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GLENHILL FARMHOUSE
ERIE PA 16563
Biography
Dr. Morris earned his B.A. in English from Bowling Green State University, his M.A. in English from the University of Nebraska, and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska.
He was the recipient of the 2007 George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Memberships in Professional Associations
- Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
- Western Literature Association
- Pennsylvania College English Association
Publications
Driving on the Rim, by Thomas McGuane, MagillOnLiteraturePlus Online - 2011
Gryphon: New and Selected Stories, by Charles Baxter, MagillOnLiteraturePlus Online - 2011
Occupied City, by David Peace, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2010
Something Is Out There, by Richard Bausch, MagillOnLiteraturePlus Online - 2010
The Art Student’s War, by Brad Leithauser, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2010
Thick and Thin, River Teeth - 2010
Whistling Man, Chautauqua - 2010
I have had some satisfactory times: (Meta-) History and the Yellowstone Kelly Novels of Peter Bowen - 2009
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2009
The Museum of Innocence, by Orhan Pamuk, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2009
Caspian Rain, by Gina B. Nahai, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2008
Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2008
A Family of Strangers, by Deborah Tall, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2007
Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure, by Michael Chabon, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2007
The Longest Pregnancy, by Melissa Fraterrigo, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2007
The Moments Lost: A Midwest Pilgrim’s Progress, by Bruce Olds, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2007
Small Change, Talking River Review - 2007
Imagining Bigfoot, Western American Literature - 2007
The Diezmo, by Rick Bass, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2005
The Lovers of Algeria, by Anouar Benmalek, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2005
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, by Liz Jensen, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2005
Willful Creatures, by Aimee Bender, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2005
A Kind of Flying: Selected Stories, by Ron Carlson, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2004
Bandbox, by Thomas Mallon, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2004
In These Hills, by Ralph Beer, Prairie Schooner - 2004
Orchard, by Larry Watson, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2004
Boy With Loaded Gun: The Confessions of Lewis Nordan, The Southern Literary Journal - 2004
Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still, by Kent Nelson, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2003
Property, by Valerie Martin, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2003
The Hermit’s Story, by Rick Bass, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2003
Camouflage: Stories, by Murray Bail, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2002
Many Circles: New and Selected Essays, by Albert Goldbarth, Magill Book Reviews/Salem Press Online - 2002
Gretel Ehrlich - 2001
Unmasking the Self: Rick Bass as Ecojournalist, The Literary Art and Activism of Rick Bass - 2001
Compass Points, by Edward Hoagland, The Philadelphia Inquirer (2001) - 2001
Frank Bergon in Not-to-be-Missed Contemporary Fiction of the American West, Western American Literature - 2001
Los Gusanos - 2000
Nicholas Delbanco - 2000
Ahmed’s Revenge, by Richard Wiley, Magill Book Reviews, EBSCO Publishing/EBSCOhost and Northern Light [On-Line Publication] - 2000
Bone Deep in Landscape: Writing, Reading, and Place, by Mary Clearman Blew, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature - 2000
Gambler’s Rose, by G.W. Hawkes, The Philadelphia Inquirer - 2000
Motherkind, by Jayne Anne Phillips, Magill Book Reviews, EBSCO Publishing/EBSCOhost and Northern Light [On-Line Publication] - 2000
What I Think I Did, by Larry Woiwode, The Philadelphia Inquirer - 2000
Wild Life, by Molly Gloss, The Philadelphia Inquirer - 2000
Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape, by Lisa Knopp, Western American Literature - 1999
Man With an Axe, by Jon A. Jackson, Magill Book Reviews, EBSCO Publishing/EBSCOhost and Northern Light [On-Line Publication] - 1999
People of the Great Plains, by Peter Miller, Great Plains Quarterly - 1998
Where Trouble Sleeps, by Clyde Edgerton, Magill Book Reviews, EBSCO Publishing/EBSCOhost and Northern Light [On-Line Reviews] - 1998
The Pacific Northwest as Outspace: The Futurist Short Fiction of Molly Gloss, The Fractal - 1998
Talking Up A Storm - 1998
Against Laden Sky, Symbol and Metaphor - 1998
Frank Bergon - 1997
A Babylonian in Batavia: Mesopotamian Literature and Lore - 1997
Mason's Retreat - 1997
The Rocky Mountains - 1997
Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood. Magill Book Reviews , EBSCO Publishing/On-Line Reviews - 1997
Cruising Paradise, by Sam Shepard, Magill Book Reviews (EBSCO Publishing/On-Line Reviews) - 1997
Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journeys of an American Buddhist, by Gretel Ehrlich, EBSCO Publishing/On-Line Reviews - 1997
Wild Game, by Frank Bergon, Prairie Schooner - 1997
Health - 1996
In a Father's Place - 1996
Spirit and Belief - 1996
Mason’s Retreat, by Christopher Tilghman, Magill Book Reviews (EBSCO Publishing/On-Line Reviews) - 1996
The Edge of the Crazies, by Jamie Harrison, Magill Book Reviews [Dow Jones On-Line News Retrieval] - 1996
In the House of John Gardner, Myths/MSS - 1996
An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field, by Terry Tempest Williams, Magill Book Reviews [Dow Jones On-Line News Retrieval] - 1995
Deadman, by Jon A. Jackson, Magill Book Reviews [Dow Jones On-Line News Retrieval] - 1995
Reimagining Kansas: Emmett Dalton, Ron Hansen, and the Great Coffeyville, Kansas Raid, Heritage of the Great Plains - 1995
Talking Up A Storm: Voices of The New West - 1994
The Short Story in English: Britain and North America, An Annotated Bibliography - 1994
Collaborator: Array Array
Faith and the Good Thing - 1994
Silent Passengers - 1994
Edward J. Renehan, Jr. John Burroughs: An American Naturalist, Magill Book Reviews [Dow Jones On-Line New Retrieval] - 1994
Lost in the Customhouse: Authorship in the American Renaissance, by Jerome Loving, Magill Book Reviews [Dow-Jones On-Line News Retrieval] - 1994
No Reck'ning Made, by Joanne Greenberg, Magill Book Reviews [Dow Jones On-Line News Retrieval] - 1994
Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy, by Edwin T. Arnold and Dianne C. Luce, Magill Book Reviews [Dow Jones On-Line News Retrieval] - 1994
Rick Bass. The Nine-Mile Wolves, Magill Book Reviews [Dow Jones On-Line News Retrieval] - 1994
The Body in Four Parts, by Janet Kauffman, Magill Book Reviews [Dow-Jones on-Line News Retrieval] - 1994
The Children in the Woods: New and Selected Stories, by Frederick Busch, Magill Book Reviews [Dow Jones On-Line News Retrieval] - 1994
Telling War Stories: Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story, Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction - 1994
Indian Affairs - 1993
All But The Waltz: Essays on a Montana Family, by Mary Clearman Blew, Islands, The Universe Home, by Gretel Ehrlich, Prairie Schooner - 1993
Hole in the Sky, by William Kittredge, Magill Book Reviews [Dow-Jones On-Line News Retrieval] - 1993
The Nine-Mile Wolves, by Rick Bass, Magill Book Reviews [Dow/Jones On-Line News Retrieval] - 1993
A Soldier of the Great War - 1992
Daughters of the New World, by Susan Richards Shreve, Magill Book Reviews [Dow Jones On-Line News Retrieval] - 1992
Indian Affairs, by Larry Woiwode, Magill Book Reviews [Dow/Jones On-Line News Retrieval] - 1992
The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas, by Reginald McKnight, Magill Book Reviews [Dow Jones On-Line News Retrival] - 1992
The Last Fine Time, by Verlyn Klinkenborg, Magill Book Reviews [Dow/Jones On-Line News Retrieval] - 1992
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West, by Wallace Stegner, Magill Book Reviews [Dow/Jones On-Line News Retrieval] - 1992
The Jump-Off Creek: Molly Gloss' Novel of Frontier Manners, South Dakota Review - 1992
When East Meets West: The Passions of Landscape and Culture in Gretel Ehrlich's Heart Mountain, Great Plains Quarterly - 1992
The Agrarian Impulse in Contemporary American Fiction - 1991
An Outside Chance: Classic and New Essays on Sport, by Thomas McGuane, Magill Book Reviews [Dow/Jones On-Line News Retrieval] - 1991
Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound, by John Keeble, Magill Book Reviews [Dow/Jones On-Line News Retrieval] - 1991
The Book of Embraces, by Eduardo Galeano, Magill Book Reviews [Dow/Jones On-Line News Retrieval] - 1991
Best Novels of the American West, South Dakota Review - 1991
How Ambivalence Won the West: Thomas McGuane and the Fiction of the New West, Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction - 1991
Marking Time and Distance in the West: The Weird Telemetry of John Keeble, Pacific Northwest Forum - 1991
'Nicholas Delbanco' and 'Larry Woiwode' - 1990
A World of Order and Light: The Fiction of John Gardner - 1990
Interview with John Gardner - 1990
Obscene Gestures for Women, by Janet Kauffman, Prairie Schooner - 1990
New Voices, Familiar Accents, The North American Review - 1988
Spirit and Belief, The North American Review - 1988
The Agrarian Impulse in Contemporary American Fiction, Michigan Quarterly Review - 1988
Nicholas Delbanco in the Middle Distance, Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction - 1987
The Limits of Borrowing: The Matter of John Gardner's Sources - 1985
A World of Order and Light: The Fiction of John Gardner - 1984
Nicholas Delbanco: An Interview, Contemporary Literature - 1984
A Babylonian in Batavia: Mesopotamian Literature and Lore in The Sunlight Dialogues - 1982
Education
Ph D, English, University of Nebraska
MA, English, University of Nebraska
BA, English, Bowling Green State University