Charles E. Morris III, Ph.D.

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. He currently serves as Director of the Communication Department's Honors Program.

Professor Morris is the editor of Queering Public Address (University of South Carolina Press, 2007), co-editor of Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest (Strata, 2001/2006), and editor of the forthcoming Remembering the AIDS Quilt. He is a regular contributor to Quarterly Journal of Speech and has also published in Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies, and Women's Studies in Communication. He recently guest edited a special issue of Southern Communication Journal on "Queering the South." He is currently writing a book on Abraham Lincoln's sexuality, and developing, with Jason Edward Black, a multi-work project on Harvey Milk, the first of which is an anthology of Milk's speeches and writings.

For his work on queer historical criticism, Professor Morris has been the recipient of the Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award and the Golden Anniversary Monograph Award from the National Communication Association, and the Eastern Communication Association's Past Presidents' and Everett Lee Hunt Awards; NCA's Caucus on LGBTQ Concerns awarded him its Randy Majors Memorial Award in 2008. He has been chair of the GLBT Division and Public Address Division of NCA.

An award-winning teacher, Professor Morris offers courses in Rhetorical Criticism, Social Protest, and Public Memory.

He lives in the South End with his partner of 15 years, Scott Rose, and their kitty Augustine. He enjoys buying vintage photographs on eBay, Facebook, reality TV, and a good martini.