J. Jeffrey Franklin, Associate Professor

Courses Taught Regularly

• ENGL 4580/5580, The Victorian Age (British literature 1837-1901)
  
• ENGL 4210/5210, History of the English Novel II (19th-20th century)
  
• ENGL 4025, Advanced Writing Workshop: Poetry
  
• ENGL 3001, Critical Writing

Other Courses Taught

• ENGL 4200/5200, History of the English Novel I (16th-18th century)
  
• ENGL 6015, From Decadence to Modernism: British Literature 1880-1920
  
• ENGL 4700/5004, Modern British & Irish Literature: Literature of the British Empire
  
• ENGL 4180, Argumentation and Logic

Publications (short list)

Scholarly book:

Serious Play: The Cultural Form of the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel. Philadelphia: U Pennsylvania P, 1999.

Essays:

"Memory as the Nexus of Identity, Empire, and Evolution in George Eliot's Middlemarch and H. Rider Haggard's She." Cahiers victoriens & édouardiens 53 (2001): 141-170.

"The Counter-Invasion of Britain by Buddhism in Marie Corelli's A Romance of Two Worlds and H. Rider Haggard's Ayesha: The Return of She."  Victorian Literature and Culture 31.1 (spring 2003).

Poems:

Poems have appeared recently in such journals as Many Mountains Moving, New England Review, Shendandoah, and Third Coast, as well as in the 2002 edition of Best American Poetry.

Works in Progress:

Poetry Manuscript: The Persistence of Place, currently under submission.

Scholarly Book: Victorian Buddhism: The Literary and Cultural Construction of Buddhism in Late-Victorian Britain, in progress.