Frank J. Kearful
Frank J. Kearful (born before 1960) is an Americanist and literary scholar . Until 2004 he was Professor of English at the University of Bonn .
Kearful taught at the University of Washington in the 1960s . Initially he was assistant professor of English there, then a permanent associate professor of contemporary literature and English. He came to Germany in 1968 on a research grant and returned to Tübingen for teaching assignments in 1972 and to Hamburg in 1973. In 1974 he was appointed professor at the University of Bonn and stayed there until his retirement in 2004.
Kearful researched literature from the Anglo-Saxon region, most recently poetry by Theodore Roethke, and published on these topics. He taught in Bonn as part of the “Regional Studies North America” course.
supporting documents
- ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Frank J. Kearful - Department of English, American, and Celtic Studies. Retrieved December 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Frank J. Kearful - Lilies and to Olive Branch: On Robert Lowell's Lord Weary's Castle - Connotations . In: Connotations . ( connotations.de [accessed December 31, 2017]).
- ↑ - Dialogue of the Disciplines . In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . July 29, 2002 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed December 30, 2017]).
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| SURNAME | Kearful, Frank J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Americanist and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1960 |