1983 Ph.D. English, Princeton University
1979 B.A. English, Michigan State University
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2001-present: Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
1995-2001: Associate Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
1990-95: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
1988-90: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
Jan. 1987-88: Visiting Assistant Professor, Fordham University, Bronx (NY)
1983-Dec. 1986: Instructor, Rutgers-New Brunswick (NJ)
1983-84: Instructor, Bryn Mawr College (PA)
1981-83: Assistant in Instruction, Princeton University (NJ)
You're Only Young Twice: Children's Literature and Film. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. "In a book as accessible as the literature and film he explores, Tim Morris journeys through secret gardens of high and low culture for kids. His witty, sensible blend of critical scholarship and personal observation gives us a fresh view of selected children's "classics"--those narrative survivors that grownups sometimes call treasure and sometimes call trash." -- Betsy Hearne, author of Choosing Books for Children
Making the Team: The Cultural Work of Baseball Fiction. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997. "Interpretative and theoretically sophisticated"--Review of Contemporary Fiction
Becoming Canonical in American Poetry. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1996. A "witty and thought-provoking addition to reception studies"-- The Year's Work in English Studies
"Auntie Gus Felled It New," in A Companion to Emily Dickinson, eds. Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008. 281-287.
"Goosebumps: What Was Series Fiction Doing in the 1990s?" in Children's Literature Review vol. 111 (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006): 142-156. Excerpted from You're Only Young Twice.
"Legoland," English Studies Forum 1.3 (Fall 2004)
"Out on the Island," The American Scholar 73.4 (Autumn 2004): 119-121.
"New, Improved Hydrogen & Oxygen!" Topic 4 (2003): 85-89.
"Breakfast," Gastronomica 3.3 (Summer 2003): 67-71. Reprinted in Holly Hughes, ed., Best Food Writing 2004 (New York: Marlowe, 2004): 202-211.
"Suds," The American Scholar 72.3 (Summer 2003): 55-63. A Notable Essay of 2003 (Best American Essays 2004).
"Branded," Copia 5.2 (2002): 10-13.
"Bearing Arms," The American Scholar 71.2 (Spring 2002): 33-48. A Notable Essay of 2002 (Best American Essays 2003).
"Seabiscuit? Come on . . . " Aethlon 19.1 (Fall 2001): 79-91.
"Gray Water Rafting," here 5 (2001): 6-11.
"Driving Myself Sane," The American Scholar 70.2 (Spring 2001): 39-48.
"Cooped Up," Southwest Review 85.4 (Autumn 2000): 580-597.
"My Supermarket,"The American Scholar 69.1 (Winter 2000): 37-48. A Notable Essay of 2000 (Best American Essays 2001).
"Bill Bradley's Rhetoric of Loss," Aethlon 17.1 (Fall 1999): 67-80.
"Getting the Mail," here 2 (1999): 3-9.
"Puzzlement," The American Scholar 67.4 (Autumn 1998): 113-123. A Notable Essay of 1998 (Best American Essays 1999).
"Returning to the Hardy Boys," Raritan 16.3 (Winter 1997): 123-142.
"You're Only Young Twice: Adults, Children, Power, Culture," The Writer's Chronicle 32.6 (2000): 38-42. Excerpted from You're Only Young Twice.
"The Franklin Edition of Dickinson: Is That All There Is?" The Emily Dickinson Journal 8.2 (1999): 1-9.
"Dickinson's Arctic,"The Emily Dickinson Journal 6.1 (Winter 1997): 89-108.
"'Forget it means fuck it': Hispanic Stereotypes in Baseball Fiction," Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature 12.2 (1995): 63-70.
"'A Glorious Solution': Gender, Families, Relationships, and the Civil War Story," Arizona Quarterly 51.1 (1995): 61-79.
"Elizabeth Stoddard: An Examination of Her Work as Pivot Between Exploratory Fiction and the Modern Short Story," in American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Julie Brown. New York: Garland, 1994. 33-44.
"'My thought is undressed': Some Theoretical Implications of the Texts of Dickinson's Poems," Resources for American Literary Study 20 (1994): 196-212. Reprinted in Texts and Textuality : Textual Instability, Theory, and Interpretation Ed. Philip Cohen. New York: Garland, 1997.
"Bryant and the American Poetic Tradition," ATQ 8.1 (1994): 53-70.
"Professional Ethics and Professional Erotics in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Doctor Zay," Studies in American Fiction 21 (1993): 141-152.
"Richard B. Sewall," Dictionary of Literary Biography 111, American Literary Biographers (Second Series). Ed. Steven Serafin. (Detroit: Gale, 1991): 241-251.
"The Dialogic Universe of Middlemarch," Studies in the Novel 22 (1990): 282-295.
"The Development of Dickinson's Style," American Literature 60 (1988): 26-41. Reprinted in On Dickinson: The Best From American Literature (Durham: Duke UP, 1990): 157-172.
"The Free-Rhyming Poetry of Emerson and Dickinson," Essays in Literature 12 (1985): 225-240.
Review of Ann Vileisis, Kitchen Literacy, Wilson Quarterly 32.2 (Spring 2008): 100-101.
Review of Massimo Montanari, Food Is Culture, Wilson Quarterly 31.1 (Winter 2007): 102.
lection: http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/lection
the Guide to Civil War Novels, http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/civilwar/ (2005-present)
the Guide to Baseball Fiction, http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/baseball (1998-present)
"Baseball Writer Tries to Make Sense of Cory Lidle's Death," WTOL-TV Toledo, OH, 12 October 2006.
Review of Feldmann, Miracle Collapse: The 1969 Chicago Cubs, ARETE, 12 September 2006.
Review of Donald T. Blume, Ambrose Bierce's Civilians and Soldiers in Context; and Blume, ed., Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce, The Ambrose Bierce Project Journal 1.1 (Fall 2005)
Review of Land, Growing Up With Baseball and Bullock, Playing for Their Nation, Sport History Review 36.1 (May 2005): 76-78.
Review of Timothy B. Smith, This Great Battlefield of Shiloh, Wilson Quarterly 29.1 (Winter 2005): 123-124.
Review of Strecker, ed., Dead Balls and Double Curves, Aethlon 22.1 (Fall 2004): 208-209.
Review of Bruccoli, ed., Ring around the Bases, Aethlon 21.2 (Spring 2004): 113-114.
Review of Vivian Pollak, ed., A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson, The Emily Dickinson Journal 13.2 (2004): 116-118.
Review of Jeff Hutton, Perfect Silence, Aethlon 20.2 (Spring 2003): 189-190.
Review of Benjamin G. Rader, Baseball: A History of America's Game, 2nd. edn., Aethlon 19.2 (Spring 2002): 134.
"Baseball Contraction," Fort Worth Business Press 14.30 (16 November 2001): 2-3.
"How I'd Fix Baseball," LeftField 5 (2001): 9.
"The Money They Deserve," LeftField 4 (2001): 10.
Book review column at www.baseballspot.org (2001-03)
"Outside Baseball" column for SportsJones (1998-2001)
Review of Steven A. Riess, Touching Base, Aethlon 17.2 (Spring 2000): 176-177.
"All Spoken For," LeftField 2 (2000): 14-15.
Review of Herzog, You're Missin' a Great Game, Morgan, Long Balls, No Strikes, and Paisner, The Ball, SportsJones 13 December 1999.
Review of Jerry Klinkowitz, Owning a Piece of the Minors, SportsJones 20 May 1999.
Review of The Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia (ed. Eberwein) and The Emily Dickinson Handbook (eds. Grabher, Hagenbüchle, Miller), LEGACY 16.2 (1999): 203-204.
Review of Alan Klein, Baseball on the Border, Aethlon 16.1 (Fall 1998): 207-208.
Review of Carl Prince, Brooklyn's Dodgers, Aethlon 15.2 (Spring 1998): 222-223.
Review of Paul Crumbley, Inflections of the Pen, LEGACY 15.2 (1998): 225-226.
Review of David Baker, ed., Meter in English, Style 31.3 (Fall 1997): 552-555.
Review of Paul Crumbley, Inflections of the Pen, 19th Century Women Writers Web (LEGACY).
Review of Martha L. Henning, Beyond Understanding,19th Century Women Writers Web (LEGACY).
Review of Ground Rules: Baseball and Myth by Deeanne Westbrook, Studies in American Fiction 24.2 (1996): 254-255.
Reviews of Great Time Coming by David Falkner, The Lip by Gerald Eskenazi, Baseball with a Latin Beat by Peter C. Bjarkman; Aethlon 13.2 (Spring 1996): 224-226.
Review of Scheming Women by Cynthia Hogue, Style 30.1 (1996): 178-180.
Review of Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles by James Overmyer, Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars by Richard Bak, and Just Call Me Minnie by Minnie Minoso with Herb Fagen, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature 12.2 (1995): 170-172.
Review of Standard Deviations: Chance and the Modern British Novel by Leland Monk, Studies in the Novel 27 (1995): 584-586.
Review of Feminist Measures, eds. Lynn Keller and Cristanne Miller, Style 29 (1995): 500-503.
Review of Redefining the Political Novel, ed. Sharon M. Harris, Studies in American Fiction 23 (1995): 246-247.
"Marianne Moore (Not) at the Polo Grounds," ANQ 7 (1994): 88-90.
Review of The Ghost of Meter by Annie Finch, Style 28 (1994): 125-127.
"The Anti-modernism of Marianne Moore's 'Baseball and Writing'," English in Texas 24.4 (1993): 24-26.
Review of Positive as Sound by Judy Jo Small, Style 26 (1992): 348-351.
"Shakespeare's Othello," The Explicator 48 (1990): 238.
Review of Emily Dickinson's Reception in the 1890s by Willis J. Buckingham, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography n.s. 3.3-4 (1989): 197-201.
"Ambrose Bierce, Un-American: 'Oil of Dog' as an Anti-Capitalist Parable," The Markham Review 16 (1987): 35-37.
"Mark Harris's It Looked Like For Ever," accepted for Mark Harris memorial panel discussion, Sport Literature Association, Johnson City TN, June 2008
"Orientation to History in the Baseball Time-Travel Juvenile Novels of Dan Gutman," Sport Literature Association, Saratoga Springs NY, June 2007
"Transatlantic and Transgeneric: Loïc Wacquant's Body & Soul as Literary Text," Seminar on Sport and Physical Culture in European Literature, Semmelweis University, Budapest, March 2007
"Clicking on Dickinson: The Poet in Unofficial Electronic Discourse," Emily Dickinson International Society panel, Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia PA, November 2006
"Race, Sex, Region, and History in Richard Peck's River Between Us," South Central Modern Language Association, Dallas TX, October 2006
"The Friendly Confines of Prose: Chicago Cubs in Fiction," Sport Literature Association, Arcata CA, June 2006
Panelist, "Beyond the Restaurant Review: The Future of Food Writing," NonfictioNow, Iowa City IA, November 2005
"Metaphor, Memory, and Prolepsis: Young Adult Civil War Sport Fiction," Sport Literature Association, Ames IA, June 2005
Panel organizer and chair: "Diverse Voices in American Sport Literature," American Literature Association, Boston MA, May 2005
"Constructing the Modern through Prehistory: La guerre du feu," Cultural Constructions, Arlington TX, April 2005
English Department Graduate Advisor 1998-2000, 2004-05
English Department Associate Chair 1995-96, 2004-05
Faculty Sponsor of Sigma Tau Delta (English honor society) 1989-2005
Director of Creative Writing 2003-05
Chair, UTA Phi Beta Kappa Committee, 2003-04
English Department Chair 2000-03
UTA Web Task Force 2000-02
Program Review Team, School of Social Work, Spring 2001
College of Liberal Arts Committees: Curriculum 1995-96; Tenure and Promotion 1995-97; Research 1997-2000, 2003-04
Major English Department Committees:
Director of 32 completed MAs (22 theses, 10 exams) and seven completed PhDs
Total graduate-committee service: 118 completed graduate exam, thesis, and dissertation committees
Faculty consultant for Advanced Placement Institute 1998
Participant in 1995 AAC&U Summer Institute: "Boundaries and Borderlands: The Search for Recognition and Community in America," at request of Diversity Committee
Hermann Colloquium Committee 1992, 1994; Hermann Lecturer 1994
Reviewer of candidates for NEH Summer Seminar "Voices Reaching Back" 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998
Nonfiction Editor, Aethlon
Consultant, LEGACY
PhD committees at Macquarie University (2007), Northern Illinois University (2007-present), University of Maine (2006-present), and Fordham University (1988)
Advisory Editor, Studies in American Fiction, 2000-2007
Member and chair of Foerster Prize Committee, American Literature Section, Modern Language Association, 2004
Grant proposal reviewer, National Humanities Center, 2003-08
Listowner (2004-present) and co-editor of ARETE, the Sport Literature e-mail list
Listowner (1996-present) and editor (1996-2000) of DICKNSON, an internet e-mail list for discussion of Emily Dickinson, now edited by Kristi Wilson
Program Review Team, Northeastern University English Department, 2003
Co-editor (1997-2004) of H-Arete, the H-Net discussion list for sport literature
President of Sport Literature Association 1999
Program Chair for Sport Literature Association annual conference, Montevallo AL July 1998
Conference of College Teachers of English Executive Council, 1994-97
Member of the Advisory Board, Dickinson Electronic Archives
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