Philip Morrison: Oersted Medalist for 1964

Novelist, essayist, librettist, book editor, teacher, scholar, and public intellectual, Toni Morrison was a major contributor to contemporary understandings of the enduring and com...

American Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison’s 11th novel, God Help the Child, released in 2015, set in contemporary times, explores the relationship between a financially successful, bea...

Remarks made by the Chairman of the Committee on Awards for 1965 during the presentation ceremony of the Oersted Medal to Philip Morrison in recognition of his notable contribution...

Born in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, as Chloe Ardelia Wofford, the woman who is now Toni Morrison has experienced a life of great depth, length, and breadth—ranging from working as a hous...

“No System of Justice: At the Margins with Toni Morrison’s Intertextual Characters,” reads Morrison’s novel through the lens of her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in which a young mo...

Toni Morrison verbalizes in novel manners the pain and battle of a traumatized self and local area. In her novels, the traumatic truth of a dark self shows itself in the characters...

Critics have routinely excluded African American literature from ecocritical inquiry despite the fact that the literary tradition has, from its inception, proved to be steeped in e...

We have much to learn from the rhetoric of Jim Morrison (and The Doors) and the rhetoric employed by Jim Morrison (and The Doors). Scott Sundvall‘s piece argues that the rhetorical...