JOSEPH R. MCELRATH, JR., William Hudson Rogers Professor of English, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Arts & Sciences, received his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 1973 and specializes in late 19th-century American Literature, Textual & Bibliographical Studies, and Scholarly Editing. Since 1986 he has served as the editor of the journal Frank Norris Studies and is a member of the editorial advisory boards of the yearbook published by the Society for Textual Scholarship, Text, and the "American Literary Realism and Naturalism" series of monographs published by the University of Alabama Press. The founder of the "Textual & Bibliographical Studies" section of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, he has also served in various capacities in the Association for Documentary Editing, the American Literature Association, the Modern Language Association, the Frank Norris Society, and the Jack London Society.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- Frank Norris, A Life (Champaign: U of Illinois P, 2005), with Jesse S. Crisler
- An Exemplary Citizen: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932 (Stanford U.P., 2002), with Jesse S. Crisler and Robert C. Leitz, III
- Charles W. Chesnutt: Essays and Speeches (Stanford UP, 1999), with Robert C. Leitz, III, and Jesse S. Crisler
- Critical Essays on Charles W. Chesnutt (Hall, 1999)
- "To Be An Author": Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889-1905 (Princeton UP, 1997), with Robert C. Leitz, III
- John Steinbeck: The Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge UP, 1996), with Jesse S. Crisler and Susan Shillinglaw
- The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris (American Philosophical Society, 1996), with Douglas K. Burgess
- Frank Norris: A Descriptive Bibliography (U of Pittsburgh P, 1992)
- Frank Norris Revisited (Twayne, 1992)
- The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet (Twayne, 1981), with Alan P. Robb
- Frank Norris: The Critical Reception (New York: Burt Franklin, 1981), with Elizabeth Knight
- Frank Norris: A Reference Guide (Hall, 1974), with Jesse S. Crisler
AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS
- Sylvia Lyons Render Award of the Charles Waddell Chesnutt Association, 2006
- American Philosophical Society Travel Grants, 1975 and 1986
- Research Fellowship, Bibliographical Society of America, 1989
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1993
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship (Library Company of Philadelphia), 1994
- Florida State University System Teaching Award, 1995
- John Frederick Lewis Award of the American Philosophical Society, 1996
- Florida State University System Professional Excellence Award, 1997
- Lyman H. Butterfield Award of the Association for Documentary Editing, 1998
- National Science Foundation Grant (Science & Technology Studies Program), 1998
- National Science Foundation Grant (Science & Technology Studies Program), 1999
- Florida State University Excellence in Teaching Award, 1999
- Sylvia Lyons Render Award of the Charles Waddell Chesnutt Association, 1999
- National Endowment for the Humanities Grant (Collaborative Research Program), 2000
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 2003
- Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2006
