Curriculum Vitae
John
D. Morillo
2606 Barmettler Street
Raleigh, NC 27607
(919) 515-4163
morillo@ncsu.edu
home page:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/m/morillo/public/index.htm
Education
University of
Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637
Ph.D. in English, March 1994 (British literature and theory)
M.A. in English, June 1985 (British literature)
Reed College,
Portland, OR 97202
B.A. with honors in English, May 1982 (British literature)
Professional
Experience
Director of
Graduate Programs, NC State English Department, July 2002-July 2005
Associate
Professor of English, 2000-
Assistant
Professor of English, North Carolina State University, 1994-2000
Instructor,
North Carolina State University, 1993-4
Norman Maclean
Instructor, University of Chicago, 1991
Awards,
Honors, and Grants
National
Outstanding Faculty Advisor, Certificate of Merit NACADA, Fall 2012
NC State
Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, Spring 2012
CHASS
Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, Spring 2012
CHASS Summer
Research Grant: Summer 2011, $2,000
CHASS Research
Grant: Spring 2010, $1,000
CHASS Faculty
Award: Author of Edited Volumes, 1997-8
North Carolina
State University Faculty Research and Professional Development Grant, December
1995, $3,450
North Carolina
State University Provost's Grant, May 1995, $3,000
Mrs. Giles
Whiting Dissertation Fellowship, 1992-3
Professional
Memberships
National
Academic Advisors Association (NACADA)
National
Advisory Board to Romantic Circles Web Project, August1997.
Modern Language Association
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Washington Area Romanticism Group
C18-L (interdisciplinary, international Eighteenth-Century Studies Online
Group).
Books
Uneasy Feelings:
Literature, the Passions, and Class from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century
37. New York: AMS Press, 2001.
Book Chapters
“Elizabeth Inchbald.” Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Layman Poupard Publishing.
Forthcoming. Invited guest editor for entry on Inchbald. Under contract, 13
Nov. 2012.
“Poetic
Enthusiasm.” A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Ed. Christine Gerard.
Oxford: Blackwell,
2006. 69-82.
"Julia Kristeva." Thinkers
of the Twentieth Century. Ed. Roland Turner. 2nd ed. St. James Press: Chicago, 1987. 419-20.
Essays
“Editing Eve:
Rewriting the Fall in Austen's Persuasion and Inchbald's A Simple
Story.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 23.1 (2010): 195-223.
"John
Dennis: Enthusiastic Passions, Cultural Memory, and Literary Theory." Eighteenth-
Century Studies 34.1 (2000):
21-41.
--- and Wade Newhouse.
"History, Romance, and the Sublime Sound of Truth in Ivanhoe." Studies in the Novel 32.3 (2000):
287-295.
"Seditious Anger:
Pope, James Stuart, and Jacobite Politics in Pope's Iliad Translation."
Eighteenth-Century Life 19.2 (1995): 38-58.
"Vegetating Radicals
and Imperial Politics: Shelley's Triumph of Life as Revision of Southey's Pilgrimage to Waterloo." Keats-Shelley
Journal 43 (1994): 117-140.
Book
Reviews
Rev. of Terrae-Filius
or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford (1721; 1726), by
Nicholas Amhurst. Ed. William E. Rivers.
Dover: University of Delaware Press, 2004. Forthcoming, The
Scriblerian.
Rev. of Satire
and Secrecy in English Literature from 1650 to 1750, by Melinda A. Rabb.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Forthcoming, The Scriblerian.
Rev. of Money, Power, and Print:
Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles.
Ed. Charles Ivar McGrath and Chris
Fauske. Dover: Delaware UP, 2008. Forthcoming, The Scriblerian.
Rev. of Swift: The
Enigmatic Dean: Festschrift for Hermann Josef Real, ed. Rudolf Freiburg,
Arno Löffler, and Wolfgang Zach. Scriblerian 41.1 (2008): 44-6.
Rev. of Shelley and the
Revolutionary Sublime, by Cian Duffy.
Studies in Romanticism 46.1 (2007): 129-36.
Rev. of Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts:
History, Politics, and Mythology in the Age of Queen Anne, by Pat
Rogers. Journal of British Studies
45 ( 2006): 895-6.
Rev. of Reconstructing
Criticism: Pope's Essay on Criticism and the Logic of Definition, by
Philip Smallwood. 1650-1850: Ideas,
Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 11 (2005): 562-7.
Rev. of The Problem of
Poetry in the Romantic Period, by Mark Storey. Keats-Shelley Journal 52 (2003):
224-6.
Rev. of Byron and the
Victorians, by Andrew Elfenbein. Studies in Romanticism 36.4 (1997):
663-671.
Under Review
"Enthusiasm in Translation: Reading at the
Limits of the Neoclassical Text." Chap. 1 of the collection on Enthusiasm in the
Eighteenth Century, ed. Gavin Budge, U Hertfordshire, UK. Collection submitted
to Palgrave-Macmillan UK, Fall 2012. From reader's report on my essay: "An
admirable essay. Asks a new question both of enthusiasm and the classical
tradition. Very nuanced readings."
In Progress
"Shadow-Persons: Agency and Ideology in Pope's
Self-Consuming Satires from The Rape of the Lock to the Epistle
to Cobham." To resubmit.
Book proposal entitled "Representing Animals between Descartes and
Darwin: The Historical Texture of Posthumanism in Eighteenth-Century
Britain."
Online
Publications:
This
represents my work for Romantic Praxis, a refereed scholarly series published
only online. Romantic Praxis is the latest addition to Romantic Circles,
voted one of the 21 best educational sites on the internet by the National
Endowment for the Humanities, together with MCI Corporation and the Council for
Great City Schools.
I
served as technical editor for this electronic series from 1996-2001. I transformed academic text into hypertext
(HTML) and multi-media, and worked with authors and volume editors to present
their material most effectively on the internet. I also edited for content and
style.
Romanticism and
Philosophy in an Historical Age. Eds. Karen Weisman and John
Morillo. Romantic Praxis Series. Series
eds. Orrin N. C. Wang and John Morillo http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/philosophy/rphcov.html
(August 1999).
Romanticism and
the Law.
Eds. Michael Macovski and John Morillo. Romantic Praxis Series. Series eds.
Orrin N. C. Wang and John Morillo. http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/law/lawcov.htm
(March 1999).
Romantic
Passions.
Eds. Elizabeth Fay and John Morillo. Romantic Praxis Series. Series eds. Orrin
N. C. Wang and John Morillo. http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/passions/volform.html
(August 1998).
Romanticism and
Conspiracy.
Eds. Orrin N. C. Wang and John Morillo. Romantic Praxis Series. Series eds.
Orrin N. C. Wang and John Morillo.
http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/conspiracy/concover.html (April 1997).
Presentations
“Faculty Advising.” Faculty
Advisor panel at Advisor Certification
Institute, NC State, Jan. 2012.
“Using Faculty as College
Advisors.” With Dr. Linda Holley, and
Dr. Cat Warren. National Association of
College Advisors (NACADA) Conference.
Albemarle, NC. Jan 15, 2002.
"Manfred: Byronic
Heroism and Romantic History." Adventures in Ideas Seminar on the English
Romantics, with Drs. Joseph Viscomi (UNC-CH), Thomas Pfau (Duke), Sharon Setzer
(NCSU). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. November 11, 2000.
"The Politics of Passion in
Eighteenth-Century Literate Culture."
Guest lecturer, Department of English, Wabash College. Crawfordsville, IN, Nov. 1999.
"The Shade of Alexander
Pope on the Banks of the Thames (1798): Wordsworth's Pope meets Mathias'
Pope." British Association for Romantic Studies/North American Society for
the Study of Romanticism. Twickenham, England; St. Mary's University, July
1998.
"Marx, Money, and the
Analogy of the Passions." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
Conference. New Orleans, Loyola University, April 1998.
"Keats’ Urn, Neoclassicism,
Sacrifice, and Historicism." North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism. Boston, Boston University, Nov. 1996.
"The Corsair: Byron's
Skeptical Critique of Benevolism." Byron Society Meeting. MLA convention,
San Diego, Dec. 1994.
"Falling Into Quotation: Persuasion
and the Fall of Woman." North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism. Durham, Duke University, Nov. 1994.
"Bordering Upon Enthusiasm:
Wordsworth and Crimes of Passion." Washington Area Romanticist Group.
Fairfax, VA, George Mason University, Feb. 1994.
"Robert Southey's
Dream-Vision of Revolution." North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism: Inaugural Conference. London, University of Western Ontario, Aug.
1993.
"Vulgar Passions and Common
Readers: The Politics of Passion in John Dennis' Literary Criticism,
1701-1704." International Association of Philosophy and Literature
Conference. Berkeley, U.C Berkeley, May 1992.
Graduate
Theses / MA Capstones Directed
7 from 1995-2002; 7 from 2005-2010; 4 MA Capstones
2011-12
Courses
Taught
Graduate: English 669, Bibliography and Methodology;
English 563, Eighteenth-Century Novel; English 579, Restoration and 18th-Century
Drama; English 562, Land and Money in the Eighteenth Century, and Studies in
Genre and Decorum; English 650, Romantic Period.
Undergraduate: English 498 and English 491h Honors
Courses in Utopian and Dystopian literature; The English Philosophical Poem
from Neoclassicism to Romanticism; English 496, Literary Criticism; English
462, Eighteenth-Century Literature; English 453, Romantic Period; English
Independent Study in Romanticism (tutorial); English 362, Eighteenth-Century
Novel; English 262, English Literature II; English 251, Major British Authors.
English 209 Studies in Drama; English 207Q Studies in Poetry, Freshmen Inquiry
section; HON 298 Romanticism and the Discipline of Memory; Utopian and
Dystopian Literature HON 293 Representing Animals.
Community
and Public Service
·
Reader for Studies
in Eighteenth-Century Culture,
ed. Timothy Erwin, Oct. 2012.
·
Promotion
reviewer, presenter of teaching for Dr. Marc Dudley, NC State English
Department, Oct. 2011
·
Promotion
reviewer for Dr. Wade Newhouse, Peace University English Department, Oct. 2011
·
Department
Voting Faculty Statement for Dr. David Rieder’s case for promotion, Oct. 2009
·
Promotion
reviewer for Dr. Maureen Harkin, Reed College tenure case
·
Promotion
reviewer for Dr. Catherine Warren’s case for promotion to Associate
Professor. October 2002.
·
Promotion
reviewer for Dr. Rodney Farnsworth’s case for promotion to Full Professor in
Romanticism, Indiana University/Purdue University at Fort Wayne. July 2002.
·
Encore
Instructor, NC State Encore Extension/Adult Learning Program. Taught 6-week class, “Romanticism and the
Discipline of Memory.” Jan. –March 2002.
·
Visiting
Scholar, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN. Invited to present public lecture
on my research in Eighteenth-Century Studies, and to guest teach. Nov. 1-2 1999.
·
Public
Lecture: "Alexander Pope: Gardener." NCSU Visual Arts Center. Feb. 2,
1997.
·
Guest
Lecture on Marx's Early Works: Dr. Linda Holley's graduate Class in Literary
Criticism, Nov. 1998.
·
Guest
Lecture on Arcadia. Dr. Kirsten
Shepherd-Barr's undergraduate drama class, April 1997
Committee
Service
·
College:
Member, CHASS Graduate Committee (2002-5)
·
Dean's
Committee for Evaluating the English Department Head (Spring 99)
·
CHASS
Educational Technology Committee (96).
·
Department:
Chair, Literature Program Committee (2011-)
·
Literature
Representative, Undergraduate Studies Committee (2011-)
·
Chair,
Graduate Council (2002-5)
·
Ad
hoc LAN Committee (2002-)
·
Tenure
and Promotions Review Committee (2002)
·
Advisory
Committee (97-2000) Department Computer Coordinator (1999-2001)
·
Industrial
Relations Committee; Drama Hiring Committee (1999)
·
Rhetoric
and Composition Hiring Committee (1997-8)
·
Curriculum
Committee (1995-7)
·
Victorian
Hiring Search Committee (94-5)
·
Library
Committee (1994-6 )
·
English
Club (95-6).