Frank Shuffelton
Professor Emeritus of English
PhD Stanford University
American literature, early American literature, ethnicity and American literature
Research/Writing interests
I research and publish mostly in the early American and nineteenth-century areas. My focus at the moment is on the literature of the Revolutionary era and the years of the early republic. In the last year or so I have written for presentation or published pieces on early American periodicals, Charles Brockden Brown, Philip Freneau in the Caribbean, Jefferson and architecture, Indian rebels, and political pamphlets of the Revolution. This gives some sense of my range of interests, although larger projects on Thomas Jefferson take most of my time.
Selected publications
- Thomas Hooker, 1586-1647, Princeton 1977
- “Juries of the Common Reader: Crime and Judgment in the Novels of Charles Brockden Brown,” in Charles Brockden Brown, ed. Philip Barnard et. al., Tennessee 2004
- “Binding Ties: Thomas Jefferson, Francis Hopkinson, and the Representation of the Notes on the State of Virginia,” in Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America, ed. Mark L. Kamrath and Sharon M. Harris, Tennessee 2005
- “Thomas Jefferson and the People’s Government,” in Journal of Contemporary Thought 19/20 (2005)
- “On Her Own Footing: Phillis Wheatley in Freedom,” in Genius in Bondage, ed. Vincent Carretta and Philip Gould, Kentucky 2001
- “A Continental Poetics: Scientific Publishing and Scientific Society in Eighteenth-Century America,” in Finding Colonial Americas: Essays Honoring J.A. Leo Lemay, ed. Carla Mulford and David Shields, Delaware 2001
Editor
- A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America, Oxford 1993
- Notes on the State of Virginia, by Thomas Jefferson, Penguin 1999
- The Letters of John and Abigail Adams, Penguin 2003
- The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Jefferson, Cambridge 2008
Recent undergraduate courses
- New York, New York (fall 2006)
- Writing Native America (spring 2006)
- Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville (fall 2004)
- Asian American Literature
Recent graduate courses
- Theorizing America (fall 2006)
- Taylor, Whitman, and Dickinson (fall 2005)
- Origins of the American Novel
Honors and activities
- Mellon Faculty Fellow
- Senior Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities
