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Charles Rzepka
crzepka@bu.edu

Professor; Education: B.A., Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., UC Berkeley

Teaching and Research Interests: British Romanticism; detective and crime fiction; history of science; socio-economic and gift theory

Selected Publications: Detective Fiction (2005); Sacramental Commodities: Gift, Text, and the Sublime in De Quincey (1995); The Self as Mind: Vision and Identity in Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats (1986); "Race, Region, Rule: Genre and the Case of Charlie Chan," PMLA (2007); “Pictures of the Mind: Iron and Charcoal, ‘Ouzy’ Tides and ‘Vagrant Dwellers’ at Tintern, 1798,” Studies in Romanticism (2003); “‘Cortez--or Balboa, or Somebody Like That’: Form, Fact, and Forgetting in Keats’s ‘Chapman’s Homer’ Sonnet,” Keats-Shelley Journal (2002); Obi: An edited online volume of taped performances and essays, Romantic Praxis (2002); “The Feel of Not to Feel It,” PMLA (2001); “ Bang Up! Theatricality and the ‘Diphrelatic Art’ in De Quincey’s English Mail-Coach,” Nineteenth-Century Prose (2001); “‘I’m in the Business Too’: Gothic Chivalry, Private Eyes, and Proxy Sex and Violence in Chandler’s The Big Sleep,” Modern Fiction Studies (2000); “Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads: Sentimentalism, Straw Men, and Misprision,” Romantic Praxis (1999); “Thomas De Quincey’s ‘Three-Fingered Jack’: The West Indian Origins of the ‘Dark Interpreter,’” European Romantic Review (1997); “‘If I Can Make it There’: Oz’s Emerald City and the New Woman,” Studies in Popular Culture (1987)

Work in Progress: co-editor, Blackwell Companion to Crime, fiction, Book, Lyrical Empiricism on crime fiction and dramatic monologue.

Honors, Grants, and Awards: Boston University Scholar/ Teacher of the Year (2006); Best Article Prize, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (2005); Distinguished Scholar Award, Keats-Shelley Association (2004); Best Essay Prize, Keats-Shelley Association (2003); Boston University Humanities Foundation Grant (2000); NEH Fellow (1990); Thomas J. Wilson Prize, Harvard UP (1984); NEH Planning Grant for Curriculum Development (1983)


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	Charles Rzepka crzepka@bu.edu Professor; Education: B.A., Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., UC Berkeley Teaching and Research Interests: British Romanticism; detective and crime fiction; history of science; socio-economic and gift theory Selected Publications: Detective Fiction (2005); Sacramental Commodities: Gift, Text, and the Sublime in De Quincey (1995); The Self as Mind: Vision and Identity in Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats (1986); "Race, Region, Rule: Genre and the Case of Charlie Chan," PMLA (2007); “Pictures of the Mind: Iron and Charcoal, ‘Ouzy’ Tides and ‘Vagrant Dwellers’ at Tintern, 1798,” Studies in Romanticism (2003); “‘Cortez--or Balboa, or Somebody Like That’: Form, Fact, and Forgetting in Keats’s ‘Chapman’s Homer’ Sonnet,” Keats-Shelley Journal (2002); Obi: An edited online volume of taped performances and essays, Romantic Praxis (2002); “The Feel of Not to Feel It,” PMLA (2001); “ Bang Up! Theatricality and the ‘Diphrelatic Art’ in De Quincey’s English Mail-Coach,” Nineteenth-Century Prose (2001); “‘I’m in the Business Too’: Gothic Chivalry, Private Eyes, and Proxy Sex and Violence in Chandler’s The Big Sleep,” Modern Fiction Studies (2000); “Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads: Sentimentalism, Straw Men, and Misprision,” Romantic Praxis (1999); “Thomas De Quincey’s ‘Three-Fingered Jack’: The West Indian Origins of the ‘Dark Interpreter,’” European Romantic Review (1997); “‘If I Can Make it There’: Oz’s Emerald City and the New Woman,” Studies in Popular Culture (1987) Work in Progress: co-editor, Blackwell Companion to Crime, fiction, Book, Lyrical Empiricism on crime fiction and dramatic monologue. Honors, Grants, and Awards: Boston University Scholar/ Teacher of the Year (2006); Best Article Prize, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (2005); Distinguished Scholar Award, Keats-Shelley Association (2004); Best Essay Prize, Keats-Shelley Association (2003); Boston University Humanities Foundation Grant (2000); NEH Fellow (1990); Thomas J. Wilson Prize, Harvard UP (1984); NEH Planning Grant for Curriculum Development (1983)

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