Graduate Student Directory
- Title
- PhD Student / Teaching Assistant
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- Literature Department
- Website
- Office Location
- Remote work location, Changes Quarterly (Inquire via Email)
- Mail Stop Literature Department
- Faculty Areas of Expertise American Studies, American Music, History, Literature, Popular Culture, Sound
- Courses LIT 80i Topics in American Culture: Literature, Identity, and Musical Genre; LIT 154b Literature and the Arts: Listening and Music; LIT 154d Literature and Sound (and Soundscapes): Sounds Like (American) SF
Research Interests
20th century U.S. American Literature and Culture, Sound Studies, Visual Studies.
Honors, Awards and Grants
Modern Language Association Summer Pedagogy Fellow 2020 (post-poned until 2021)
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The Humanities Institute Summer Research Fellowship 2020, Frank Kofsy Archives
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The Humanities Institute Summer Public Fellow 2020, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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The Humanities Institute Summer Public Fellow 2019, Santa Cruz Shakespeare
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Elisabeth Remak-Honnef Center for Archival Research and Training Fellow 2019
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STARS Re-Entry Scholarship 2019
Selected Publications
Gates, Morgan. (2020). “If we listen as we read”: cultivating the work of listening , by Nicole Brittingham Furlonge, Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 2018, 166 pp., $85.00 (USD), ISBN: 978-1-60938-561-3. Sound Studies, 1–3. (https://doi.org/ 10.1080/20551940.2020.1712050)
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Jessica Calvacino, Maureen Carey, Morgan Gates, Hannah Newburn, Alix Norton, and Nicholas Whittington. Guide to the Trianon Press Archives. MS 99. 2019. University Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz. (https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8th8tht/)
Selected Presentations
UCSC Graduate Research Symposium 2020, Humanities Division
Listening to The Star of Ethiopia 1915: Aural Histories, Cinematic Conjunctions, and Sonic Paratexts
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Digital Humanities Initiative Showcase, SDSU, 2017
Circles and Links: Tenderly Unbuttoning Heteropatriarchal Reading and Writing Practices
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LGBTQ “Queer Entanglements” Research Consortium, SDSU, 2016
“Pleasing Papercuts: Masochism, Humor, and Misreading Kara Walker’s Silhouettes”
Selected Exhibitions
"Songs of Labor and Transcendence: The Trianon Press Archive" UCSC McHenry Library June 2019-December 2019
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"A Timeline of Labor and Transcendence: The Digital Trianon Press Archive" UCSC McHenry Library Website
Selected Performances
Dramaturg, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Directed by Dashiell Waterbury, Santa Cruz Shakespeare Fringe Company 2019.
