Toni Morris, M.A., Ph.D., Kent State Professor Department Chair, 2003-2007 English Literature, Linguistics, History of the English Language Mass Communications Film E-Mail -- TMorris@Uindy.Edu Office -- Esch 044 V

• Ph.D. Kent State University, 1985
  • Major: Middle English Literature
  • Minor: Linguistics
  • Minor: Twentieth-Century American Literature
• M.A. Kent State University, 1974
  • Major: English
• A.B. University of Georgia, 1971
  • Major: English, cum laude, Honors Program
• University of Chicago
  • Continuing Education in manuscript editing, 1999
• Indiana University
  • Coursework in Film Studies, 1990
  • TESOL, 1997

Recent publications:

• "Struck by Words," Portico, Winter 2004
• "John Sayles. " Cyclopedia of World Authors, 4th ed. forthcoming, Salem Press, 2002
• "Daisy Miller," "Heart of Darkness," and "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Cyclopedia of Literary Places, Salem Press, 2002.
• "Sally Poter," "Ernst Lubitsch," and "Alison Anders" in Encyclopedia of Film Directors, Facts on File, March, 2002

Recent Presentations:

• "Arthur Conan Doyl Visits Indianapolis," Plainfield Public Library, Feb., 2007
• "Who's in the Audience? Voice and Reader in Two Treatises by the Cloud of Unknowing Author," Medieval Association of the Midwest, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
• "Using Popular Music to Draw Students in to Poetry," Indiana College English Association, October 2006, Richmond Indiana.
• "Using TEAMS Texts in the Classroom: Margery Kemp," International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 2006, Kalamazoo, MI.
• "Living the Good (Contemplative) Life," International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 2005, Kalamazoo, MI.
• "Hamlet Goes Hollywood: Four Recent Screen Adaptations" College English Association, April 2, 2005.
• "Living the Good (Contemplative) Life: Advice from Three Fourteenth-Century English Mystics" International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 6, 2005.
• "A course in the Short Story on the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications Service Network," Interdisciplinary Approaches to Short Fiction Theory and Criticism. University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. March, 2004.
• "Portfolio Assessment in the ESL College Composition" Indiana Teachers of Writing, Oct. 11, 2002
• "Resources for a Course on Film Adaptations of Literature" Indiana College English Association.

• Dr. Morris served as president of the Medieval Association of the Midwest from May 2005 to May 2006.
• The University of Indianapolis hosted the Medieval Association of the Midwest Conference, Oct. 10-11, 2003