ANDREW FRANTA

Professor

English

  • Professor
    English
  • University of Utah, Department of English, 255 S Central Campus Dr Rm 3500, Salt Lake City, UT, 84111, USA

BIO

Andrew Franta is Professor of English at the University of Utah. He is the author two books—Romanticism and the Rise of the Mass Public (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Systems Failure: The Uses of Disorder in English Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)—and has published articles, reviews, and chapters in Critical Inquiry, ELH, PMLA, Poetics Today, Studies in Romanticism, Novel, European Romantic Review, Modern Philology, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Keats-Shelley Journal, The Wordsworth Circle, Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, Romantic Circles, British Romanticism: Criticism and Debates (Routledge, 2015), and Byron in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • Professor
    English1 Jul 2020 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Professor
    University of Utah, English1 Jul 2007 - 30 Jun 2020
  • Assistant Professor
    University of Utah, English16 Aug 2001 - 30 Jun 2007

DEGREES

  • PhD, English
    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
  • AB, English
    University of Chicago, Chicago, United States

LANGUAGES

  • French
    Can read, write, speak and understand
  • German
    Can read

FIELDS OF RESEARCH