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Susan Morrison, PhD
Contact Information
Rank: ProfessorOffice: Flowers Hall, M12
Phone: 512-245-7669
E-mail: morrison@txstate.edu
Website: www.susansignemorrison.com
Education
BA - Swarthmore College, PA
AM/PhD - Brown University, RI
BA - Swarthmore College, PA
AM/PhD - Brown University, RI
Research/Teaching interests
- Medieval Studies
- Comparative Literature
- Waste Studies and Theoretical Approaches to Rubbish, Litter and Trash
- Excrement in the Middle Ages
- Gender
- Women Pilgrims
- Medieval Women Writers
- Pilgrimage Literature
- Anglo-Saxon Language, Literature and Culture
- Contemporary Poetry using Anglo-Saxon poetics and themes
- History of the English Language
- Theory applied to interdisciplinary texts
- The Body in the Middle Ages
- Pilgrimage Poetics
- How Medieval Western Christendom Understood Islam
- Twentieth-Century German Literature and History
Courses Taught
TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY – SAN MARCOS
TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY – SAN MARCOS
- English 1310 Reading and Writing (Part I)
- English 1320 Reading and Writing (Part II)
- English 3301 Literature and the Contemporary Reader
- English 3319 Development of English
- English 3350 Medieval European Literature
- English 3351 Anglo-Saxon Language, Literature and Culture
- English 3352 Medieval English Literature (Non-Chaucerian)
- English 3392 Women Writers of the Middle Ages
- HON 3392C Medieval Pilgrimage Literature
- HON 3393I Creating Poetry: Anglo-Saxon Innovation and Modern Tradition
- English 5353A Chaucer
- English 5353D Medieval Pilgrimage Literature
- English 5353 Anglo-Saxon Language, Literature and Culture
- English 5353 Women Writers of the Middle Ages
- English 5353 The Body in the Middle Ages: Purity, Filth and Gender
- English 5353 Pilgrimage Poetics and Excremental Visions
- English 2310 Survey of English Literature from Beowulf through the Age of Classicism
- English 4351 Chaucer and His Time
- English 5353A Chaucer (graduate seminar)
- English 3311 Advanced Writing and Reading/ English 5395 Problems in Language and Literature: Writing about Travel and Culture
- English 3341 Studies in World Literature/ English 5324 Studies in Genre: What Would I Have Done? The Individual and the State
