David S. Neff

Dr. Neff has been at UAH for the past twenty-nine years and has won two UAH Foundation Awards, one for Distinguished Teaching (1994) and one for Research and Creative Activity (1998). He was also the UAH nominee for the Carnegie Foundation's U.S. Professor of the Year Program (1995). He came to UAH after a one-year appointment as a visiting assistant professor of English at SUNY, Geneseo (1978-79). He has published a number of articles on literary theory and nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature. His most recent piece, “Safie/Saphie: Mungo Park’s Travels into the Interior Districts of Africa and the De Lacey Episode in Frankenstein,” will appear in a forthcoming issue of ANQ. Some works in progress include articles on time and detective fiction, the possible influence of Beckford's Episodes of Vathek on Lewis's Monk, Frankenstein and Islam, and masturbation anxiety in Keats's Eve of St. Agnes.