Dr. Maggie Morris Davis
Assistant Professor
English
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 421p
Office Hours
By appointment
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Research
Current Courses
ENG 435.002 Critical Conversations in the Teaching of English
ENG 296.001 Teaching Diverse Readers and Texts
ENG 435.001 Critical Conversations in the Teaching of English
ENG 296.001 Teaching Diverse Readers and Texts
ENG 296.004 Teaching Diverse Readers and Texts
Book, Chapter
Morris Davis, M. “‘When he saw the pencil put to paper’: The Meaning Making of Children’s Language in Depression-era Harlem.” (2025)
Morris Davis, M. “Markers of Class: The Antebellum Children’s Book Adaptations of The Lamplighter and Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” (2023)
Journal Article
Morris Davis, M. “‘[H]e Realized the Shabbiness of His Own Self’: Reading Children in Poverty in Twain’s Adaptation Network.” (2025)
Chen, W., & Morris Davis, M. “Recovering the Worker in Meridel Le Sueur’s Worker Writers (1939/1982).” (2024)
Morris Davis, M. “‘I Thought Maby You Might Help as You Other Little Children’: Using Letters to Mrs. Roosevelt to Reread the Classed Other in Depression-Era Children’s Literature.” (2024)
Byrnside, A., & Morris Davis, M. “Their Worlds Felt Smaller: Rebuilding Classroom Communities in Pandemic Times.” (2022)
Morris Davis, M., & Morris, W. “‘People of this world are less inclined to shoot a hostess’: The Moral Authority of Fargo’s Midwestern Girlhood.” (2019)
Presentations
“‘Beneath View’: Learning from the Federal Writers’ Project Archive.”. REACH Summer Exploration Program. (2025)
“Making Visible Rural Literacies: Possibilities from using Adaptation Theory in a Secondary ELA Classroom.”. Modern Language Association. (2025)
“Meridel Le Sueur’s Radical Vision for Worker Writing in the 1930s and Its Literary Lessons for Today.”. Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Symposium. (2025)
“Writing Shared Futures: Growing the Place-based Literacies of Rural Learners.”. National Council of Teachers of English. (2025)
“A Cultural ‘Infrastructure’ for Worker Writing: Meridel Le Sueur’s Radical Vision in the 1930s and Its Literary Lessons for Today.”. Benedictine University Faculty Colloquium Series. (2024)
“Finding the Child in the FWP Archive.”. Kluge Scholar Talk. (2024)
“‘Methods of Reordering the World’: Using Adaptation Theory to Center Inquiry in Literature Instruction.”. American Educational Research Association. (2024)
“Restorying rurality: Using adaptation theory to position rural learners as agential storytellers.”. National Council of Teachers of English. (2024)
“‘[P]eople lacking in material things’: Valuing the Working Class in Lenski’s Regionals.”. Valuing: 2nd Biennial Symposium at Hollins University. (2024)
“‘Beneath View’: Finding the Child in the Federal Writer’s Project Archive.”. Library of Congress Symposium: Rewriting America: Reconsidering the Federal Writers' Project 80 Years Later. (2023)
Grants & Contracts
New Faculty Initiative Grant (NFIG): “‘Method(s) of Reordering the World’: Using literary theory to center inquiry in secondary English language arts (ELA) literature instruction.”. Illinois State University. ($3,500). Illinois State University. (2024)