Jeffrey Scraba

Dr. Jeffrey Scraba is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Memphis. He holds a BA (Honors) from the University of Calgary and MA/PhD from Rutgers University. His research focuses on intersections of historical narratives, literary texts, and cultural geography in 19th-century Britain and America, emphasizing genre, memory, travel, and ethnic identity formation. Current work explores how Western spaces functioned as sites for racial self-definition.

Education includes:

• BA (Honors), University of Calgary
• MA, Rutgers University
• PhD, Rutgers University

Research interests include:

• Analyzing cultural memory through literary personae
• Examining travel narratives and tourism as cultural constructs
• Investigating how frontier spaces influenced ethnic/racial identities

Publications span 2006-2013, addressing topics like Washington Irving's spatial narratives, Deadwood's frontier critique, Poe's poetic memory, and Scott's historiographic experiments. His work bridges historical analysis with literary criticism.

No scientific awards mentioned. Teaching includes undergraduate courses in American antebellum and British Romantic literature, plus graduate seminars on memory, quixotism, and the Gothic. Office: Patterson 455 | Phone: 901.678.4768