Associate Professor

Email: charles.morris.1@bc.edu
Phone: 617-552-6905

Maloney Hall 529
21 Campanella Way
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Curriculum Vitae

Charles E. Morris III (B.A. Boston College, 1991; M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1994, 1998) joined the faculty in 2005 after teaching for nearly a decade at Vanderbilt and Denison Universities.

Professor Morris is the editor of Remembering the AIDS Quilt (Michigan State University Press, 2011), Queering Public Address (University of South Carolina Press, 2007), and co-editor of Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest (Strata, 2001/2006). In the past 15 years Professor Morris has been a frequent contributor to the prestigious Quarterly Journal of Speech, and he has also published in Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies, Southern Communication Journal, Western Journal of Communication, and Women’s Studies in Communication. He is currently working on a book about Abraham Lincoln’s sexuality, and, with Jason Edward Black, a multi-work project on Harvey Milk.

For his work on queer historical criticism, Professor Morris has been the recipient of several national and regional awards. In 2010 he won his second Golden Monograph Award for article of the year from the National Communication Association, for his essay “Hard Evidence: The Vexations of Lincoln’s Queer Corpus.” He has also won NCA’s Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award and the Randy Majors Memorial Award in GLBTQ Studies, and the Eastern Communication Association’s Past Presidents’ and Everett Lee Hunt Awards.

With a love of teaching matching that of his research, Professor Morris offers regularly over-subscribed courses in Rhetorical Criticism, Social Protest, and Public Memory.

Professor Morris is a Baltimore native living in the South End with his partner of 17 years, Scott Rose, and their kitties, Jackson & Cooper. He enjoys everything queer, reading about and experiencing the art world, cityscapes, buying vintage photographs on eBay, Facebook, reality TV, steamed crabs, hanging out with his family, and cocktails with friends in a festive gay bar (preferably in London, Provincetown, San Francisco, New Orleans, Baltimore, or Ft. Lauderdale).