Kevin F Frank

Assc Professor

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Department: English

Areas of expertise:

Email Address: kevin.frank@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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Education

Ph.D., English, University of California, Los Angeles

M.A., English, University of California Los Angeles

B.A., English, University of Southern California

SemesterCourse PrefixCourse NumberCourse Name
Fall 2024ENG4310Victorian Literature
Fall 2024ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2024ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Summer 2024ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Summer 2024BLS3038Survey of Caribbean Lit in Eng
Summer 2024CMP3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Spring 2024ENG4535Afr Dias: Us, Lat Amer, & Carb
Spring 2024ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Fall 2023ENG4310Victorian Literature
Fall 2023ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2023ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2023ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2023ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2023ENG4320The Nineteenth-Century British
Fall 2022BLS3038Survey of Caribbean Lit in Eng
Fall 2022ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2022ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Fall 2022ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2022ENG432019th Century English Novel
Spring 2022ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2022ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2021ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2021ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2020BLS4901Latin Amer. & the Caribbean II
Fall 2020ENG4535Afr Dias: Us, Lat Amer, & Carb
Spring 2020ENG432019th Century English Novel
Spring 2020ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2019ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2019ENG432019th Century English Novel
Spring 2019CMP3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Spring 2019ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Spring 2019BLS3038Survey of Caribbean Lit in Eng
Fall 2018ENG432019th Century English Novel
Fall 2018ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2018ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2018ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2018ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2017CMP3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Fall 2017BLS3038Survey of Caribbean Lit in Eng
Fall 2017ENG2150HHonors - Writing II
Fall 2017ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Spring 2017ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2017ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2016ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2016ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2016ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2016ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2016ENG5000Independent Study English I
Spring 2016ENG5001Independent Study English II
Fall 2015BLS3038Survey of Caribbean Lit in Eng
Fall 2015ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2015ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2015ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Fall 2015ENG5000Independent Study English I
Fall 2015CMP3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Spring 2015ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2015ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2014BLS3038Survey of Caribbean Lit in Eng
Fall 2014ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Fall 2014ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Summer 2014ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2014ENG3036Post-Colonial Literature
Spring 2014ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2013ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Fall 2013ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2013CMP3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Fall 2013BLS3038Survey of Caribbean Lit in Eng
Spring 2013ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2013BLS3038Survey of Caribbean Lit in Eng
Spring 2013ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Fall 2012ENG3036Post-Colonial Literature
Fall 2012ENG5001Independent Study English II
Fall 2012ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2012CMP3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Spring 2012BLS3038Survey of Caribbean Lit in Eng
Spring 2012ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2012ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Fall 2011BLS3038Survey of Caribbean Lit in Eng
Fall 2011CMP3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Fall 2011ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2011ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2011ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Fall 2011ENG5000Independent Study English I
Spring 2011IDC4050HHon Feit Hum Sem I
Spring 2011ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2010LTT3038Survey Carib Lit in English
Fall 2010ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2010BLS3038Survey of Caribbean Lit in Eng
Fall 2010ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Fall 2010ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2009ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2009ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2009ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2009ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2009ENG3036Post-Colonial Literature
Fall 2008BLS3038Survey of Caribbean Lit in Eng
Fall 2008LTT3038Survey Carib Lit in English
Fall 2008ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2008ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2008ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Spring 2008ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2008ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2008ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Spring 2008LTT3038Survey Carib Lit in English
Spring 2008BLS3038Survey of Caribbean Lit in Eng
Fall 2007ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2007LTT3038Survey Carib Lit in English
Fall 2007ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Fall 2007ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2007ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2007ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Spring 2007ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2007BLS3038Survey of Caribbean Lit in Eng
Spring 2007LTT3038Survey Carib Lit in English
Fall 2006BLS3038Survey of Caribbean Lit in Eng
Fall 2006ENG6002Honors Program in English
Fall 2006ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Fall 2006ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2006ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2006LTT3038Survey Carib Lit in English
Spring 2006ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Spring 2006ENG6001Honors Program in English
Spring 2006ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2005ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2005ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Fall 2005ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2005ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2005ENG3034African Americ Liter
Fall 2004FRO1000First Year Seminar
Fall 2004ENG3038Srv Carib Ltt In Eng
Fall 2004ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2004ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2004ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2004ENG3036Post-Colonial Literature
Fall 2003ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2003ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2003ENG3032Ethnic Literature
Spring 2002ENG3032Ethnic Literature
Spring 2002ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2001ENG3950Topics in Literature

Artistic and Creative Activities

Frank, K. (2021). Dendroica Delicata.

Frank, K. F. (2018). Beat.

Frank, K. (2014). Beat and Other Poems.

Journal Articles

Frank, K. (2021). Philosophy-Calypso Monarchs: Masks of Carnival. Caribbean Quarterly,

Frank, K. (2018). Propinquities of Modernism and Postmodernism in Voyage in the Dark and Wide Sargasso Sea. Women: A Cultural Review,

Frank, K. (2011). Censuring the Praise of Alienation: Interstices of Ante-alienation in Things Fall Apart, No Longer At Ease, and Arrow of God. Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Letters and Arts, 34(4). 1088-1101.

Frank, K. (2010). Censuring the Praise of Alienation: Interstices of Ante-Alienation in Achebe's Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God. Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 32(2). 21-34.

Frank, K. (2007). Whether Beast or Human: The Cultural Legacies of Dread, Locks and Dystopia. Small Axe: a Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 11(2). 42-62.

Frank, K. (2007). Whether Beast or Human: The Legacy of Dread, Locks and Dystopia in Literature and Popular Culture. Small Axe: a Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 23. 46-62.

Frank, K. (2007). Female Agency and Oppression in Caribbean Bacchanalian culture: Soca, Carnical, and Dancehall. Women's Studies Quarterly, 35(1 & 2). 172-190.

(2006). 'Worries in the Dance': Female Agency and Oppression in Caribbean Bacchanalian Culture. Women's Studies Quarterly ,

Frank, K. (2006). Abroad At Home: Xenomania and Voluntary Exile in The Middle Passage, Salt, and Tide Running . Journal of Caribbean Studies , 20(3). 161-183.

(2006). A/broad Minded: Interstices of Alienation in Things Fall Apart, No Longer At Ease and Nervous Conditions (resubmitted). Research in African Literatures ,

(2005). Abroad At Home: Xenomonia, Alienation and "Being-at-Homeness" in The Middle Passage, Salt,and Tide Running. Contemporary Liturature ,

Frank, K. (2005). Two Kinds of Utility: England's 'Supremacy' and the Quest for Completion in David Dabydeen's The Intended (online journal) . Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal , 3(1).

Frank, K. (2005). Creole Carnival: Unwrapping the Pleasures and Paradoxes of the Gift of Creolization (forthcoming, Summer 2006). Atlantic Literary Review ,

(2005). Two Kinds of Utility: England's 'Supremacy' and the Quest for Completion in David Dabydeen's The Intended (online journal) . Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal , 3(1).

(2005). Whether Beast or Human: The Cultural Legacies of Dread, Locks and Dystopia. Social Text ,

(2004). A/broad Minded: Interstices of Alienation in Things Fall Apart, No Longer At Ease and Nervous Conditions. Research in African Literatures ,

(2003). The Art of Muggin' and the Queen's English . Sargasso ,

Frank, K. (2001). Caught in the Slips: Boundaries of C.L.R James' Imagination. Journal Caribbean Studies , 15(3). 223-224.

(1994). The Silence of the 'Other' Lambs: The Dependency Complex in Critical Feminism . Emergences 5/6, 104-121.

Book Chapters

Frank, K. (2019). Muddling the Middle: Cynical Respresentations of Ethnic Relations in V.S. and Shiva Naipaul.. In Maharaj, V. (Ed.), The Naipaul Inheritance Leeds,UK. Peepal Tree Press.

Presentations

Frank, K. (2021, May 21). Me Too Rebel Jane! Am I not a Woman and a Sister?. Victorian Truth, Investigation, and Mystery. Virtual/Online: Midwest Victorian Studies Association.

Frank, K. (2018, June 22). Propinquities of Modernism and Postmodernism in Voyage in the Dark and Wide Sargasso Sea. Jean Rhys: Transmission Lines, International Conference. Sorbonne Université, Paris, France: Faculté des Lettres, Sorbonne Université; VALE (Voix Anglophones Littérature et Esthétique).

Frank, K. (2015, October 28). Muddling the Middle: Cynical Respresentations of Ethnic Relations in V.S. and Shiva Naipaul.. Seepersad and Sons. Trinidad and Tobago: University of West Indies & Friends of Mr. Biswas.

Frank, K. (2012, October 31). 'Batting for Something Bigger' than the Capitol or Capital: Independence and Federation in C.L.R. James, The Mighty Sparrow, and Earl Lovelace. 31st Annual West Indian Literature Conference. University of Miami: University of Miami.

Frank, K. (2009, May 31). Pedagogies of Liberal education. The MetroCITI Teaching Fellowship Seminar. Teachers College, Columbia University, NY

Frank, K. (2008, November 30). Carnival in Pataricia Powell's The Pagoda. Texas Southern University, Houston: Professors, students, writers and scholars at the Afro-Latina and Afro-Caribbean Diaspora Symposium.

Frank, K. (2007, June 30). Pappy Show: Paradox in the Parade of Caribbean American Progess. Symposium on the Caribbean and Its Diasporas in the Americas. Brooklyn, New York

Frank, K. (2006, June 30). Selected Works. Harlem Arts Salon Writers Workshop with Maryse Conde and Derek Walcott. Guadeloupe

Frank, K. (2005, July 31). Abroad at Home: Xenomania and Neocolonial Transnationalism in Oonya Kempadoo's Tide Running. Professors, students, and Caribbean writers and scholars at the 27th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Studies. St.Kitts

Frank, K. (2005, March 31). The Philosopher-Calypso King: Masks of Caribbean Carnival. Professors, students, and Caribbean writers at the Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium; Conversations I: " Conceptualising Philosophy". University of the West Indies, Barbados

Frank, K. (2004, October 31). The Art of Muggin' and de Queen's English. Professors, students, and writers at the 4th IRADAC-CAAN Conference. New York

Frank, K. (2004, March 31). The Gift of Creolization: Unwrapping Its Pleasures and Paradoxes. Professors, students, and Caribbean writers at the 32nd Annual Conference on the West Indian Literature. St. George's University, Grenada

Frank, K. (2003, December 31). England's 'Supremacy' and the Caribbean Literary Imagination: David Dabydeen's The Intended. Professors, students, and writers at the Modern Language Association Conference. San Diego, California

Frank, K. (2003, March 31). Half a Tourist: Exploration and Self-Discovery in V.S Naipaul's The Loss of El Dorado and A Way in the World. Professors, students, and Caribbean writers at the 22nd Annual Conference on West indian Literature. University of Miami, Coral Gables

Frank, K. (2002, March 31). 'British' English as Sterling Currency. Professors and students at The Globalization of English Conference. Baruch College, New York

Frank, K. (2002, February 28). 'Whether Beast or Human': the Politics of Dread/Locks in Literature and Popular Culture. Professors, students, at the English Faculty Symposium. Baruch College, New York

Frank, K. (2000, October 31). Garvey's Ghosts: Rasta, Religion Resistance. Professors and students at the 19th Annual Western Humanities Conference. University of Washington, Seattle

Frank, K. (2000, September 30). Homecoming: Wilson Harris and the Possible Impossible. Professors, students, and Caribbean writers at the Caribbean Literary Studies Conference. University of Miami, Coral Gables

Frank, K. (1999, March 31). Submerged in Static: the Ghost of the Madwoman in the Attic. Professors and students at the Re-thinking Gender Conference:UCLA.

Frank, K. (1998, July 31). The Arch of Disavowal: Re-Min'ing Conrad in the Age of Empire. Professors, students, and Society's supporters at the 24th Annual International Conference of Joseph Conrad Society (UK). The Polish Cultural Centre, Hammersmiith, London: University of Kent, Canterbury.

Other Scholarly Works

Frank, K. Strange 'Fruit': The Utilitarian, Romantic Dialectic in the Victorian Imagination.

In Progress.

Frank, K. Convulsions of the Soul: the Object of Terror in Jane Eyre.

In Progress.

Research Currently in Progess

Frank, K.(n.d.). The Echoes of El Dorado in the Caribbean Literary Imagination. In Progress.

This book explores how Caribbean writers and artist, including musicians, allude in various ways to the El Dorado myth. One chapter focuses on V.S Naipaul, his works The Loss of El Dorado and A Way in the World especially. Another focuses on Wilson Harris, particularly his Guyana Quartet and Ascent to Omai. Another concentrates on Jan Carew, whose Black Midas relies heavily upon the El Dorado quest for its plot and poetic structure. And finally, one centers on Matthew French Young, whose Guyana: The Lost El Dorado is an effort that signals the persistent presence of the fabled City of Gold as a central motif in Caribbean writing, and forms a meaningful arch from Naipaul's The Loss of El Dorado.

Frank, K.(n.d.). Utilitarian Romance in Nineteenth-Century British Literature. In Progress.

This book project counters the view that utilitarian and romantic ideals are altogether opposed, examines their ties in the context of British empire, and making the case for utilitarian romance (as distinct from imperial romance), uses that convergence as the basis for re-reading canonical nineteenth-century novels in such terms. Along with the first chapter in which I make the case for utilitarian romance, I have completed chapters on Charlotte Bronte and Joseph Conrad reread through the utilitarian romance lens. I plan chapters on Dickens and Thackeray next.

Honor / AwardOrganization SponsorDate ReceivedDescription
Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship Ford Foundation2002Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University, sponsored by Paul Gilroy. Aug., 2002-Jun., 2003.

College

Committee NamePosition RoleStart DateEnd Date
Participated in recruitment and convocation activities for the incoming class of 2008Present
Faculty Senate Enrollment Management CommitteeCommittee MemberPresent
Curriculum CommitteeAttendee, MeetingPresent
Faculty SenateCommittee MemberPresent
Faculty Senate Executive CommitteeCommittee MemberPresent
Faculty Senate Educational Policy CommitteeCommittee ChairPresent
Curriculum CommitteeCommittee ChairPresent
Provost Search Committee 2021Committee MemberPresent
Faculty SenateCommittee Member12/31/2019
Faculty SenateCommittee Chair12/31/2019
Faculty SenateSecretary5/31/2019
Strategic Planning CommitteeCommittee Member6/15/2018
Strategic Planning Advisory CommitteeCommittee Member5/31/2018
Feminism-Literature-Film Search CommitteeCommittee Member3/31/2017
Faculty Senate Enrollment Management CommitteeCommittee Chair5/15/2016
Committee on Academic Freedom and ResponsibilityCommittee Chair5/31/2014
Learning Communities 12/31/2007
Curriculum Committee 12/31/2007
Curriculum Committee 12/31/2006
Learning Communities 12/31/2005
Faculty Senate12/31/2005
Department Secretary 12/31/2004
Participation in the department's The Globalization of English Conference4/30/2002
Organization of and participation in the Junior Faculty Symposium Series. The goals of this series included increasing the visibility of the department and its members and greater outreaching to students and to other faculty and other departments4/30/2002

Public

OrganizationPosition RoleOrganization StateOrganization CountryStart DateEnd DateAudience
Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) Member1/1/2001Present
Modern Language Association (MLA) Member1/1/2000Present
Guyana Medical Relief, Inc. Officer, Treasurer1/1/1999Present
Academic Advancement Program, UCLAGraduate Mentor 1/1/199412/31/1999
The Caribbean Students and Friends Association, UCLA Chairperson1/1/199412/31/1999
The Caribbean Students and Friends Association, UCLA Founding Member 1/1/199412/31/1999