Dr. Sarah S. G. Frantz

Assistant Professor
 

Office  : Butler Building 127

Phone : Office (910) 672-1438

Email  : sfrantz@uncfsu.edu

BIOGRAPHY

Sarah completed high school in Waldwick, NJ, where she met and started dating her husband.  She did her Bachelors in English at The College of New Jersey.  She and her husband moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan so she could do her M.A/Ph.D. in English at the University of Michigan, from which she graduated in 2003.  She now thoroughly enjoys teaching at Fayetteville State University.

Sarah became a US citizen after 9/11. She also joined the National Guard at that point, and is now a First Lieutenant, the Chemical Officer in a Field Artillery Brigade in Greensboro.

She loves to read, mostly popular romance novels, both of today and of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She especially loves Jane Austen and is an avid member of and frequent speaker for the Jane Austen Society of North America.

She has a wonderful husband, a fabulous little boy, a very cute cocker spaniel, a large and unique Fayetteville noodge-hound, and a happy, contented life.

TEACHING

English 240:     Introduction to Literature:  Vampires and Desire

English 240H:   Honors Introduction to Literature
English 311:     English Literature to 1800
English 412:     Eighteenth-Century Literature
English 432:     Romantic Literature

English 470:     Senior Seminar:  The Rise of the Popular Novel

RESEARCH

Romantic-era British Women Novelists:
          Jane Austen
          Hannah More

          Elizabeth Inchbald

          Mary Brunton
Eighteenth-century British Literature and the Rise of the Novel
Eighteenth-century British Culture:
          English Country Dancing

          Male Clothing and the Great Masculine Renunciation
Popular Literature:
          The Modern Romance Novel
          Vampire Literature: 18th Century to Today
Female Authors Constructing Male Characters.

PUBLICATIONS

Introduction to William and Richard Austen-Leigh's Jane Austen:  Her Life and Letters.  A Family Record.  New York:  Barnes and Noble, 2006 (forthcoming).

Introduction to Jane Austen: The Complete Novels.  New York:  Barnes and Noble, 2006 (forthcoming).

Introduction to Jane Austen’s Love and Freindship and Other Early Works.  1922;  New York:  Library of Universal Classics, 2005.

“Jane Austen’s Heroes and the Great Masculine Renunciation.”  Persuasions:  The Jane Austen Journal 25 (2003): 165-175.

“‘If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more’:  Direct Dialogue and Education in the Proposal Scenes,” in Talk in Jane Austen.  Eds. Bruce Stovel and Lynn Weinlos-Gregg. Edmonton:  University of Alberta Press, 2002.  167-182.

“‘Expressing’ Herself:  The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power,”  in Scorned Literature:  Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America.  Eds. Lydia Cushman Schurman and Deidre Johnson.  Connecticut:  Greenwood Press, 2002.  17-36.

Works In Progress:

Women Writing Men.  Eds Sarah S. G. Frantz and Katharina Rennhak.

The Mind of Love:  New Approaches to Popular Romance. Eds. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Selinger.

Online Writing:

Contributing writer to Teach Me Tonight: Musings on Romance Fiction from an Academic Perspective:  http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com

Contributing writer to Romancing the Blog:  http://www.romancingtheblog.com

Book review:  Ian Kelly's Beau Brummell:  The Ultimate Man of Style.  http://www.jasna.org/bookrev/br223p27.html