Academics

Faculty & Staff

Leonard von Morzé, PhD

  • Associate Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts
  • Telephone: 617.287.6531
  • Office Location: Wheatley Hall,06,00091

Areas of Expertise

Literature of the colonial and revolutionary periods and of the early Republic; Atlantic Studies; independence and mobility

Degrees

BA, PhD, University of California Berkeley
MA, University of California Irvine

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • "Republican Centaurs." Early American Studies 4.1 (2006): 192 - 232.
  • "Romantic Federalism: Atlantic Republican Literature Between Cosmopolitanism and Confederation." Literature Compass 6.6 (2009): 1127 - 1144.
  • "Pitching Transatlanticism: Commerce, Race, and the Academic Marketplace." In Teaching the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century. Eds. Jennifer Frangos and Cristobal Silva. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010. 1 - 19.
  • "A Massachusetts Yankee in Karl Theodor's Court: Count Rumford's Sovereign Benevolence and Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond." Symbiosis 15.1 (2011): 45 - 61.
  • "'Self-Created Societies' : Sociability and Statehood in the Pittsburgh Enlightenment." Sociability and Cosmopolitanism: Social Bonds on the Fringes of the Enlightenment. Eds. Scott Breuninger and David Burrow. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2012. 9000 words.
  • Intro. & co-ed. with Elizabeth Fay, Urban Identity and the Atlantic World. Palgrace, 2012.
  • "Sermons, Slavery, and Scandal: The Printed Worlds of Early Boston, 1660 - 1830." Boston Public Library, Rare Books Department, 15 July - 30 September 2009. Catalog.
  • "Beyond the Clip: Critical Uses of Film in the Non-Film Course." Human Architecture 6.1 (2008): 1 - 6.

Additional Information

BOOK REVIEWS AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

"Hugh Henry Brackenridge." The Literary Encyclopedia Online. Eds. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott, and Janet Todd. 2009. 4170 words.
"Virtue" and "Pierre Eugène Du Simitière." Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment. Ed. Mark Spencer. New York: Continuum, 2012.
Review of Joselyn M. Almeida, Reimagining the Transatlantic, 1780-1890, The Wordsworth Circle (2012).

COURSES AT UMASS BOSTON

• ENGL 102 Freshman English
• ENGL 182G “Race” and Ethnicity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature
• ENGL 200 Understanding Literature
• ENGL 202 Six American Authors
• ENGL 407 Colonial American Literature
• ENGL 430 Literature of the Atlantic
• ENGL 483 Declaring Independence: Origins of U.S. Literature
• HONS 290 Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Boston
• ENGL 606 Print Culture of Early Boston (Graduate)
• ENGL 650 Colonial American Literature (Graduate)
• ENGL 652 American Romanticism (Graduate)

CURRENT PROJECTS

Book manuscript on charity and capitalism in early American literature
Co-organizer, conference series on "Atlantic Cities"