Rate My Professor Sascha Morrell

Sascha Morrell is a lecturer in Literary Studies at Monash University’s School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics in the Faculty of Arts. She earned degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College). Prior to joining Monash, she was a Lecturer in English at the University of New England, where in 2015 she received an Award for Teaching Excellence and a Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning from the Australian Office of Learning and Teaching. She also served as a Visiting Research Scholar at New York University in Fall 2015 and maintains roles as Adjunct Lecturer and External Affiliate at the University of New South Wales.

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.