Office: Keezell
309
Phone: 540.568-3498
Email: gearyrf@jmu.edu
Office Hours:Spring 2008 TT 3:15-4:00 and by appointment
Courses:
Spring 2008
ENG 321I
Specialties: 18th Century British, Gothic,
Religion and Literature
research interests: Secularization in modern literature,
particularly in 18th-century novel. Both my M.A. thesis on Burke's
defense of tradition and the Ph.D. thesis on the transformation
(or seculariztion) of the older concept of prudence concern this
topic indirectly as do, quite explicitly, the articles and presentations
developed out of NEH seminars and the book The Supernatural
in Gothic Fiction: Horror, Belief and the Literary Change.
Education: Ph. D. in English University of Virginia
(1971); M.A. in English University of Virginia (1967); B.A. in English,
summa cum laude, Boston College (1966)
Awards:
• Phi Beta Kappa (Beta of Virginia, 1970)
• NEH Summer Seminar (1976)
• NEH year-long seminar/research grant
• James Madison Educational Leave Grant
• JMU Summer Grant
Publications:
books
The Gothic Supernatural: Horror, Belief, and Literary Change
articles
“The Ironical Mysteries of Time: Ward Moore's Classic Bring the Jubilee.
Classic and Iconoclastic Alternate Hisotyr Science Fiction.” Ed. Edgar
L. Chapman and Carl B. yoke. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2003. 39-48.
“Subverting the Gothic.” Review, 23 (2001): 187-198.
“Carmilla' and the Gothic Legacy: Victorian Transformations of Supernatural
Horro.” The Blood is the Life: Vampires in Literature. Ed. Leonard
Heldreth and mary Pharr. Bowling Green: Bowling Green S U Popular Press, 1999:
19-26.
“On Horror and Religion.” Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from
Poet to King and Beyond. Ed. Clive Bloom. New York: St. Martin’s, 1999:
287-301.
“Charting the Supernature.” Review, 19 (1997): 113-124.
“The Corpse in the Dung Cart: The Night Side of Nature and the Victorian
Supernatural Tale.” Functions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from
the Thirteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Ed.
Joseph Sanders. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1995. 47-54.
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