Moglen’s teaching, like his research, focuses on the relationship between expressive culture and the politics of liberation. His recent seminars include: "Imagining Freedom: 19th-Century African American Literature and Politics"; “Literature and Social Justice”; "Modern American Writing and the Problem of War"; "Modernism and Mourning"; "The Harlem Renaissance"; and “The Politics of American Realism.” Moglen has strong theoretical interests in the traditions of psychoanalysis and cultural materialism. He is an affiliated faculty member in the Africana Studies and American Studies Programs at Lehigh, and he was founding Co-Director of the South Side Initiative, a project of democratic university-community collaboration in the city of Bethlehem.