Angela Morris, Ph.D.

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Lecturer

Voorhies 226
Office Hours
Tuesday 10:30 to 11:30a.m. and 3:00 to 4:00p.m.
Thursday 10:30 to 11:30a.m. and 3:00 to 4:00p.m.

I came to University of California, Davis in the Spring 2022. I'm desert born (Arizona), red-dirt raised (Oklahoma), and cut my teeth teaching in the Bluff City (Memphis, Tennessee). In between my M.F.A. in creative writing and Ph.D. in writing, rhetoric, and technical communciatios, I worked as a professional writer for seven years, writing grants, serving as content manager and editor of magazines and news letters, and writing press releases. Punk rock will forever be in my soul, and I love nothing more than watching students hone their authentic voices. 

Education and Degree(s)
  • Ph.D. in Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communications, University of Memphis, 2023
  • M.F.A. in Creative Writing, University of Central Oklahoma, 2014
  • B.A. In Journalism, University of Central Oklahoma
  • B.A. In English, University of Central Oklahoma
Honors and Awards
  • Honorable Mention, Theresa Enos Anniversary Award, Rhetoric Review, 2025. The award recognizes the best article published each year by the Rhetoric Review.
  • CCCC Emergent Researcher Award, 2022. The award funded an assessment for a study that comparatively looked at first-year, student writing from a controlled group who were taught curriculum solely relying on traditional Greco-Roman rhetorical theory.
Research Interests & Expertise
  • The intersections of identity, writing, and power
  • Social justice rhetorics
  • Antiracist challenges to whitewashed pedagogies
  • Writing for Engineers
  • Writing for Social Justice
  • Antiracist challenges to whitewashed pedagogies
Publications
  • “Antiracist Approaches to Teacher Feedback: Responding to Students’ Code-meshed Writing.” Pending Publication, Responding to Writing: A Practical Sourcebook for Instructors, 2027.
  • “Not in My Name: A Response to an Academic Crisis Guised as ‘Combatting Antisemitism.’” Peitho: Journal of the Coalitions of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition, Vol 28, Issue 4, Summer 2026, pp. 150-160, DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.4.11
  • Morris, Angela and Katherine Fredlund. “Victimhood Rhetorics: How Stormfront Spread White Nationalism Online.” Rhetoric Review, 18 April 2025, pp. 15, DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2025.2485501
  • Fredlund, Katherine, and Angela Morris. “Collaborating Towards an Antiracist Writing Curriculum.” WPA: Writing Program Administration, Vol. 44, No. 3, Summer 2021, pp. 114-120.
  • “Iggy Pop and the Stooges, ‘Raw Power’.” The RS500: Telling Stories in Stereo, No. 128, July 2018.
  • “Looking for Justice from Coffin to Coffin.” The Commercial Appeal, 6 April 2018.
  • “Simon and Garfunkel, ‘Bookends’.” TheRS500: Telling Stories in Stereo, No. 234, April 2017.
  • “Black Flag, ‘Damaged’.” TheRS500: Telling Stories in Stereo, No. 340, April 2016.
  • “Ludmilla.” Atticus Review, 29 Sept. 2015.
  • “Working Class Hero.” This Land Press, Vol. 5, No. 16, 3 Sept. 2014, pp. 8-9.