Office: Moody 102
Phone: 540-568-7998
Email: moreyai@jmu.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2008: MWF 10:00 - 11:00 and by appointment

Spring 2008 Courses:
GENG 248  

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, and served as Director of the Writing Program for two years.  Currently she is Associate Dean for Cross Disciplinary Studies, reporting to the AVPAA, where she oversees two majors for teacher education students (IDLS & ISS), Area and Regional Studies minors (for example,  Asian Studies or Africana studies).   Cross Disciplinary Studies serves as a new program incubator for interdisciplinary programs.  Dr. Morey serves as the coordinator for the Women’s Studies minor. 

Her current research is an American studies project documenting people’s relationships with their dogs in turn of the century photos and literature. 

She is married to Todd Hedinger, who is a field supervisor with Healthy Families America, affiliated with the Institute for Innovation in Health & Human Services.  They have two children, ages 12 & 15, and the extended household includes two horses, one dog, one cat and one frog.  The frog tunes up for Crosby Stills & Nash and the Dixie Chicks. 

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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