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Dave Morris (he/him)

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Contact Information

294 English Building

Office Hours

Fall 2023: M 2-3, W 2-4
Co-Director of Program in Professional Writing
Teaching Assistant Professor

Education

  • BA University of Rochester
  • MA, PhD University of Illinois

Awards and Honors

  • College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2016
  • English Department Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2015
  • Undergraduate Rhetoric Program Award for Excellence in Writing Instruction, 2011

Courses Taught

  • English 221: Speculative Futures
  • English 220: Literature and Science
  • English / MACS 104: Intro to Film
  • English 200: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Study
  • Rhetoric 105
  • Rhetoric 101 and 102
  • English 300: Novels on Film

selected publications

BOOKS

  • Public Religions in the Future World: Postsecularism and Utopia. Univ of Georgia Press, 2021.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • "Intellect and Activism: The Secular Authority of Left Behind." Cultural Critique 90.1 (2015): 64-87.
  • "'Only a Religion Could Do It:’ Octavia Butler’s (R)evolutionary Movements for the Twenty-First Century." Utopian Studies 26.2 (2015): 270-88.

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