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Richard Frohock
Associate Professor
Director, 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:
- Redrawing the Boundaries of Early American Literature
- Eigteenth-Century British Colonialism and the Rise of Colonial Studies
- Studies in Early American Literature: The American Enlightenment
Upper Division:
- Crime, Law, and Literature in the Eighteenth Century
- American Literature to 1800: America and the Self
- Journeys in American Wilderness (Honors English)
Selected Publications
"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), forthcoming.
Heroes of Empire: The British Colonial Protagonist in America, 1596-1764 . Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004.
"Adaptation and Cultural Criticism: Les Liaisons dangereuses 1960 and Dangerous Liaisons ," Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen, ed. Robert Mayer (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 157-174.
"Tattoos and Nose Rings: Lionel Wafer's Immersion in Cuna Culture," 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 7 (2002): 27-50.
Honors & Offices
- 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
"Bible Overboard: The Word and the Grand Pirate, George Cusack." American Literature Association. San Francisco, CA. May, 2006.
"Woodes Rogers's World of Words: Creating the Privateer in A Cruising Voyage Round the World (1712)." Society of Early Americanists. Alexandria, VA, 2005.
"John Gay's Heroic Pirates." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Boston, MA. March, 2004.
Current Research & Projects
- Piracy and Privateering
- Narratives of Exploration
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Culture
English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
205 Morrill Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-9474
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