Dan Moss

Dan Moss is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, serving as Director of Undergraduate Studies. He holds a B.A. from Brandeis University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University, where he was a Mellon Fellow. His research focuses on late 16th-century poetry and drama, particularly the influence of Ovid on Elizabethan writers. His book The Ovidian Vogue (2014) examines Ovid’s impact on 1590s poets and playwrights. His current book project, The Play within the Plays: Shakespeare, the Chamberlain's Men, and the Continuity of Metatheater, explores Shakespeare’s metatheatrical innovations. His teaching spans Renaissance art, classical epic, and poetry across eras.

Awards include the Mellon Fellowship. He has published in journals like Modern Philology, Spenser Studies, and Critical Survey, and contributes to edited volumes. Courses taught include graduate seminars on Shakespeare, Spenser, and metatheater, alongside undergraduate offerings on poetry and drama.

Research interests also encompass biblical literature as art, and he is reconstructing two lost Shakespeare plays while completing a new edition of The Faerie Queene.