Faculty Profile

Marilyn Morris

Title
Professor
Department
History
College
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

    

    

      


                          

            
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PhD, University of London, England, 1988. 
Major: History
Dissertation Title: The Monarchy as an Issue in English Political Argument during the French Revolution
BA, Hampshire College, 1979. 
Major: British and American History and Literature
Dissertation Title: Eighteenth-Century American Magazine Literature for Women





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
No current or future courses scheduled.


          
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    HIST 4090.001, Britain and Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1603 1832, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 6950.715, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2022 
                    

                    HIST 4310.001, Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 6950.721, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2021 
                    

                    HIST 5100.001, Seminar in United States History, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 4090.001, Britain and Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1603 1832, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 6950.715, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2021 
                    

                    HIST 4310.001, Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 6950.721, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2020 
                    

                    HIST 5080.002, Seminar in Modern European History, Fall 2020  SPOT
                    

                    HIST 4262.001, Topics in European History, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 4090.001, Britain and Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1603 1832, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 6950.715, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2020 
                    

                    HIST 5040.002, Studies in Modern European History, Spring 2020 
                    

                    HIST 6950.721, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2019 
                    

                    HIST 5900.740, Special Problems, Fall 2019 
                    

                    HIST 4262.001, Topics in European History, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 4262.002, Topics in European History, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 6950.715, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2019 
                    

                    HIST 6950.721, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2018 
                    

                    HIST 6940.721, Individual Research, Fall 2018 
                    

                    HIST 5040.002, Studies in Modern European History, Fall 2018  SPOT
                    

                    HIST 4262.002, Topics in European History, Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 4090.001, Britain and Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1603 1832, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 6950.715, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2018 
                    

                    HIST 4310.001, Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 6940.734, Individual Research, Spring 2018 
                    

                    HIST 6950.721, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2017 
                    

                    HIST 5950.721, Master's Thesis, Fall 2017 
                    

                    HIST 1060.002, World History from the Sixteenth Century, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 4090.001, Britain and Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1603 1832, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 5950.705, Master's Thesis, Spring 2017 
                    

                    HIST 6940.721, Individual Research, Fall 2016 
                    

                    HIST 5950.721, Master's Thesis, Fall 2016 
                    

                    HIST 6950.821, Doctoral Dissertation, Summer 5W2 2016 
                    

                    HIST 5950.721, Master's Thesis, Summer 5W1 2016 
                    

                    HIST 5950.821, Master's Thesis, Summer 5W2 2016 
                    

                    HIST 6950.715, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2016 
                    

                    HIST 5950.705, Master's Thesis, Spring 2016 
                    

                    HIST 5080.001, Seminar in Modern European History, Spring 2016  SPOT
                    

                    HIST 6950.721, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2015 
                    

                    HIST 6940.721, Individual Research, Fall 2015 
                    

                    HIST 5950.721, Master's Thesis, Fall 2015 
                    

                    HIST 5040.001, Studies in Modern European History, Fall 2015  SPOT
                    

                    HIST 4262.004, Topics in European History, Fall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 5950.721, Master's Thesis, Summer 5W1 2015 
                    

                    HIST 4090.001, Britain and Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1603 1832, Spring 2015 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 6950.715, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2015 
                    

                    HIST 6940.734, Individual Research, Spring 2015 
                    

                    HIST 5950.705, Master's Thesis, Spring 2015 
                    

                    HIST 5950.722, Master's Thesis, Spring 2015 
                    

                    HIST 5080.001, Seminar in Modern European History, Spring 2015 
                    

                    HIST 4330.001, Absolutism and Enlightenment in Europe, 1648 1789, Fall 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 6950.721, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2014 
                    

                    HIST 5950.721, Master's Thesis, Fall 2014 
                    

                    HIST 5040.002, Studies in Modern European History, Fall 2014 
                    

                    HIST 6950.734, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2014 
                    

                    HIST 4310.001, Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe, Spring 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 6940.734, Individual Research, Spring 2014 
                    

                    HIST 5950.734, Master's Thesis, Spring 2014 
                    

                    HIST 5040.001, Studies in Modern European History, Spring 2014 
                    

                    HIST 4090.001, Britain and Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1603 1832, Fall 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 6950.721, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2013 
                    

                    HIST 5950.721, Master's Thesis, Fall 2013 
                    

                    HIST 5080.002, Seminar in Modern European History, Fall 2013 
                    

                    HIST 6940.821, Individual Research, Summer 5W2 2013 
                    

                    HIST 4310.001, Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe, Spring 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 4951.001, Honors College Capstone Thesis, Spring 2013 
                    

                    HIST 5950.734, Master's Thesis, Spring 2013 
                    

                    HIST 4262.001, Topics in European History, Spring 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 4330.001, Absolutism and Enlightenment in Europe, 1648 1789, Fall 2012 
                    

                    HIST 6940.721, Individual Research, Fall 2012 
                    

                    HIST 5950.721, Master's Thesis, Fall 2012 
                    

                    HIST 5040.003, Studies in Modern European History, Fall 2012 
                    

                    HIST 4310.001, Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe, Spring 2012 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 5950.734, Master's Thesis, Spring 2012 
                    

                    HIST 5080.001, Seminar in Modern European History, Spring 2012 
                    

                    HIST 4262.001, Topics in European History, Spring 2012 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 4090.001, Britain and Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1603 1832, Fall 2011 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 5950.721, Master's Thesis, Fall 2011 
                    

                    HIST 6900.740, Special Problems, Fall 2011 
                    

                    HIST 5040.003, Studies in Modern European History, Fall 2011 
                    

                    HIST 4310.001, Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe, Spring 2011 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 5950.734, Master's Thesis, Spring 2011 
                    

                    HIST 5080.001, Seminar in Modern European History, Spring 2011 
                    

                    HIST 5900.734, Special Problems, Spring 2011 
                    

                    HIST 4262.006, Topics in European History, Spring 2011 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 4330.001, Absolutism and Enlightenment in Europe, 1648 1789, Fall 2010 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 6940.721, Individual Research, Fall 2010 
                    

                    HIST 5950.721, Master's Thesis, Fall 2010 
                    

                    HIST 5040.003, Studies in Modern European History, Fall 2010 
                    

                    HIST 5950.721, Master's Thesis, Summer 5W1 2010 
                    

                    HIST 5950.821, Master's Thesis, Summer 5W2 2010 
                    

                    HIST 4090.001, Britain and Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1603 1832, Spring 2010 
                    

                    HIST 4310.001, Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe, Spring 2010 
                    

                    HIST 5950.734, Master's Thesis, Spring 2010 
                    

                    HIST 5080.001, Seminar in Modern European History, Spring 2010 
                    

                    HIST 4330.001, Absolutism and Enlightenment in Europe, 1648 1789, Fall 2009 
                    

                    HIST 6950.714, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2009 
                    

                    HIST 5950.718, Master's Thesis, Fall 2009 
                    

                    HIST 5040.001, Studies in Modern European History, Fall 2009 
                    

                    HIST 4090.001, Britain and Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1603 1832, Spring 2009 
                    

                    HIST 6950.734, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2009 
                    

                    HIST 4310.001, Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe, Spring 2009 
                    

                    HIST 5080.002, Seminar in Modern European History, Spring 2009 
                    

                    HIST 4330.001, Absolutism and Enlightenment in Europe, 1648 1789, Fall 2008 
                    

                    HIST 6950.714, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2008 
                    

                    HIST 5040.001, Studies in Modern European History, Fall 2008 
                    

                    HIST 6950.734, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2008 
                    

                    HIST 6950.714, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2007 
                    

                    HIST 5950.718, Master's Thesis, Fall 2007 
                    

                    HIST 5950.710, Master's Thesis, Summer 5W2 2007 
                    

                    HIST 5950.724, Master's Thesis, Summer 5W1 2007 
                    

                    HIST 5900.707, Special Problems, Summer 5W2 2007 
                    

                    HIST 5910.701, Special Problems, Summer 5W2 2007 
                    

                    HIST 4090.001, Britain and Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1603 1832, Spring 2007 
                    

                    HIST 6950.734, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2007 
                    

                    HIST 5040.001, Studies in Modern European History, Spring 2007 
                    

                    HIST 6950.714, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2006 
                    

                    HIST 4310.001, Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe, Fall 2006 
                    

                    HIST 5950.718, Master's Thesis, Fall 2006 
                    

                    HIST 5900.735, Special Problems, Fall 2006 
                    

                    HIST 5900.740, Special Problems, Fall 2006 
                    

                    HIST 5040.002, Studies in Modern European History, Fall 2006 
                    

                    HIST 4330.001, Absolutism and Enlightenment in Europe, 1648 1789, Spring 2006 
                    

                    HIST 5950.734, Master's Thesis, Spring 2006 
                    

                    HIST 5040.002, Studies in Modern European History, Spring 2006 
                    

                    HIST 4310.001, Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe, Fall 2005 
                    

                    HIST 5080.001, Seminar in Modern European History, Fall 2005 
                    

                    HIST 6950.701, Doctoral Dissertation, Summer 5W2 2005 
                    

                    HIST 6940.701, Individual Research, Summer 5W2 2005 
                    

                    HIST 4090.001, Britain and Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1603 1832, Spring 2005 
                    

                    HIST 6950.705, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2005 
                    

                    HIST 5900.706, Special Problems, Spring 2005 
                    

                    HIST 4300.001, The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789 1815., Spring 2005 
                    

                    HIST 6950.714, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2004 
                    

                    HIST 4310.001, Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe, Fall 2004 
                    

                    HIST 6940.705, Individual Research, Fall 2004 
                    

                    HIST 5950.718, Master's Thesis, Fall 2004 
                    

                    HIST 5900.735, Special Problems, Fall 2004 
                    

                    HIST 5040.002, Studies in Modern European History, Fall 2004 

          


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
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Published Publications



  

  
Published Intellectual Contributions


  
Abstracts and Proceedings
Morris, M. A. (1994). "The Impact of the French Revolution on Debate about the British Monarchy," The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850 Proceedings 1993, ed. Ellen Evans and John W. Rooney, Jr.. 
Book
Morris, M. A. (2014). Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics. 
Morris, M. A. (1998). The British Monarchy and the French Revolution. 
Book Chapter
Morris, M. A. (2010). "Identity, Gender, Genre and Truth in The Maiden of Tonnerre: The Vicissitudes of the Chevalier and Chevalière D'Eon," in The Chevalier D'Eon and his Worlds: Gender, Espionage and Politics in the Eighteenth Century , ed. Simon Burrows, Jonathan Conlin, Russell Goulbourne and Valerie Mainz. 
Morris, M. A. (2009). "Objects of Desire, Identity and Eros in the Writings of Lord Hervey and Charlotte Charke" in The History of Perversion, 1650-1850, ed. Julie Peakman. 
Morris, M. A. (1995). "The Impact of the French Revolution on London Reform Societies" The French Revolution of 1789 and its Impact, ed. John Jeanneney and Gail Schwab. 
Book Review
Morris, M.  (2020). Sally Holloway, The Game of Love in Georgian England: Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 53(2), 323-25. 
Morris, M. A. (2018). Jacqueline Riding, Jacobites: A New History of the ’45 Rebellion in The Historian 80/1 (2018): 163-4. 
Morris, M. A. (2017). Julie Peakman, Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture. Journal of the History of Sexuality 26/3 (2017). 
Morris, M. A. (2016). Ann Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion. The Historian. 77(4), . 
Morris, M. A. (2015). Kathleen Lubey, Excitable Imaginations: Eroticism and Reading in Britain, 1660-1760. Journal of the History of Sexuality. 24(1), 161-63. 
Morris, M. A. (2014). Andrew Cayton, Love in the Time of Revolution: Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793-1818. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. 112(2), 283-84. 
Morris, M. A. (2014). Morgan Rooney, The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790-1814: The Struggle for History’s Authority for H-France, Vol. 14 (April 2014), No. 60. 
Morris, M. A. (2012). Andrew C. Thompson, George II: King and Elector. The Historian. 74(3), 637-38. 
Morris, M. A. (2011). Chris Mounsey and Caroline Gonda, eds., Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800. Scriblerian. 43(2), 269-71. 
Morris, M. A. (2011). Leora Auslander, Cultural Revolutions: Everyday Life and Politics in Britain, North America and France. Journal of Women's History. 22(2), 396-98. 
Morris, M. A. (2010). Jennifer Hall-Witt, Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London, 1780-1880. 
Morris, M. A. (2009). The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714-1837, edited by Brendan Simms and Torsten Riotte. Cambridge Historical Review. 52(2), 532-33. 
Morris, M. A. (2008). Jeremy Black, George III: America's Last King. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. 15, 392-95. 
Morris, M. A. (2006). Søren Mentz, The English Gentleman Merchant at Work: Madras and the City of London 1660-1740. The Historian. 68(3), 367-68. 
Morris, M. A. (2005). "Representations, Categorization, Identity, and Sex," review essay of Pamela Cheek, Sexual Antipodes: Enlightenment Globalization and the Placing of Sex, and William Stafford, English Feminists and their Opponents in the 1790s: Unsex'd and Proper Females. Journal of Women's History. 17(1), 201-9. 
Morris, M. A. (2004). Alan Bray, The Friend. Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Newsletter. 8(2), 11-12. 
Morris, M. A. (2003). Heinz-Joachim Müllenbrock, The Culture of Contention: A Rhetorical   Analysis of the Public Controversy about the Ending of the War of the   Spanish Succession, 1710-1713. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. 8, 360-62. 
Morris, M. A. (2002). Tom Williamson, The Transformation of Rural England: Farming and the Landscape, 1700-1870, 76/4: 741-42.. Agricultural History. 76(4), 741-42. 
Morris, M. A. (2001). David J. Sturdy, Louis XIV. Teaching History. 26, 38-39. 
Morris, M. A. (2001). Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection. Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Newsletter. 15(2), 13-14. 
Morris, M. A. (2001). Nicholas Rogers, Crowds, Culture and Politics in Georgian Britain. The Historian. 63, 883-84. 
Morris, M. A. (2000). Emma Vincent McLeod, A War of Ideas: British Attitudes to the Wars Against Revolutionary France, 1792-1802. American Historical Review. 106(3), 1005-6. 
Morris, M. A. (2000). J. C. D. Clark, English Society 1660-1832: Religion, Ideology and Politics during the Ancien Regime, and Paul Langford, Englishness Identified: Manners and Character 1650-1850. H-Net Reviews, H-Albion. (Nov.), . 
Morris, M. A. (2000). Randolph Trumbach, Sex and the Gender Revolution: Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in England. Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Newsletter. 14(2), 28-30. 
Morris, M. A. Richard Williams, The Contentious Crown: Public Discussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria, . The Historian. 62, 206-7. 
Morris, M. A. (1999). B. W. Young, Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England: Theological Debate from Locke to Burke. 
Morris, M. A. (1999). Orville T. Murphy, The Diplomatic Retreat of France and Public Opinion on the Eve of the French Revolution 1783-1789. Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. 
Morris, M. A. (1997). Alan Cromartie, Sir Matthew Hale 1609-1676: Law, Religion and Natural Philosophy. Religious Studies Review. 23, 417-18. 
Morris, M. A. (1997). Hugh Cunningham, Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500. 
Morris, M. A. Lynn Hunt, ed. The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History and T. C. W. Blanning, The French Revolutionary Wars, 1787-1802,. Teaching History. 22, 98-100. 
Morris, M. A. (1997). Margaret R. Hunt, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England 1680-1780. 22, 497-99. 
Morris, M. A. (1997). Merry Wiesner, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. Religious Studies Review. 23, 417. 
Morris, M. A. (1996). Dario Castiglione and Lesley Sharpe, Shifting the Boundaries: Transformation of the Languages of Public and Private in the Eighteenth Century. 
Morris, M. A. (1994). David Lemmings, Gentlemen and Barristers: The Inns of Court and the English Bar 1680-1730. 
Morris, M. A. (1993). Barry Coward, Cromwell. 
Morris, M. A. (1992). Ann Hughes, The Causes of the English Civil War, Paul Seaward, The Restoration, 1660-1688, Jeremy Black, Robert Walpole and the Nature of Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century England. 
Morris, M. A. (1992). Annik Pardailhé-Galabrun, The Birth of Intimacy: Privacy and Domestic Life in Early Modern Paris. 
Journal Article
Morris, M. A. (2019). “The Chevalière d’Eon, Transgender Autobiography, and Identity,”. Gender and History. 31(1), 78-90. 
Morris, M. A. (2016). “Domesticity and Self-Justification in the Writings of Samuel Kevan, Journeyman, Later Master Slater (1764-1829)". Journal of Family History. 41(1), 3-18. 
Morris, M. A. (2010). Negotiating Domesticity in the Journals of Anna Larpent. Journal of Women's History. 22(1), 85-106. 
Morris, M. A. (2006). Transgendered Perspectives on Premodern Sexualities (Reviewed in the Scriblerian 40/1-2 (2007-08): 98.). SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 46(Summer), 585-600. 
Morris, M. A. (2005). Marital Litigation and English Tabloid Journalism: Crim. Con. in The Bon Ton (1791-1796). British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 28(1), 33-54. 
Morris, M. A. (2004). Princely Debt, Public Credit, and Commercial Values in Late Georgian Britain. Journal of British Studies. 43(July), 339-65. 
Morris, M. A. (1998). Sexing the Survey: The Issue of Sexuality in World History Since 1500. World History Bulletin. 14(2), 11,13,15,17,19-20. 
Morris, M. A. (1996). The Royal Family and Family Values in Late Eighteenth-Century England. Journal of Family History. 21(4), 519-32. 
Morris, M. A. (1988). Representations of Royalty in the London Daily Press in the Decade of the French Revolution. Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History. 4, 2-15. 



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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