Dr Sascha Morrell
Lecturer, School of Arts
Qualifications
BA (Hons 1/medal) USyd. (2005); LLB (Hons 1/medal) USyd. (2006); PhD Cantab. (2012)
Contact
| Email: | smorrell@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Arts (E11) LG4 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3932 (or +61 2 6773 3932 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2623 |
Sascha Morrell studied Arts and Law at the University of Sydney and completed her PhD in English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge. She has taught at the University of Cambridge, the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales. Dr Morrell is presently publishing in the areas of nineteenth and early-twentieth century American literature, and Irish modernism. Her ongoing research investigates dialectical conceptions of race, class and colonial dependency appearing in British, American and Australian literature, with a particular interest in the symbolic function of the Caribbean in U.S. literature. Her broader research interests include narrative theory, postcolonial and Marxist cultural theory, the Victorian novel and 'historiographical' literature. Prior to her appointment at UNE, Dr Morrell was adjunct lecturer at the Centre for Modernism Studies Australia.
Areas of Teaching
• American literature
• Victorian literature
• Modernism
• Shakespeare and Renaissance drama
• and others
Research interests
• American literature
• Modernism
• Transnational literary studies
• Marxist literary and cultural theory
• Race theory and ‘whiteness studies’
• Law and literature; literature and historiography
• Specific interest in Herman Melville, Stephen Crane, Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, CLR James and Jean Rhys.
Publications
‘Kodak Harlot Tricks of Light: Faulkner, Melville and Ellison in the Darkroom of Race’ in J. Murphet (ed), William Faulkner in the Media Ecology (forthcoming 2013).
‘Sotto Voce: Language and Resistance in George Eliot’s Felix Holt, the Radical and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers’ Sydney Studies in English 33 (2007) 56-77.
‘Case note: Vasiljkovic v Commonwealth of Australia’ Sydney Law Review 29.2 (June 2007) 321-339.
J. Hughes and S. Morrell, ‘Dramatic Techniques in Shakespeare’s History Plays,’ in P. Jones and K. Watson (eds.), Shakespeare’s Histories, (Melbourne: Phoenix Education, 2005), 5-20.