FIG Faculty: Robert Voelker-Morris, Associate Director, UO Online, Office of the Provost
Robert Voelker-Morris has been an instructor at the University of Oregon since 2003. When much younger, one of Robert’s goals was to collect 10,000 comic books. A goal that has taken over thirty years to meet. A love of visual story-telling made its way into Robert’s research and scholarship such as publication on the gender roles and stereotypes of male superheroes and the effects they have on our culture in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21504857.2014.889732.
Many of Robert’s teaching interests are focused on first-year experiences that have included co-teaching freshman seminars at the UO. Courses have included Creative Collaborations and Art Meets Science: Making the Invisible Visible - see: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/aad199artmeetsscience/. An additional course of long standing has focused on intersections of Arts and Visual Literacy. This course was a perfect blending of Robert’s research and interests, such as his undergraduate degree in Art History (from Oregon State, yep!), photography, graphic design, cinematic technique and theory, and popular culture studies.
Robert currently works for UO Online, Office of the Provost and received his Masters degree in Museum Studies, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Lane County History Museum. Robert is an affiliated faculty member in the UO’s Comics and Cartoon Studies, https://comics.uoregon.edu/
Email: rmorris1@uoregon.edu
