Faculty Directory
Mark Morrisson
Associate Professor of English
Contact:
109 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-865-6488
mxm61@psu.edu
www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/m/x/mxm61/index.html
Office Hours:
Monday 3:30-5 and Tuesday 1:30-3 and By Appointment through Kathy Force
Educational History:
BA, English and Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, 1988
MA, English Language and Literature, University of Chicago, 1989
PhD, English Language and Literature, University of Chicago, 1996
Research Interests:
Modernist little magazines; science studies of the modernist period; nineteenth- and twentieth-century occultism; avant-garde theory; public sphere theory; print culture
Awards:
Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching, Penn State University
Institute for the Arts and Humanities Resident Scholar, Penn State University
Newberry Library Fellowship
Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship, The Lilly Library, Indiana University
Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies Faculty Research Fellowship, Penn State University
Research and Graduate Studies Office Grants, Penn State University
Major Publications:
Modern Alchemy: Occultism and the Emergence of Atomic Theory (Oxford University Press, 2007)
The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception 1905-1920 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2001)
Tambour (University of Wisconsin Press, 2001)
Books in Progress
Other Publications:
Articles in journals including Modernism/Modernity, ELH, PMLA, Twentieth Century Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, RACAR, Labour History, and The Gig, and chapters on aspects of modernism and periodical culture in several books.
National Professional Service:
Co-founder and executive board member of the Modernist Studies Association
Series editor of Refiguring Modernism: Arts, Literatures, Sciences, Penn State University Press
External Advising Board for Modernist Journals Project
Board of the Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines multivolume project. Oxford University Press
Teaching Statement:
I aim to foster a rich engagement with literature and the cultures and societies that produced it, to encourage a lifelong interest in literature and history, and, above all to teach critical thinking.
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