People
Faculty
Contact Information
365 Bachelor Hall
Oxford Campus
513 529 1395
youngms1@muohio.edu
On leave 2008–2009
Morris Young
Titles
- Associate Professor of English
- American Studies Affiliate
Education
- Ph.D., The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1997
- M.A., University of Hawai’i at Manoa
- B.A., University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Teaching Interests
- Composition and Rhetoric
- Teaching of writing
- Language and literacy politics
- Asian American literature
- Asian American cultural studies
Research Interests
- Composition and Rhetoric
- Literacy Studies
- Asian American literature especially Hawai’i
- Service-learning
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.
- “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. Forthcoming.
- “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. Forthcoming. 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. Forthcoming.
- “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.
- “The Anxiety and Nostalgia of Literacy: A Narrative About Race, Language, and a Teaching Life.” In Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing. Eds. David Bleich and Deborah Holdstein. Logan: Utah State UP, 2001. 296-316.
- “Service-Learning and the Literacy Connection.” In The Literacy Connection. Eds. Alice Horning and Ron Sudol. Creeskill, NJ: Hampton P, 1999. 69-96. With Emily Nye.
- “Narratives of Identity: Theorizing the Writer and the Nation.” The Journal of Basic Writing 15.2 (Fall 1996): 50-75.
- “Cultural Institutions: Reading(s) (of) Zora Neale Hurston, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Maxine Hong Kingston.” In Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature: Politics, Curriculum, Pedagogy. Eds. James F. Slevin and Art Young. Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English, 1996. 153-171. With Anne Ruggles Gere.
Web Publications
- “Issues of Race and Ethnicity in Basic Writing.”
Teaching Basic Writing, September 2002.
http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/english/tbw/
Work in Progress
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.