Professor
Department of English
Phone: (610) 660-1883
Email: fmorris@sju.edu
Education
A.B., Saint Joseph's College, 1958
M.A., Columbia University, 1960
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1977
Courses Taught
English 1011 (The Craft of Language)
English 1021 (Texts and Contexts)
English 1711 (The World of Fiction)
English 2011 (Backgrounds for English Studies)
English 2021 (The British Tradition)
English 2101 (Chaucer and the Medieval World)
English 2531 (20th Century Authors: Joyce and O'Connor)
Publications
"`Subjugating Consciousness': The Techniques of Emily Dickinson," article under consideration
"`Crazy Jane Talks with Boethius': An Examination of the Implicit Critique of Platonic Thought in Chaucer's Dream Vision Poetry," article under consideration
[with Ronald Wendling], "Coleridge and 'the Great Divide' between C. S. Lewis and Owen Barfield," Studies in the Literary Imagination 22 (1989): 149-59
"Owen Barfield," in Critical Survey of Literary Theory (Pasadena: Salem, 1988): 95-101
"Platonic Elements in Chaucer's Parliament of Fowles," PCTE Journal 4 (1977): 1-14
General Fields of Professional Interest
Medieval British
Modern British
Literary Theory with special interest in Romantic epistemology
Pedagogical style
Mixed, to put it mildly.
Other information
Emeritus chair of the English department; member MLA and AAUP; service award, Saint Joseph's University (1998); Presidential award for service, Saint Joseph's University (1985 and 1994); Bene Merenti medal, Saint Joseph's University (1987); merit award for long service, Saint Joseph's University, 1995; Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1958).