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Dr. Frank Fury, Senior Lecturer, English

Frank Fury, Ph.D.

  • Senior Lecturer
  • Director of Writing Services

Department: English

Office: The Great Hall Annex 404

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 10:00 a.m. – 12 Noon; and by appointment.

Phone: 732-263-5459

Email: ffury@monmouth.edu


Education

Ph.D., Drew University

B.A., Boston College

Research Interests

Major interests include twentieth-century American fiction, the short story, modern drama, and sports and literature.

Books

“‘Deliver Me from Nowhere’: Place and Space in Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska.” Reading the Boss: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Works of Bruce Springsteen. Lexington Books (Lanham, MD).2010.

Scholarly Articles

“‘The Fox in the Chicken Coop’: Elvis Presley and 1950s Small-Town America in Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending.” Magazine Americana (2009).

“‘Designs of Identity and Images of American Boxing Tradition in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!. Studies in American Culture 29.2 (2006).

“Derbies and Snaffles: Horseracing and Southern Folk Culture in William Faulkner’s The Reivers.” The Mississippi Quarterly 59.3/4 (2006).

“Sports, Politics, and the Corruption of Power in Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men.” Aethlon 22.2 (2005): 67-73.

“Performing the Past: Text, Subtext & Meta-Drama in Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night.” Theatron 2.2 (2004): 39-47.

“The Off-‘Beat’ Rhythms of Self-Expression in the Typography and Verse of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf.” Philament 3 (2004)

“Opportunities for Interpretation: A Cinematic ‘Look’ at Troilus and Criseyde.” College English Notes 29 (2002): 1-4.

Additional Information

Service: English Department Awards Committee

Courses

Recently Taught Classes

2024 Fall

  • College Composition II – EN 102
  • Foundations of American Literature – EN 228

2024 Summer E

  • And Its Role in Modern Society and Its Role in Modern Society – PR 452

2024 Summer B

  • Tragedy and the Tragic – EN 213

2024 Spring

  • College Composition II – EN 102
  • Literary Studies for English Majors – EN 226

2023 Fall

  • College Composition II – EN 102
  • Literary Studies for English Majors – EN 226

2023 Summer E

  • College Composition I – EN 101

2023 Summer B

  • Fictional Politics in Literature, Film, and Television – PR 468

2023 Spring

  • College Composition II – EN 102
  • Literary Studies for English Majors – EN 226

2022 Fall

  • College Composition II – EN 102
  • Tragedy and the Tragic – EN 213

2022 Summer B

  • Literature I: Ancient Through Renaissance – EN 201

2022 Spring

  • College Composition II – EN 102
  • Literary Studies for English Majors – EN 226

2021 Fall

  • Literary Studies for English Majors – EN 226
  • Tragedy and the Tragic – EN 213

2021 Summer E

  • Tragedy and the Tragic – EN 213

2021 Spring

  • Foundations of American Literature – EN 228
  • Tragedy and the Tragic – EN 213

Frequently Taught Classes

  • College Composition I (EN 101)
  • College Composition II (EN 102)
  • College English I (EN 101)
  • College English II (EN 102)
  • Foundations of American Literature (EN 228)
  • Literary Studies for English Majors (EN 226)
  • Literature I: Ancient Through Renaissance (EN 201)
  • Literature II: Neoclassical to the Present (EN 202)
  • Tragedy and the Tragic (EN 213)