Education

BA Union College, Schenectady, New York, 1957.
MA Columbia University, 1959.
PhD Rutgers University, 1968.
MA Thesis: The Kierkegaardian Consciences of Several Ibsen Protagonists.
PhD Dissertation: Perverse Pilgrimage: The Role of the Gothic in the Works of Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.  Dissertation Abstracts 29 (1968): 1866A-67A.

Teaching Assignments

Teacher, Middleburg Central School, Middleburg, New York (1959-60)
Teaching Assistant, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (1960-64)
Assistant Professor of English, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (1964-70)
Professor of English, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania (1970-1994)
Professor Emeritus of English, Allegheny College (1994-    )

Books Published

FRANK. Frederick S. “Introduction.” (pp. ix-xxv).To St. Irvyne; or. The Rosicrucian and Zastrozzi; A Romance. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. New York: Arno Press, 1977.

FRANK. Frederick S. Guide to The Gothic: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1984.

FRANK. Frederick S. Gothic Fiction: A Masterlist of Criticism and Research. Westport, CT: Meckler, 1987.

FRANK. Frederick S. The First Gothics: A Critical Guide to the English Gothic Novel. New York: Garland Publishing, 1987.
 
FRANK. Frederick S. Montague Summers: A Bibliographical Portrait. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1988.

FRANK. Frederick S. Through the Pale Door: A Guide to and Through the American Gothic. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990.

FRANK. Frederick S.  Guide to the Gothic II: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. 1983-1993. Lanham. MD: Scarecrow Press. 1995.

FRANK. Frederick S. and Anthony MAGISTRALE. The Poe Encyclopedia. Westport. CT: Greenwood Press. 1997.

FRANK. Frederick S.. Jack VOLLER. and Douglass THOMSON. eds. Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide. Westport. CT: Greenwood Press. 2002.

FRANK. Frederick S. “Introduction” (pp. 11-55). To The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother. By Horace Walpole. Peterborough. ON: Broadview Press. 2003.

FRANK. Frederick S. Guide to the Gothic III: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. 1994-2003. 2 Vols. Lanham. MD. Toronto. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield/Scarecrow Press. 2005.

FRANK, Frederick S., ed. Gothic Drama from Walpole to Shelley by Bertrand Evans. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.

Book Chapters and Essays in Books Published

FRANK. Frederick S. “The Gothic Romance: 1762-1820.” (pp. 3-175). In Horror Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide, ed. Marshall B. Tymn. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1981.

FRANK. Frederick S. “Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland; or. The Transformation.” (pp. 2126-31). In Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature, ed. Keith Neilson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1983.  

FRANK. Frederick S. “Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story.” (pp. 211-16).  In Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature, ed. Keith Neilson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1983.

FRANK. Frederick S. “William Beckford’s Vathek: An Arabian Tale.” (pp. 2023-27). In Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature, ed. Keith Neilson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1983.

FRANK. Frederick S. “Illustrations from Early Gothic Novels: Explanatory Notes and Commentaries.” (pp. 270-87). In Gothic Fictions: Prohibition/Transgression, ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1989.

FRANK. Frederick S. “The Early Gothic. 1762-1824.” (pp. 3-57).In Horror Literature: A Reader’s Guide, ed.Neil Barron. New York: Garland Publishing, 1990.  

FRANK. Frederick. “A Checklist of Vathek Criticism.” (pp. 247-68).In Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations, ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1990.

FRANK. Frederick. “The Gothic Vathek: The Problem of Genre Resolved.” (pp. 157-72). In Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations, ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1990.

FRANK. Frederick S. “Mary Shelley’s Other Fiction: A Bibliographical Census” (pp. 309-64). In Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley After Frankenstein. Essays in Honor of the Bicentenary of Mary Shelley’s Birth, eds. Syndy M. Conger. Frederick S. Frank, Gregory O’Dea. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997.

FRANK. Frederick S. “Gothic Gold: The Sadleir-Black Gothic Collection.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 26 (1998):  301-16 + nine plates.

FRANK. Frederick S. “The Early and Later Gothic Traditions. 1762-1896” (pp. 5-44). In Fantasy and Horror: A Critical and Historical Guide to Literature, Illustration, Film, TV, Radio, and the Internet, ed. Neil Barron. Lanham. MD: Scarecrow Press. 1999

FRANK. Frederick S. “Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)” (pp. 349-60). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson. Jack G. Voller. and Frederick S. Frank. Westport. CT: Greenwood Press. 2000.

FRANK. Frederick S. “François Thomas Marie de Baculard d’Arnaud” (pp. 48-52). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson. Jack G. Voller. and Frederick S. Frank. Westport. CT: Greenwood Press. 2000.

FRANK. Frederick S. “Horace Walpole (1717-1797).” (pp. 437-48). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson. Jack G. Voller. and Frederick S. Frank. Westport. CT: Greenwood Press. 2000.

FRANK. Frederick S. “Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)” (pp. 330-43). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson. Jack G. Voller. and Frederick S. Frank. Westport. CT: Greenwood Press. 2002.

FRANK. Frederick S. “François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil” (pp. 116-19). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson. Jack G. Voller. Frederick S. Frank. Westport. CT: Greenwood Press. 2002.

FRANK. Frederick S. “George Lippard” (pp. 261-69). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson. Jack G. Voller. and Frederick  S. Frank. Westport. CT: Greenwood Press. 2002.

FRANK. Frederick S. “Gothic Chapbooks. Bluebooks. and Short Stories in the Magazines” (pp. 133-46). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson. Jack G. Voller. and Frederick S. Frank. Westport. CT: Greenwood Press. 2

FRANK. Frederick S. “Izumi Kyoka” (pp. 225-34). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson. Jack G. Voller. and Frederick S. Frank. Westport. CT: Greenwood Press. 2002.

FRANK. Frederick S. “Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)” (pp. 165-76). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson. Jack G. Voller. and Frederick S. Frank. Westport. CT: Greenwood Press. 2002.

FRANK. Frederick S. “Ueda Akinari.” (pp. 12-19). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson. Jack G. Voller. and Frederick S. Frank. Westport. CT: Greenwood Press. 2002.

FRANK. Frederick S. “Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky” (pp. 321-29). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson. Jack G. Voller. and  Frederick S. Frank. Westport. CT: Greenwood Press. 2002.

FRANK. Frederick S. “Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)” (pp. 90-98). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds.  Douglass H. Thomson. Jack G. Voller. and Frederick S. Frank. Westport. CT: Greenwood Press. 2002.

FRANK. Frederick. “Gothic Drama” (pp. 147-64).  In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass S. Thomson. Jack G. Voller. and Frederick S. Frank. Westport. CT: Greenwood Press. 2002.

Journal Articles Published

FRANK, Frederick S. “The Demon and the Thunderstorm: Byron and Madame de Stäel.” Revue de Littérature Comparée 43 (1969):  320-43.

FRANK, Frederick S. “The Two Taines of Henry James.” Revue de Littérature Comparée 45 (1971): 350-65.

FRANK, Frederick S. “Coleridge in Germany.” Revue des Langues Vivantes 39 (1973): 45-54.

FRANK. Frederick S. “The Gothic Novel: A Check List of Modern Criticism.” Bulletin of Bibliography 30 (1973): 45-54.

FRANK. Frederick S. “A Bibliography of Writings About Ann Radcliffe.” Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 17 (1975): 54-62.

FRANK. Frederick S. “From Boudoir to Castle Crypt: Richardson and the Gothic Novel.” Revue des Langues Vivantes 41 (1975): 49-59.

FRANK. Frederick S. “The Aqua-Gothic Voyage of ‘A Descent into the Mælström.’” American Transcendental Quarterly 29 (1976): 85-93.  

FRANK, Frederick S. “The Cool Web of Memory: An Initiatory Reading of Robert Graves’s Good-Bye To All That.” Focus on Robert Graves 5 (1976): 74-82.

FRANK. Frederick S. “Poe’s House of the Seven Gothics: The Fall of the Narrator in ‘The Fall of the House of Usher.’” Orbis Littterarum 34 (1979): 331-51.[GGI: 1550].

FRANK. Frederick S. “The 1978 Bibliography of Gothic Studies.” Gothic: The Review of Supernatural Horror Fiction 1 (1979): 65-67. [GGI: 0014].

FRANK. Frederick S. “The 1979 Bibliography of Gothic Studies.” Gothic: The Review of Supernatural Horror Fiction 2 (1980): 45-52. [GGI: 0015].

FRANK. Frederick S. “The Gothic at Absolute Zero: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.” Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 21 (1980): 21-30. [GGI: 1551].

FRANK. Frederick S. “Neighborhood Gothic: Poe’s ‘Tell-Tale Heart.’” Sphinx: A Magazine of Literature and Society 3:4 (1981): 53-60. [GGI: 1552].

FRANK. Frederick S. “Polarized Gothic: An Annotated Bibliography of Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.” Bulletin of Bibliography 38 (1981):117-27.  

FRANK. Frederick S. “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: A Register of Research.” Bulletin of Bibliography 40 (1983): 163-88.

FRANK. Frederick S. “Introduction.” To  Special Poe Issue of The Sphinx: A Magazine of Literature and Society. 4:4 (1985): 223-25.  

FRANK. Frederick S. “Poe’s Gothicism: An Analytic Bibliography.” The Sphinx: A Magazine of Literature and Society 4:4 (1985): 277-301.  

FRANK. Frederick S. “Proto-Gothicism: The Infernal Iconography of Walpole’s Castle of Otranto.” Orbis Litterarum 41 (1986): 307-30.

FRANK. Frederick S. “Montague Summers: A Bibliographical Portrait.” Bulletin of Bibliography 45 (1988): 167-78.

FRANK. Frederick S. “The Masks of [Montague] Summers.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Kats 23 (1990): 1-5.

FRANK. Frederick S. “M.G. Lewis’s The Monk After Two Hundred Years. 1796-1996: A Bicentenary Bibliography.” Bulletin of Bibliography 52 (1995); 241-60.

FRANK. Frederick S. “The Monk: A Bicentenary Bibliography.” Romanticism on the Net. 8 (November. 1997): No Pagination.

FRANK. Frederick S. ed. “Introduction” to Special Issue on Matthew Gregory Lewis’s Monk. Romanticism on the Net. vol. 8 (November 1997): 14 March 1998. No Pagination.

Last Conference Paper Delivered

“A Concordance of Bosoms: Reconstructing Lewis’s Monk,” February 2004, Open Forum on the Gothic, Annual Meeting of the South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Santa Fé, New Mexico.

Forthcoming

“A Concordance of Bosoms: Reconstructing Lewis's Monk” to be published in the journal 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Modern Era (AMS Press).

Work in Progress

A re-edition of Bertrand Evans's landmark history of  Gothic theater, Gothic Drama from Walpole to Shelley (University of California Press, 1947) now published by Edwin Mellen Press. The book has a new introduction, a preface by an important scholar in the field, an updated appendix of Gothic plays and performance dates, and updated and expanded bibliographies. Work published in 2006.

A new edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym for the Broadview Press with notes, introduction, bibliography, and illustrations. Co-edited with Professor Diane Long Hoeveler of Marquette University. Forthcoming in 2008.