Meaghan Morris
Meaghan Morris (born 5 October 1950) is an Australian scholar of cultural studies. She is currently a Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Life. Born in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Morris was raised in Newcastle, New South Wales. Morris enrolled in a B.A. program in English and French at the University of Sydney. In Sydney, she met John Flaus, a film theorist and actor famous who would become a significant influence in the development of Australian cultural studies. She also became engaged in the work of British feminist scholar Juliet Mitchell and gave  seminars on Mitchell's book "Psychoanalysis and Feminism" while pursuing an MLitt from the University of Paris-VIII on a French government scholarship between 1976 and 1978. Morris completed her dissertation on Madame de Tencin, a salonniere from the first half of the eighteenth century. Upon returning to Australia, Morris published two edited volumes informed by her intellectual experiences in France and also featuring English translations of work by Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Luce Irigaray, and Michel Foucault. She later received a Ph.D. at the University of Technology, Sydney, where she wrote her dissertation on the subject of  history in popular culture. In 1995, she and anthropologist Stephen Muecke started the journal "The UTS Review", which in 2002 became "Cultural Studies Review". Around this same time, Morris left for Hong Kong to take up the post of professorial chair at Lingnan University. In 2009 she joined the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney and for some years worked half the year in Hong Kong and half in Australia. In addition to teaching and writing, Morris has been Senior Editor of "TRACES", a multi-lingual journal of cultural theory published by Hong Kong University  Press, and has served as Chair of the international Association for Cultural Studies and of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society. She serves on the editorial boards of more than twenty journals, including "Cultural Studies Review", "Qualitative Inquiry", and "Public Culture". She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities.