English Literatures & Writing
Grant F Scott
Professor, English
Education
- Ph.D, M.A., English Literature, UCLA
- B.A., English and American Literature, UCSD
Teaching Interests
My primary specialty is English Romanticism, but I also teach courses in the Decadent movement of the 1890s, Frankenstein and its adaptations, fairy tales, literature and the visual arts, Hemingway and Fitzgerald and the literature of the Vietnam war. My classes are discussion-oriented and based on close readings of texts, images and films.
Research and Scholarship
I have published on Keats, Shelley and Severn as well as on Romanticism and the visual arts. I recently published a book devoted to the American illustrator and wood-engraver, Lynd Ward, who is known as the father of the graphic novel.
- CUE: Hemingway & Fitzgerald
- Decadence: The Literature of the 1890s
- FYS: Reading Fairy Tales
- Introduction to British Literature
- Reading Frankenstein
- Special Topic: Reading Picture Stories
- Lynd Ward's Wordless Novels, 1929-1937 (New York and London: Routledge, 2022).
- “Keats and Housekeeping: The Poetry of Mourning.” European Romantic Review 33.2 (April 2022): 229-245. Special Issue on the Bicentennial of Keats’s Death.
- “The Duplicity of the Word in Lynd Ward’s Vertigo (1937).” Journal of Modern Literature 43.3 (2020): 19-44.
- “Erasing Schultz, Restoring Keats: Tree of Codes and Negative Capability.” Keats-Shelley Journal 67 (2018): 140-146.
- “Keats’s American Ode,” in Keats’s Places, ed. Richard Marggraf Turley (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018): 205-224.
- “Keats and Sociability,” in John Keats in Context, ed. Michael O’Neill. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2017): 117-125.
- “New Severn Watercolours from the Voyage to Italy with Keats,” Romanticism 22.2 (2016): 213-229.
- “Victor’s Secret: Queer Gothic in Lynd Ward’s Illustrations to Frankenstein (1934).” Reprinted in Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. Ed. Johanna M. Smith, 3rd ed. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. (Boston: Bedford / St. Martin’s, 2016). Part Three: Gender Criticism / Queer Theory. 400-445.
- “Painting Words: Severn’s Visual Dialogue with Keats in The Fountain (1828),” Word & Image v. 31, #3 (July-September 2015): 288-304.
- Robert C. Williams Award for Junior Faculty, 1994
- Christensen Fellowship, St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, 2004
- Donald B. Hoffman Research Fellowship, 2008-09
- Honors Convocation Speaker, 2016
- Bridge Builder Award, 2018
- Class of 1932 Research Professorship, 2020
- The Daniel J. and Carol Shiner Wilson Grant for the Completion of Scholarly Projects, 2022
English Literatures & Writing
Contact: grantscott@muhlenberg.edu