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Richard Frohock
Associate Professor
Director of First-Year Composition
PhD University of California, Santa Barbara
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Early American Literature
- 18th-Century British Literature
Recent Upper Division & Graduate Courses Taught
Graduate Seminars:
- Transatlanticism: The Sea Voyage Narrative
- Crime, Transgression, and Punishment in Early American Culture
- Redrawing the Boundaries of Early American Literature
- Eigteenth-Century British Colonialism and the Rise of Colonial Studies
Upper Division:
- Benjamin Franklin and his Reading
- Crime, Law, and Literature in the Eighteenth Century
- American Literature to 1800: America and the Self
- Journeys in American Wilderness (Honors English)
Selected Publications
"Exquemelin's Buccaneers: Violence, Authority, and the Word in Early Caribbean History." Forthcoming in Eighteenth-Century Life 34.1 (2009).
“Bible Overboard: the Word and the Grand Pirate, George Cusack.” Early American Literature 42 (2007): 263-283.
"Woodes Rogers's World of Words: Creating the Privateer in A Cruising Voyage Round the World (1712)," Historical Boundaries, Narrative Form, ed. Lorna Clymer and Robert Mayer. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. 56-72..
Heroes of Empire: The British Colonial Protagonist in America, 1596-1764 . Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004.
Honors & Offices
- Editor, Society of Early Americanists Newsletter
- American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Teaching Award (1999)
Recent Grants & Research Trips
- Mellon Fellowship for Study at the Harry Ransom Research Center, Austin TX (2006)
- Arts and Sciences Research Grant, Oklahoma State University (2005)
- English Department Travel Grant (2001, 2004)
- Oklahoma Humanities Council Grant (2000, 2002, 2004)
Recent Conference Presentations
"The Speedwell Dispute: Shelvocke, Betagh, and the Rhetoric of the Voyage." Society of Early Americanists. Hamilton, Bermuda. March 2009.
“Cruising the Pacific: British Expeditions to the Coastline of the Americas in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Portland, OR. March 2008.
“Captain Bartholomew Sharp and the ‘Sacred Hunger of Gold.’” Society of Early Americanists. Williamsburg, VA. June 2007.
“Bible Overboard: The Word and the Grand Pirate, George Cusack.” American Literature Association. San Francisco, CA. May 2006.
Current Research & Projects
- Piracy and Privateering
- Narratives of Exploration
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Culture
English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
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Stillwater, OK 74078
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