Contact Information:
263 Bartlett Hall
UMass
Amherst, MA 0l003
p: 413-545-2970
f: 413-545-3880
kfarrell@english.umass.edu
Last Modified: Apr. 2005 |
Professor
Educated at Clark University, B.A., 1964; Rutgers University, M.A., 1969; Ph.D., 1972.
Professor Farrell's interest in cultural studies has shaped his latest
book, Post-Traumatic Culture: Injury and Interpretation in the 90's,
which explores late Victorian and contemporary culture.
He is the author of Play Death and Heroism in Shakespeare,
Shakespeare's Creation, Women in the Renaissance, and other early modern
studies, most recently, The Mysteries of Elizabeth I, with K. Swaim. He has
also published several novels. He is an editor of English Literary
Renaissance and the European journal Kritikon Litterarum. Currently he is
at work on a novel called "Wrongful Life" and a study titled "The Berserk Style
in American Culture".
Professor Farrell has lectured here and abroad on literature and culture,
and for the Ernest Becker Foundation on radical existential criticism, the
psychology of violence, and social justice.
His work as a critic has shaped his graduate and undergraduate teaching
interests. He has offered creative writing workshops, and regularly teaches
courses on Shakespeare as well as a cycle of late Victorian and modern
fiction courses that explore the impact of modernism. |
