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morr@laurentian.ca
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I teach mainly 19th-century British Literature. In the MA program I taught a course on Violence and Culture, focusing on war as it has been understood from classical to modern times. My Ph.D. was on narrative and the writing of memory in Walter Scott’s novels. As well as papers on Scott, I have published or delivered papers on a variety of topics related to narrative. Other interests include African and women's writing, critical theory, Girardian mimetic theory, and Kierkegaard. I am currently engaged on a project on George Eliot's Religious Imagination.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
"Real and Narrative Time: Waverley and the Education of Memory." Reprinted in Critical Essays on Sir Walter Scott: The Waverley Novels. Ed. Harry B. Shaw. London: G. K. Hall & Co., 1996.
"Public and Private I: Walter Scott and the Anxiety of Authorship." English Studies in Canada. 22 (1996), 45-58.
Association for Scottish Literary Studies (1993).
"'Almost Under the Immediate Eye': Framing Displacement." Proceedings of the International Scott Conference (1993).
"`The Return of the Different': Rereading in Scott and Calvino." Dalhousie Review (1992).
"Real and Narrative Time: Waverley and the Education of Memory." Studies in English Literature (1991).
"Repetition, Reversal, and the Gothic: The Pirate and St. Ronan's Well." English Studies in Canada (1990).
"Voices and Text: Scott the Storyteller, Scott the Novelist." Scottish Literary Journal (1989).
"Beginning in the Middle: The Story of Reading in Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler." Papers on Language and Literature (1985).
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