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Adam Beach
Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo
Office: Robert Bell 264
Phone: (765) 285-8373
E-mail: arbeach@bsu.edu
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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.
Publications
- "Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Slavery in the Ottoman (and the
British) Empire," Philological Quarterly (forthcoming Fall 2008).
- "Restoration Poetry and the Failure of English Tangier.” SEL:
Studies In English Literature (Forthcoming, Summer 2008).
- "Baffled Colonial Discourse: Representing the First Decade of
English Tangier." Restoration (Forthcoming, Fall 2007), 30 pgs.
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- “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.
- “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
Undergraduate: British Literature 1: Beginnings
to 1780, Introduction to English Studies, The Eighteenth-Century Novel
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