MorganDayFrank

I teach and study American and African American literature, with a particular interest in the history of education, cultural administration, and print capitalism. I earned my PhD in English from Stanford University, and I've taught at Yale University and Wesleyan University, as well as Harvard.

I've written about the history of college football, secret societies in Progressive Era literature, disgust as a literary and pedagogical feeling, and fictional scenes where characters are self-consciously not reading. My work has appeared in New Literary HistoryNovelModern Language QuarterlyModernism/Modernity Print Plusn+1 online, and McSweeney's online, and I have a book, Schools of Fiction, from Oxford University Press. I am currently writing a global history of the novella that spans seven(ish) centuries. 

Contact Me

Harvard University
125 Barker Center
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
emfrank[at]fas.harvard.edu