Eric Morel

Biography

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Eric Morel is compelled by the curiosity, creativity, and power of readers. Across his teaching and research, he is interested in promoting critical thought and relationships that bring people closer to what they read, to each other through reading, and to the biosphere they live with and among.

Since graduating from Davidson College, Morel has taught at institutions of different sizes around the country, including the University of Nevada, Reno; the University of Washington in Seattle; the University of Puget Sound; the University of Delaware, and now WSU, Tri-Cities. He designs classes and assignments that emphasize creative applications of reading and community connection, from the solarpunk proposals of his ENG 101 classes to the service learning and public display projects of other courses. He has had the opportunity to teach across the historical span of the English curriculum from the medieval to the contemporary.

Morel’s research participates in the Environmental Humanities, and many of his publications and editorial collaborations have worked specifically to explore and promote the approach of econarratology, which bridges the environmental humanities with the insights and tools of narrative theory. Although chiefly a nineteenth-century Americanist by training, his publications have focused on narrative devices across the range from eighteenth-century British epistolary texts to twenty-first-century citizen science apps. He is currently working on a book project about collective narrative practices in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century narratives.