Biography
Justin Morris (he/him/his) is a media historian-about-town who teaches classes on animation history, the historiography of early cinema, intermedial adaptation, serialization, and genre film for UTSG, UTM, UTSC, & TMU. He holds the position of Sessional Lecturer II at the Cinema Studies Institute, where he completed his PhD examining intermediality in mid-century Hollywood vis-à-vis feminist film historiography and Benjamin’s theorization of the constellation.
Justin is also a Postdoctoral Fellow at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. His current research activates Media Commons Archives’ animation collections to explore the history of commercial animation in Canada. His writing has appeared in The Velvet Light Trap, CineAction, Discourse, the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, The Soundtrack Album: Listening to Media (Routledge, 2020), and The Hanna-Barbera Anthology (University of Texas Press, forthcoming). Justin’s earliest memory is of pressing his face against the television in a brightly-lit basement to get a better vantage on the Saltair Pavilion in Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962).
Previously taught courses at CSI
- CIN105Y1 – Introduction to Film Study (Summer 2020)
- CIN215H1 – Fantasy Film (Winter 2025)
- CIN322H1 – Cult Cinema (Fall 2021)
- CIN340H1 – Seriality
Courses in 2025/26
- CIN210H1F - Horror Film