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Dr. Frank Mabee Assistant Professor

Contact Information:
Room: Miller Hall, Room 27A
Phone: 978-665-4832
Email: fmabee@fsc.edu

Office Hours: Fall 2009 ~ Mon & Wed 12:30 - 1:45

Education:

B.A. English, Summa Cum Laude, University of Tennessee

M.A. English, University of Southern California

Ph.D. English, University of Southern California

Courses Taught:

  • British Literature II: Pepys to Shelley
  • World Literature II
  • Writing I: Race and Gender in Horror
  • Writing II: Punk, Style and Rebellion
  • Gothic Returns: Literature and the Uncanny (Graduate)

Research Interests:

Romantic Literature and Culture; The Gothic;  Radicalism and Revolutionary Culture and Historiography Cultural Studies;  Psychogeography; The Long Eighteenth Century;  Critical Theory (Marxist, Feminist, Psychoanalytic, Postcolonial); The Novel;  Lyric Poetry;  Working-Class and Plebeian Studies

Current Projects:

The Pastured Sea: Maritime Radicalism and British Romanticism (book project)

“The Happy Revolutionaries: Contesting Rights and Rewards at Spithead and the Nore.”  (Article)

“Mutiny without Country: Nationalism in Byron’s The Island.”  (Article)

Krishnamurthy, ed.  The Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Britain (Book Review)

Representative Publications:

“The Spithead Mutiny and Urban Radicalism in the 1790s.”  Romanticism 13.2 (2007): 133-144.

Professional Affiliations:

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Modern Language Association, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Wordsworth-Coleridge Association.