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Mary Morgan

Assistant Professor,

English

Meet Mary Morgan

OF NOTE:
Given our unique historical situation, my areas of expertise allow me and my students to observe and participate in the growth and diversity of 21st-century writing and literary studies.

KNOWN FOR:
In addition to my work directing the first-year writing program and our creative writing magazine, Agora, I am proud to be known as an advocate for our progressive students and for a more inclusive campus community.

WHEN NOT IN THE CLASSROOM, CAN OFTEN BE FOUND:
Outside of teaching, I can be found reading, writing, and collaborating with the larger North Carolina poetry and artistic communities.

POPULAR QUOTE:
“You can be the music.” – Amiri Baraka

Classes

Examples of the classes taught by Mary Morgan:

CE 101: Communications Essentials
RH 104: Rhetoric and Writing

Bachelor Degree (B.A.) in English

Education

PhD/University at Albany, SUNY
B.A./Baldwin Wallace University

Representative Publications and Presentations

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES

Learned, J. E., Dacus, L. C., Morgan, M. J., Schiller, K. S., & Gorgun, G. (2020). “The tail wagging the dog”: High-stakes testing as a mediating context in secondary literacy-related education. Teacher’s College Record.
Learned, J. E., & Morgan, M. J. (2018). Constructing reading proficiency and struggle through tracked contexts. English Teaching: Practice & Critique, 17(3), 182-198. doi:10.1108/ETPC-10-2017-0144
Learned, J. E., Morgan, M. J., & Lui, A. M. (2017). “Everyone’s voices are to be heard”: A comparison of struggling and proficient readers’ perspectives in one urban high school. Education and Urban Society, 51(2), 195-221. doi:10.1177/0013124517715065

BOOK CHAPTERS

Learned, J. E., Morgan, M. J., & Dacus, L. (2018). Attending to readers’ identities, positions, and social contexts: An argument for disciplinary literacy in English language arts. In M. Nachowitz & K. C. Wilcox (Eds.), High literacy in secondary English language arts classrooms: Bridging the gap to college and career (pp. 83-103). Lexington Books.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Morgan, M. J. (2021, July). “This Life Journey of Writing:” An Adult Student’s Reflection on Writing in School, at Work, and at Home. Paper presented at the Writing Through the Lifespan Conference, online.
Morgan, M. J. (2021, April). Five ways to teach audience in FYC. Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition & Communication, Spokane, WA.
Morgan, M. J. (2019, March). Writing for multiple audiences in first-year composition. Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition & Communication, Pittsburgh, PA.
Learned, J. E., Morgan, M. J., & Li, X. (2018, April). Examining opportunities for student choice across school literacy contexts. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New York City, NY.
Learned, J. E., Li, X., & Morgan, M. J. (2016, November). Disrupting deficit discourses in high school English: A study of the construction of reading proficiency and struggle through tracked contexts. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association Annual Conference, Nashville, TN.
Learned, J. E., Lui, A. M., & Morgan, M. J. (2016, April). “Struggling” and “proficient” readers in the same classrooms: How contexts mediate youths’ perspectives on reading. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.