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• W3196276235 abstract "Tom Moser Tribute Hunt Hawkins (bio) In the fall of 1971 I sat on a bench outside Tom Moser’s office, waiting to ask him to be my dissertation adviser. Beside me sat John McClure, planning the same. We had both spent time teaching in Africa in newly liberated countries where the enormous fact of European colonization had been revealed. We wanted to write about imperialism, especially in Africa, and had settled on Conrad as the most relevant English-language author then taught in the academy. But we were nervous that Moser wouldn’t want to take on both of us or for that matter either of us since that approach to Conrad was new at the time. Earlier I had solicited another famous Conrad scholar in the department, one with a psychoanalytic bent, only to be told that there weren’t any imperialists in Conrad’s works, just bandits. Moser had been a student of this scholar, continued to be a close friend, and to an extent continued his psychological interests. But he generously agreed to take on both John and me along with the very large amount of work I now know dissertation-directing to be. What’s more important, he didn’t simply take on the work in a perfunctory, dutiful way but with genuine interest. These traits of generosity and open-mindedness were central to Moser’s character. Later I added the third famous Conrad scholar in the department to my committee, one who hadn’t yet published his major book but who had many articles focused on Conrad’s metaphysical and moral concerns. Moser was also close friends with this man, seen as a rival by the psychoanalytic critic. Consistent with his ethic, Moser was the bridge. Among my committee members, the third being a Virginia Woolf specialist, Moser was the most engaged although all were very helpful and became life-long friends. This engagement fit his role as director but also showed his general commitment to students. Whenever I submitted a chapter, he replied within days with copious handwritten notes filled with comments, corrections, and questions. These notes continued long after the dissertation for many decades dealing with new work, his fascinating research on anarchists in England and on Ford Madox Ford, my career hurdles, family matters, and general salutation. [End Page 105] These days I have students sitting on the bench outside my office telling me there aren’t any imperialists in Conrad’s works; the novels are really about globalization. And then I remember Tom. The very un-Conradian mechanism of academia demands the new. Dissertations and books must be about something not done before. The old must be superseded or discarded. Out of the scores of books published on Conrad, most have already fallen into oblivion. Moser’s Achievement and Decline, although contested, is one of the few to survive, having identified a key issue in Conrad studies. More importantly, I remember his willingness to consider new perspectives and his devotion to teaching the next generation, thereby binding “the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.” His was a Conradian life. [End Page 106] Hunt Hawkins HUNT HAWKINS is Professor Emeritus at the University of South Florida. In 2017–18 he was Fulbright Distinguished Professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. He has published numerous articles on Conrad, edited Joseph Conrad Today, and served as President of the Joseph Conrad Society of America. Copyright © 2018 Texas Tech University Press" @default.
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