Farrell, John P.
Professor Emeritus

Education: Ph.D. Indiana U. 1967
Office Location: PAR 219
Phone: (512) 471-8755
jackfar@mail.utexas.edu

Research Interests: Victorian Literature, History of Ideas

Appointments:
Assistant Professor, University of Kansas, 1966-1970
Associate Professor, University of Kansas, 1970- 1974
Associate Professor, University of Texas, 1974-1982
Professor, University of Texas, 1982--the present
Visiting Professor, University College, Galway 1988
Visiting Professor, Rice University Spring term , 1989
Honors and Awards
Holmes Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Kansas, 2005
Faculty Research Assignment, University of Texas, spring terms, 1981, 1987, 1995
Nominee, Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship, 1988
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, fall, 1980
Outstanding Teacher Award, College of Humanities, University of Texas, 1977
American Philosophical Society travel grant, 1972
Younger Humanist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1972- 1973

Recent Publications: ''Matthew Arnold and the Middle Ages: The Uses of the Past,'' Victorian Studies 13 (1970), 319-338

Revolution as Tragedy: The Dilemma of the Moderate from Scott to Arnold, Cornell University Press, 1980.

''The Beautiful Changes in Richard Wilbur's Poetry,'' Contemporary Literature 12 (1971), 74-87; rpt. and trans. in Interpretationen XII: Amerkanische Literatur des 20 Jahrhunderts, ed. G. Hoffmann (Frankfort: Fischer, 1972); also rptd. in Wendy Salinger, ed. Richard Wilbur's Creation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1983), 187-202.

''Toward a New History of Fiction: The Wolff Collection and the Example of Mrs. Gore,'' The Library Chronicle, n.s. #37 (1986), 29-38.

''Transcendental Despair: The French Revolution'' in Harold Bloom, ed., Thomas Carlyle: Modern Critical Views (New York: Chelsea House, 1986).

'''What You Feel, I Share': Breaking the Dialogue of the Mind with Itself,'' in Matthew Arnold 1988: A Centennial Review, ed. Miriam Allott, Essays and Studies, n.s. Vol. 41 (London: John Murray, 1988), 45-61.

''Reading the Text of Community in Wuthering Heights,'' ELH 56 (1989), 173-208.

''Crossroads to Community: Jude the Obscure and the Chronotope of Community'' in Dialogue and Critical Discourse: Language, Culture, Critical Theory. ed. Michael Macovski ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 65-79.

''The Partners' Tale: Dickens and Our Mutual Friend,'' ELH 66 (1999)759-799.