Sean Morris

Teaching Assistant Professor
252-328-6003
Bate 2142
morrisse@ecu.edu

About

Education

  • B.A. Spring Hill
  • M.A Georgia State University
  • Ph.D. University of Kentucky

Research Interests

  • Literature (Classical, English Renaissance, Restoration & Long-18th Century, Post-Modernity)
  • Satire Rhetoric (All)
  • Popular Culture
  • Archives
  • Graphic Novels Philosophy

Courses Taught

  • ENGL 3000: History of British Literature to 1700
  • ENGL 2201: Writing about the Disciplines
  • ENGL 2000: Interpreting Literature
  • ENGL 1100: Foundations of College Writing
  • ENGL 1000: Appreciating Literature

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • “Screw Watching Watchmen!”: Gendered Hegemony and Aesthetic Hierarchy in Student Reception of the Graphic Novel and Its Film Adaptation” Comics Go to the Movies (Panel 76), Session XI, PCAS/ACAS. Wilmington, NC. October 2009.
  • “Making History: An Archive Reflection & Production Experiment with Second-Semester College Writers.” (Paper Presentation.) CCCC. San Francisco, CA. March 2009.
  • The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting, Part II; Or, Stemming the Tide of Cultural Amnesia Session (Panel), CCCC. San Francisco, CA. March 2009.