Frank Fury, Ph.D.
- Senior Lecturer
- Director of Writing Services
Department: English
Office: The Great Hall Annex 404
Office Hours: Great Hall Annex 404: Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.; 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
2023 Spring
2022 Fall
2022 Summer B
- Literature I: Ancient Through Renaissance – EN 201
2022 Spring
2021 Fall
2021 Summer E
- Tragedy and the Tragic – EN 213
2021 Spring
2020 Fall
2020 Summer E
- Tragedy and the Tragic – EN 213
2020 Spring
- 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)