Dr. Morgan Vanek, PhD

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Assistant Professor

morgan.vanek@ucalgary.ca

Location

Office:: SS1106

Ph.D., English, University of Toronto, 2016

M.A., English, Queen's University, 2008

B.A. (Honours), English and Development Studies, Queen's University, 2007

Course number	Course title	Semester
ENGL251 L09	Literature and Society	Fall 2022
ENGL203 L02	Introductory Seminar	Fall 2022
ENGL429	Eighteenth-Century Poetry	Winter 2023
ENGL519/605	The Eighteenth-Century Origins of Capitalism's Crisis of Care	Winter 2023

Teaching Award for Full-Time Academic Staff (Assistant Professor), University of Calgary Teaching Awards. 2022
Outstanding Early Career Teacher, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary. 2022
Herb Wyile Prize in Canadian Literature , Studies in Canadian Literature / Études En Littérature Canadienne. 2020
Calgary Institute for the Humanities (CIH) Annual Fellowship, Calgary Institute for the Humanities. 2019
"A Closer Look at Close Reading": Lesson Study Grant, University of Calgary Teaching and Learning Grants. 2017
A.S.P. Woodhouse Prize, Department of English, University of Toronto. 2017

“Better ‘Death in Its Most Awful Shapes’ than Life in Nova Scotia: Climate Change and the Nova Scotia Maroons, 1796-1800.” . Studies in Canadian Literature / Études En Littérature Canadienne, vol. 45, no. 2 . p. 90-121. (2021)
“The ‘Secret Lady’ of the South Sea Bubble: Honor, Uncertainty, and the Incognita Plot.” . Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 54, no. 1 . p. 77-99. (2020)
“Closer to Home: Towards a Local Eighteenth Century.”. Studies in Eighteenth- Century Culture, vol. 50, no. 1. p. 47-55. (2020)
“The Literary Politics of Transatlantic Climates.” . In Cambridge Critical Concepts: Climate and Literature. Ed. Adeline Johns-Putra. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 144-162. (2019)
“Where the Weather Comes From.” . The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada, vol. 17, no. 1 . p. 1-13. (2018)
“‘Set the Winter at Defiance’: Emily Montague’s Weather Reports and Political Sensibility.” . Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 28, no. 3. p. 447-471. (2016)
“The Uses of Travel: Science, Empire, and Change in Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing.” . Literature Compass, vol. 12, no. 11 . p. 555-564. (2015)
“The Politics of the Weather: The Hudson’s Bay Company and the Dobbs Affair.” . Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 38, no. 3 . p. 395-411. (2015)