Dr. Morgan Vanek
Positions
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director
Contact information
Location
Office:: SS1106
Background
Educational Background
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
Research
Participation in university strategic initiatives
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| ENGL212 | Critical Writing and Indigenous Literaures | Fall 2025 |
| ENGL691 | Graduate ProSeminar | Fall 2025 |
| ENGL438 | Experiments in Early Fiction | Winter 2026 |
Awards
- 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
Publications
- No One Lives in the Future: Family Dynamics and Environmental Discourse. ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830. p. 1-17. (2024)
- Too Close for Context: Where Students Get Stuck When Close Reading. Jaclyn Carter; Michael Tavel Clarke; Faye Halpern; Derritt Mason; Jessica Nicol; Morgan Vanek. Pedagogy. p. 349-371. (2022)
- “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)
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