Steven Frye is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at California State University, Bakersfield. He earned his Ph.D. in American Literature and Culture from Purdue University.
He is the author of the recently published novel Dogwood Crossing, which Kirkus Reviews called, “an engaging, sometimes-chilling, and often melancholy tale of the pioneer spirit."
His writing interests include the nineteenth and twentieth-century American novel, including such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Jack London. That same tradition finds its greatest contemporary expression in the novels of Cormac McCarthy and the Literature of the American West. Frye has published four book length studies, including Understanding Cormac McCarthy, and edited five collections of scholarly essays with Cambridge University Press and the University of South Carolina Press. He has also published in such journals as American Studies, The Centennial Review, The Southern Quarterly, and The South Carolina Review.
Professor Frye was the recipient of the 2019 California State University, Bakersfield Award for Outstanding Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity.
He is the author of the recently published novel Dogwood Crossing, which Kirkus Reviews called, “an engaging, sometimes-chilling, and often melancholy tale of the pioneer spirit."
His writing interests include the nineteenth and twentieth-century American novel, including such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Jack London. That same tradition finds its greatest contemporary expression in the novels of Cormac McCarthy and the Literature of the American West. Frye has published four book length studies, including Understanding Cormac McCarthy, and edited five collections of scholarly essays with Cambridge University Press and the University of South Carolina Press. He has also published in such journals as American Studies, The Centennial Review, The Southern Quarterly, and The South Carolina Review.
Professor Frye was the recipient of the 2019 California State University, Bakersfield Award for Outstanding Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity.