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Brian Alexander

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Dr. Phil Gentile

Damon Franke, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English

	Damon Franke, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English TEL: 228.214.3361 FAX: 228.214.3242 E-Mail: damon.franke@usm.edu
EDUCATION	B.A. University of California, Berkeley M.A. University of Georgia Ph.D. University of Iowa
RESEARCH INTERESTS	Late Victorian and Modern British literature, modernism, Irish Studies, discourse history, narratology, the Pre-Raphaelites, the Bloomsbury Group, literatures of the environment
BOOKS PUBLISHED	Damon’s study of modernism, Modernist Heresies: British Literary History, 1883-1924, was published by the Ohio State University Press in 2008. He has published articles and reviews in Studies in the Novel, The James Joyce Quarterly, The Journal of Narrative Theory, Nineteenth-Century Prose, English Language Notes, and SubStance. He is also the sponsor of the Gulf Coast chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society.
ARTICLES PUBLISHED	"The Resurrection of Being in the Ricorso of Finnegans Wake." James Joyce Quarterly 45.1 (Fall 2007):115-32. “Hardy’s Ur-Priestess and the Phases of a Novel.” Studies in the Novel 39.2 (Summer 2007): 161-76. "The 'Curious' Pagan Spirit of Pater's The Renaissance." Nineteenth-Century Prose 31.1 (2004): 170-90. "In the 'nummifeed confusionary': Reading the Negative Confession of Finnegans Wake ." The Journal of Narrative Theory 30.1 (Winter 2000): 55-95. "The Cardinal Lemoine Typescripts and the Narrative Cover-up of 'My Old Man.'" English Language Notes 37.1 (September 1999): 64-72.
SELECTED COURSES DESIGNED AND TAUGHT	Graduate Seminar: Modernism and Totality Graduate Seminar: British Literatures of the Environment (with Nicolle Jordan) Senior Seminar: Edwardian Literatures of the Environment Senior Seminar: Generation X Literature and Culture Survey of British Literature, 1790 to present: The Utopian Unconscious Survey of the Modern Novel: Synthesis and the Synthetic Studies in British Literature: Religion and the Origins of Modernism Studies in British Literature: The Life and Works of James Joyce Survey of the Modern Novel: Turn of the Century Adventure and Romance Introduction to Poetry: Beauty, Being, Verse Introduction to Drama Analysis of Literature: How To Do Things with Words World Literature: Paths to Enlightenment Rhetoric and Composition: The Composition of Values The Third Reich and Literature (with Astrid Oesmann) Narrative Literature: The Persistence of Myth Biblical and Classical Literature: Literary Genre and Ancient Culture Interpretation of Literature: Imagining History