DAVID J. MORROW
46 Cardinal Avenue
Albany, NY 12208
Home: (518) 253-1444
Office: (518) 485-3786
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
The literature and culture of the English Renaissance; critical theory; literature and ecology.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Literature, University of California at San Diego, 2004
Dissertation: Ideology, travell, and social change in early modern English culture
Co-Directors: Professors Louis A. Montrose and Don E. Wayne
M.A., English Literature, University of New Hampshire, 1996
B.A., English and B.A., Economics, Villanova University, 1986
PUBLICATIONS
"Local/Global Pericles: international storytelling, domestic social relations, capitalism."
Ed. Jyotsna Singh. Companion to the Global Renaissance. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2009.
"Salvation, social struggle, and the ideology of the company merchant: Baptist Goodall's The Tryall of Travell. Eds. Barbara Sebek and Stephen Deng. Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550-1700. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
"The entrepreneurial spirit and 'The life of the poor': social struggle in the prose fictions of Thomas Deloney." Textual Practice 20:3, Sept. 2006.
TEACHING POSITIONS
Associate Professor, Dept. of English, The College of Saint Rose,Spring 2011-present
Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, The College of Saint Rose,Fall 2006-2011
Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Michigan State University, 2004-2006
Associate in Literature, University of California at San Diego, 2002-2004
Lecturer, University of California at San Diego, 2003-2004
Instructor, Muir College Writing Program, University of California, San Diego, 1997-2003
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Literature, University of California, San Diego, 2001-2002
Tutor, Muir College Writing Program, University of California, San Diego, 2003
Reader, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego, 2000-2003
Teaching Assistant, University of New Hampshire, Dept. of English, 1994-96.
CONFERENCE AND PROFESSIONAL PARTICIPATION
Participant in Seminar on Shakespeare and Food Culture at the meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Vancouver, B.C. April 2015.
Keynote address to U Albany English Honors Convocation, April 2013
Participant in seminar entitled “Contestations of Religion and the Natural World.” Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. May-June 2013.
Co-chair of seminar entitled “Intellectual and Manual Labor in Early Modern England” at the meeting of the Northeastern Modern Language Association, New Brunswick, NJ April, 2011.
Participant in Seminar on custom at the meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Washington, D.C. April 2009.
Grigori Kozintsev’s Korol Lir, primitive accumulation, poverty: “not of an age but for all time!”
Comparative Literature Association of America. Cambridge, Mass., March, 2009.
Participant in seminar on Shakespeare and Melancholy at the meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Philadelphia, PA, April 2006.
"The ideology of travell in Goodall, Purchas, and Spenser." Renaissance Society of America, March, 2006.
"Mapping social relations in Marlowe and Jonson." Midwest Modern Language Association, November 2005.
“Henry V, George II, and the Second Gulf War.” Southland Conference, UCLA, 2003.
“Courtesy and social struggle in The Faerie Queene, Book VI.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan State University, 2002.
“Audience and the social order in Shakespearean romance.” Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Huntington Library, 2002.
“'Reaping eternal glorie of his restlesse paine’: georgic subjection and the work of civilization in The Faerie Queene.” International Spenser Society, Cambridge University, 2001.
Mellon Seminars in Interpretation, Pennsylvania State University
A month-long seminar on critical approaches to English Renaissance Literature, 2001.
"Weaving Coherence: Thomas Deloney’s Economic Imaginary.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Newport, Rhode Island, 1998.
AWARDS
Scholars and Artists Grant, The College of Saint Rose, 2012-13
CREST Residential Fellowship, The College of Saint Rose, 2009
Mellon Seminars in Interpretation, Pennsylvania State University, 2001
UC Regents Pre-Doctoral Humanities Fellowship 2000, 1996
Full Tuition Scholarship and TA, University of New Hampshire, 1994
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Department Chair, Dept. of English, College of Saint Rose, Summer 2015-Fall 2016
Graduate Coordinator, Dept. of English, College of Saint Rose, Fall 2010-2013
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Reading and speaking fluency in French
Facility with Spanish
SERVICE
Chair of English Dept.
The College of Saint Rose, May 2015-present
Rank and Tenure Committee, 2014-present (Chair, 2015-16 and 2016-17)
The College of Saint Rose
Undergraduate Academic Committee, 2014-16
The College of Saint Rose
New York State Board of Education External Reviewer for proposed MA program, 2012
Graduate Academic Council, 2010-13
The College of Saint Rose
Faculty Search Committees (seven), English Department, 2007-15
The College of Saint Rose
Steering Committee, Presidents Climate Change Commitment, 2008-2012
The College of Saint Rose
Admissions and Retention Committee, 2007-2009
The College of Saint Rose
Events and Graduate Committees, English Department, 2006-2017
The College of Saint Rose
Directed courses of Independent Study, 2004-05 (Jacobean city comedy; Shakespearean tragedy)
Michigan State University
Committee on Workloads for Lecturers, 2004
University of California at San Diego
Faculty Sponsor, Academic Internship Program, 2003-2004
University of California at San Diego
Faculty Search Committee, Medieval Literature (Graduate Student Representative), 2002
Department of Literature, UC San Diego
Colloquium on Working in the Writing Programs, Panelist, 2002
Department of Literature, UC San Diego
Graduate Student Association, Representative, 1998-1999
University of California at San Diego
Graduate Student Council, Representative, 1998-1999
Department of Literature, UC San Diego
REFERENCES
Eurie Dahn, Associate Professor, English Dept. College of Saint Rose
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Sandra Logan, Associate Professor of English, Michigan State University
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Don E. Wayne, Provost (retired), Revelle College, UC San Diego
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Jyotsna Singh, Professor of English, Michigan State University
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