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Adam Beach
Associate Professor
Assistant Chair
PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo (2000)
M.A., Ohio State University (1996)
Office: Robert Bell 297
Phone: (765) 285-8583
E-mail:
arbeach@bsu.edu
Dr. Beach’s research and teaching revolves around the issues of
nationalism, colonialism and slavery in the literature of the long
eighteenth century in England, with a particular emphasis on the
Restoration and early eighteenth century periods. Most recently, he
has written about literature related to the failed
seventeenth-century English colony in Tangier, Morocco and about
British writings on slavery in the non-British world. His current
research focuses on British depictions of slavery in North Africa
and the Mediterranean, on the fate of African and European slaves in
the region, and on the best ways to think about comparative slave
institutions in the early modern world. In addition to teaching
courses on these subjects and on literary theory, Dr. Beach also
enjoys offering classes on narratives about deserted islands in
Anglo-American literature and on post-colonial and feminist
rewritings of canonical British literature.
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Areas of Specialization
The “long eighteenth century” in Britain (from the Restoration through
the Romantic era); British literature and drama; literary theory with
particular emphasis on colonial and post-colonial discourse; global
slave cultures in the early modern period.
Publications
- “Behn’s Oroonoko, the Gold Coast, and Slavery in the Early
Modern Atlantic World,” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
(Forthcoming, Spring 2010).
- "Restoration Poetry and the Failure of English Tangier.” SEL:
Studies In English Literature 1500-1900. 48.3 (2008): 547-67.
- "Baffled Colonial Discourse: Representing the First Decade of
English Tangier." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture,
1660-1700. 31.2 (Fall 2007): 21-41.
- “Satirizing English Tangier in Samuel Pepys's Diary and
Tangier Papers,” in Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early
Modern English Writings, ed. Goran Stanivukovic. Palgrave, 2007.
227-44.
- "Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Slavery in the Ottoman (and the
British) Empire," Philological Quarterly 85 (2006): 293-314.
- “Anti-Colonist Discourse, Tragicomedy, and the ‘American’ Behn.”
Comparative Drama 38 (2004): 213-33.
- "Carnival Politics, Generous Satire, and Nationalist Spectacle in
Behn's 'The Rover.'" Eighteenth-Century Life 28.3 (2004):
1-19.
- "The Creation of a Classical Language in the Eighteenth Century:
Standardizing English, Cultural Imperialism, and the Future of the
Literary Canon." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 43
(2001): 117-41.
- "A Profound Pessimism About the Empire: The Isle of Pines,
English Degeneracy and Dutch Supremacy.” The Eighteenth-Century: Theory
and Interpretation 41 (2000): 21-36.
Courses
Graduate: Restoration and 18th-century British Literature;
Literary Theory 2; Writing in the Profession.
Undergraduate: British Literature 1: Beginnings to 1780;
Introduction to English Studies; Eighteenth Century British Literature;
Honors Humanities Sequence.
Special Topics: Deserted and Exotic Islands in Anglo-American
Literature and Culture; Literary Metafiction: Hearing the Other Side of
the Story.
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