Mark D. Larabee

Assistant Professor

Permanent Military Professor

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, 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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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:

Book: Front Lines of Modernism: Remapping the Great War in British Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

Book chapters: published in A Historical Guide to Joseph Conrad (Oxford University Press); Joseph Conrad: The Short Fiction (Rodopi); and Approaches to Teaching Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and "The Secret Sharer" (Modern Language Association).

Articles: published in The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945; Journal of the History of Ideas; English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920; Studies in the Novel; and CEA Critic.

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: World Modernism: Art and Literature (Honors Seminar), Early Western Literature, Multiethnic Literature, Continental Literature, Modern British Literature, The First World War in British Art and Fiction (Honors Seminar), Contemporary British Literature, Anglo-American Literature, Rhetoric and Intro. to Literature, Forms of Poetry, Ethics and Moral Reasoning for the Naval Leader.

Awards: Honorable Mention (four times), 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.