Marla Morris, Associate Professor

Ph.D. Louisiana State University, 1999
M.A. Loyola University
B.A. Tulane University, 1991


Office:
Education 2131
Phone: (912) 478-5942 FAX: (912) 478-5382
E-Mail: marlamor@georgiasouthern.edu

Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Curriculum Studies

Academic Interests: Curriculum Studies, Psychoanalysis in curriculum theory, Holocaust education, Intellectual history, phenomenology, music, medical humanities.

At Georgia Southern University Since 2000

Recent Publications:

Curriculum and the Holocaust: Competing sites of Memory and Represention. (2001). Lawrence Erlbaum.

Jewish Intellectuals and the University (2006). Palgrave.

Teaching through the Ill Body (under review).

"Archiving Education and Psychoanalysis: Britzman's Anna Freud and Melanie Klein."  In, the Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculm Studies. Volume 3, Number 1. Fall 2005.

"Queer life and School Culture: Troubling Genders." In Multicultural Education Volume 12, No. 1, (pp,8-13).2005

"Eve Sedgwick's Touching Feeling." In, The Journal of the History of Human Sexuality.Volume 13, No. 2. (pp.263-267), 2004.

"Anti-Semitism and Academic Institutions" in Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. Summer/Winter 2001.

"Archiving Derrida." In The Journal of Educational Philosophy and Theory. (pp. 298-311) (2003)

"Ecological Consciousness and Curriculum" The Journal of Curriculum Studies. (pp. 571-578) (2002)

"Multiculturalism as Jagged Walking" Multicultural Magazine.  (2001).

"A critique of John Hick's Theodicy" Journal of Theta Alpha Kappa (National Honor Society for Religious Studies/Theology), Fall, 1993: 4-17

"Toward a Ludic Pedagogy: An Uncertain Occasion" JCT: The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing 1996: 12:1 Spring, 29-33.

"Ezekiel's Prophetic Call: Toward a Queer Pedagogy" Taboo: The Journal of
Culture and Education, 1997 Spring, 153-166

"Simone de Beauvoir's Ethics and Postmodern Ambiguity: The Assertion of
Freedom in the Face of the Absurd" co-written with Patrick Slattery for The Journal of Educational Theory Winter 1999, vol. 49 No. 1, 21-36

"The Tao of Derrida" In Teaching Education Journal, Postmodern Enquiry Space
Vol. 10 No. 1 Fall/Winter 1999 23-33

Co-Edited Books: 

How We Work (1999) Edited by Marla Morris, Mary Aswell Doll and William F. Pinar. New York: Peter Lang Publishers
Postmodern Science Education: Propositions and Alternative Paths (2000). Co-edited with John Weaver and Peter Appelbaum. New York: Peter Lang Publishers

Difficult Memories: Talk in a (Post) Holocaust Era. Co-edited with John
Weaver (2002) New York: Peter Lang Publishers.

Book Chapters:  

"Unresting the Curriculum: Queer Projects, Queer Imaginings" In William F. Pinar (Ed.) Queer Theory in Education (1988) Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, Mahwah, New Jersey, pp. 275-286
"The Existential Phenomenological Influences in Maxine Greene's work" In William F. Pinar (Ed.) The Passionate Mind of Maxine Green: "I am...not yet" (1998) Falmer Press: London. pp. 124-136
"Curriculum as Musical Text" in How We Work (1999) Edited by Marla Morris, Mary Aswell Doll, William F. Pinar. New York: Peter Lang, 11-18.
"Canticles and Chronicles: Curriculum as Sci-Fi Text" in Science Fiction Curriculum, Cyborg Teachers and Youth Cultures. Co-edited by John WEaver, Karen Anijar, and Toby Daspit.
"Michel Serres Bugs the Curriculum" in Postmodern Science Education: Propositions and Alternative Paths. Co-Edited by John WEaver, Peter Appelbaum and Marla Morris
"Queer Pedagogy: Dante's Left Foot" In Susan Talburt and Shirley STeinberg (Eds) Queer Theory, Pedagogy and Cultural Practice. (2000). New York: Peter Lang Publishers.
"Talking about the Heidegger Affair: Academic Responsibility and Response" in Difficult Memories: Talk in a (Post) Holocaust Era. Edited by Marla Morris and John Weaver (2001). New York: Peter Lang.
"Young Man Popkin: A Queer Dystopia" In This Bridge Called My Back: Twenty Years Later. Edited by Gloria Anzaldua and AnaLouise Keating.  (2005) Routledge.
"Intelligence, Buddhism and Ecology: The Eighth One: Possibilities of Naturalistic Intelligence" In Multiple Intelligences Reconsidered: An Expanded Vision. Edited by Joe Kincheloe ( 2004)