Studies Linguistics Non-Profit Administration Minor P.E.A.S Program Pre-Engineering Pre-Law Pre-Medical Sciences Pre-Nursing Religious Studies Wildlife Biology Program Women's and Gender Studies

Projects, Centers and Institutes.:

Select One Avian Science Center Center for Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics Center for Ethics (non strictly CAS, but closely affiliated) Center for Riverine Science Flathead Lake (Yellow Bay) Biological Station (affiliated program) Institute for Medicine and Humanities (not strictly CAS, but closely affiliated) Multicultural Learning Solutions Paleontology Center Stella Duncan Memorial Research Institute Shafizadeh Rocky Mountain Center for Wood and Carbohydrate Chemistry The Writing Center

Contact: Dean Chris Comer
LA 136, Missoula, MT 59812
Telephone: 243-2632
Fax: 406-243-4076

Office Location: LA 120
Office Telephone: 406-243-5231
E-mail: david.moore@umontana.edu
Curriculum Vita: View/Download CV

Current Position:

Professor, Department of English, University of Montana

Office Hours:

T/Th 2:00-3:30, and many other times by appointment.  Call me at 406-243-6708, or email david.moore@umontana.edu to set up an appointment.  It's best to arrange a specific time, even during posted office hours, in case I'm with another student or at the copy machine. 

Field Of Study:

Native American Literature

American Studies

American Renaissance

Environment and Literature, Ecocriticism

Peace Studies

Baha'i Studies

Critical Theory

Research Interests:

Native American Literature -- William Apess, Sarah Winnemucca, D'Arcy McNickle, Leslie Marmon Silko, Sherman Alexie, Joy Harjo, Simon Ortiz, Craig Womack, Ray Young Bear, Gerald Vizenor, Debra Earling, James Welch, Louise Erdrich, Adrian Louis

American Studies -- (see Native authors above, plus:) Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Robert Hayden, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson

Environment and Literature, Ecocriticism -- Makah whaling, David Abram, Annie Dillard

Peace Studies -- Lewis Hill, Pacifica Radio, nonviolent communication, global government

Baha'i Studies -- spiritual dialectics & dialogics, history & principles of the Baha'i Faith

Critical Theory -- Deleuze and Guattari, Mikhail Bakhtin, Gerald Vizenor, Craig Womack

Courses:

Writing Skills Handouts:  (Checklist for Writing a Literary Analysis Essay) (Peer Editing Checklist)(Prospectus how-to.doc)

Sample Student Papers:  (Edited Student Essay 1) (Sample Microtheme edit 1)

LIT 210 American Literature to 1865 (224 syllabus) (224 schedule)

ENLT 225 American Literature since 1865 (225 S09 Syllabus & Sched)  (/225 Sp09 Essay 1.doc) 

ENLT 301 Applied Literary Theory  (syllabus & schedule)

ENLT 329 Native American Literature (syllabus & schedule)

ENLT 331 The Many Voices of the American Renaissance (syllabus & schedule) (Emerson 's Cherokee Letter PDF)  (John Jacobs' A True Tale of Slavery PDF)  (Emerson_on_Slavery PDF West India Emancipation; Fugitive Slave Law; John Brown; Emancipation Proclamation)  (Sally Roesch Wagner Iroquois Infl on Women Rights.PDF)

ENLT 338 Montana Literature (syllabus & schedule)

LIT 373 Literature and the Environment   (373 F09 Syllabus & Sched.doc)  (Percy re Loss of the Creature.pdf -- rotate under View Menu if nec)  (Selby re Snyder -- rotate under View Menu if nec.)   (Reed re Enviro Justice Ecocrit)  

ENLT 421.02 Ecocriticism & Montana Literature ( syllabus & schedule)  (Scigaj--Referential Flux)  (Elder--Poetry of Experience)  (Re Essay 2--11/25 Students please note:  the server for this website is down, and I will try to email Essay 2 to the class via Cyberbear; please check your grizmail.)

LIT Graduate seminars Native American literature, ecocriticism, and peace studies

ENLT 521.01 Graduate Seminar: Poetics of Peace (Spring 2008) (Poetics of Peace Syllabus & Schedule)

 

 

Teaching Experience:

Teaching literature and writing since my first graduate teaching assistantship in 1974:

University of South Dakota 1974-1979

Salish Kootenai College 1982-1989

University of Washington 1989-1992

Cornell University 1994-1999

University of Montana 1999-present

 

Publications:

www.cas.umt.edu/facultydatabase/FILES_Faculty/573/What We Talk About When We Talk About Race 2.doc

Affiliations:

Modern Language Association

Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures

Western Literature Association

Association for Baha'i Studies

Association for the Study of Literature & the Environment