Kevin Morrison

Born and raised in Hawaii, Kevin A. Morrison majored in modern cultural history at Hampshire College before undertaking graduate studies in English literature at the University of Chicago and Rice University, where he obtained his Ph.D. He specializes in the literature and culture of Victorian Britain. Because of his initial training, Kevin's work tends to be historiographical, drawing on the vast array of items constituting the material record of that era. His particular interest in the material and political cultures of Victorian Britain is the basis for two projects: a book that he is completing and another on which he is beginning to undertake research. Inhabiting Liberalism: Politics, Culture, and the Spaces of Masculine Professionalism, 1823-1903 , addresses the overlapping physical, social, and epistemological spaces of Victorian liberalism, and Dressing for Disinterestedness attends to liberalism's sartorial aesthetic. He has also been working on a more distinctly literary analysis, Sincere Postures , which examines novelistic representations of gestural and rhetorical modes of male suffering as both authentic and histrionic. The first articulation of this project will shortly appear in Novel: A Forum on Fiction . He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Victorian fiction and poetry; material, print, and political cultures; human/nonhuman animal studies; and social theory and historical philosophy.

Areas of Supervision: I welcome the opportunity to supervise projects focusing on the Victorian period in Britain and to support students whose dissertations relate to my ongoing research and teaching interests, including literary historiography; gender studies; human/nonhuman animal studies; material, political, and print cultures; history of the book; and public feelings.

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