Jeffrey Richards, Department Chair and Eminent Professor, Literature
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Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A. Yale University
5002 Batten Arts & Letters
757-683-4032
jhrichar <AT> odu.edu
http://www.odu.edu/~jhrichar |
Teaching
- Early and 19th Century American Literature
- American Drama
Research Areas
- Calvinism in the Colonial South
- Early and 19th Century American Literature
- American Drama
Selected Publications
Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005).
Mercy Otis Warren (Twayne/Simon and Schuster, 1995).
Theater Enough: American Culture and the Metaphor of the World Stage, 1607-1789 (Duke University Press, 1991).
EDITED BOOKS
Mimic LIfe; or, Before and Behind the Curtain by Anna Cora Mowatt (Copley, 2001).
Eugene O'Neill: Early Plays. (Penguin, 2001).
Early American Drama (Penguin, 1997).
ARTICLES
"Samuel Davies and the Transatlantic Campaign for Slave Literacy in Virginia." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 111.4 (2003): 333-78.
"Poe, Politian, and the Drama of Critique." Edgar Allan Poe Review 3.2 (Fall 2002): 3-27.
"Race and the Yankee: Woodworth's The Forest Rose." Comparative Drama 34.1 (2000): 33-51.
"Samuel Davies and Calvinist Poetic Ecology." Early American Literature 35.1 (2000): 29-50.
"Early American Drama and Theater." In Teaching the Literatures of Early America. Ed. Carla Mulford. New York: Modern Language Association, 1999. 213-28.
"Brogue Irish Take the American Stage, 1767-1808," New Hibernia Review: A Quarterly Record of Irish Studies 3.3 (1999): 47-64.
"Decorous Violence: Manners, Class, and Abuse in Rebecca Rush's Kelroy." Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America. Ed. Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy.. New York: Routledge, 1999. 202-16.
"Mercy Otis Warren." In American Women Prose Writers to 1820. Ed. Carla Mulford, et al. Dictionary of Literary Biography volume 200. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 385-98.
"How to Write an American Play: Murray's The Traveller Returned and Its Source." Early American Literature 33.3 (1998): 277-90.
"Revolution, Domestic Life, and the End of 'Common Mercy' in Crèvecoeur's 'Landscapes.'" William and Mary Quarterly 55.2 (1998): 281-96.
"The Politics of Seduction: Theater, Sexuality, and National Virtue in the Novels of Hannah Foster." Exceptional Spaces: Essays in Performance and History, edited by Della Pollock. U of North Carolina P., 1998. 237-56.
"Chastity and the Stage in Mowatt's 'Stella.'" Studies in American Fiction 24 (1996): 87-100
