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 lovely children who continually inspire and interrupt her scholarly work.
Research Interests
American and transatlantic literature, especially 1600-1800.
I research the poetics of the page, religious expression, cultural encounter, and the writing of early American experience in all its many facets. I've published an edited book on Matoaka/Pocahontas, a monograph on American Puritan Poetry and articles on responses to buried mastodon teeth, the use of commonplace books, Shakespeare and art in revolutionary America, and a seventeenth-century Algonquian-English phrasebook.
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.