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Frank Felsenstein teaches in the English Department and Ball State's Honors College, including courses on literature and ethnicity, on John Locke, and the History of the Book.
Accomplishments
- Reader in 18th-century studies, University of Leeds, England -- "reader" is a British designation given to a person on the basis of his or her new or cutting-edge research.
- Founding director of the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College in New York.
- His most recently published book, English Trader, Indian Maid: Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in the New World, has been adopted as a course in English at Cambridge and elsewhere.
- Spent a year as a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University.
- His doctoral thesis formed the basis of his first book, a critical edition of Tobias Smollett's Travels through France and Italy, currently in its fifth printing.
- Author of Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular Culture, 1660-1830.
- Editor of Peter Aram's 18th-century horticultural work, A Practical Treatise of Flowers.
- Co-curator of several exhibitions, including The Jew as Other: A Century of English Caricature, 1730-1830.
Education
- Bachelor's and doctoral degrees in English from the University of Leeds in England.
