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Paul Morrison

Professor of English
Paul  Morrison
pmorriso@brandeis.edu
781-736-2147
Rabb Graduate Center, 233

Departments/Programs

English
Film, Television and Interactive Media

Degrees

University of Toronto, Ph.D.
University of Manchester, M.A.
University of Toronto, B.A.

Expertise

Modernism. Literary criticism and theory. Film. Sexuality. Popular Culture.

Profile

Paul Morrison teaches courses in film, popular culture, sexuality, and modern literature. Webpage

Courses Taught

ENG 10b Poetry: A Basic Course
ENG 27b Classic Hollywood Cinema
ENG 67b Modern Poetry
ENG 101a Studies in Popular Culture
ENG 121a Sex and Culture
ENG 128a Race and US Cinema
ENG 147a Film Noir
ENG 177a Hitchcock's Movies
ENG 200a Approaches to Literary and Cultural Studies
ENG 227a Studies in Modernism
ENG 250b Film Theory

Awards and Honors

Kermit H. Perlmutter Award for Teaching Excellence (1989 - 1990)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship (1984 - 1986)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (1980)

Scholarship

Morrison, Paul. "Smelling Polyester." A Literary History of Plastics. Ed. Caren Irr. Minneapolis: University of Minnesotta, 2020 (forthcoming)

Morrison, Paul. Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face. London: Routledge, 2020. (forthcoming)

Morrison, Paul. ""Screening Madness: `Suddenly, Last Summer, Sexuality, and the Talking Cure"." Hermeneutics of Textual Madness: Re-Readings / Hermeneutique de la Folie Textuelle: Re-Lectures [simultaneous English / French publication]. Ed. M. J. Muratore. Schena Editore, 2016. pp. 823-842..

Morrison, Paul. ""`Casablanca" and the Search for an Auteur"." Critical Insights: "Casablanca". Ed. Jim Plath. Salem Press, 2016. pp. 239-56..

Morrison, Paul. ""Maurice, Or Coming Out Straight"." Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions. Ed. Sue Lanser and Robyn Warhol. University of Ohio Press, 2015. 253-74.

Morrison, Paul. ""Robert Frost, Heroic Normativity., and the Sexual Politics of Form"." Robert Frost in Context. Ed. Mark Richardson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 369-80.

Paul Morrison. ""`It's still the same old story': Casablanca, history, and the erotic"." Neohelicon XL/I. (2014): 209-226.

Morrison, Paul. "`It's still the same old story': "Casablanca," History, and the Erotic." Neohelicon (2013): <DOI: 10.1007/s11059-013-0179-8>.

Morrison, Paul. ""Queer Modernism"." Encylopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Ed. Brian W. Shaffer. Blackwell, 2011. electronic and paper publiaton.

Morrison, Paul. "Same-Saint Desire." Shakesqueer. Ed. Madhavi Menon. Duke, 2011. 209-15.

Morrison, Paul. The Explanation for Everything: Essays on Sexual Subjectivity. New York University Press, 2001.

Morrison, Paul. The Poetics of Fascism: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Paul de Man. Oxford, 1996.



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