Bio:
- Ph.D in Literature of the Global South, University of Georgia, 2023
- M.A. in English, Northern Arizona University, 2018
- B.S.Ed in English Education, Northern Arizona University, 2016
Hello! My name is Morgan Richardson Dietz (she/her). After graduating from Murrieta Valley High School, here in Southern California, I attended Northern Arizona University as a double-jack (bachelor’s and master’s student). I earned my doctorate in literature of the Global South from the University of Georgia, where I taught courses with themes ranging from “Postcolonial Literature and Food” to “Motherhood in Contemporary Women’s Writing.” I’ve been teaching college courses since 2016 and love learning alongside my students. When not teaching, you can catch me at all the local dog parks, bookshops, and bakeries!
Courses Taught at MSJC:
C1000 Academic Reading and Writing
C1001 Critical Thinking
LIT/ETHS 280 Multiethnic Literature
Publications:
- Forthcoming 2026: "Metaphors of Purity: Food and Contagion in South Asian Speculative Fiction." Book Chapter accepted for Metaphors and South Asia, edited by Bairam Khan and Premlata Vaishnava, Routledge.
- "Mothers' Bloodlines, Daughters’ Bones: Hannah V Warren's Slaughterhouse for Old Wives' Tales." Southern Humanities Review, Auburn University, Oct. 2024,
- "Mirza Waheed." "The Book of Gold Leaves," The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English. Edited By Manju Jaidka, Tej N. Dhar, Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, Sept. 2023, pp. 454-455.
- "'So Cute, I Could Eat Him Up:' Maternal Hungers in Monica Ali's Brick Lane." Studies in the Novel, vol. 54, no. 4, 2022, pp. 410-425.
- "The Politics of Breastfeeding in Northeast Indian Literature." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, vol. 9, no. 3, 2022, pp. 317-336.
- "Review of Dastarkhwan: Food Writing from Muslim South Asia, edited by Claire Chambers." Postcolonial Interventions: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. VI, no. 2, July 2021, pp. 177–185.
- "Redheaded Physiognomy in Salman Rushdie's Midnight’s Children." The Explicator, vol. 76, no. 2, 2017, pp. 60-62.