Paul Morrison
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, literary theory, and modern literature. WebpageCourses 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." Life in Plastic: Artistic Responses to Petromodernity. Ed. Caren Irr. Minneapolis: University of Minnesotta, 2021 (forthcoming)
Morrison, Paul. Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face. London: Routledge, 2020.
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.