Jill Franks, Ph.D.
Professor, English Literature
Austin Peay State University

Email:  franksj@apsu.edu
jill164@aol.com
Phone:  (931) 221-7879
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm. 236

 


Education
Ph.D. English Literature, Rutgers University (1992)
M.A. English Literature, University of Massachusetts (1987)
J.D.   Law, Western New England College (1982)
B.A. Political Science, University of New Hampshire (1978)

Research and Teaching Interests
Twentieth-Century British Fiction
Irish Studies
Psychoanalysis and Literature
Women's Studies and Feminist Theory
Film

Sample Syllabi

English 561C
English 460H

Links to Published Essays, full text

“‘Every civilized body is bound to have its vermin’: The Abject in Women in Love”

“Oxymorons and the Pathetic Fallacy in Evelyn Scott’s The Narrow House: A Lacanian Reading”

“Sex, Guns and Death in Deborah Warner’s Adaptation of The Last September”

Summary of Research Interests

I work in twentieth-century British and Irish studies, combining psychoanalytical, postcolonial, gender, and cultural approaches.  My recent book, Islands and the Modernists, examines how pioneers in the fields of anthropology, literature, painting, and evolution used islands as real and metaphorical laboratories.  I have recently translated, from Italian to English, a book on Thom Gunn’s poetic imagination.  With members of the North American and British Lawrence Societies, I am co-editing a collection about representations of England in D. H. Lawrence’s oeuvre. Recent papers include a comparison of mid- and late-twentieth century Irish women's bildungsromane; a comparison of male and female ethics in Edna O'Brien's novels; an examination of allegory as a vehicle for late modernist concerns in 1950s British novels; and gender performance as a source of melancholy in Elizabeth Bowen's work. 

Publications (Selected)

                                                                       

Monographs

Islands and the Modernists: The Allure of Isolation in Art, Literature and Science.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2006.  206 pp.

Revisionist Resurrection Mythologies: A Study of D. H. Lawrence's Italian Works.  New York: Peter Lang, 1994. 191 pp.

Translated monographs:

The Poetry of Thom Gunn: A Critical Study.  Stefania Michelucci.  Trans. Jill Franks.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2008.  206 pp.

Space and Place in the Works of D. H. Lawrence.   Stefania Michelucci.  Trans. Jill Franks.  McFarland & Company, 2002.  178 pp.

Editions of Literary Texts:

Lady Chatterley’s Lover.   D. H. Lawrence.  Introduction.  Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2004.

Sea and Sardinia.  D. H. Lawrence.  Introductory essay and Notes.  London: Penguin, 1999.

Essay Collection (Co-Editor):

Return to Eastwood: D. H. Lawrence and England.  Ed. Jill Franks, Eleanor Green, Sean Matthews, Peter Preston.  Manuscript proposal accepted by Critical, Cultural and Communication Press, Nottingham, UK. 

Articles in Journals:

"To make a world of his own: Pscyhoanalysis and Weltanschauung in The Man Who Loved Islands."  D. H. Lawrence Studies 15.2 (August 2007).  Eds. Michael Bell, Chong-wha Chung, Virginia Hyde and Nak-chung Paik.  Seoul: The D. H. Lawrence Society of Korea.  147-157.

“Sex, Guns and Death: Deborah Warner’s Adaptation of The Last September.”  New Hibernia Review 10:3 (Autumn 2006).  121-135. 

“Reel Irish: Nationalizing Irish Step Dance and Vaunting the Celtic Tiger.”  Working Papers in Irish Studies 06-3 (Spring 2006).  3-17.

“Oxymorons and the Pathetic Fallacy in Evelyn Scott’s The Narrow House: A Lacanian Reading.”  Tennessee Philological Bulletin vol. LXII (2005).  30-39.

“‘Every civilised body is bound to have its vermin’: The Abject in Women in Love.”  D. H. Lawrence Studies 12.2 (August 2004).  Special issue edited by Michael Bell, Chong-wha Chung, Keith Cushman, and Nak-chung Paik.  Seoul: The D. H. Lawrence Society of Korea.  39-57.

“Frida Kahlo as Body and Icon: Do Love and Feminism Mix?”  Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Academy of Linguistics, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Cancun, 19-20 November 2004.  Ed. Charles Byles. CD-ROM.  Vol. 16, Paper 12 (6 single-spaced pp; no p. #s).  Richmond, VA: Association for Global Business (2004). 

“Basking in Farah’s Gaze: Gender and Colonial Relations in Sydney Pollack’s Out of Africa.”  Tennessee Philological Bulletin vol. XLI (2004).  24-35.

“Men Who Loved Islands:  D. H. Lawrence and J. M. Synge in Sardinia and Aran.”  Etudes Lawrenciennes 28 (2003): 133-147.

Articles in Books:

"Jesting Within: Voices of Parody and Irony as Expressions of Feminisms in Margaret Laurence's Protagonists."  Challenging Territory: The Writing of Margaret Laurence.  Ed. Christian Riegel.  Edmonton, AB: U of Alberta P, 1997.  94-111.

"The Regionalist Community: Indigenous versus Outsider Consciousness in Grazia Deledda's La madre and D. H. Lawrence's Sea and Sardinia."  Regionalism Reconsidered: New Approaches to the Field.  Ed. David Jordan.  New York: Garland, 1994.  87-104.