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Jennifer Frangos
Assistant Professor
Doctoral Faculty
120 Cockefair Hall
816.235.2559
frangosj@umkc.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 12:00-3:00 or by appointment |
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My current research explores what Eve Sedgwick has called “perverse histories and local possibilities” by tracing available tropes for understanding and enacting sexual desire between women in eighteenth-century British print culture. Knowledge about and the practice of sexual relations between women was of course influenced by larger social contexts, and this project tracks the ways in which the discourse of female sexualities interacted with and ran counter to broader normative conventions, demonstrating how the circulation of these tropes in the work of writers including Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, Henry Fielding, and John Cleland resonates within a complex network of discourses, including legal and medical definitions of the human body; cultural conceptions and regulatory frameworks surrounding sex and sexual practice; the emerging middle-class and the institutions of courtship and marriage; the political valences of satire; and, not least, the developing category of “literature” itself. I am also co-editor of a collection entitled Teaching the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century (forthcoming, 2009).
Degrees:
- Ph.D., English and Women's Studies, Stony Brook University, 2001
- M.A., English, University at Buffalo, 1994
- A.B., cum laude, Vassar College, 1990
Areas of Specialization:
- Eighteenth-century British literature and culture
- History of sexuality
- Feminist theory, queer theory
- Cultural studies, Transatlantic studies
Courses:
- English 350: The 18th Century Novel
- English 355: The Novel before 1900
- English 415/5515: The Restoration and Early 18th-Century British Literature
- English 449: Publishing Practicum
- English 5550: Neo-Classical Literature
Selected Articles:
“Manl(e)y Fictions: The Woman in Man’s Clothes and the Pleasures of Delarivier Manley’s ‘new Cabal,’” Sexual Perversions 1650–1890, ed. Julie Peakman (Palgrave, 2009), 95–116.
“Ghosts in the Machine: Eighteenth-Century Apparitions and the Discourses of Enlightenment,” Intersections 9: ‘Spirits Unseen: The Representation of Subtle Bodies in Early Modern European Culture,’ ed. Christine Göttler and Wolfgang Neuber (Leiden: Brill, 2007) 313–29.
“Aphra Behn’s Cunning Stunts: ‘To the fair Clarinda’,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 45:1 (Spring 2004): 21–40.
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