Morgan has written about movies, books, television, stand-up comedy, and baseball. She uses her academic and research backgrounds to bring context to her stories, from historical movements to current-day politics.
In future, she hopes to write more about disability, particularly long covid. If you would like to commission her, please get in touch.
Newsletter
Novel Observations, a newsletter about books and culture
Essays
‘Women, Seated’ Shows How Precarity, Wealth, and ‘Having It All’ Are Not Just American Problems, Jezebel
Scholarship and Seduction in Rosalind Brown’s Practice, The Denver Quarterly 59.3 (print only)
Rape, Revenge, and Writing, Jezebel
Inhabiting and Disavowing Disability in A Different Man, Bright Wall/Dark Room
The first major novel on Long COVID falls for harmful tropes. It doesn’t have to be this way, The Sick Times
Let’s Talk About Dakota Johnson’s Hair In Persuasion, Bustle
Pam & Tommy Is Just A Newer, Nicer Stolen Tape, Bustle
War Is War Is War, Bright Wall/Dark Room
Sin and Redemption in The Immigrant, Bright Wall/Dark Room
Hollywood’s Digital Worlds Head Deeper Into the Uncanny Valley, How Do We Get to Next
The Trouble With the Mets: A Superfan Reckons With Baseball's Domestic Abuse Problem, The Village Voice
The Music is the Mask: Fandom in Velvet Goldmine,Bright Wall/Dark Room
My SDCC Diary: Our Fandom Anthropologist Reports Back, The Toast
Are Miniseries the Future Of Television?, Mic
Interviews
The Sadomasochistic Chain of Post-Soviet Society: A Conversation with Nino Haratischwili, Electric Lit
Changeover: A Conversation with Giri Nathan, Strung
Women’s Bodies May Actually Be Inherently Stronger—But Science Is Only Just Figuring It Out, Jezebel
A Conversation with Susan Choi, The Sewanee Review’s Conglomerate
Pip Adam Locks Giants in a Spaceship to Talk About Incarceration, Electric Lit
Michelle Young on Telling the Story of Rose Valland, the WWII Hero and "Art Spy,” CrimeReads
Julie Keeps Quiet: The Sound of Silence, Strung
Samina Ali On What Happens When Pregnancy Almost Kills You, Electric Lit
“Nesting” Rejects the Easy Answers About Leaving Abusive Relationships: A Conversation with Roisín O’Donnell, Electric Lit
Susan Barker on the Nature of Evil, Female Villains, and the Drive to Make Art, CrimeReads
Adam Ross Discusses Child Actors, Ethics, and the Inspiration Behind “Playworld,” Electric Lit
‘What Happened to Belén’? Her Criminalized Abortion Catalyzed a Women’s Rights Movement in Argentina, Jezebel
“Sky Full of Elephants” Imagines an America Without White People: A Conversation with Cebo Campbell, Electric Lit
Elyse Graham on the Librarian Spies of World War Two, CrimeReads
Julia Phillips’s New Novel is Inspired by a Fairytale About a Girl Who Falls in Love with a Bear, Electric Lit
In Elizabeth Strout’s Novels, The World Changes But People Stay The Same, Bustle
Ismael Cruz Córdova Loves His Elf Ears, Bustle
On Industry, Marisa Abela Takes Control, Bustle
At 14, Kiernan Shipka Almost Got Busted By The Cops, Bustle
Sarah Goldberg Thinks We’re All A Little Terrible, Bustle
Kate Folk Isn’t A Bot... Probably, Bustle
This Oscar-Nominated Cinematographer’s Secret Weapon? Nonviolent Communication, Bustle
Reviews
Netflix’s The Lovebirds is a charming action rom-com, The Daily Dot
Never Rarely Sometimes Always is a powerful film about being a young woman in America, The Daily Dot
Netflix’s supernatural Freud show is as ridiculous as it sounds, The Daily Dot
The Mark Wahlberg-led Netflix film Spenser Confidential is an abysmal failure, The Daily Dot
German period drama Babylon Berlin continues to shine in season 3, The Daily Dot
Pete Davidson crashes and burns in Netflix stand-up special Alive From New York, The Daily Dot
Rob Delaney’s new special is Straight White Male comedy at its peak, The Daily Dot
Apple TV+’s Mythic Quest is an incoherent mess, The Daily Dot
The legacies of colonialism loom in Netflix’s new horror show Ares, The Daily Dot
Amazon’s The Aeronauts fails to reach great heights, The Daily Dot
For All Mankind imagines a less thrilling version of the moon landing, The Daily Dot
A Metrograph Series Wrestles With the Gothic, The Village Voice
Art in the Age of Masculinist Hollywood: Damien Chazelle's La La Land, The Los Angeles Review of Books
Still Running: On Bruce Springsteen’s New Memoir, Born to Run, Brooklyn Magazine
Explainers, Listicles & Shorter Pieces
This Summer’s 40 Most Anticipated Books (2024), Bustle
This Spring’s 44 Most Anticipated Books (2024), Bustle
Here’s The True Story Behind A League Of Their Own, Bustle
How Netflix’s Persuasion Differs From Jane Austen’s Novel, Bustle
The Award For Best Animal Actor Goes To..., Bustle
The End Of The Deep Water Movie Isn’t Like The Book, Bustle
Lucille Ball Was Closer To Communism Than Being The Ricardos Lets On, Bustle