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Professor Meaghan Morris

Professor Meaghan Morris is a figure of world stature in the field of Cultural Studies and she is immediate past Chair of the international Association for Cultural Studies (ACS), 2004-08. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a former ARC Senior Fellow, she divides her time between the University of Sydney and Lingnan University, Hong Kong, where she has been Chair Professor of Cultural Studies since 2000. Her books, including The Pirate's Fiancée: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism, Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture, and Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture, focus on the role of the media and popular history in forming public cultures.

Research Interests

  • Film and Media historiographies
  • Local and national cultures in globalisation
  • Australian and Asian-Pacific Popular Culture
  • public cultures and institutions after 'privatisation'

Selected Publications

  • Morris, M. (2009) ‘“I hear motion”: sceptical notes on academic mobility in the Asia-pacific region’. Around the Globe (5:1): 41-47.

    Morris, M., Reisenleitner, M. and Turner, C. (eds) (2008) ‘Urban Imaginaries’. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 9 (4).

    Morris, M. (2008) ‘Teaching versus Research?: Cultural Studies and the New Class Politics in Knowledge’. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 9 (3): 433-450.
  • Morris, M. (2006) Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture, Sage: London.
  • Allon, F. and Morris, M. (eds) (2006) 'Cultural Research', Cultural Studies Review, 12(2).
  • Morris, M. (2006) 'From Criticism to Research: the "Textual" in the Academy', Cultural Studies Review, 12(2): 17-32.
  • Morris, M., Li, S. and Ching-Kiu, S. C. (eds) (2005) Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema, Hong Kong University Press and Duke University Press: Hong Kong, Durham and London.
  • Bennett, T., Grossberg, L. and Morris, M. (eds) (2005), New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Blackwell: Oxford.
  • Morris, M. (2005) 'Humanities for Taxpayers: Some Problems', New Literary History, 36(1): 111-129.
  • Morris, M. (2005) 'On the Future of Parochialism: Globalization, Young and Dangerous IV, and Cinema Studies in Tuen Mun', in Hill, J. and Rockett, K. (eds), Film History and National Cinema: Studies in Irish Film II, Four Courts Press: Dublin. Pp. 17-36.
  • Morris, M. (2004) 'Participating from a Distance', in Iwabuchi, K., Thomas, M. and Muecke, S. (eds), Rogue Flows: Trans-Asian Cultural Traffic, Hong Kong University Press: Hong Kong. Pp. 249-261.
  • Morris, M. (2004) 'The Man from Hong Kong in Sydney, 1975', in Ryan, J. and Wallace-Crabbe, C. (eds), Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New, New World, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA. Pp. 235-266.
  • Morris, M. (2004) 'Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema: Hong Kong and the Making of a Global Popular Culture', Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 5(2): 181-199.
  • Morris, M. and de Bary, B. (eds) (2001) 'Race', Panic and the Memory of Migration, vol. 2 of Traces: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory and Translation, Hong Kong University Press with Iwanami Shoten Publishers, Jinagsu Education Press, and Moonhwa Kwahaksa: Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul and Nanjing.
  • Morris, M. (2001) 'Learning from Bruce Lee: Pedagogy and Political correctness in Martial Arts Cinema' in Tinckcom, M. and Villerejo, A. (eds), Keyframes: Popular Cinema in Cultural Studies, Routledge: London and New York. Pp. 171-186.
  • Morris, M. (2000) 'Globalisation and its Discontents', Meridian, 17(2): 17-29.
  • Morris, M. (2000) '"Please Explain?": Ignorance, Poverty and the Past', Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 1(2): 219-232.
  • Morris, M. and Frow, J. (2000) 'Cultural Studies', in Denzin, N. and Lincoln, Y. (eds), The Handbook of Qualitative Research, Sage: London. Pp. 315-346.
  • Morris, M. and McCalman, I. (1999) '"Public Culture" and Humanities Research in Australia: A Report', Public Culture, 11(2): 319-345.
  • Morris, M. (1998) Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture, Indiana University Press: Bloomington.
  • Morris, M. (1998) 'On Going to Bed Early: Once Upon a Time in America', Meanjin, 57(4): 688-702.
  • Morris, M. (1998) 'Truth and Beauty in Our Times', in Bigelow, J. (ed), Our Cultural Heritage, Australian Academy of the Humanities: Canberra. Pp. 75-87.
  • Morris, M. and McCalman, I. (1998) 'Public Culture', Knowing Ourselves and Others: The Humanities in Australia – Into the 21st Century Vol. 3, National Board of Employment, Education and Training, Australian Research Council: Canberra. Pp. 1-20.
  • Jacobs, J. and Morris, M. (eds) (1996) 'Deleuze and Dwelling', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 14(4).
  • Healy, C., Morris, M. and Muecke, S. (eds) (1996) 'Is an Experimental History Possible?', The UTS Review, 2(1).
  • Morris, M. and Muecke, S. (eds) (1995) 'Intellectuals and Communities', The UTS Review, 1(1).
  • Morris, M. (1995) 'Life as a Tourist Object in Australia', in Lanfant, M., Allcock, J. and Bruner, E. (eds), International Tourism: Identity and Change, Sage: London. Pp. 177-191.
  • Morris, M. (1995) 'A Question of Cultural Studies', in Schreuder, D. (ed), The Humanities and a Creative Nation: Jubilee Essays, Australian Academy of the Humanities: Canberra.
  • Frow, J. and Morris, M. (eds) (1993) Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader, Allen and Unwin and The University of Illinois Press: Sydney and Chicago.
  • Morris, M. (1992) Ecstasy and Economics: American Essays for John Forbes, EmPress: Sydney.
  • Morris, M. (1988) The Pirate's Fiancée: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism, Verso: London.
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Honours and awards

  • 2006: Member, Humanities Panel, Research Assessment Exercise, Hong Kong
  • 2006: Member, International Advisory Board, ARC Cultural Research Network
  • 2005: Member, Advisory Board, Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies, University of South Australia
  • 2004: Elected Chair and representative for Asia, Association of Cultural Studies
  • 2000: Honorary member, Cultural Studies Association of Australia
  • 1999: Visiting Professor, The Literature Program, Duke University
  • 1998: Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
  • 1997: Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
  • 1997: Member, International Organising Committee, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
  • 1996-1997: Member, Reference Group, ARC Strategic Disciplinary Review of Research and Research Training in the Humanities
  • 1996-1999: Member, National Advisory Group, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University
  • 1994-1999: ARC Senior Fellowship, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney
  • 1993: Senior Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University
  • 1993: Cultural Studies Scholar in Residence, Northwestern University, Chicago
  • 1991-1993: Category A Senior Fellowship, Literature Board of the Australia Council
  • 1992: Visiting Research Professor, University of Queensland English Department
  • 1991: Visiting Scholar, McGill University, Montreal
  • 1990: Visiting Fellow, SUNY at Stony Brook, The Humanities Institute
  • 1990: George A. Miller Visiting Professor, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
  • 1989: Visiting Associate Professor, English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • 1989: The Pirate's Fiancée shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, General Section
  • 1987: Visiting Associate Professor, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • 1986: Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of the following journals: Traces: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory and Translation; Cultural Studies Review; Sociology Compass; Studies in Australasian Film; Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies; Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies; Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies; Social Policy Studies; Traffic; Metro: Film/Television/Radio/Multimedia; Journal of Visual Culture; Inter-Asia Cultural Studies; Postcolonial Studies; International Journal of Cultural Studies; Journal of Australian Studies; Continuum; Camera Obscura; Qualitative Inquiry; Public Culture; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; Cultural Studies
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