Mark Morrisson

Mark S. Morrisson is Professor and Head of English. He teaches courses in British, Irish, and American modernism, periodical studies, and science studies.  Morrisson is the author of The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception, 1905-1920 (Wisconsin, 2001) and Modern Alchemy: Occultism and the Emergence of Atomic Theory (Oxford, 2007). He co-edited with Jack Selzer a facsimile edition of Harold J. Salemson’s Parisian little magazine Tambour (1929-1930), published by Wisconsin in 2002.  He is a past president of the Modernist Studies Association, and is co-editor, with Sean Latham, of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. Current research projects include an edition of Ithell Colquhoun's occult surrealist novel, I Saw Water---co-edited with Richard Shillitoe and forthcoming from Penn State University Press in 2014---a book on modernism, science, and technology, and work on esoteric fiction of the modernist period. In 2004, Morrisson was awarded the Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching at Penn State.