Barbara Bryce Morris cofounded the MFA research and writing program at Parsons the New School for Design, where she works with digital designers, game designers, and filmmakers. She is a former film scholar whose work has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship and grants from the ACLS and the governments of Spain and Argentina. Morris is also Associate Producer of “Finding the First Song,” a documentary film in pre-production.
Barbara Bryce Morris
Advertisement
Writing on Public Books
Comics versus Franquismo
In the late 1960s, dictator Francisco Franco slowly opened Spain to tourism while continuing to obliterate public memory of the retributions meted out after the Civil War (1936–9). I spent those years studying in Madrid, living for two semesters with a Spanish family. My professors were among the most distinguished of those who hadn’t sought […]
The Corner Office
This is a new installment of Public Streets, a biweekly urban observations series curated by Ellis Avery. At the corner of 60th and Madison, high-end retail logos create an upscale fantasia: DKNY, Calvin Klein, and Bally. Byron Breeze, Jr., also known as “Soulja,” has made this corner the “office” where he does most of his […]
Spain’s Unending War
The best seller El lector de Julio Verne (The Reader of Jules Verne) by Spanish author Almudena Grandes is the second novel in a planned series of six, Episodios de una guerra interminable (Episodes of an Unending War), a large-scale narrative project that will aim to convey the devastating trajectory of the first twenty-five years […]
