Amy Morris

MA (Cantab), MPhil (Cantab), PhD (Cantab)

College roles

Fellow (A)
College Lecturer in English
Director of Studies in English (Part II)
Assistant Tutor (Undergraduates)
Postgraduate Mentor

University roles

University Associate Professor, Faculty of English

Biography

Dr Amy Morris studied English at Newnham and went on to complete an MPhil and PhD in American Literature at Cambridge. During her doctoral studies, she spent two years at Harvard as a Frank Knox Fellow. Before taking up a teaching position at Cambridge, she lectured for a year at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. She is married with four children.

Photography courtesy of John Pankratz

Research Interests

American and transatlantic literature, especially 1600-1800.

My publications include a book on American puritan poetry and articles on early American lyric, colonial responses to mastodon teeth, commonplace books, Shakespeare in America, and the literature of revolution.

I also work on modern US literature and culture, including the art and poetry of Mina Loy, and twentieth-century representations of homelessness in poetry, fiction and the visual arts.