School of English

Dr Keith Carabine Keith Carabine

B.A., M.A. (Leeds), Ph.D. (Yale)

Interests

I came to Kent in 1967 after three years at Yale studying and teaching in the American Studies Programme. I have also taught at Colorado and U. Mass, Amherst and the U.W. Indies (Jamaica). My chief academic interest since the early eighties in Joseph Conrad. I have published many articles on his work and I edited and introduced Nostromo for C.V.P. and Joseph Conrad Selected Short Stories, and Sea Stories for Wordsworth Classics. With Knowles and Krajka I edited several volumes of Conference Papers on Conrad, and Conrad and his contemporary relations, including James. I also edited Conrad: Critical Assessments (4 vols, Helm, 1994). My book, The Life and the Art: A Study of Conrad's Under Western Eyes (1996) is genetic and concentrates on the MSS. I have also written, among others, on Hawthorne, Dickens, the English Political Novel, Anderson, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Wright Morris, the Nebraskan writer.

Research Supervision

I am currently supervising postgraduate theses on 'Biographies of Hawthorne'; 'The Evolution of Conrad's Nostromo' and 'Irony and Silence in Kafka and Beckett'

Professional Activities

I am currently chair-person of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK). We hold conferences every July and The Conradian is published twice a year.

Teaching

At Kent I have taught across the curriculum, but I have concentrated on American Literature, English Fiction and Modernism. I have particular interests in Conrad, Dostoevsky, the Political Novel, and Wright Morris. In the Academic year 2006-7 I will be teaching:

Undergraduate:

Selected Publications

Books:

  • I edited and introduced Nostromo for C.V.P. and Joseph Conrad Selected Short Stories, and Sea Stories for Wordsworth Classics
  • Ed. Conrad: Critical Assessments (4 vols, Helm, 1994)
  • The Life and the Art: A Study of Conrad's Under Western Eyes (1996)

Some Recent Chapters and Articles:

 

contact details

Address: School of English, Rutherford College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NX.

Telephone: 01227 827408

Fax: 01227-827001

Email: k.carabine@kent.ac.uk

 

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Last Updated: 12/05/2011