Title: Graduate Student

Department: English

Office: Buttrick Grad Student Carrel 3-04
Cell Phone: 615 423 5475
Email: john.j.morrell@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• M.A. in English Literature -- Vanderbilt University, Aug, 2005
• B.A. in English Literature -- Hamilton College, May, 2000

Research Area

• 20th Century American Literature
• Literature and the Environment
• Marxist, Anarchist, Globalization Theory

Current Research

• "The Dialectic of Climate Change: Apocalypse, Utopia, and the Environmental Imagination"
• "Summers in the Skagit: Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, and the Language of the Lookout"
• "The Trouble With Wilderness Therapy: Wilderness as Complete and Austere Institution"

Current Courses

• English 102W-01: Utopia and Other Science Fictions

Current Positions

• Graduate Instructor, English Department (2005 - )
• Graduate Writing Consultant, Writing Studio (2006 - )
• Trip Coordinator, Outdoor Recreation Program (2006 - )

Professional Societies

• MLA
• Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
• Beat Studies Association (BSA)
• Thoreau Society

Professional Honors

• Center for Ethics Dissertation Writers Fellow (Vanderbilt, 2008)
• Values and Environment Research Fellowship (Vanderbilt, 2008)
• University Graduate Fellowship (Vanderbilt, 2004 - )

Publications

• A review of Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility: Canadian Mining and Oil Companies in Latin America. in AmeriQuests vol. 3 no. 1, 2006. (www.ameriquests.org)