Stephen Railton
Professor Emeritus
439 Bryan Hall
Office Hours: M 11:00-12:00
W 1:00-1:50
F 9:00-9:50
Class Schedule: MWF 10:00-10:50, MW 2:00-3:15
Specialties:
American, Digital Humanities
Degrees
Ph.D. Columbia, 1975
M.A. Columbia, 1971
B.A. Columbia, 1970
M.A. Columbia, 1971
B.A. Columbia, 1970
Books
Mark Twain: A Short Introduction, Wiley-Blackwell, 2003
Authorship and Audience, Princeton University Press, 1991
Fenimore Cooper: A Study of His Life and Imagination, Princeton University Press, 1978
Edited Works
Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (ed.), Bedford St. Martin's, 2007
Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (ed.), Barnes & Noble, 2005
Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans (ed.), Barnes & Noble, 2004
Emerson and His Legacy (ed.), Southern Illinois University Press, 1986
R. M. Bucke's Walt Whitman (ed.), New York University Press, 1974
Digital Projects
Articles
- “Pioneering American Fiction: James Fenimore Cooper,” in Cambridge Companion to American Novelists, ed. Timothy Parrish, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2012).
- “Mark Twain and His Times,” in Mark Twain: Critical Insights, ed. Ken Rasmussen (Salem Press, 2010)
- “Readapting Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen (ed. Barton Palmer, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007).
- “The Twain-Cable Connection,” A Companion to Mark Twain (ed. Budd and Messent, Blackwell, 2006).
- "Mark Twain Tries to Get the Last Laugh: Hadleyburg and Other Performances," 2006.
- "Re-Adapting Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Novel on Film," 2006.
- "The Twain-Cable Connection," 2005.
- "The Tragedy of Mark Twain, by Pudd'nhead Wilson" (2002).
- "White Readers and Black Slaves" in Teaching Uncle Tom's Cabin. (2000).
- "'As If I Were With You': The Performance of Whitman's Poetry," in The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman (1995).
- "The Address of The Scarlet Letter," in Readers in History (1993).
- "Pilgrims' Politics: Steinbeck's Art of Conversion," in New Essays on The Grapes of Wrath (1990).
- "Jim and Mark Twain: What Do Dey Stan' For?" Virginia Quarterly Review (1987).
- "Seeing & Saying: The Dialectic of Emerson's Eloquence," in Emerson and His Legacy.
Recent Public Lectures
- Summer 2011 – “We Were Progressing, That Was Sure,” NEH Summer Workshop, Mark Twain House
- Summer 2011 – “The Site of Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Stowe Society Annual Meeting, ALA National Conference, Boston
- Spring 2011 – “Faulkner at Virginia”/”Mark Twain, Virtually,” UVA Alumni Clubs in Atlanta, Savannah, Charleston, Asheville
- Fall 2010 – “I Just Wanted to Go Somewheres,” En Route Symposium, Center for Twain Studies, Elmira College
- Summer 2010 – “Faulkner at Virginia,” Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference, University of Mississippi
- Summer 2009 – “Huckleberry Finn – Classrooms and Controversy,” NEH
- Summer Workshop, Mark Twain HouseFall 2008 – “Mark Twain, Speechless,” Annual Mark Twain Dinner, Lotus Club, New York City
- Summer 2007 – “Uncle Tom’s Cabin on Film,” Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the Web of Culture conference (which I co-directed), Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford
- Fall 2006 -- “Mark Twain, Virtually,” Center for Twain Studies, Elmira College
- Fall 2005 – “Mark Twain Tries to Get the Last Laugh,” Mark Twain Circle of America Annual Meeting, MLA National Convention
- Spring 2004 -- “Uncle Tom’s Cabin & American Culture: 3 Works in Progress,” Vassar College
- Fall 2002 -- "Uncle Tom's Cabin in the Web of Culture," The Huntington Library conference, Topsy-Turvy: Uncle Tom's Cabin Turns 150"
- Fall 2002 -- "The Site of Uncle Tom's Cabin," Gettysburg College (E-Lincoln Prize Speech)
- Spring 2001 -- "Teaching American Literature," Temple University English Dept.
- Summer 2000 -- "Virtual Unrealities: Black Figures and White Fictions," Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies, Univ. of Virginia
- Spring 1999 -- "Criticism as Fiction," presented to the Poe Society Session, American Literature Association National Conference, Baltimore
Major Grants Received
- 2016-2019 – NEH Collaborative Research Grant
- 2013-2014 – NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant
- 2004-2008 – Scholarly Edition Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities
- 2006-2007 – Collaborative Research Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities
- 2002-2004 – Materials Preservation Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
- 1998-1999 – Fellow in Residence Grant, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities,University of Virginia