Justin Morris, PhD (he/him/his) is a Tkaronto-based media historian, archival programmer, and educator. Morris teaches classes on animation history, the historiography of early cinema, intermedial adaptation, serialization, and genre film for the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University. He holds the position of Sessional Lecturer II at the Cinema Studies Institute, where he completed his PhD examining intermediality in mid-century Hollywood vis-à-vis feminist film historiography and Benjamin’s theorization of the constellation.
As a Postdoctoral Fellow at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Morris’ current research activates the Film Library & Media Archives’ animation collections to explore the history of commercial animation in Canada. His writing has appeared in The Velvet Light Trap, CineAction, Discourse, the Canadian Journal of Film & Media Studies, The Soundtrack Album: Listening to Media (Routledge, 2020), and The Hanna-Barbera Anthology (University of Texas Press, forthcoming). Morris recalls pressing his face against the television in his grandparents’ basement to get a better vantage on the Saltair Pavilion in Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962).
E: justinj.morris@mail.utoronto.ca
