Education

Digital Badge Problem Based Learning (Tutor Training)                              2023

                                    The Office of the Vice-President for Teaching & Learning

                                    University College Cork

Ph.D.  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1994

M.A.  Dalhousie University 1988

B.A. (Hons.) University of Alberta 1986

Courses Taught

Recent Graduate Courses:

Whales and Shaggy Dogs, Among Others

The Contemporary Novel

Empire & Resistance

Recent Undergraduate Courses:

The American Novel (multiple iterations, including Modern/Postmodern, Faulkner, and Western Revisions)

The Anatomy

The Brontës

Canadian Literature

Faulkner

The Novella

Teaching Experience

Visiting Faculty, University College Cork  2022-23

Professeur invité Université de Tolouse II--Le Mirail  2007-08

Professor University of Montana 2006-present

Associate Professor University of Montana 2000-06

Assistant Professor University of Montana 1996-2000

Research Interests

American and Canadian Literature

Popular Culture

Quantum Physics

Creative Writing

Projects

Co-Host, "A Lesson Before Writing" Podcast

Field of Study

The Novel

The History of the Novel

The Anatomy

Short Fiction and the Novella

American, Canadian, and English Literatures

Selected Publications

BOOKS:

The Term Between:  Stories.  Twelve Winters Press, 2022.

Winner of the 2023 HIGH PLAINS BOOK AWARD FOR SHORT STORIES

     (Author Interview:  The Term Between:  https://twelvewinters.com/morrissey-brady-harrison-interview/ )

Co-Editor with Randi Tanglen, Humanities Montana.  Teaching Western American Literature.  University of Nebraska Press, 2020.

Co-Editor with Barry Faulk, Florida State University.  Punk Rock Warlord:  The Life and Work of Joe Strummer. Routledge/Ashgate, 2014.

Co-Editor with Lisa Simon, University of Montana.  These Living Songs:  Reading Montana Poetry.  University of Montana Press, 2014. 

Editor, All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature.  University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

Editor, Davis, Richard Harding.  Soldiers of Fortune.  Broadview Press, 2006.

Agent of Empire: William Walker and the Imperial Self in American Literature.  University of Georgia Press, 2004.

JOURNAL ISSUE:

Co-editor, with Tamas Dobozy, Wilfred Laurier University, of a special issue of Short Story, Tripping Across the 49th Parallel, 2005.

ARTICLES in American Studies, Anglophonia/Caliban, Arizona Quarterly, European Journal of American Studies, Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, Novel:  A Forum on Fiction, Southwestern American Literature, and other journals and books.

FICTION  in Cerise Press, J Journal, The Long Story, The Meadow, Serving House Journal, Short Story, Twelve Winters Journal, and Wascana Review, among other journals.  A novella, "The Dying Albertan," won the inaugural Publisher's Long Story Prize from Twelve Winters Press.  

POETRY in Badlands Literary Journal, Cardinal Sins, and The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature, among other journals. 

ESSAYS in numerous books and journals.