Adam J. Frank

Professor
phone 604 822 4087
Education

BA, Brown University
Duke University, PhD


About

Adam Frank’s research and teaching areas include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and media, histories and theories of affect and feeling, and science and technology studies. His essays have appeared in ELHCriticismCritical Inquiry, Science in Context, and elsewhere. He is the author of Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol (Fordham University Press, 2015), co-author (with Elizabeth Wilson) of A Silvan Tomkins Handbook (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) , and co-editor (with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick) of Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader (Duke University Press, 1995). He has also produced a dozen recorded audiodramas in collaboration with composers locally, nationally, and internationally.


Teaching


Research

Areas of Specialization:

  • Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, media, and poetics
  • Theories and histories of affect and object-relations theory
  • Sound/radio studies
  • Science and technology studies

I am currently at work on two main projects:

  • I am completing work on a book manuscript based on a large-scale research-creation project titled Radio Free Stein (supported by a SSHRC Insight Grant 2013-19). In collaboration with several composers, this critical sound project renders nine plays by Gertrude Stein as radio theater. Performances associated with this project have taken place in Vancouver (at the Western Front and The Cultch), in New York City (at Symphony Space), and in Paris (at the Hôtel de Lauzun).
  • “A Survey of Motives for Criticism”: Why shouldn’t a critical and reflexive account of subjectivity play a central role in our thinking? There appears to be something “embarrassing” about subjectivity, and I take the remarkable downward shift in the cultural prestige of psychoanalysis over the last several decades to index this embarrassment. My current research explores the various uses of Freud’s notion of “psychic reality,” debates on phantasy (or fantasy), and pursues a genealogy of the pejorative term “psychologization.”

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Additional Description


Adam J. Frank

Professor
phone 604 822 4087
Education

BA, Brown University
Duke University, PhD


About

Adam Frank’s research and teaching areas include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and media, histories and theories of affect and feeling, and science and technology studies. His essays have appeared in ELHCriticismCritical Inquiry, Science in Context, and elsewhere. He is the author of Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol (Fordham University Press, 2015), co-author (with Elizabeth Wilson) of A Silvan Tomkins Handbook (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) , and co-editor (with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick) of Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader (Duke University Press, 1995). He has also produced a dozen recorded audiodramas in collaboration with composers locally, nationally, and internationally.


Teaching


Research

Areas of Specialization:

  • Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, media, and poetics
  • Theories and histories of affect and object-relations theory
  • Sound/radio studies
  • Science and technology studies

I am currently at work on two main projects:

  • I am completing work on a book manuscript based on a large-scale research-creation project titled Radio Free Stein (supported by a SSHRC Insight Grant 2013-19). In collaboration with several composers, this critical sound project renders nine plays by Gertrude Stein as radio theater. Performances associated with this project have taken place in Vancouver (at the Western Front and The Cultch), in New York City (at Symphony Space), and in Paris (at the Hôtel de Lauzun).
  • “A Survey of Motives for Criticism”: Why shouldn’t a critical and reflexive account of subjectivity play a central role in our thinking? There appears to be something “embarrassing” about subjectivity, and I take the remarkable downward shift in the cultural prestige of psychoanalysis over the last several decades to index this embarrassment. My current research explores the various uses of Freud’s notion of “psychic reality,” debates on phantasy (or fantasy), and pursues a genealogy of the pejorative term “psychologization.”

Research networks:


Publications

Books:

 

Book Chapters or Journal Articles:

 

Audio Recordings:


Additional Description


Adam J. Frank

Professor
phone 604 822 4087
Education

BA, Brown University
Duke University, PhD

About keyboard_arrow_down

Adam Frank’s research and teaching areas include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and media, histories and theories of affect and feeling, and science and technology studies. His essays have appeared in ELHCriticismCritical Inquiry, Science in Context, and elsewhere. He is the author of Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol (Fordham University Press, 2015), co-author (with Elizabeth Wilson) of A Silvan Tomkins Handbook (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) , and co-editor (with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick) of Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader (Duke University Press, 1995). He has also produced a dozen recorded audiodramas in collaboration with composers locally, nationally, and internationally.

Teaching keyboard_arrow_down
Research keyboard_arrow_down

Areas of Specialization:

  • Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, media, and poetics
  • Theories and histories of affect and object-relations theory
  • Sound/radio studies
  • Science and technology studies

I am currently at work on two main projects:

  • I am completing work on a book manuscript based on a large-scale research-creation project titled Radio Free Stein (supported by a SSHRC Insight Grant 2013-19). In collaboration with several composers, this critical sound project renders nine plays by Gertrude Stein as radio theater. Performances associated with this project have taken place in Vancouver (at the Western Front and The Cultch), in New York City (at Symphony Space), and in Paris (at the Hôtel de Lauzun).
  • “A Survey of Motives for Criticism”: Why shouldn’t a critical and reflexive account of subjectivity play a central role in our thinking? There appears to be something “embarrassing” about subjectivity, and I take the remarkable downward shift in the cultural prestige of psychoanalysis over the last several decades to index this embarrassment. My current research explores the various uses of Freud’s notion of “psychic reality,” debates on phantasy (or fantasy), and pursues a genealogy of the pejorative term “psychologization.”

Research networks:

Publications keyboard_arrow_down

Books:

 

Book Chapters or Journal Articles:

 

Audio Recordings:

Additional Description keyboard_arrow_down