Adam J. Frank

Professor
phone 604 822 4087
Education

BA, Brown University
Duke University, PhD


About

Adam Frank’s research and teaching areas include affect theory and poetics in US literature and culture. 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
  • Affect and object-relations theory
  • Sound/radio studies
  • Feminist science and technology studies

I am currently at work on a project titled “Mad Science, or a Survey of Motives for Criticism” that explores the role that affect and object-relations theory may play in grounding a “science” of literary criticism. The project unfolds a counter-transferential method that attends to the critic’s affective states as these index motives and phantasies that can be analyzed in historical, socio-political, and conceptual context. Structural aspects of “subjectivity” serve to ground critical practices in a rigorous subjectivism. I have given several papers on this project at the MLA, 4S, ACLA, and invited presentations at Université de Grenoble. I am currently preparing an essay on Mary McCarthy for a special issue of Textual Practice.

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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 affect theory and poetics in US literature and culture. 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
  • Affect and object-relations theory
  • Sound/radio studies
  • Feminist science and technology studies

I am currently at work on a project titled “Mad Science, or a Survey of Motives for Criticism” that explores the role that affect and object-relations theory may play in grounding a “science” of literary criticism. The project unfolds a counter-transferential method that attends to the critic’s affective states as these index motives and phantasies that can be analyzed in historical, socio-political, and conceptual context. Structural aspects of “subjectivity” serve to ground critical practices in a rigorous subjectivism. I have given several papers on this project at the MLA, 4S, ACLA, and invited presentations at Université de Grenoble. I am currently preparing an essay on Mary McCarthy for a special issue of Textual Practice.

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

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Adam Frank’s research and teaching areas include affect theory and poetics in US literature and culture. 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
  • Affect and object-relations theory
  • Sound/radio studies
  • Feminist science and technology studies

I am currently at work on a project titled “Mad Science, or a Survey of Motives for Criticism” that explores the role that affect and object-relations theory may play in grounding a “science” of literary criticism. The project unfolds a counter-transferential method that attends to the critic’s affective states as these index motives and phantasies that can be analyzed in historical, socio-political, and conceptual context. Structural aspects of “subjectivity” serve to ground critical practices in a rigorous subjectivism. I have given several papers on this project at the MLA, 4S, ACLA, and invited presentations at Université de Grenoble. I am currently preparing an essay on Mary McCarthy for a special issue of Textual Practice.

Research networks:

Publications keyboard_arrow_down

Books:

 

Book Chapters or Journal Articles:

 

Audio Recordings:

Additional Description keyboard_arrow_down