Kevin A. Morrison

Kevin A. Morrison (born 1976) FRHistS FRSA is an American historian living in China. His research includes 19th-century political cultures and popular literature, British Empire, East India Company, and transnationalism. He received his PhD in English from the Rice University in 2009. Between 2009 and 2018, Morrison taught at the Syracuse University. He was Visiting Fellow at National University of Singapore (2018) and Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Connecticut (2020). Since January 2019, he has been Distinguished Professor of British Literature in the School of Foreign Languages at Henan University. He is a general editor of journal Cultural History, President of the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, Editor-in-Chief of journal Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, and Co-editor of book series Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century Book Series.

Works

Single-authored monographs

The Provincial Fiction of Mitford, Gaskell and Eliot (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)

Study Abroad Pedagogy, Dark Tourism, and Historical Reenactment: In the Footsteps of Jack the Ripper and His Victims (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture: Synergies of Thought and Place (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)

A Micro-History of Victorian Liberal Parenting: John Morley's "Discreet Indifference" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

Single-edited books

Victorian Culture and Experiential Learning: Historical Encounters in the Classroom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Making the Grade: Reimagining the Graduate Seminar Essay in Literary Studies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)

Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform (Liverpool University Press, 2019)

Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction (McFarland, 2018)