Kevin A. Morrison
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Scholar. Leader. Storyteller.
Humanities scholar, academic leader, and filmmaker whose work bridges nineteenth-century studies, global literary culture, media, storytelling, and public humanities.
Narrative, Media, and Material Culture
Work on narrative, media, material culture, and the cultural forms of everyday life.
Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture
Edinburgh University Press, 2018
Examines the relationship between liberal political thought and the material forms of everyday Victorian life, bringing together literary studies, cultural history, and material culture studies.
"[A] groundbreaking interdisciplinary book"​
-MLA Prize citation
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"[A] volume with universal appeal. . . [an] appealing and provocative publication.​
- Linda Florence Matheson, Fashion, Style, and Popular Culture
"[A] veritable gold mine"​
- William Baker, The Year's Work in English Studies
"[T]imely and important"​
- Heidi Kaufman, Victorian Studies
"[B]reaks new ground"
- Ian Packer, Journal of Liberal History
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​Place, Provincialism, and Literary Geography
Research on realism, urban and provincial cultures, literary geography, networks, and spatial imaginaries.
The Provincial Fiction of Mitford, Gaskell, and Eliot
Edinburgh University Press, 2023
Offers a reassessment of Mary Russell Mitford’s and Elizabeth Gaskell’s provincial fiction, sometimes deprecated within a genre frequently considered ‘minor literature’, and demonstrates the importance of their work to the development of George Eliot’s liberalism in the age of high realism.
"[Accomplishes] something rare and remarkable"
-Elisa Beshero-Bondar, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
Public Humanities and Pedagogy​
Projects focused on experiential learning, interdisciplinary teaching, historical engagement, and the curation of materials for students and researchers.
Study Abroad Pedagogy, Dark Tourism, and Historical Reenactment: In the Footsteps of Jack the Ripper and His Victims
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
Genre-breaking response to the literature on study abroad. It stakes claim to an uncharted space between reflective pedagogy, public history studies, and investigations into dark tourism.
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"[T]houghtful and helpful"​
- Julianne Smith, Journal of Experiential Education
