Morris Young

Associate Professor of English
Director of English 100
msyoung4@wisc.edu

Degrees and Institutions

B.A., University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, 1989
M.A., University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, 1991
Ph.D., The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1997

Research Interests

Composition and Rhetoric, Literacy Studies, Ethnic Rhetorics, Asian American literature and culture.

Selected Publications

• Minor Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship.  Studies in Writing and Rhetoric.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.  (Recipient of the 2004 W. Ross Winterowd Award and the 2006 CCCC Outstanding Book Award)
• “The Consequences of Rhetoric and Literacy: Power, Persuasion, and Pedagogical Implications.”  The Sage Handbook of Rhetoric.  With Connie Kendall.  Forthcoming.
• “Professing ‘Western’ Literacy: Globalization and Women’s Education at the Western College for Women.”  In Women and Literacy: Local and Global Inquiries for a New Century.  Eds. Beth Daniell and Peter Mortensen.  NCTE/LEA Research Series in Literacy and Composition, 2007. 173-187.  With Shevaun Watson.
• “Growing Resources in Asian American Literary Studies.”  College English 69.1 (September 2006): 74-83. 
• “Beyond Rainbows: What Hawaii’s ‘Local’ Poetry Has Taught Me About Pedagogy.”  In Poetry and Pedagogy.  Eds. Joan Retallack and Juliana Spahr.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.  105-125.
• “Changing Places: Theorizing Space and Power Dynamics in Service Learning.” In Service-Learning in Higher Education: Critical Issues and Directions.  Ed. Dan Butin.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.  71-87.  With Caroline Clark. 
• “Whose Paradise?  Hawai‘i, Desire, and the Global/Local Tensions of Popular Culture.”  In East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture.  Eds. Shilpa Davé, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha Oren.  New York: NYU Press, 2005.  183-203.
• “Native Claims: Cultural Citizenship, Ethnic Expressions, and the Rhetorics of ‘Hawaiianness.’”  College English 67.1 (September 2004): 83-101.
• “Standard English and Student Bodies: Institutionalizing Literacy and Race in Hawai‘i.”  College English 64.4 (March 2002): 405-431.

Teaching Interests

Undergraduate writing courses, literacy studies, language and literacy politics, the teaching of writing, Asian American literature and culture.

Current Projects

Work-in-progress includes a new book project that looks to locate, identify, and theorize Asian American rhetoric by focusing on specific conceptual sites of Asian American rhetorical production, and an edited collection on Asian American rhetoric with LuMing Mao.