Dr. John M. Ulrich
Professor of English
Department of English and Modern Languages
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
Mansfield, PA 16933
USA
Tel 570-662-4585
Fax 570-662-4126
julrich@mansfield.edu
Dr. John M. Ulrich is Professor of English at
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses in Monsters in
Literature and Film, 19th century British Literature, Literary
Theory and Criticism, the Beat Generation, among others. He is co-editor
of GenXegesis: Essays on Alternative
Youth (sub)Culture and author of Signs
of Their Times, a study of three 19thcentury British
writers. His current project focuses on comic book adaptations of
Beowulf, Frankenstein, and Dracula.
COURSE WEB PAGES
Spring 2012
University of Wisconsin Press, 2003
Signs of Their Times: History, Labor,
and the Body in Cobbett, Carlyle, and Disraeli
Ohio University Press, 2002
The Strouse Edition of the Works of
Thomas Carlyle: Essays on Politics and Society
Co-edited with
Lowell T. Frye
(work in progress,
to be published by the University of California Press)
SELECTED ARTICLES
"Carlyle's Chartism and the Politics of the (In)Articulate." Studies in the Literary
Imagination. (publication expected
2013)
"English Program Assessment and the
Institutional Context." Pedagogy 13.1 (forthcoming).
"Tenure, Promotion, and
Textual Studies at the 'Teaching' Institution." Profession
2007 (December 2007): 116-122.
"Thomas
Carlyle, Richard Owen, and the Paleontological Articulation of the Past."
Journal of Victorian
Culture 11.1 (Spring 2006): 30-58.
"Thomas Carlyle, Edward Irving,
and Millennialist Discourse." Literature and Belief 25:1-2 (2005): 55-87.
"Generation
X: A (sub)Cultural Genealogy." In GenXegesis:
Essays on "Alternative" Youth (sub)Culture.
John M. Ulrich and Andrea L. Harris, eds.
Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
3-37.
RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"Carlyle's
Chartism and the Politics of the
(In)Articulate."
Thomas
Carlyle Conference. University of
Edinburgh, Scotland, 2012.
"Beowulf
as Superhero."
Comic
Arts Conference. WonderCon. Anaheim, 2012.
"The
Portfolio Writes Back: Theory and Practice
in English Program Assessment."
MLA
Roundtable. The Modern Language
Association Convention. Seattle, 2012.
"'Carlyle
too was at the Opera God help us!':
Audience, Performance, and Spectacle at Her Majesty's Theatre."
The
North American Victorian Studies Association Conference. Vanderbilt University, 2011.
“Thomas
Carlyle and the Function of Criticism at the Present Time.”
The
Carlyle Conference. University of
Glasgow, Crichton Campus, Dumfries, Scotland, 2008.
"Confessions
of Two Dangerous Minds: Thomas Carlyle and Chuck Barris."
Thomas
Carlyle Resartus Conference. Villanova
University, 2007.
"Tenure,
Promotion, and Textual Editing at the Teaching Institution."
The
Modern Language Association Convention.
Philadelphia, 2006.
INVITED LECTURES
"Monster
Literature."
Lecture
delivered to students and faculty at Nanjing Normal University (Nanjing), China
Pharmaceutical University (Nanjing), and Changshu Institute of Technology
(Changshu), China. May 2011.
"Literary
Research and Publication in the United States."
Lecture
delivered to faculty at China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China, and
Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu, China. May 2011.
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