Bonnie J. Morris
Bonnie J. Morris | |
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| Born | May 14, 1961 |
| Known for | Research on the feminist movement, women's music, lesbian erasure, and women in Chabad Judaism |
| Awards | Lambda Literary Award (finalist) Over the Rainbow Book List (American Library Association) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Binghamton University (PhD) |
| Alma mater | Binghamton University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Women's studies |
| Institutions | Georgetown University George Washington University University of California, Berkeley |
| Notable works | Eden Built By Eves: The Culture of Women's Music Festivals Girl Reel Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture |
Bonnie J. Morris (born May 14, 1961; Los Angeles, California) is an American scholar of women's studies. She completed a PhD in women's history at Binghamton University in 1989 and has taught at various universities including Georgetown University, George Washington University, and University of California, Berkeley.
Morris has published research on various subjects, including the feminist movement, women in Chabad Judaism, the history of women's music, and lesbian erasure. In 2017, her archival collection of the women's music movement was exhibited at the Library of Congress, where Morris also presented the lecture "The Sounds of Feminist Revolution". She is a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist (Eden Built By Eves: The Culture of Women's Music Festivals, Girl Reel, Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor), and winner of two national first-prize chapbooks (The Schoolgirl's Atlas, Sixes and Sevens). In 2018, The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture was named an Over the Rainbow nonfiction selection by the American Library Association.