Rate My Professor Sascha Morrell

Her research encompasses modernism, gothic literature, American literature, race, slavery, Marxist literary theory, Victorian literature, zombies, Australian literature, Southern Studies, posthuman theory, Haitian Revolutionary Studies, literature and photography, with focuses on William Faulkner and Herman Melville. Morrell is the co-editor of Flann O’Brien and Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2014). Notable publications include the chapter “George Orwell and the moderns” in The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell (Oxford University Press, 2025), “The novel road to the Global South: Australian Fiction, international exposure and the transnational politics of disadvantage” in The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and “Untitled [Two fictional letters from William Faulkner to Flann O'Brien]” in The Lost Letters of Flann O'Brien (2021). Her work examines the appropriation of Haitian history and cultural motifs, including the zombie, in U.S. fiction, theatre, and film, and explores transnational contexts in Australian literature and ideas of ‘the south’ in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century U.S. literature. As an affiliate of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, she has developed curriculum and supervised research in environmental literature and ecocriticism, addressing themes of natural disasters, interspecies understanding, climate change, sustainability, labor relations, and distributive justice. She currently serves as Honours Coordinator for the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics.