EDUCATION

​Ph.D. Candidate, Literature
M. A. Literature
M.A. American Literature (ABT)
B. A. English, magna cum laude         
A. A. Humanities (Photography)

University of California, Santa Cruz
​University of California, Santa Cruz
San Diego State University, California
​University of San Diego, California
​Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, N.J.

2017 -PRESENT
2021​
​2015-2017
​2012
​2005

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

20th-century American literature; sound studies; African American literature.

PUBLICATIONS

Gates, Morgan. (2020). “If we listen as we read”: cultivating the work of listening , by Nicole Brittingham Furlonge, Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 2018, 166 pp., $85.00 (USD), ISBN: 978-1-60938-561-3. Sound Studies, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2020.1712050

Jessica Calvacino, Maureen Carey, Morgan Gates, Hannah Newburn, Alix Norton, and Nicholas Whittington. Guide to the Trianon Press Archives. MS 99. 2019. University Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz. https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8th8tht/

PRESENTATIONS

UCSC Graduate Research Symposium 2021
The Humanities Institute Summer Research Fellowship 2020
Humanities Division 
“Listening As We Read: Archives, Literature, Music” 
http://youtu.be/DoQMMBE1cq0​

UCSC Graduate Research Symposium 2020
Humanities Division
“Listening to The Star of Ethiopia 1915: Aural Histories, Cinematic Conjunctions, and Sonic Paratexts”

Digital Humanities Initiative Showcase, SDSU, 2017
“Circles and Links: Tenderly Unbuttoning Heteropatriarchal Reading and Writing Practices”

LGBTQ “Queer Entanglements” Research Consortium, SDSU, 2016
“Pleasing Papercuts: Masochism, Humor, and Misreading Kara Walker’s Silhouettes”

CERTIFICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

​National Humanities Without Walls Pre-Doctoral Career Diversity Workshop, 2021
Reading and Writing Pedagogy Certificate, MLA Summer Teaching Institute, 2021
Archival Research and Training, The Elisabeth Remak-Honnef Center, UCSC, 2019
Professional Communication Certificate, UCSC, 2018
LGBTQIIA Ally Training, SDSU, 2017

FELLOWSHIP, HONORS, AND AWARDS

Literature Department Teaching Fellowship, 2022-23
​THI Public Fellowship (3 Quarter), 2021-2022
National Humanities Without Walls Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 2021
Literature Department Research and Travel Grant, Winter, UCSC, 2021
MLA Summer Teaching Institute Fellowship, 2021
Literature Department Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2021
THI Summer Public Humanities Fellowship, UCSC, 2020
THI Summer Research Fellowship, UCSC, 2020
Literature Department Research and Travel Grant, Fall, UCSC, 2019
THI Summer Public Humanities Fellowship, UCSC, 2019
UCSC Women’s Club STARS Re-Entry Scholarship, UCSC, 2019
Center For Archival Research and Training Fellowship, UCSC, 2019
University of California Regents Fellowship, UCSC, 2017
Susan and Stephen Weber Endowed Scholarship, SDSU, 2016
Dean’s List / First Honors, Fall 2009, USD, Fall 2010-Spring 2012
DanVera Foundation Scholarship for English Majors, USD, 2011
University of San Diego Scholarship, USD, 2009-2012
Brookdale Trustees Scholarship, BCC, 2002-2005

Published and Broadcast Interviews

Interview by Suki Wessling, KSQD Talk of the Bay, 2021
“UCSC’S Humanities Institute Foster’s Community Engagement KSQD”
https://ksqd.org/ucscs-humanities-institute-fosters-community-engagement/

Interview by Robert Ham, UCSC Public Relations, 2021
“Exhibit Showcases Remarkable Lives Of Everyday Santa Cruz Residents”
https://thi.ucsc.edu/exhibit-showcases-remarkable-lives-of-everyday-santa-cruz-residents/

Interview by Christian Alvarado, THI, UCSC, 2021
“Graduate Profile: Morgan Gates, Literature Doctoral Student”
https://thi.ucsc.edu/graduate-profile-morgan-gates-literature-doctoral-student/

Interview by Melody Nixon, THI, UCSC, 2019
“Fellow Profile: Morgan Gates on the Santa Cruz Shakespeare Fringe Company”
https://thi.ucsc.edu/morgan-gates-on-the-santa-cruz-shakespeare-fringe/

TEACHING

Instructor of Record
Literature Department, UCSC
Department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies (RWS), SDSU
Department of English and Comparative Literature (ENG), SDSU

• LIT X: Sounds Like (American) SF (2022-23) (forthcoming)
• LIT 80: Literature and Musical Genre (2022) (forthcoming)
• LIT 154: Literature and the Arts: Listening and Music (2022)
• RWS 200-15/64: Rhetoric of Written Argument in Context: Human / Animal (2017)
• RWS 100-52: Rhetoric of the Written Argument: Digital Literacy (2016)
• ENG 220-6: Introduction to Literature: Crime/Justice in American Literature (2016)

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Teaching Assistant
Literature Department (LIT), UCSC
Stevenson College (STEV), UCSC
Porter College (PRTR), UCSC

• LIT 61: Classical Mythology (2021)
• LIT 155: The Horror Film: 1950s Science Fiction (2021)
• LIT 80: Harry Potter (2020)
• LIT 81: Literature and Photography (2020)
• LIT 131: Space / Time: American Literature in the World (2020)
• LIT 155: Classic Horror from the End of the Studio System (2019)        
• LIT 80: Jane the Virgin: Latinx Readers and the (Latin) American Literature (2019)
• STEV 80: Self and Society Through Film (2019)
• LIT 80: Latina/o/x Expressions (2019)
• PRTR 151: Writing the Future (2018)
• LIT 155: The Horror Film (2018)    
• LIT 61: Classical Mythology (2018)
• LIT 160: Technologies of Taste: Consuming Culture in the Internet Age (2017)

Rhetoric Writing Assessment Specialist
OnRamps, The University of Texas at Austin & Texas Independent School Districts

• RHE 306: Introduction to Rhetoric: Reading Writing, Research (2021)
• RHE 309: Rhetoric of American Identity: Gender, Race, Ethnicity (2021)
• RHE 306: Introduction to Rhetoric: Reading Writing, Research (2020)

Reader / Instructional Student Assistant
Literature Department, UCSC 
Theater Arts Department, UCSC 
Sociology Department, UCSC
Latin American and Latino Studies Department, UCSC
Department of English and Comparative Literature, SDSU

• LIT 135: African Futurisms (2020)
• THEA 80: Introduction to African American Theater (2020)
• SOCY 129: Popular Culture (2021)
• SOCY 137: Deviance and Conformity (2020)
• LALS 155: Latin American Youth Movements (2019)
• ENG 306A/B: Children’s Literature: Cruelty (2017)
• ENG 401: Childhood’s Literature: Girls in Their Own Right (2017)
• ENG 502: Literature of Adolescence: Nobody Knows My Name (2017)
• ENG 220: Introduction to Literature (2016)
• ENG 306A/B: Children’s Literature: Silence (2015)
• ENG 401: Childhood’s Literature: Home (2015)
• ENG 502: Literature of Adolescence: Who Am I? (2015)

PUBLIC HUMANITIES PROJECTS

Letters Home (2021-2022)
The Humanities Institute Public Fellowship 2021-2022 (3 Quarter), UCSC
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Publications Committee
Project Manager, Publications Committee Assistant

Do You Know My Name: Sharing the Stories of Santa Cruzans? (2020-2022)
The Humanities Institute Public Fellowship 2021-2022 (3 Quarter), UCSC
The Humanities Institute Summer Public Fellowship 2020, UCSC
Exhibition Manager
Curator
https://virtual.santacruzmah.org/doyouknowmyname/

Museum Archives
The Humanities Institute Public Fellowship (3 Quarter), UCSC
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Archives
Museum archives (2021-2022)

William Shakespeare and John Fletcher’s The Two Noble Kinsmen (2019)
The Humanities Institute Summer Public Fellowship, UCSC
Santa Cruz Shakespeare Fringe Company
Dramaturg

Songs of Labor and Transcendence: The Trianon Press Archive (2019)​
McHenry Library Special Collections, UCSC
The Elisabeth Remak-Honnef Center for Archival Research and Training
Jessica Calvacino, Morgan Gates, Hannah Newburn, and Nicholas Whittington
Curator

Songs of Labor and Transcendence: The Trianon Press Archive Digital Exhibit (2019) (https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/cart/exhibits)
McHenry Library Special Collections, UCSC
The Elisabeth Remak-Honnef Center for Archival Research and Training
Jessica Calvacino, Morgan Gates, Hannah Newburn, and Nicholas Whittington
Lead Curator

Trianon Press Archives, General Business Series (2019​)
McHenry Library Special Collections, UCSC
The Elisabeth Remak-Honnef Center for Archival Research and Training
Archival Assistant

Academic Service

​Panelist, 2021 Literature Department Qualifying Exam Forum
Panelist, 2021 UCSC THI PhD+ Workshop, Career Diversity and Humanities Without Walls
Panelist, 2021 UCSC Literature Graduate Student Recruitment Student Panel
Panelist, 2020 UCSC Literature Graduate Student Recruitment Student Panel
Panelist, 2020 Literature Department Qualifying Exam Forum
Panelist, 2020 UCSC McHenry Library CART Program Information Session