Joseph Frank

Professor Emeritus on Active Duty
Contact Information:
Building 240, Room 104
frankjosn@gmail.com

 

Honors

  • The Guest of Honor at the international conference Art, creativity, and spirituality in Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, held at the College of Holy Cross and Museum of the Russian Icon in Worster, MA., April 10-12, 2008.

  • European University in SPB Efim Etkind Prize for the best book about Russian Literature and Culture by a Western Scholar, 2006

  • Docteur Honoris Causa, Sorbonne University, 1999

  • Honorary Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1998

  • Honorary Ph.D., Adelphi University, 1995

  • Honorary Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1992

  • Research Grant, National Endowment for Humanities, 1990-9

  • James Russell Lowell Prize, M.L.A., 1977, 1986

  • National Book Critics Circle Award, 1984

  • Guggenheim Fellow, 1956-57, 1975-76

  • Elected Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1969

Research
Interests:

Dostoevsky and the literature concerning Dostoevsky, as well as in the work of Mikhal Bakhtin, one of Dostoevsky's major interpreters

 

Teaching
Current Courses:
Dostoevsky and His TimesOpen to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Major works in English translation with reference to related developments in Russian and European culture, literary criticism, and intellectual history. GER:DB-Hum Win
Selected Publications:
TitleYear
Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-18812003Link
Through the Russian Prism: Essays on Literature and Culture1990Link
Dostoevsky. The Miraculous Years, 1865-18711995
Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-18651986
Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-18591983
Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-18491976
The Widening Gyre: Crisis and Mastery in Modern Literature1963
The Idea of Spatial Form19451991