Professor Jago Morrison
Professor - English
Gaskell Building 129
- Email: jago.morrison@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265827
- English
- English and Creative Writing
- Arts and Humanities
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
Jago Morrison is a specialist in contemporary literature. His key areas of expertise are:
- Contemporary Fiction and Security.
- Postcolonial Writing in English, with a special interest in Chinua Achebe.
- Contemporary women’s writing.
Jago welcomes expressions of interest from research students interested in studying to MPhil and PhD level in his specialist areas, including from candidates wishing to pursue critical/creative research projects. Jago is an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Reviewer and represents Brunel at the Council for College and University English (CCUE).
Responsibility
Division Lead, English & Creative Writing
Newest selected publications
Burton, A., Dylan, H. and Morrison, J. (2024) 'Between the secret state and the public sphere: the writer as intermediary'. Intelligence and National Security, 39 (2). pp. 193 - 201. ISSN: 0268-4527 Open Access Link
Morrison, J. (2023) 'The Art of Double-Cross: writers in strategic deception during World War Two'. Intelligence and National Security, 39 (2). pp. 232 - 249. ISSN: 0268-4527 Open Access Link
Morrison, J. and Burton, A. (2023) 'Secrets, Leaks and the Novel: Writers, British Intelligence and the Public Sphere after World War Two'. AAA - Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 47 (1). pp. 71 - 95. ISSN: 0171-5410 Open Access Link
Morrison, J. (2018) 'Tradition and modernity in chinua achebe’s african trilogy'. Research in African Literatures, 49 (4). pp. 14 - 26. ISSN: 0034-5210 Open Access Link
Morrison, J. (2017) 'Terrorism, Security, Precarity: 9/11 Revisited'. Frame: Journal of Literary Studies, 30 (2). pp. 103 - 121. ISSN: 0924-7750 Open Access Link