Education:
PhD, English, University of

Washington

MA, English, University of

Maryland

Olmsted Scholar, International

Relations, University of

Lausanne, Switzerland

Advanced French Linguist,

Defense Language Institute,

Monterey, CA

BS, English, U. S. Naval Academy Trident Scholar, U. S. Naval

Academy














Academic Interests:
Joseph Conrad; Modernism; landscape, place, and space in literature; 20th-century British and world literature; literature of the First World War; literature of the sea.












 

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Mark Larabee Commander, U. S. Navy Assistant Professor
Department of English
U. S. Naval Academy
107 Maryland Ave.
Annapolis, MD 21402
larabee at usna dot edu
(410) 293-6214
(410) 293-4372 (Fax)
Scholarship
Publications: Articles and book chapters forthcoming in A Historical Guide to Joseph Conrad (Oxford UP); Journal of the History of Ideas; English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920; and The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945; and published in The Conradian, Studies in the Novel, CEA Critic, and Approaches to Teaching Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and "The Secret Sharer" (MLA); reviews in Modern Fiction Studies and Joseph Conrad Today.

Awards: Bruce Harkness Young Conrad Scholar Award (Joseph Conrad Society of America), writing awards from the College English Association and the Surface Navy Association, and the Provost's Award (Defense Language Institute).

Teaching
Courses Taught: Modern British Literature, The First World War in British Art and Fiction (Honors Seminar), Contemporary British Literature, Anglo-American Literature, Rhetoric and Introduction to Literature, Forms of Poetry, Ethics and Moral Reasoning for the Naval Leader.

Awards: Honorable Mention (twice), William P. Clements Award for Excellence in Education.

Service
Treasurer, The Joseph Conrad Society of America; Executive Editor, Joseph Conrad Today

USNA: Trident Scholar Committee Member, Masqueraders (Theater Company) Officer Representative, and other institutional and departmental service.


Awards: Wilson L. Heflin Prize for Leadership in the Humanities.