Saundra Morris

Saundra Kay Morris teaches courses in American literature, poetry, pedagogy, and U. S. diversity.

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Cornell University

Teaching Interests

• American literature and culture, especially of the 19th century
• American poetry
• U.S. diversity and social justice

Scholarly Interests

• American poetry and U.S. diversity
• The intersection of aesthetics and politics

Selected Publications

BOOKS

Editor (with Joel Porte), Emerson's Prose and Poetry. Norton Critical Edition. NY and London: Norton, 2001.

Editor (with Joel Porte), The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Cambridge and NY: Cambridge UP, 1999. (Reissued for publication in China by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2003. Reissued in online form, 2005.)

ARTICLES

"Politically Ethical Aesthetics: Teaching Emerson's Poetry in the Context of U. S. Diversity," Approaches to Teaching Ralph Waldo Emerson, Modern Language Association, August 2018.

"Poetry and Poetics," Emerson in Context, Cambridge UP, 2014.

" 'Whim upon the Lintel': Emerson's Poetry and a Politically Ethical Aesthetics," Nineteenth-Century Prose (special edition commemorating the completion of The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson), Fall 2013.

"Transcendentalists," The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th ed., Princeton UP, 2012. .

"Twentieth-Century American Poetry," The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism, Oxford UP, 2010.

"Poetic Portals: Emerson's Essay Epigraphs," Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bicentennial Appraisals, Trier, Germany: WVT (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag), 2006.