David B. Morris

David Morris wrote the PEN award-winning book *The Culture of Pain* (1991), which initiates a biocultural trilogy that concludes with *Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age* (1998) and *Eros and Illness* (2017). His latest book is *Wanderers: Literature, Culture and the Open Road* (2021).

He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies, as well as a two-year NEH/NSF Joint Fellowship. In 1986 he was awarded the Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

His earlier writing includes two prize-winning books in eighteenth-century British literature—*The Religious Sublime* (1972) and *Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense* (1984). *Earth Warrior* (1995) describes an anti-driftnet campaign in the North Pacific with environmental activist Paul Watson, and *Civil War Duet* (2019) is a cross-generational dialogue with his great grandfather, Newton Brown, who at age 18 left Oberlin College to join the 101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

*The Culture of Pain*—translated into German, Spanish, and Japanese—led to several decades of writing and lecturing to medical and non-medical audiences on pain. This work includes an award-winning article in Arthritis Today, as well as plenary addresses at annual meetings of the American Pain Society, American Academy of Pain Medicine, the American Society for Pain Management Nurses, and The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP). He is also founding co-director and co-teacher of the annual (weeklong) Taos Writing Retreat for Health Professionals, co-sponsored by Kaiser-Permanente and the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

Morris spent twenty years as a self-employed writer from 1980 to 2000, in between periods in academe. His academic work began as an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia and concluded with an interdisciplinary position as University Professor at the University of Virginia, split between English and Medicine. He currently resides in New York City.

Selected recent essays include "How To Speak Postmodern: Medicine, Illness, and Culture" in The Hastings Center Report (2000); "The Poetry of Absence" in *The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry* (2001); "Success Stories: Narrative, Pain, and the Limits of Storylessness,"in *Narrative, Pain, and Suffering*, ed. Carr, Loeser, and Morris (2005); "Eros Modigliani," The Iowa Review (2006); "Un-Forgetting Asclepius: An Erotics of Illness," New Literary History (2007); "Biocultures Manifesto," New Literary History (2007), co-authored with Lennard J. Davis; "Bedside Eros," Atrium (2009); "Sociocultural Dimensions of Pain Management," in *Bonica's Management of Pain*, 4th and 5th edns.; "Dark Ecology: “Dark Ecology: Bio-anthropocentrism in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," ISLE (2012') and "Animal Pain." in *The Meanings of Pain* (ed. Simon van Rysewyk [New York: Springer, 2016], pp. 389-401), among others.