Charles E. Morris III
Charles E. (Chuck) Morris III is Professor in the department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies (CRS), and affiliated faculty in Women's & Gender Studies and LGBT Studies, at Syracuse University. He has previously been on faculty at Boston College, Vanderbilt University, and Denison University.
Morris describes himself as an archival queer, a scholar/teacher committed to encounter and exploration, critical engagement, and diverse modes of deployment, exhibition, and performance of LGBTQ pasts as resources for queer worldmaking in the present and future.
Morris and Tom Nakayama are co-founding editors-in-chief of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (published by Michigan State University Press), now in its 10th year. For details, visit http://msupress.msu.edu/journals/qed. Follow QED on Facebook and Twitter @QEDJournal.
Morris is co-editor, with Jason Edward Black, of "An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings" (University of California Press, 2013), a 2014 Lambda Literary Award finalist. His other books include "The Conceit of Context: Resituating Domains in Rhetorical Studies" (Peter Lang, 2020, with Kendall Phillips), "Remembering the AIDS Quilt" (Michigan State University Press, 2010) and "Queering Public Address: Sexualities in American Historical Discourse" (University of South Carolina Press, 2007). He has co-edited, with Stephen Browne, three editions of "Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest" (Strata Publishing). He has guest edited six journal special issues and forums on Spielberg's "Lincoln," ACT UP 25, Queering the South, the AIDS Quilt, rhetorical criticism, the archive, and the Pulse massacre.
Recent projects include work on AIDS memory and more broadly how poverty, race, disability, and sexuality intersect with public memory on Hart Island, the "potter's field" of New York, focusing on the initiatives of the Hart Island Project founded by Melinda Hunt.
For his work on LGBTQ memory and history, Morris has three times received the National Communication Association's (NCA) Golden Monograph Award for article of the year (2003, 2010, 2022), as well as NCA's Karl Wallace Memorial Award (2001) for early career achievement, and the Randy Majors Award for Distinguished Scholarship in LGBTQ Studies (2008). Morris has been named a Distinguished Scholar by the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division (2016) and the Critical/Cultural Studies Division (2020) of the National Communication Association. In 2021, Morris received the Douglas Ehninger Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetorical Studies from NCA.
In 2022, Morris was inducted as a distinguished scholar, the highest research honor bestowed by the National Communication Association.
Morris is writing a new life chapter after the 2021 death of his husband of 26 years, Scott Rose. He bought a 1905 home that he shares with his partner, Keven Rudrow, and their five kitties: Harrison, Henry, Louis, Albie, and Theo. He loves art, reading, and the vintage photographs he obsessively collects.
Address: Dept. of Comm & Rhetorical Studies
100 Sims Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244-5141
Morris describes himself as an archival queer, a scholar/teacher committed to encounter and exploration, critical engagement, and diverse modes of deployment, exhibition, and performance of LGBTQ pasts as resources for queer worldmaking in the present and future.
Morris and Tom Nakayama are co-founding editors-in-chief of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (published by Michigan State University Press), now in its 10th year. For details, visit http://msupress.msu.edu/journals/qed. Follow QED on Facebook and Twitter @QEDJournal.
Morris is co-editor, with Jason Edward Black, of "An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings" (University of California Press, 2013), a 2014 Lambda Literary Award finalist. His other books include "The Conceit of Context: Resituating Domains in Rhetorical Studies" (Peter Lang, 2020, with Kendall Phillips), "Remembering the AIDS Quilt" (Michigan State University Press, 2010) and "Queering Public Address: Sexualities in American Historical Discourse" (University of South Carolina Press, 2007). He has co-edited, with Stephen Browne, three editions of "Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest" (Strata Publishing). He has guest edited six journal special issues and forums on Spielberg's "Lincoln," ACT UP 25, Queering the South, the AIDS Quilt, rhetorical criticism, the archive, and the Pulse massacre.
Recent projects include work on AIDS memory and more broadly how poverty, race, disability, and sexuality intersect with public memory on Hart Island, the "potter's field" of New York, focusing on the initiatives of the Hart Island Project founded by Melinda Hunt.
For his work on LGBTQ memory and history, Morris has three times received the National Communication Association's (NCA) Golden Monograph Award for article of the year (2003, 2010, 2022), as well as NCA's Karl Wallace Memorial Award (2001) for early career achievement, and the Randy Majors Award for Distinguished Scholarship in LGBTQ Studies (2008). Morris has been named a Distinguished Scholar by the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division (2016) and the Critical/Cultural Studies Division (2020) of the National Communication Association. In 2021, Morris received the Douglas Ehninger Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetorical Studies from NCA.
In 2022, Morris was inducted as a distinguished scholar, the highest research honor bestowed by the National Communication Association.
Morris is writing a new life chapter after the 2021 death of his husband of 26 years, Scott Rose. He bought a 1905 home that he shares with his partner, Keven Rudrow, and their five kitties: Harrison, Henry, Louis, Albie, and Theo. He loves art, reading, and the vintage photographs he obsessively collects.
Address: Dept. of Comm & Rhetorical Studies
100 Sims Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244-5141
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