Ronald D. Morrison

Education

• Ph.D. in English (1988), University of Kansas
• M.Phil. in English (1986), University of Kansas
• M.A. in English (1984), University of Kansas
• B.A. in English (1981), Marymount College of Kansas

Prior Teaching Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Kansas (1981-87)

Teaching Specializations & Courses Taught

• Victorian Literature
  • ENG 443 Victorian Writers
  • ENG 650 Victorian Period
• Romantic Literature
  • ENG 442 Romantic Writers
  • ENG 648 Romantic Period
• Additional Course in British Literature
  • ENG 332 British Literature since 1789
  • ENG 495 Seminar in Major Writers
  • ENG 637 Major British Author
• Literary Theory
  • ENG 628 Literary Theory

Profile

Dr. Ron Morrison was trained as a Victorian literature specialist at the University of Kansas. Dr. Morrison has published widely on a variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, including Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Richard Jefferies, and William Wordsworth, among others. Dr. Morrison’s current research focuses on ecocritical approaches to Victorian literature, including the depiction of animals in Victorian literature and culture.

Dr. Morrison has a contract with McFarland Publishers for a student-oriented companion to Thomas Hardy’s novels, which is tentatively scheduled to appear in 2020.

Selected Publications

• Co-edited, with Laurence W. Mazzeno, "Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture". Palgrave, 2017.
• Co-edited, with Laurence W. Mazzeno, "Victorian Writers and the Environment". Routledge, 2017.