Adam Morris
Adam Morris
Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish & Portuguese
Contact:
ajmorris@stanford.edu
Office Hours:
by appointmentBIO:
Research:
20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature; comparative literature of the Americas; critical theory; philosphy and literature; Marxist cultural studies; translation.
Published work has addressed the literature of Mario Bellatin, César Aira, Clarice Lispector, João Gilberto Noll, Diamela Eltit, and Fernando Pessoa.
Selected writing and translation:
Morris, Adam. "Fair Warning: Julian Assange's Cypherpunks." The Los Angeles Review of Books. 28 April 2013.
Morris, Adam. "Whoever, Whatever: On Anonymity as Resistance to Empire." parallax 18.4 (October 2012): 106-20.
Morris, Adam. "A Departure from Reason: César Aira's The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira." The Millions 16 October 2012.
Morris, Adam. "Drone Warfare: Tiqqun, The Young-Girl and the Imperialism of the Trivial." The Los Angeles Review of Books. 30 September 2012.
Morris, Adam, and Lúcia Rosa. "Recycling Literary Culture: A Conversation with Lúcia Rosa." Public Books 18 June 2012.
Morris, Adam. "The Brazilian Bird of Prey: Four New Translations of Clarice Lispector." ZYZZYVA 5 June 2012.
Morris, Adam. "Micrometanarratives and the Politics of the Possible." CR: The New Centennial Review 11.3 (Winter 2012) 91-117.
Forthcoming:
"With My Dog-Eyes" by Hilda Hilst. Introduced and translated by Adam Morris. Excerpt in BOMB. Summer 2013.
Morris, Adam. "This Product Made From Post-Consumer Content: Narrative Recycling and New Novelistic Economies." Forthcoming in Criticism. 2013.
Morris, Adam. "Fernando Pessoa's Heteronymic Machine." Forthcoming in The Luso-Brazilian Review. Expected 2013.
EDUCATION:
BA, English Literature; Swarthmore College.
Courses
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ILAC143Win2012-13
An exploration of women's novels as an intellectual counterculture of the male-dominated Latin American literary canon. Latin American women's writing and thought will be considered in a regional and global context of feminism and feminist theory. Authors include Gómez de Avellaneda, Bombal, Castellanos, Lispector, Eltit, Oloixarac, de Beauvoir, Kristeva, Engels, Cixous, and Butler. Course discussion in Spanish. Prerequisite: SPANLANG 3 or equivalent.
