Morgan Day Frank

This book is gonna be massive — it’ll totally change the way the discipline understands itself.

High School English and the Making of American Readers Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars

As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵

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Thanks Laura! Can’t wait to read your book

Thanks Xander!!

Excited to share that my book, Notes on the Novella, is under contract with Princeton UP. It's made up of thirty "notes" on thirty different novellas. Boccaccio, Cervantes, de Zayas, Eliot, James, Larsen, Fuentes, Pynchon, Delany, Spark, Lispector, Morrison, Ferrante -- and more!

Excited to share that my book, Notes on the Novella, is under contract with Princeton UP. It's made up of thirty "notes" on thirty different novellas. Boccaccio, Cervantes, de Zayas, Eliot, James, Larsen, Fuentes, Pynchon, Delany, Spark, Lispector, Morrison, Ferrante -- and more!

I read zillions of Perry Mason novels and wrote about Erle Stanley Gardner, Cold War ideas of justice, and the War on Crime in the latest issue of Arizona Quarterly: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Experimental A compelling revision of the history of experimental writing from Pound and Stein to Language poetry, disclosing its uses and its limits.In this bold new study of twentieth-century American writing an...

Be on the cutting edge of scholarship (in academic time) by acquiring my five-year-old monograph that one reviewer criticized for having too many footnotes. Currently 40% off @hopkinspress.bsky.social with code HHOL24. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

The Affective Bind Abstract. This essay considers the raucous ontology of the feeling body in relation to the expanding field of affect studies. It first shows how psychophys

In the off-chance you’re interested in affect theory as a materialist theology and/or my book project on feminist an-aesthetics, you’ll find that and much smarter essays (by @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social, @katemarshall.bsky.social, & Thomas Constaninesco) in the pages of American Literary History.