Marilyn A. Morris
University of North Texas
History
(940) 565-4216
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Education

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

Professional Positions

Academic - Post-Secondary
Professor, University of North Texas. (2015 – Present).
Women's Studies Associated Faculty, University of North Texas. (2010 – Present).
Associate Professor, University of North Texas. (1997 – 2015).
Co-director, LGBT Studies Program, University of North Texas. (2009 – 2014).
Founder and Director, Study of Sexualities Program, University of North Texas. (2003 – 2009).
Research Assistant, The Bentham Project, University College, London. (1986 – 1998).
Assistant Professor, University of North Texas. (1991 – 1997).
Assistant Editor, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale University. (1988 – 1991).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
HIST 1060, World History from the Sixteenth Century, 1 course.
HIST 4090, Britain and Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1603 1832, 12 courses.
HIST 4262, Topics in European History, 8 courses.
HIST 4300, The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789 1815., 1 course.
HIST 4310, Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe, 12 courses.
HIST 4330, Absolutism and Enlightenment in Europe, 1648 1789, 6 courses.
HIST 4951, Honors College Capstone Thesis, 1 course.
HIST 5040, Studies in Modern European History, 14 courses.
HIST 5080, Seminar in Modern European History, 9 courses.
HIST 5100, Seminar in United States History, 1 course.
HIST 5900, Special Problems, 7 courses.
HIST 5910, Special Problems, 1 course.
HIST 5950, Master's Thesis, 29 courses.
HIST 6900, Special Problems, 1 course.
HIST 6940, Individual Research, 11 courses.
HIST 6950, Doctoral Dissertation, 27 courses.

Directed Student Learning

Dissertation Committee Member, History. (September 26, 2021 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, History. (January 30, 2021 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, History. (March 17, 2020 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, History. (2020 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, History. (2015 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, History. (2014 – Present).

Major Professor, History. (2014 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, History. (2010 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Member,"Public Order and Social Control Through Religion in the Roman Republic," History. (March 17, 2020).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, History. (March 17, 2020).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, History. (2015 – 2018).

Dissertation Committee Member, History. (2012 – 2018).

Dissertation Defense Committee Member,"British Strategy and Coalition Warfare in the War of the First Coalition," History. (2017).

Major Professor,"Food and the Master-Servant Relationship in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Britain," History. (2017).

Dissertation Defense Committee Member,"Las Cantigas de Santa Maria: Thirteenth-Century Popular Culture and Acts of Subversion," History. (2016).

Major Professor,"Manhood in Spain: Feminine Perspectives of Masculinity in the Seventeenth Century," History. (2016).

Major Professor,"Married in a Frisky Mode: Clandestine and Irregular Marriages in Eighteenth-Century Britain," History. (2016).

Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, History. (2016).

Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, History. (2016).

Undergraduate Honors Thesis,"A Historical and Empirical Investigation of the Primal Scene Phenomenon," Psychology. (2015 – 2016).

Major Professor,"“Fashioning Creole Society in Eighteenth-Century British Jamaica”," History. (2015).

Major Professor,"Competing Models of Hegemonic Masculinity in English Civil War Memoirs by Women," History. (2015).

Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, History. (2015).

Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Women's and Gender Studies. (2015).

Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, History. (2015).

Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, History. (2015).

Master's Thesis Committee Member,"The Captain of the People in Renaissance Florence," History. (2015).

Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, History. (2014).

Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, History. (2013).

Research

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.

Presentations Given

Commentator on three-paper panel

Morris, M. A. (Discussant), Midwest Conference on British Studies, The Long Eighteenth-Century Court, the Public Sphere, and the Financial Revolution, NACBS, Cleveland OH, United States of America. (2010).

Morris, M. A. (Discussant), North American Conference on British Studies, British State Prayers, Fasts, and Thanksgivings, NACBS, Louisville, KY, United States of America. (2009).

Invited Talk

Morris, M. A. (Presenter), Cum Laude Award Presentation Luncheon, “Serendipity in Historical Research", The Hockaday School, Dallas, TX, United States of America. (2017).

Panel Presentation

Morris, M. A. (Panelist), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Queer Pedagogies, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America. (2017).

Morris, M. A. (Author & Presenter), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Queer Identity and Compulsory Interdisciplinarity, ASECS, Montreal, Canada. (2006).

Paper

Morris, M. A. (Author & Presenter), The Moral Cultures of Food, "Fit for a King? Rendering George IV's Fat", Food Studies Initiative, UNT, United States of America. (2015).

Morris, M. A. (Author & Presenter), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, "The Evolution of Transgender Narrative: A Reassessment of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, John, Lord Hervey, Charlotte Charke, and the Chevalier/ière d'Eon", ASECS, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America. (2015).

Morris, M. A. (Author & Presenter), British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, "Occasional excess and frequent unpunctuality": The Workings of Credit in the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, United Kingdom. (2013).

Morris, M. A. (Author & Presenter), The Making of a Monarchy for the Modern World Conference, Monarchy and Domesticity in the Eighteenth Century: Appearance versus Reality, Kensington Palace, London, United Kingdom. (2012).

Morris, M. A. (Author & Presenter), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Marriage of Anne, Princess Royal of Britain to William, Prince of Orange in 1734: The Political and the Personal in Anglo-Dutch Relations, ASECS, Vancouver, BC, Canada. (2011).

Morris, M. A. (Author & Presenter), Queer People 5: The Uses of the History of Sexuality, The Queerness of Late Eighteenth-Century Party Politics, Christ's College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom. (2010).

Morris, M. A. (Author & Presenter), Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Measures of Men, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Dallas, TX, United States of America. (2009).

Morris, M. A. (Author & Presenter), North American Conference on British Studies, Masculinity and Political Culture, NACBS, Cincinnati OH, United States of America. (2008).

Morris, M. A. (Author & Presenter), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Political Eros in a Constitutional Monarchy, ASECS, Portland, OR, United States of America. (2008).

Morris, M. A. (Author & Presenter), The Chevalier d'Eon and his World: Gender, Espionage and Politics in the Eighteenth Century, The Chevalière's Good Company: Gender and Genre Benders, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom. (2006).

Morris, M. A. (Author & Presenter), Daring Women of the Enlightenment, The Mind Has Sex: Aristocratic Intellectual Eroticism, Noel Collection, LSU, Shreveport, LA, United States of America. (2004).

Morris, M. A. (Author & Presenter), South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Anna Larpent's Sharp Quill, SCSECS, Santa Fe, NM, United States of America. (2004).

Morris, M. A. (Author & Presenter), British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Sex, Politics, and Marital Mores in Georgian England, BSECS, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, United Kingdom. (2004).

Morris, M. A. (Author & Presenter), International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,, Anna Larpent and the Moral Economy of Female Education, ISECS, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America. (2003).

Morris, M. A. (Author & Presenter), American Historical Association, Political and Domestic Fidelity in Hanoverian England, AHA, Chicago, IL, United States of America. (2003).

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Uncategorized
Morris, M. A. (Other), "Research Fellowships," Sponsored by Huntington Library. (Present).
Morris, M. A. (Other), "Research Fellowships," Sponsored by Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. (Present).
Morris, M. A. (Other), "Faculty Development Leave,". (2007 – 2008).
Morris, M. A. (Other), "Research Fellowship," Sponsored by Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. (2001 – 2001).
Morris, M. A. (Other), "Research Fellowship," Sponsored by Yale Center for British Art. (2001 – 2001).
Morris, M. A. (Other), "Summer Faculty Research Fellowship," Sponsored by UNT. (2000 – 2000).
Morris, M. A. (Other), "Faculty Development Leave,". (1998 – 1999).
Morris, M. A. (Other), "Research Opportunities Program Grant," Sponsored by UNT. (1998 – 1998).
Morris, M. A. (Other), "Developing Scholar Award," Sponsored by UNT. (1997 – 1997).
Morris, M. A. (Other), "NEH Summer Institute: Enlightenment and the Public Sphere," Sponsored by Stanford University. (1995 – 1995).
Morris, M. A. (Other), "Research Initiation Grant," Sponsored by UNT. (1994 – 1994).
Morris, M. A. (Other), "Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, and Research Initiation Grant," Sponsored by UNT. (1992 – 1992).

Service

University Service

Committee Member, Graduate Committee. (August 2019 – Present).

Member, Women's Studies. (2010 – Present).

Member, Women's History Month Committee. (1998 – Present).

Committee Member, Early Modern Europe search committee. (October 2019 – January 2020).

Member, Departmental Affairs Committee. (September 2017 – December 2018).

Member, Faculty Senate Committee on the Status of LGBT Faculty. (2009 – 2018).

Member, Medieval History Search Committee. (August 2017 – December 2017).

Co-Chair, Mentoring Grant for LGBT Faculty. (2015 – 2017).

Member, UNT Iniative on Food Cultures and the Environment. (2013 – 2017).

Member, Honors Program. (2011 – 2017).

Member, Graduate Committee. (1998 – 2017).

Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Spanish Dept.. (August 2017 – October 2017).

Committee Member, Department of Spanish Promotion Committee. (April 2017 – October 2017).

Co-Chair, Search Committee for Modern Britain. (2015 – 2016).

Member, Mentoring Grant: Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Studies. (2014 – 2015).

Member, Graduate Awards Board. (1998 – 2015).

Professional Service

Reviewer, Book, Oxford University Press. (October 2021 – November 2021).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. (May 2021 – October 2021).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Eighteenth-Century Studies. (September 18, 2020 – October 8, 2020).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Eighteenth-Century Life. (2019 – 2019).

Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana. (2017 – 2018).

Reviewer, Book, Routledge Press. (2017).

Member, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Gottschalk Book Prize Committee. (December 2016 – January 2017).

Reviewer, Book, Bloomsbury Press. (2016).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Eighteenth-Century Studies. (2016).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. (2015).

Reviewer, Book, Huntington Library. (2012).

Reviewer, Textbook, Cambridge University Press. (2010).

Reviewer, Book, University of Illinois Press. (2009).

Reviewer, Journal Article, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. (2005).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of British Studies. (2005).

Reviewer, Journal Article, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. (2004).

Reviewer, Book, Wilfred Laurier Press, Toronto. (2003).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Agricultural History. (2000).

Member, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Catherine Macaulay Prize Committee. (2000).

Reviewer, Grant Proposal, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. (2000).

Reviewer, Book, Yale University Press. (2000).