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Department of English

Dr. Jason Richards

Department of English
Office: Hartwell 208
Email: jrichard@brockport.edu

Education:  

Ph.D., English, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2005
M.A., English, California State University, Long Beach, 2000
B.A., Comparative Literature and Classics, CSU, Long Beach, 1997

Awards and Honors:  

Longman Award for World Literature Teaching, Auburn University, 2006
The University of Florida Alumni Fellowship, 2000-2004
Graduate Dean’s List of University Scholars and Artists, CSU, Long Beach, 2000
Outstanding Comprehensive Examination Graduate Award, CSU, Long Beach, 2000
Graduation with Honors, B.A. Comparative Literature, CSU, Long Beach, 1997
Distinguished Student, CSU, Long Beach, College of Liberal Arts, Outstanding Record of Achievement, 1994-95

Publications:

"Melville's (Inter)national Burlesque: Whiteface, Blackface, and 'Benito Cereno.'" American Transcendental Quarterly 21.2 (2007): 73-94.

"Imitation Nation: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Making of African American Selfhood in Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin." Novel 39.2 (2006): 204-20.

"Localizing the Early Republic: Washington Irving and Blackface Culture." ARIEL 35.3-4 (2004): 159-81.

"Herman Melville." Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia. Eds. Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003. 515-17.

Courses Taught:

American Novel I
American Literature I
Literature and Culture
The Transcendental Movement