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Mark Kamrath

Mark L. Kamrath is a professor of American literature and culture at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando.

Biography

Born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, Kamrath earned a bachelor’s degree in English Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1984. He received a masters in English degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1991, and a Ph.D. in English in 1996. He took a teaching position at UCF in 1997, which he currently holds.

He is the General Editor of the Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition, a project that focuses on providing access to the letters, novels, poems, political pamphlets, and periodical writings of Charles Brockden Brown, America’s first professional author (1771-1810). Kamrath also specializes in eighteenth-century American periodical literature and has done collaborative work in the field of digital humanities. His has been awarded three major research grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

He teaches classes to both graduate and undergraduate students. Course topics include: bibliography and research, American literature from the colonial period to the Civil War, Native American literature, the American novel, English Romantics, and digital humanities.

Kamrath has served as a board member and webmaster for the Charles Brockden Brown Society since 2002, and Co-Director of the UCF Center for Humanities and Digital Research (CHDR) since 2007. He is a founding member of the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) since 2014. Over the years, he has also been an inspector for the Modern Languages of America (MLA) Committee on Scholarly Editions (CSE) and a grant review panelist for the NEH.

Works (Selected)

Books

The Historicism of Charles Brockden Brown: Radical History and the Early Republic (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2010).

Electronic Archive

The Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition http://www.brockdenbrown.ucf.edu. Mark L. Kamrath (General Editor), Philip Barnard, Rudy McDaniel, William Dorner, and Amy Giroux. An XML-TEI encoded searchable archive of 991 primary texts, and a secondary bibliography.

Edited volumes

The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown. Political Pamphlets. Volume 4. Ed. Stephen Shapiro, Maureen Tuthill, and Mark L. Kamrath. General Editor, Mark L. Kamrath (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, with Bucknell University Press, 2020). Awarded the Modern Language Association (MLA) Committee on Scholarly Editions (CSE) seal, 2013.

The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown. Letters and Early Epistolary Writings. Volume 1. Ed. Philip Barnard, Elizabeth Hewitt, and Mark L. Kamrath. General Editor, Mark L. Kamrath (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, with Bucknell University Press, 2013). Awarded the Modern Language Association (MLA) Committee on Scholarly Editions (CSE) seal, 2019.

Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America. Ed. Mark L. Kamrath and Sharon M. Harris (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005).

Revising Charles Brockden Brown: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality in the Early Republic. Ed. Philip Barnard, Mark L. Kamrath, and Stephen Shapiro (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004).

Journal Articles

“Early America, American Theosophists, Modernity—and India.” Themed Issue on “Desire and Deceit: India in the European’s Gaze” in Collaboration with Imagology Centre, University of Alba-Iulia, Romania. The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities” 7: 2 (2015), pp. 9-22. http://rupkatha.com/

“Early American Periodicals: Looking Back—and Forward” 25th Anniversary Issue of American Periodicals 25:1 (2015), pp. 58-61.

“The Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive: Mapping Archival Access and Metadata.” Archive Journal 4 (Spring 2014) http://www.archivejournal.net/issue/4/archives-remixed/. Mark L. Kamrath, Philip Barnard, Rudy McDaniel, William Dorner, Kevin Jardaneh, Patricia Carlton, Josejuan Rodriguez.

“An ‘inconceivable pleasure’ and the Philadelphia Minerva: Erotic Liberalism, Oriental Tales, and the Female Subject in Periodicals of the Early Republic.” American Periodicals 14 (2004), pp. 3-34.

“Eyes Wide Shut and the Cultural Poetics of Eighteenth-Century American Periodical Literature.” Early American Literature 37:3 (2002), pp. 497-536.

“Charles Brockden Brown and the ‘art of the historian’: An Essay Concerning (Post)modern Historical Understanding.” Journal of the Early Republic 21 (Summer 2001), pp. 231-60.

“Charles Brockden Brown and Contemporary Theory: A Review of Recent Critical Trends in Brown Scholarship.” Profils Américains. Ed. M. Amfreville & F. Charras. Université Paul-Valéry: Centre d’ Etudes et de Recherches sur la Culture et la  Littérature Américaines, 1999—N. 11., pp. 213-45.

"Brown and the Enlightenment: A Study of the Influence of Voltaire's Candide in Edgar Huntly." The American Transcendental Quarterly. New Series 5 (March 1991), pp. 5-14.

Book Chapters

“Charles Brockden Brown and the Novel in the 1790s.” Mark L. Kamrath, Philip Barnard, and Stephen Shapiro. The Blackwell Companion to American Literature. Beginnings to 1820. Ed Susan Belasco, Theresa Strouth Gaul, Linck Johnson, and Michael Soto. Chichester, West Sussex, England; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell (2020), pp. 445-461.

“’Annals of Europe and America’ and Brown’s Contributions to Early American Periodicals.” Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown. Ed. Philip Barnard and Stephen Shapiro (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 204-224.

"The Role of Native American Oratory in Republican Discourses and Periodicals of the Early Revolutionary Era, 1741-1775." Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America. Ed. Mark L. Kamrath and Sharon M. Harris. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press (2005),pp. 143-78.           "American Exceptionalism and Radicalism in the 'Annals of Europe and America' (1807-1809)." Revising Charles Brockden Brown: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality in the Early Republic. Ed. Philip Barnard, Mark L. Kamrath, and Stephen Shapiro. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press (2004), pp. 354-84.

Major Research Grants

2020 National Endowment for the Humanities, Challenge Grant. Mark L. Kamrath (PI) Bruce Janz (Co-PI), Scot French (Co-PI), Amy Giroux (CO-PI), Connie Lester (Co-PI), Mike Shier (Co-PI). “Expanding UCF’s Center for Humanities and Digital Research (CHDR) Infrastructure, Research, and Public Programming” (2020-2026). $193,736.00 matching grant.

2012 National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant. Mark L. Kamrath (PI) Rudy McDaniel (Co-PI). “Creating the Charles Brockden Brown Archive” (2012-2015). $200,000.00.

2009 National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions Grant (2010-2012), Washington, D.C. Mark L. Kamrath (PI) Philip Barnard (Co-PI). The Letters of Charles Brockden Brown. $170,000.00.

References

University of Central Florida, Department of English, Faculty and Staff      https://english.cah.ucf.edu/faculty-staff/ Retrieved June 9, 2021.

Charles Brockden Brown Society https://brockdenbrownsociety.cah.ucf.edu/the-society/ Retrieved June 9, 2021.

UCF Center for Humanities and Digital Research (CHDR) https://chdr.cah.ucf.edu/ Retrieved June 9, 2021.

Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) https://www.fldh.org/ Retrieved June 9, 2021.

MLA CSE https://www.mla.org/Resources/Research/Surveys-Reports-and-Other-Documents/Publishing-and-Scholarship/Reports-from-the-MLA-Committee-on-Scholarly-Editions/CSE-Approved-Editions/Volumes-Published-and-Forthcoming-A-I. Retrieved June 9, 2021.

MLA CSE https://www.mla.org/Resources/Research/Surveys-Reports-and-Other-Documents/Publishing-and-Scholarship/Reports-from-the-MLA-Committee-on-Scholarly-Editions/CSE-Approved-Editions/Volumes-Published-and-Forthcoming-A-I. Retrieved June 9, 2021.

National Endowment for the Humanities Awards and Offers, January 2020 (page 8) https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/NEH%20January%202020%20grant%20awards.pdf Retrieved June 9, 2021.

National Endowment for the Humanities Awards and Offers, March 2012 (page 7) https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/march2012statebystatefinal.pdf Retrieved June 9, 2021.

National Endowment for the Humanities Awards and Offers, June 2009 (page 6) https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/awards_09jun_pt1_altoin.pdf Retrieved June 9, 2021.