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Patrick Morgan
Assistant Professor
School of Humanities
WALK 3-103
318-342-1493
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Patrick Morgan, PhD
Assistant Professor, English

Education

Ph D

2019, English
Duke University

MA

2015, English
Duke University

BA

2 Majors, English and Geological Sciences
State University of New York at Geneseo

Licensure & Certification

Graduate Certificate in College Teaching, Duke University. (March 14 2019 - Present)
Graduate Certificate for Teaching Writing in the Disciplines, Duke University. (April 30 2018 - Present)

Recent Publications

Morgan, P. T. (2024). “Transcendental Geologies: Emerson, Anti-Slavery, and the Kairos of Deep Time.” The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson. (pp. 71-85). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Morgan, P. T. (2024). “Rock Your Classroom.” The Pocket Instructor: Writing. (pp. 36-41). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Morgan, P. T. (2024). “Vegetal Variability: Gender, Regionalism, and the Spontaneous Movement of Plants.” American Literary Realism. (pp. 227-242).
Morgan, P. T. (2021). "Pandemic Pedagogies." Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal. (pp. 575-580). Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge (Taylor & Francis).
Morgan, P. T. (2021). "Rev. of Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field, edited by Lisa Melonçon, S. Scott Graham, Jenell Johnson, John A. Lynch, and Cynthia Ryan." Rhetoric Review. Tuscaloosa, AL: Taylor & Francis.
Morgan, P. T. (2021). "Rev. of Nineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics, edited by Patricia Bizzell and Lisa Zimmerelli." Rhetoric Review. Tuscaloosa, AL: Taylor & Francis.
Morgan, P. T. (2015). “Let’s Get Heretical: A Systematic Close Reading Exercise.” The Pocket Instructor: Literature. (pp. 97-99). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Morgan, P. T. (2010). "Aesthetic Inflections: Thoreau, Gender, and Geology." The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies. (pp. 46-67). Concord, MA: The Thoreau Society.
Morgan, P. T. (2018). "Biological Aesthetics: Thoreau, Gender, and Botany." Nineteenth-Century Prose. (pp. 1-28). San Diego, CA: San Diego State University.

Research Grants

Morgan, P. T. (Principal), "ATLAS Grant (Award to Louisiana Artists and Scholars)" (Funded), Sponsored By Louisiana Board of Regents, External to The University of Louisiana at Monroe, $39,111. (2024 - 2025).
Morgan, P. T. (Other), Pilcher, H. R. (Principal), Galvan, A. (Other), Hillman, M. (Other), Bryan, C. (Other), Foucha, T. (Other), McDowell II, R. D. (Other), Taylor, J. (Other), Treadway, S. (Other), "Rebirth Grant" (Funded), Sponsored By Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, External to The University of Louisiana at Monroe, $2,200. (2020 - 2021).
Morgan, P. T. (Principal), "Travel Grant" (Funded), Sponsored By Society of Early Americanists, External to The University of Louisiana at Monroe, $250. (2019).
Morgan, P. T. (Principal), "Travel Grant" (Funded), Sponsored By Modern Language Association, External to The University of Louisiana at Monroe, $400. (2017).

Awards & Honors

2024-2025 ATLAS Award (Award to Louisiana Artists and Scholars), Louisiana Board of Regents.

2024-2025 Faculty of the Year Award, ULM Honors Program.

2021 Discretionary Directors’ Scholarship Award, Rare Book School.

2020-2023 Dr. William R. Hammond Endowed Professorship in Liberal Arts, University of Louisiana Monroe.

June 2019 Alstott Morgan Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society.

July 2018 Research Fellowship, Winterthur Library & Museum.

2018 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Duke University .

2017-2018 Reynolds Price Endowed Scholarship, Duke University.

2016-2017 Preparing Future Faculty Graduate Fellowship, Duke University.

July 2015 NEH Summer Institute. "Transcendentalism and Reform in the Age of Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller".

Courses Taught

ENGL 1001COMPOSITION I, 2 course(s)

ENGL 1002COMPOSITION II, 1 course(s)

ENGL 2005AMERICAN LITERATURE I, 4 course(s)

ENGL 2019HONORS ENGLISH, 1 course(s)

ENGL 2050EXPLORATIONS IN LITERATURE, 1 course(s)

ENGL 3024PROF WRITING & COMMUNICATION, 5 course(s)

ENGL 3044NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1 course(s)

ENGL 3050JUNIOR SEMINAR: PROSE, 1 course(s)

ENGL 4044WRITING IN THE SCIENCES, 3 course(s)

ENGL 4048GRANT WRITING, 1 course(s)

ENGL 4078AMERICAN LITERARY STUDIES I, 3 course(s)

ENGL 4080INTERNSHIP IN TECH & PROF COMM, 1 course(s)

ENGL 5027AMERICAN PROSE, 1 course(s)

ENGL 5040RHETORIC SCIENTIFIC TECH DISC, 1 course(s)

ENGL 5044WRITING IN THE SCIENCES, 2 course(s)

ENGL 5048GRANT WRITING, 1 course(s)

ENGL 5078AMERICAN LITERARY STUDIES I, 2 course(s)