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Mark L Kamrath

• Associate Professor

mkamrath@mail.ucf.edu
407 823 2525
Office Hours: T/R 10:30 a.m to 11:45 a.m & by appointment
Campus Location: 417c Colbourn Hall

Mark Kamrath is General Editor of the Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition http://www.brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu, and Associate Director of the Center for Humanities and Digital Research http://chdr.cah.ucf.edu/ He teaches early American literature to 1865, the American novel to the Civil War, Native American literature, and courses in bibliography and research as well as digital humanities. He has served as an MLA Commitee on Scholarly Editions Inspector, and as a grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions Grant program. He is currently on the Executive Council and Americanist Board of NINES (A Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) http://www.nines.org. He is developing with Philip Barnard (University of Kansas) and others an XML-based archive of Brown's non-novelistic works that incorporates TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) standards http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml, and co-editing the Letters of Charles Brockden Brown.

Education

• Ph.D. in English from University of Nebraska (1996)
• M.A. in English from University of Nebraska (1990)
• B.S. in English Education from University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984)

Research Interests

• Brown and the Early Republic, 1771-1810
• Eighteenth-Century Periodicals and Print Culture
• Atlantic Studies
• Digital Humanities and Textual Editing

Selected Publications

Books

• The Historicism of Charles Brockden Brown: Radical History and the Early Republic. Kent: Kent State UP (2010).
• Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America. Ed. Mark L. Kamrath and Sharon M. Harris. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P (2005).
• Revising Charles Brockden Brown: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality in the Early Republic. Ed. Philip Barnard, Mark L. Kamrath, and Stephen Shapiro. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P (2004)
• Cather, Willa. Obscure Destinies. 1932. Frederick M. Link with Kari Ronning and Mark Kamrath. The Willa Cather Scholarly Edition. Vol 5. Susan J. Rosowski and James Woodress, Gen. Eds. 13 vols. 1992—. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P (1998).

Articles/Essays

• "The Role of Native American Oratory in Republican Discourses and Periodicals of the Early Revolutionary Era, 1741-1775." Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America. Ed. Mark L. Kamrath and Sharon M. Harris. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P (2005). 143-178.
• "American Exceptionalism and Radicalism in the 'Annals of Europe and America' (1807-1809)." Revising Charles Brockden Brown: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality in the Early Republic. Ed. Philip Barnard, Mark L. Kamrath, and Stephen Shapiro. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P (2004). 354-84.
• “An ‘inconceivable pleasure’ and the Philadelphia Minerva: Erotic Liberalism, Oriental Tales, and the Female Subject in Periodicals of the Early Republic.” American Periodicals 14 (2004): 3-34.
• “Eyes Wide Shut and the Cultural Poetics of Eighteenth-Century American Periodical Literature.” Early American Literature 37:3 (2002): 497-536.
• “Charles Brockden Brown and the ‘art of the historian’: An Essay Concerning (Post)modern Historical Understanding.” Journal of the Early Republic 21 (Summer 2001): 231-60.
• “Charles Brockden Brown and Contemporary Theory: A Review of Recent Critical Trends in Brown Scholarship.” Profils Américains. Ed. M. Amfreville & F. Charras. Université Paul-Valéry: Centre d’ Etudes et de Recherches sur la Culture et la Littérature Américaines, 1999—N. 11. 213-45.
• "Brown and the Enlightenment: A Study of the Influence of Voltaire's Candide in Edgar Huntly." The American Transcendental Quarterly. New Series 5 (March 1991): 5-14.

Miscellaneous Publications

• "Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage," "Union Humane Society," "New England Anti-Slavery Society," and "American Anti-Slavery Society" in Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia . 2 vols. Series. Ed. Junius P. Rodriguez. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, Inc, 2007. 161-162, 401, 455-456, and 489-490.
• “Historiography: United States.” Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era. Ed. Christopher John Murray. Vol. 1. New York and London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2003. 509-510.
• “Recent Charles Brockden Brown Bibliography.” Profils Américains. Ed. M. Amfreville & F. Charras. Université Paul-Valéry: Centre d’ Etudes et de Recherches sur la Culture et la Littérature Américaines, 1999—N. 11. 269-77.
• "Caroline Matilda Warren Thayer." American Women Prose Writers to 1820. Ed. Carla Mulford with Angela Vietto and Amy Winans. The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 200. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998. 365-72.

Awards

• 2008 College of Arts and Humanities Interdisciplinary Grant, University of Central Florida. The Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition. $15,985
• 2006 College of Arts and Humanities Interdisciplinary Grant, University of Central Florida. The Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition. $21,766
• Disinguished Scholar of the Inaugural Scholars' Summit, Willa Cather Scholarly Edition, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, June 23-25, 2004
• 2004 Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP)

Spring 2010 Courses

English Department • College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Central Florida
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