Joined CMLL in: 2007 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Keith Moser is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Mississippi State University and author of over 150 publications, including nine books. His research spans social-ecological justice, environmental ethics, postmodern French thought, and the ethics of emerging technologies.

In recent years, Moser has focused on artificial intelligence (AI), post-truth culture, and the crisis of simulation, exploring how AI and advanced technologies generate hyperreal environments that blur or erase reality. He investigates digital monstrosity, fake news, and conspiracy culture, emphasizing the ethical responsibilities of creators, platforms, and users.

His work extends to the medical humanities, including microbial ethics, and to the Blue Humanities, exploring human–ocean relationships. Moser also engages with degrowth studies and critiques of late-stage capitalism, examining the environmental, social, and ethical consequences of contemporary economic systems.

Across environmental and technological studies, Moser works interdisciplinarily-drawing on environmental philosophy, ecocriticism, ecolinguistics, biosemiotics, and Monster Studies-to explore how language, literature, and culture shape ethical understanding and responsibility toward both human and other-than-human communities.

Throughout his scholarship, Moser emphasizes the connection between theory and social impact, fostering dialogue across disciplines and encouraging reflection on ethical responsibility in an increasingly complex, technological, ecological, and socio-economic world.
 

Seminars such as: French Environmental Discourse, Representations of Consumerism in French & Francophone Literature, The Human Condition, Literary and Cinematic Representations of the Holocaust, Introduction to Ecolinguistics, Introduction to Biosemiotics, Understanding Pop Culture Through Monsters, and more.

PERSONAL WEBSITES

• http://msstate.academia.edu/KeithMoser
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithmoser/
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Keith_Moser3

• Ph.D. in Modern Foreign Languages (French, minor in Applied Linguistics), The University of Tennessee
• M.A. in French, Mississippi State University
• M.A.T. in Secondary Education/French, East Tennessee State University
• B.A. in French and History, East Tennessee State University

• 2010 Humanities Teacher of the Year Award (Mississippi Humanities Council)
• 2015 College of Arts & Sciences Research Award for the Humanities.
• 2019 College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Research Award, Mississippi State University
• 2023 Marquis Who’s Who in America

• Fake News in Contemporary Science and Politics: A Requiem for the Real? (2024)
• Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era (2022)
• Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory (2020)
• The Metaphor of the Monster: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding the Monstrous Other in Literature (2020)
• The Encyclopedic Philosophy of Michel Serres: Writing the Modern World and Anticipating the Future (2016)
• A Practical Guide to French Harki Literature (2014)
• J.M.G. Le Clézio: A Concerned Citizen of the Global Village (2012)
• “Privileged Moments” in the Novels and Short Stories of J.M.G. Le Clézio: His Contemporary Development of a Traditional French Literary Device (2008)