amelia morris

BOOKS

Smith, N. and Morris, A. (forthcoming June 2026). Fat State: The Body Politics of Austerity submitted to New York University Press in September 2025.

Morris, A. (forthcoming, February 2027). What Are Celebrities For? Bristol University Press.

Morris, A. (2019). The Politics of Weight: Feminist Dichotomies of Power in Dieting. London. Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 1 – 202. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13670-3.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

Morris, A. (in press). Buffy’s ‘Slay’ Era: Instagram, Escapism and the Fashion of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in an Age of ‘Perma-Crisis.’ in Coming Back Stronger: 90s Nostalgia in Contemporary Media Culture edited by Ewen, N. Cobb, S. and Hamad, H. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 1 – 42.

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Morris, A. 2026. The 1950s shit: pregnancy, the far-right and a ‘Tayvis’ baby. Celebrity Studies. Pp. 1 – 31. DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2026.2631401.

Morris, A. and Smith, N. 2024. Fat scrounger, lean times: a tale of two bodies in austerity Britain. British Politics. 20(4). pp.579 – 598. DOI: 10.1057/s41293-024-00273-

Shortlisted for ‘Best Article’ award by the British Politics journal (2025).

Morris, A. 2025. Drew a map on your bedroom ceiling: Fandoms, nostalgic girlhood and digital bedroom cultures in the Swiftie-sphere. Celebrity Studies, 16(1), pp.77 – 95. DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2024.2338540

Morris, A. and Oliver, K. 2022. The politics of friendship as resistance to the neoliberal university at UK conferences. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 43(4). Pp.603-622. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2022.2042193.

Morris, A., Coles-Kemp, L. and Jones, W. 2020. Digitalised welfare: Systems for both seeing and working with mess. In WebSci’20 Workshop: Digital (In)Equality, Digital Inclusion, Digital Humanism. ACM. Pp. 26 – 31. DOI: 10.1145/3394332.3492825.

Coles-Kemp, L., Ashenden, D. and Morris, A. 2020. Universal Credit and Digital Design. Policy, Design and Practice. 3(2), Pp.177-188. DOI: 10.1080/25741292.2020.1760414.

Oliver, K. and Morris, A. 2019. (dis-)Belonging Bodies: negotiating outsider-ness and embodied surveillance at academic conferences. Gender, Place and Culture. Pp. 27 (6), 765-787. DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2019. 1609913.