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Dr. Mary Morse

Associate Professor of English
  • Email Address: mmorse@rider.edu
  • Phone: (609) 895-5570
  • Fax: (609) 896-5212
  • Office: Fine Arts 320
  • Mailing Address: 2083 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648

B.A., St. Olaf College; M.A., English, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN; Ph.D., English, Marquette University

Welcome to the homepage of Dr. Mary Morse. My specialty area is Workplace Writing, a professional writing track for English majors/minors. My recent academic research explores transfer and adaptation of writing skills from college to the workplace. I also am a medievalist, concentrating on the creation and reception of devotional texts written by or read by women. My   reviews and professional writing on the arts, travel, agriculture, business, and personal finance has appeared in a variety of national and regional publications, including Amoco Traveler, Classical New Jersey Society Journal, Farm Journal, Geico Direct, Lake Superior Magazine, Mpls.-St. Paul, and Minnesota Monthly.

I am the English Internship Coordinator. English 491 internships in publishing and cinema studies are available for our majors/minors. While I am on leave, Dr. Cynthia Lucia will be the interim Internship Coordinator.

 Spring 2009 Courses

  • ENG 213 Literature and Mythology
  • ENG 323 Workplace Writing: Reviewing and Publishing
  • GND 310 Early Women Writers
  • LIB 400 Senior Seminar

Summer I 2009

  • ENG 411 History of the English Language
  • LIB 400 Senior Seminar

Fall 2009 (Research Leave)

Spring 2010 Courses

  • ENG 208 Arthurian Legends in Literature
  • ENG 322 Workplace Writing: Grant Proposals, Fundraising and Development
  • ENG 323 Workplace Writing: Reviewing and Publishing
  • LIB 400 Senior Seminar

Recent Papers and Panels

  • "Alongside St. Margaret:  Julitta and Quiricus in the English Devotional Tradition" (Featured speaker). Delaware Valley Medieval Association, Princeton, NJ, Dec. 2008.
  • "New World Tricksters and Their Fabliau Exemplars in American Southwestern Cuentos" (Paper). 2008 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI.
  • "Safe Leyvred wythoute Parelle": Julitta and Quiricus: Invoking Childbirth Saints in Odd Places" (Paper). 2007 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI.
  • "Building Communities: Teaching Grant Writing to Undergraduates" (Paper). 2007 Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York.
  • "Grant Writing as a Foundation Course in Teaching Professional Writing" (Paper). 2004 Modern Language Association, Philadelphia.
  • "Arts Reviewing as an English Course" (Paper). 2004 Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Antonio.
  • "Adaptation and Transfer: Teaching English Majors to Write for the Workplace" (Special Session Panel). 2003 Modern Language Association, San Diego.
  • "Making the Abstract Real: Connecting Word and Image in The Book of Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love" (Paper). 2003 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI.

Articles

  • "Lollardy as Conversion Motif in The Book of Margery Kempe." Mystics Quarterly 29.1-2 (Mar./June 2003): 24-44.
  • "Seeing and Hearing: Margery Kempe and the mise-en-page." Studia Mystica 20 (1999): 15-42.
  • "Margery Kempe, Venice, and Marian Iconology." Studia Mystica 19 (1998): 56-67.
  • "The Medieval Roots of Two New Mexican Cuentos." Studies in Medievalism 6 (1994): 174-184.

Reviews - Classical Music

  • "A Grand Aida: Hold the Elephants." [Boheme Opera 11/06/05]. Classical New Jersey Society Reviews. http://www.classicalnjsociety.org/
  • "Superstar Power: Is That All We Want?" [Joshua Bell, violin; New Jersey Symphony Orchestra 10/08/04]. Classical New Jersey Society Journal 2 Dec. 2004: 17-19. http://www.classicalnjsociety.org/
  • "A Very American Opera" [Little Women at Westminster Opera Theatre]. Classical New Jersey Society Journal 9 Sept. 2004: 19-20.
  • "So Much for Definitions of Hell" [Princeton Symphony Orchestra]. Classical New Jersey Society Journal 29 Apr. 2002: 22-23. http://classicalnjsociety.org/

Reviews - Books

  • 'A Strange Tongue': Tradition, Language and the Appropriation of Mystical Experience in Late 14th C England and 16th C Spain. Author, John D. Green. Mystics Quarterly 30-.1-2 (March/June 2004): 59-60.