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“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

First Name:

Stephen

Position:

Professor Emeritus

Email:

sfr@virginia.edu

Computing ID:

sfr

Phone:

434-924-6612

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