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Adam J. Frank is Professor and Associate Dean (Policy, Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies) at the University of British Columbia, Department of English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts. His work bridges affect theory, poetics, and science and technology studies within twentieth-century American literature and culture. His research networks include the UBC Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies, Gertrude Stein Society, and Silvan Tomkins Institute.
- Education: BA, Brown University; PhD, Duke University
Research Interests center on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, sound/radio studies, and object-relations theory. He explores how affect and cybernetics reshape literary criticism, exemplified in his current project Mad Science, or a Survey of Motives for Criticism, which proposes a counter-transferential method.
Publications include Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein’s Parlor Plays (2024), Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol (2015), and A Silvan Tomkins Handbook (2020, co-authored with Elizabeth Wilson). He has won the James W. Gargano Award for scholarship on Poe.
His audio dramas, such as Radio Free Stein (2013-2019), highlight collaborations with composers. He teaches courses on mad science and literary theory, emphasizing interdisciplinary methodologies and historical contexts.
