Office: Moody
102
Phone: 540-568-7998
Email: moreyai@jmu.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2009 - MWF 10:00-11:00
Courses:
Fall 2009
ENG 302 Special Topics in Literature: Crime and Literature, MWF 9:05-9:55
Specialties: Literature and Religion, Bible as
Literature, 19th and 20C American literature
(esp. women writers.)
Dr. Morey came to JMU in 1999 as Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Programs in the College of Arts and Letters. She also served as Director of the Writing Program for two years and program head of the IDLS major for three years during that time. Currently she is Associate Vice Provost for Cross Disciplinary Studies, reporting to the VPAA. She is responsible for curriculum development across JMU colleges, and her office facilitates and supports Regional and Area Studies minors with cross disciplinary identities (for example, Asian Studies or Women’s Studies). More about Cross Disciplinary Studies can be found at : http://www.jmu.edu/cds/
Her own cross disciplinary interests are extensive and varied, as seen in her books: Apples and Ashes: Culture, Metaphor and Morality in the American Dream (Scholars P, 1982); Religion and Sexuality in American Literature (Cambridge UP, 1992); What Happened to Christopher: An American Family’s Story of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SIUC, 1998). The experience of writing the last book brought her to a pause in scholarly writing, as did administrative responsibilities. But her cross-disciplinary bent just wouldn’t stop ticking. In Fall 2006 she team-taught a new course with JMU criminologist Peggy Plass called “Literature and Crime,” thereby redeeming many years of trashy reading. Her current research is an American studies project documenting people’s relationships with their dogs in turn of the century photos and literature. Morey’s regular teaching rotation includes “Women’s Fiction,” “The Bible as Literature,” “American Literature Survey” and “Literature and Religion.”
Besides a great husband (Todd Hedinger) and two children, both of them now larger than she is, she loves horses and has two of them. They are larger than AJ as well.
Education: M.A. (1977) Ph.D. (1979) University of Southern
California, Religion and Ethics
Awards and Publications:
• Apples and Ashes: Culture, Metaphor and Morality
in the American Dream Scholars P 1982.
• Religion and Sexuality in American Literature. Cambridge UP 1992.
• What Happened to Christopher: An American Family's Story of Shaken
Baby Syndrome SIU P 1998.
• Numerous articles, book chapters, book reviews and manuscript reviews
in the area of literature and religion.
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