Rate My Professor Nicholas Morgan

Dr. Nicholas C. Morgan serves as Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Hampden-Sydney College. He earned a B.A. from the New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2011, an M.St. in English Literature from Oxford University in 2012, an M.A. from Columbia University in 2015, an M.Phil. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2020. Before joining Hampden-Sydney College, Morgan taught as a core lecturer in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He contributes to the Fine Arts department, including the Visual Arts program and Western Culture courses.

Morgan's research interests encompass modern and contemporary art, nineteenth-century art, artist’s film and video, gender and sexuality studies, and media theory. His key publications include “John Waters and the Visual Arts” in Refocus: The Films of John Waters, ed. Brian Brems and Michelle E. Moore (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming); “Unlocked Doors: Doug Ischar on Tony Greene, Richard Hawkins, and Abject Desire,” Afterimage vol. 50, no. 4 (2023); “Martha Rosler Reads the Invisible” in Martha Rosler, ed. Sebastian Baden and Luise Leyer (2023); “Flipper’s (1964-67) Dark Camp” in Camp TV of the 1960s: Reassessing the Vast Wasteland, ed. Isabel Pinedo and Wyatt D. Phillips (Oxford University Press, 2023); “[What Happened to the Institutional Critique]? A Roundtable,” November vol. 4 (2023); “Photographic Process as Desire: Mark Morrisroe’s Late Photograms,” Afterimage vol. 50, no. 1 (2023); and “Light Years” in Responses to Untitled (Eye with Comet) by Paul Thek, ed. Richard Porter (2023). Morgan has received the ACLS Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for 2023-24 and the GSAS Research Excellence Dissertation Fellowship from Columbia University for 2017-18.