Curriculum Vitae

John D. Morillo                                                                                                    Born 04/23/60
2606 Barmettler Street                                                                           (919) 513-8040
Raleigh, NC 27607                                                                              morillo@unity.ncsu.edu
 

Education

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637
Ph.D. in English, March 1994
M.A. in English, June 1985

Reed College, Portland, OR 97202
B.A. with honors in English, May 1982

 

Professional Experience

Director of Graduate Programs, NC State English Department, July 2002-2005

Associate Professor of English, 2000-

Assistant Professor of English, North Carolina State University, 1994-

Instructor, North Carolina State University, 1993-4

Norman Maclean Instructor, University of Chicago, 1991

 

Awards, Honors, and Grants

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 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).

 

Publications

Print:

Books:

 

Uneasy Feelings: Literature, the Passions, and Class from Neoclassicism to Romanticism.  AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century 37.  New York: AMS Press, 2001.

 

     Chapters in Books:

 

“Enthusiasm in Translation: Reading at the Limits of the Neoclassical Text.” Enthusiasm: Culture at the Limits of Politeness, 1700-1830.  Ed. Gavin Budge. In Press. TBA.

 

My essay was solicited by Dr. Budge (University of Central England, Birmingham) and Dr. Emma Mason (Oxford) for this collection, and is now positioned as the lead essay in the book. The completed MSS (12, 913 wds/53 pp) was sent to Dr. Budge on Feb. 3, 2006. All revisions for him are complete, and the book is being sent by Dr. Budge from England to Greg Clingham, Acquisitions Editor at Bucknell UP.

 

 “Poetic Enthusiasm.” A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry.  Ed. Christine Gerard. 

Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.

[http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/1405113162/A_Companion_to_Eighteenth_Century_Poetry.html#readmore]

 

Essays:

 

  "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.

 

Reviews:

 

Rev. of Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts: History, Politics, and Mythology in the Age of Queen Anne, by Pat Rogers.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.  Forthcoming, Journal of British Studies Oct. 2006.

 

Rev. of The Problem of Poetry in the Romantic Period, by Mark Storey.  Keats-Shelley Journal.

            forthcoming.

 

Rev. of Byron and the Victorians, by Andrew Elfenbein. Studies in Romanticism 36.4 (1997): 663-671.     

 

 

Selected 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 am 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.

 

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/

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/

 

Selected Presentations

“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.

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.Work in Progress

Disciplines of Memory: Developing the Personal Past. Book prospectus about the varying importance and functions of memory in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic literature.

 

Rev. of Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime, by Cian Duffy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006,  for Studies in Romanticism.

 

Graduate Theses Directed

9 directed from 1995-2006; 2nd or 3rd reader on 30.

 

Courses Taught

Graduate: English 698/669, Bibliography and Methodology; English 579 Restoration and 18th-Century Drama; English 563, Eighteenth-Century Novel; English 662, Land and Money in the Eighteenth Century, and Studies in Genre and Decorum; English 650, Romantic Period.

Undergraduate: English 496, Literary Criticism; English 491H, The English Philosophical Poem from Neoclassicism to Romanticism; 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 207 Studies in Poetry, English 206, Studies in Drama. Honors 202 The Appeal of Pastoral.

 

 

 

Community and Public Service

Promotion to Tenure reviewer for Dr. Maureen Harkin, Assistant Professor of English and Humanities, Reed College. September 2006.

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.

 

Committee Service

 

1. Department level – Member, Ad-Hoc Strategic Planning Committee (06); Member, USC (05-); Member, LAN Literature Committee (05-); Tenure and Promotions Review Committee (06,02)Chair, Speaker’s Committee (05); Chair, Graduate Council (02-5); Hiring Committees: Rhetoric and Composition Search Committee (06); Drama Hiring Committee (99); Rhetoric and Composition Hiring Committee (97-8); Victorian Hiring Search Committee (94-5). Advisory Committee (97-); Department Computer Coordinator (99-); Curriculum Committee (95-7);

 

2. College level  CHASS Graduate Committee (02-); Dean's Committee for Evaluating the English Department Head (99); CHASS Educational Technology Committee (96).

 

2. University level – CHASS Representative, Administrative Board of the Graduate School (04-); member, Course Action Taskforce subcommittee of ABGS (revising and streamlining the graduate CAF forms and procedures [05-]).

Honors and Awards Committee: helped select the Preparing the Professoriate winners from 36 university-wide applications. Helped select all recipients of the Alumni Association Graduate Fellowship, Collier Fellowship, Andrews Fellowship, Ward Fellowship, Warren-Wolfpack Fellowship (05-) Member, Freshmen Inquiry Advisory Council. Served as faculty teaching representative, under Dr. Maxine Atkinson, Sociology (04-).