Credentials
Jeffrey Franklin
Education
Institution Date Degree Major
University of Florida 1995 Ph.D. English Literature
University of Florida 1991 M.F.A. Creative Writing, Poetry
Georgia Institute of Technology 1983 M.S. Science & Technology Policy
University of North Carolina 1977 B.A. Religion/English (double)
Professional Experience
2000 - present Professor, English, University of Colorado Denver
2014 - 2020 Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Experiences, University of Colorado Denver
2011 - 2014 Associate Dean for Undergraduate Curriculum and Student Affairs, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, CU Denver
2005 - 2010 Associate Professor, English, University of Colorado Denver
2000 - 2004 Assistant Professor, English, University of Colorado Denver
1996 - 2000 Assistant Professor, English, East Carolina University
1989 - 1996 Graduate TA and then Lecturer, English, University of Florida
1986 - 1989 Science Policy Program Director, Centre for Technology & Social Change, University of Wollongong, Australia
1984 - 1986 Research Associate, Center for Research Planning, Philadelphia
1982 - 1984 Science & Technology Policy Analyst, U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent Office, Washington, DC
Books, Monographs, Book Chapters
2021 Franklin, Jeffrey. Where We Lay Down, a collection of poetry. Kelsay Books, forthcoming in 2021.
2018 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. Spirit Matters: Occult Beliefs, Alternative Religions, and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian Britain. Cornell
University Press, 2018.
2016 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “Anthony Trollope’s Religion.” Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope. Deborah Denenholz
Morse, Margaret Markwick, and Mark W. Turner, eds. Oxon, England: Routledge, 2016: 347-359.
2015 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “Arnold, Edwin.” The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. Dino Franco Felluga, Pamela K. Gilbert, and Linda
K. Hughes, eds. Blackwell Publishing, 2015.
2012 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “The Evolution of Occult Spirituality in Victorian England and the Representative Case of Edward Bulwer-
Lytton.” The Ashgate Companion to Spiritualism and the Occult in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Sarah Willburn and Tatiana
Kontou. Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2012: 216-256.
2010 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. Google
Books. 2010. 19 February 2011. Republication as an e-book.
2009 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire. New Delhi, India: Munshiram Manoharlal
Publishers, 2009. Republication.
2008 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2008.
2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. For the Lost Boys. Denver: Ghost Road Press, 2006.
2003 Franklin, J. Jeffrey and Ron Johnston. “Modellazione bibliometrica di co-citation come strumento per il management di S&T e
R&S: aspetti, applicazioni e sviluppi.” Valutare la scienza. Ed. and trans. Riccardo Viale and Andrea Cerroni. Mannelli, Italy:
Rubbettino, 2003. 215-245.
1999 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. Serious Play: The Cultural Form of the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel. Philadelphia: U Pennsylvania P,
1999.
1989 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. An Indicator-Based Profile of Australian Marine Research Activity. Wollongong, Australia: University of
Wollongong, 1989.
1988 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. Experience with the 1983-84 Co-Citation Bibliometric Model of Australian Science. Wollongong, Australia:
University of Wollongong, 1988.
1988 Franklin, J. Jeffrey, and R. Johnson. “Co-Citation Bibliometric Modeling as a Tool for S&T Policy and R&D Management: Issues,
Applications, and Developments.” Handbook of Quantitative Studies in Science and Technology. Ed. A.F.J. Van Raan.
Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1988. 325-89.
1988 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “Performance Indicators in Higher Education: The Participatory Approach.” Indicators in Education. Ed. Alan
Ruby and Tim Wyatt. Sydney, Australia: Australian Conference of Directors-General of Education, 1988. 43-54.
Refereed Essays
2021 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “H. G. Wells and the Future of God.” Religion & Literature, in press, forthcoming in 2021.
2020 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “Contexts of Reception: The Lotus Sūtra in Nineteenth-Century Europe and What They Overlooked.”
Buddhist-Christian Studies 40 (2020): 3-24.
2013 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “The Economics of Immortality: The Demi-Immortal Oriental, Enlightenment Vitalism, and Political
Economy in Dracula.” Cahiers victoriens & édouardiens 76 (2012): 127-148.
2012 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “Existential Nihilism and the Nineteenth-Century Nirvana Debate: Jean-Paul Sartre Meets Nagarjuna.”
Journal of Religion and Literature 44.1 (spring 2012): 73-96.
2012 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “The Influences of Buddhism and Comparative Religion on Matthew Arnold.” Literature Compass. Special
Issue: Philosophy and Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain. 9.11 (November 2012): 813-825. 11 November 2012. HYPERLINK
2012 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism in Victorian England, 1870-1900.” Victorian Review 32.2 (fall 2012): 21-
26.
2005 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “The Life of the Buddha in Victorian England.” English Literary History (ELH) 72 (winter 2005): 941-974.
2003 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “Anthony Trollope Meets Pierre Bourdieu: The Conversion of Capital as Plot in the Mid-Victorian British
Novel.” Victorian Literature and Culture 31.2 (summer 2003): 501-521.
2003 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “The Counter-Invasion of Britain by Buddhism in Marie Corelli’s A Romance of Two Worlds and H. Rider
Haggard’s Ayesha: The Return of She.” Victorian Literature and Culture 31.1 (spring 2003): 19-42.
2001 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “Memory as the Nexus of Identity, Empire, and Evolution in George Eliot’s Middlemarch and H. Rider
Haggard’s She.” Cahiers victoriens & édouardiens 53 (2001): 141-170.
2000 Franklin, Jeffrey, and Christopher Salerno. “Chewing the Fat with a Blues Master: An Interview with Lightnin’ Wells.” North
Carolina Literary Review 9 (2000): 63-68.
1998 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “The Victorian Novel’s Performance of Interiority: George Eliot’s Felix Holt on Trial.” Victorians Institute.
Journal 26 (1998): 69-93.
1995 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “The Merging of Spiritualities: Jane Eyre as Missionary of Love.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 49 (March
1995):456-482.
1994 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “The Victorian Discourse of Gambling: Speculations on Middlemarch and The Duke’s Children.” ELH 61
(winter 1994): 899-921.
1989 Coward, H. Roberts, and J. Jeffrey Franklin. “Identifying the Science-Technology Interface: Matching Patent Data to a
Bibliometric Model.” Science, Technology, and Human Values 14.1 (winter 1989): 50-77.
1988 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “Testing and Using Quantitative Methods in Science Policy Contexts: A Response to Hicks.” Social Studies of
Science 18.2 (May 1988): 365-74.
1988 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “Selectivity in Funding: Evaluation of Research in Australia.” Prometheus 6.1 (June, 1988): 34-60.
Published Poems
2012 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Excitement of Getting a Room with a Minibar.” Rattle 35 (winter 2011): 118. Republished as a
featured poem on the journal’s website. 3 July 2013.
2011 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Excitement of Getting a Room with a Minibar.” Rattle 35 (winter 2011): 118.
2010 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Living Right.” Rattle 34 (winter 2010): 34-35.
2010 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Leggers.” River Oak Review 2.7 (winter 2010): 119.
2010 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Anthropology of Little League Baseball.” Reprinted in The Human Touch. Vol. 3. Aurora, CO: University of
Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, 2010. pp. 67-8.
2010 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Where We Lay Down.” Reprinted in The Human Touch Vol. 3. Aurora, CO: University of Colorado Anschutz
Medical Campus, 2010. pp. 148-9.
2010 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Advice to a Son Coming of Age.” Reprinted in The Human Touch. Vol. 3. Aurora, CO: University of
Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, 2010. p. 150.
2010 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Autumnal Equinox.” Southern Poetry Review 48.1 (2010): 54.
2010 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Dungeness.” Southern Poetry Review 48.1 (2010): 55-6.
2009 Franklin, Jeffrey. “How Far We Never Get Beyond Our Dreams.” Measure 4.1 (2009): 112.
2009 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Emma,”. Denver Office of Cultural Affairs as part of the “Poetry in Motion” project of the Poetry Society of
America. Placards posted in RTD Denver city buses, February through April 2009.
2008 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Anthropology of Little League Baseball.” Reprinted in Tar River Poetry: Thirtieth Anniversary Issue, A
Special Reprint Issue 48.1 (Fall 2008): 38-39
2008 Franklin, Jeffrey. “McGaulie’s Polo Grounds.” Reprinted in The 2008 Colorado Poems Calendar. Colorado Poets Association, April
2008 to 22 January 2009.
2008 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Awake.” Many Mountains Moving 8.1 (2008): 116-17.
2008 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Apple Pie for Breakfast.” Cider Press Review 9 (2008): 56-7.
2007 Franklin, Jeffrey. “War Porno.” Cutthroat 3 (summer 2007): 37.
2007 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Brushing out the Tangles.” North Carolina Literary Review 16 (2007): 55.
2007 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Hillbilly Zen.” North Carolina Literary Review 16 (2007): 58.
2007 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Mountain Gathering.” North Carolina Literary Review 16 (2007): 60-61.
2007 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Squirrely” North Carolina Literary Review 16 (2007): 63.
2007 Franklin, Jeffrey. “McGaulie’s Polo Grounds.” Iron Horse Literary Review 8.2 (spring 2007): 6-7.
2007 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Julian Bream.” Reprinted in The Rosette (July/August 2007): 3.
2007 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Drucker’s Mule Barn.” Arts & Letters 17 (spring 2007): 78-79.
2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Elemental.” Tar River Poetry 46 (fall 2006): 8.
2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “In Jenny-Lynne’s Garden.” Tar River Poetry 46 (fall 2006): 9-10.
2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Begging the Dead.” Open Windows 2006: An Anthology of Poetry, Fiction, Essays. Ed. Sonya Unrein. Denver:
Ghost Road Press, 2006.
2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Melos, the Usual.” Southern Poetry Review 44.2 (fall 2006): 16-17.
2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Art of Building a Fire (I).” Hiram Poetry Review 67 (spring 2006): 21-22.
2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Advice to a Son Coming of Age.” Evansville Review 16 (spring 2006): 42.
2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Apologia to the Opossums.” Measure 1 (2006): 160-161.
2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “First Fall.” Cutthroat 1 (spring 2006): 120-121.
2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “All the Connections.” Cutthroat 1 (spring 2006): 121-122.
2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Dear Tooth Fairy.” Eleventh Muse (2006): 56-57.
2005 Franklin, Jeffrey. “My Self My Other.” Diner (fall 2005).
2005 Franklin, Jeffrey. “At the Pilar Yacht Club.” Open Windows: An Anthology of Poetry, Essays & Fiction. Ed. Matthew Davis and
Sonja Unrein. Denver, CO: Ghost Road Press, 2005: 43.
2005 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Mountain Lion at Bear Creek Archery.” Open Windows: An Anthology of Poetry, Essays & Fiction. Ed.
Matthew Davis and Sonja Unrein. Denver, CO: Ghost Road Press, 2005: 44-45.
2005 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Seeds of Sorrow.” Open Windows: An Anthology of Poetry, Essays & Fiction. Ed. Matthew Davis and Sonja
Unrein. Denver, CO: Ghost Road Press, 2005: 46-47.
2004 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Black Pattern on a Mocha Ground.” Reprinted in Best of Asheville Poetry Review 1994-2004. 11 (2004): 75-76.
2004 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Days-o’-Work.” Southern Humanities Review 38 (winter 2004): 58-59.
2003 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Reasons for Lawns.” Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing. 1.2 (fall/winter 2003): 13-14.
2003 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Julian Bream.” Reprinted in How to Be this Man: The Walter Pavlich Memorial Poetry Anthology. Davis, CA:
Swan Scythe Press, 2003: 17.
2003 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Cookin’ with the David Jones Trio.” Crab Orchard Review. 8.2 (spring/summer 2003): 63-65.
2003 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Bird Across the River.” New Orleans Review. 29.1 (summer 2003): 102-103.
2003 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Boundaries of Seeing.” Reprinted in Painted Bride Quarterly: Print Annual 1. Ed. Marion Wrenn. Camden, NJ:
Rutgers UP, 2003. 118-119.
2003 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Explaining to my Mother why the Next War will be Necessary.” Cimarron Review 44 (summer 2003): 67-68.
2003 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Lawrence from New Mexico, 27 October, 1922.” Cimarron Review 44 (summer 2003): 66.
2003 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Apologia to the Opossums (IV).” Dogwood 3 (2003): 57-8.
2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Julian Bream.” Common Ground Review 4.2 (fall/winter 2002): 44-45
2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Slides of the Field Trip.” Square Lake 2 (fall 2002):19.
2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Third Card.” Square Lake 2 (fall 2002):20-21.2002.
2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. "To a Student Who Reads ‘The Second Coming’ as Sexual Autobiography.” Best American Poetry. Ed. Robert
Creeley. New York: Scribner. 44.
2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Black Pattern on a Mocha Ground.” Asheville Poetry Review 9 (summer 2002): 44-45.
2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Reading.” Asheville Poetry Review 9 (summer 2002): 46-47.
2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Facing the Elk.” Potomac Review 33 (spring/summer 2002): 28-29.
2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Homosassa.” Cider Press Review 3 (2002): 26-27.
2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Kosciusko, Mississippi.” storySouth (spring 2002): one page in an edited, web-based journal.
2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Where We Lay Down.” storySouth (spring 2002): one page in an edited, web-based journal.
2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Road to Canberra, and Beyond.” Quadrant (Australia) (April 2002): 46.
2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Kakadu Cave Paintings.” Quadrant (Australia) (April 2002): 55.
2001 Franklin, Jeffrey. “I Painted the House Myself.” Many Mountains Moving 4 (2001): 167-169.
2001 Franklin, Jeffrey. “A Day’s Outing.” Icarus (December 2001): 48.
2001 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Otter and the Shark.” Icarus (December 2001): 49.
2001 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Huck Finn at Forty-One.” Arkansas Review 32 (December 2001): 182-183.
2001 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Commerce & Gender in the New South.” Shenandoah 51 (winter 2001): 154-155.
2001 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Breanna’s Grandmother.” Plainsongs 22 (fall 2001): 18-19.
2001 Franklin, Jeffrey. “‘Blow, wind! come wrack!’” Poet Lore 96 (fall 2001): 48.
2001 Franklin, Jeffrey. “To the Student Who Reads ‘The Second Coming’ as Sexual Autobiography.” New England Review 22 (fall
2001): 192.
2001 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Dear Arthur, Dear Alfred.” Romantics Quarterly 1 (spring 2001): 41.
2000 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Boundaries of Seeing.” Painted Bride Quarterly 64 (fall/winter 2000): 49.
2000 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Anthropology of Little League Baseball.” Tar River Poetry 40 (fall 2000): 23-24.
1999 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Walls of the West of Ireland.” North Carolina Literary Review 8 (1999): 136.
1999 Franklin, Jeffrey. “What the Rain Said This Morning.” North Carolina Literary Review 8 (1999): 137.
1998 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Judy as Piñata.” Third Coast (fall 1998): 51.
1998 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Under The House Foundations Lie.” The Asheville Poetry Review 5 (fall 1998): 52.
1997 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Sky.” Southern Poetry Review 37.2 (winter 1997): 25-26.
1997 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Porc d’Espine.” The Hudson Review 50 (Autumn 1997): 459-460.
1997 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Dun Aengus.” Cumberland Poetry Review (fall 1997): 20-22.
1994 Franklin, Jeffrey. “If You Have Time to Think.” Alaaraaf (spring 1994): two pages in an edited, web-based journal.
1994 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Restless.” Alaaraaf (spring 1994): one page in an edited, web-based journal.
1992 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Florida.” The Hudson Review. 45 (summer 1992): 277-278.
1988 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Explaining to My Mother Why I Must Vote For Dukakis.” The Age Monthly Review (Australia) (November
1988):17.
1988 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Foreigner in Florida.” The International Terminal. Ed. C. Pollnitz (Newcastle, Australia: U Newcastle P, 1988).
56-58.
1988 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Tiny Feet.” The International Terminal. Ed. C. Pollnitz (Newcastle, Australia: U Newcastle P, 1988). 54-55.
1986 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Waking in Australia.” Scarp 9 (Australia) (October 1986): 17.
1983 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Stories That Become Us.” Devil’s Millhopper 8 (spring 1983): 11.
Review Essays
2012 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “Romantic Dharma By Mark S. Lussier (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) xx + 231 pp. Reviewed by J. Jeffrey Franklin
on 2012-10-05.” 5 October 2012. 5 March, 2013. HYPERLINK
2011 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “Journeys to Empire: Enlightenment, Imperialism, and the British Encounter with Tibet, 1774-1904, by Gordon
T. Stewart; pp. xv + 280. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, $34.99 paper, $95.00 hardcover.” Victorian Studies 53.2
(spring 2011): 542-44.
2011 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Poetry Journals, Poetry Anthologies, and the Southern Poetry Review Anthology.” North Carolina Literary
Review 20 (2011): 183-5.
2010 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Poetry of Southern Appalachia.” A review essay of Marita Garin, Southern Appalachian Poetry: An
Anthology of Works by 37 Poets. North Carolina Literary Review 19 (2010): 120-23.
2009 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The State of Poetry, North Carolina.” A review essay of Michael Chitwood’s Spill, Julia Nunnally Duncan’s An
Endless Tapestry, and Keith Flynn’s The Golden Ratio. North Carolina Literary Review 18 (2009): 172-177.
2007 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Loss and Belonging.” A review essay of Kathryn Stripling Byer’s Coming to Rest and Claudia Emerson’s Late
Wife. North Carolina Literary Review 16 (2007): 199-201.
1999 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “Hardy’s Failure of Passion, or Even the Rake Has His Reasons.” Review. Ed. James O. Hoge. Charlottesville:
U P Virginia, 1999: 164-179.
1999 Franklin, Jeffrey. “An Equal and Opposite Reaction: On the Poetry of Kathleen Halme and Michael White.” A review essay. North
Carolina Literary Review 8 (1999): 177-180.
1998 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. [“A Panoply of Dickens Studies”]. Victorian Studies 41 (spring 1998): 518-520.
Presentations at Meetings and Seminars
2020 “The Reception of the Lotus Sūtra in Nineteenth-Century Europe and How It Shaped Reception in the West Today,” American
Academy of Religion, Western Region annual meeting, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, March 13-15, 2020,
cancelled due to COVID.
2019 “Contexts of Reception: The Lotus Sūtra in Nineteenth-Century Europe, and What They Overlooked,” 24th Annual International
Lotus Sutra Seminar, Rissho Kosei-kai International Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan, June 12-19, 2019.
2018 “H. G. Wells and the Future of God,” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, 23rd Annual
Meeting, Palm Springs, CA, November 8-10, 2018.
2015 “Self-Fashioning the Soul Twixt Spirit and Matter,” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States,
20th Annual Meeting, University of Colorado Denver, Denver CO, 22-24 October 2015.
2014 “Collecting Gods: Ancient Egyptian Religion in Late-Victorian England,” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the
Western United States, 19th Annual Meeting, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton CA, 16-18 October 2014.
2013 “The Modernized Church of Anthony Trollope.” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, 18th
Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, November 14-16, 2013.
2013 “University of Colorado Denver Proposal.” I led a team of six CU Denver faculty and staff to the Association of American
Colleges & Universities’ “Institute on Integrative Learning and the Departments: Faculty Leadership for the 21st Century,”
Portland State University, July 10-14.
2012 “The (Buddhist) King and (Christian) I: Anna Leonowens’s Religious Positions.” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of
the Western United States, 17th Annual Meeting, SUNY Plattsburgh, October 11-13, 2012.
2012 “Cross-National Values Conflicts in College of Arts and Sciences Global Alliances: CU Denver’s Program in Beijing.” Council of
Colleges of Arts and Sciences annual meeting, Seattle, WA, 31 October-3 November 2012.
2012 “Reforming Liberal Education for the 21st Century.” Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences annual meeting, Seattle, WA, 31
October-3 November 2012.
2012 “Homage to James Applewhite: 2012 Recipient of the Roberts Award for Literary Inspiration.” Presentation Remarks by Jeffrey
Franklin, NCLR Poetry Editor, Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, 21
September 2012.
2011 “Matthew Arnold’s Religion of/as Morality in Relation to His Study of Buddhism.” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association
of the Western United States, 16th Annual Meeting, University of Houston, Houston, TX, October 13-15, 2011.
2010 “The British Empire in Ceylon: Missionaries and Civil Servants, Buddhists and Mudaliyars.” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies
Association of the Western United States, 15th Annual Meeting, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 28-30, 2010.
2009 “The Gothic as the Dark (K)night of Late-Victorian Capitalism.” Joint conference of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies
Association of the Western United States and the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada. Emily Carr University of
Art and Design and the University of the Fraser Valley, Vancouver, Canada, October 15-17.
2008 “Victorian Buddhism and Modernity.” North American Victorian Studies Association. Yale University, New Haven, CT, November
14-16.
2008 “The Western ‘Discovery’ of Buddhism in the Nineteenth Century.” Lunch, Link, Learn: Brown-Bag Lecture Series. University of
Colorado Denver, August 7, 2008.
2008 “Politics in Kipling’s Kim and the Politics of Kipling Criticism.” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western
United States. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, October 2-4. This paper was accepted and partially written but not
delivered, due to a scheduling conflict with a service obligation.
2007 “Spiritual Motions: Reincarnation, Transmigration, Metempsychosis.” The Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Association of the
Western United States. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, October 25-27.
2006 Invited public lecture, “Buddhist History, Tenets, and Practice,” Buddhist-Christian Interfaith Community, St. Paul’s United
Methodist Church, Denver, CO, 27 August, 2006, 5:00-7:00pm.
2005 “The Victorian Séance--Ritualized Cultural Revision.” The Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Association of the Western United
States. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, October 27-29.
2004 Panel chair. “Literary Tourism.” The Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Association of the Western United States. University of
Washington, Seattle, WA, 21-23 October, 2004.
2004 “The Life of the Buddha in Late-Victorian England.” The Northeast Victorian Studies Association. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY,
16-18 April, 2004.
2004 Panel chair. “Rhetorics of War and Crisis.” Colloquium on War, Center for Humanities and the Art. University of Colorado at
Boulder, 4-6 March, 2004.
2003 “The Legacy of Victorian Buddhism.” The Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Association of the Western United States.
University of Texas, Austin, 8-11 October, 2003.
2002 “Theosophy, Blavatsky, and the Institutionalization of Spiritualism.” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the
Western United States, Boise State University, 11 October, 2002.
2001 “The Counter-Invasion of the West by Eastern Religions.” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United
States, UCLA, 25 October, 2001.
2000 “The Cultural and Literary Construction of Buddhism in Mid-to-Late Victorian Britain.” MLA session “Victorian Buddhism,”
Washington, DC, 28 December, 2000.
1999 “The Longevity of Literary Works as a Function of the Intersection between the Context of Inception and the Context of
Reception.” MLA session “Historicism, Pragmatism, Theory: Why Literature Lasts.” Chicago, 27 December, 1999.
1999 “Rereading Memory as Victorian Fiction: The Novel as the Form of Memory.” MLA session “Rereading Memory in Victorian
Fiction.” Chicago, 29 December, 1999.
1998 “Bourdieu Meets Trollope: Plot as the Conversion of Forms of Capital in the Mid-Victorian Novel.” MLA session “Practicing
Bourdieu.” San Francisco, 29 December 1998.
1998 “The Conversion of Capital as Plot in the Mid-Victorian British Novel.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies panel
“Money: Literary Roles and Representations.” New Orleans, 18 April, 1998.
1997 “A Devil’s Advocate’s Critique of the Panel.” MLA session “Industrialism and Aesthetics in Victorian Culture.” Toronto, Canada, 29
December, 1997.
Poetry Readings
2008 Invited poetry reading, Colorado Poets Association, Everyday Joe's Coffee House, Fort Collins, CO, 24 October 2008.
2008 Invited poetry reading, Cannon Mine Reading Series, Lafayette, CO, 8 May 2008.
2008 Invited poetry reading, Poets on Corners, a project sponsored by The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, Denver, CO, 4 April 2008.
2008 Invited poetry reading, Many Mountains Moving Literary Salon, St. John's Episcopal Church, Boulder, CO, 29 March 2008.
2007 Invited out-of-state poetry reading as a paid guest artist. Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming. East Carolina
University, Greenville, NC, 29 September, 2007.
2007 Invited poetry reading, Project for Dolores, Mercury Café, Denver, CO, 4 May 2007.
2007 Invited poetry reading, Loveland Gallery, Loveland, CO, 3 May, 2007.
2007 Invited poetry reading, Colorado Poetry Association Denver Reading Series, Hooked on Colfax, Denver, CO, 9 April, 2007.
2007 Invited out-of-state poetry reading, “Rock Point Reading Series,” Rock Point Books, Chattanooga, TN, 3 March, 2007.
2007 Book signing, Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, 1 March, 2007. This event was listed in the
conference program.
2007 Invited poetry reading, “Auraria Mini Poetry Festival,” Sponsored by Copper Nickel, Tivoli Student Union, University of Colorado
at Denver, 9 February, 2007.
2007 Invited out-of-state poetry reading, “Berry Poetry Festival,” Berry College, Berry, GA, 27 February, 2007.
2007 Invited poetry reading, “Second-Monday Poetry Series,” The Tattered Cover (Colfax), Denver, CO, 8 January, 2007.
2007 Invited live, on-air interview and reading, “The Poetry Show,” hosted by Donna Stein, KRFC radio, 7 January, 2007, Fort Collins,
CO.
2006 Invited poetry reading and book signing, Cameron Church, Denver, CO, sponsored by Book Buffs, 2 December, 2006, 4:00-
6:00pm.
2006 Invited poetry reading and book signing, Bas Bleu Gallery, Fort Collins, CO, 28 November, 2006, 7:30-9:00pm.
2006 Invited poetry reading and book signing: Many Mountains Moving Literary Journal Poetry Salon, October 21, 2006, Unitarian
Universalist Church, Boulder, CO.
2003 Invited poetry reading, Grammata Literary Society, October 2003
Recognitions, Honors, Awards
2019 Invitation, expenses paid, to present a paper at the 24th Annual International Lotus Sutra Seminar, Rissho Kosei-kai
International Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan, June 12-19, 2019.
2013 Invitation to write a book-jacket blurb for Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature,
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
2013 Invitation to submit, The Palgrave Companion to Anthony Trollope, resulting in the chapter “Anthony Trollope’s Religion.”
2013 Invitation to submit, The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature, resulting in the entry “Arnold, Edwin.”
2012 Invitation, honorarium, and travel funding to deliver a tribute to the poet James Applewhite, Eastern North Carolina Literary
Homecoming, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, 28-29 September 2012.
2011 Invitation to submit, Victorian Review, resulting in the essay “The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism in Victorian England, 1870-
1900.”
2011 Invitation to submit, Literature Compass, resulting in the essay “The Influences of Buddhism and Comparative Religion on
Matthew Arnold.”
2010 Invitation to submit, Cahiers victoriens & édouardiens, resulting in the essay “The Economics of Immortality: The Demi-
Immortal Oriental, Enlightenment Vitalism, and Political Economy in Dracula.”
2009-10 Nomination to and participation in the University of Colorado’s Excellence in Leadership Program: twice-monthly training
and education meetings from August 2009 to May 2010 on all four campus locations.
2007 Invited Guest Artist, Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming, “Creating Story out of Family and History,” East Carolina
University, Greenville, NC, September 28-29.
2002 CU Denver College of Liberal Arts and Sciences “Research and Creative Activities Award,” 2002.
2002 Poem selected by Robert Creeley for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2002.
2001 Co-recipient of the 2001 Robert H. Winner Memorial Award ($2,500) from the Poetry Society of America for a manuscript of
ten poems.
1995 Kirkland-Johns Fellowship in Victorian Literature, University of Florida.
1994 Dissertation Fellow, Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida.
1990-91 Best Graduate Student Essay, Department of English, University of Florida.
1989-90 Best Graduate Student Essay, Department of English, University of Florida.
Reviews Received
2020 Kim, Jongkeyong. Review of Spirit Matters. Supernatural Studies (20 October 2020).
2020 Viswanathan, Gauri. Review of Spirit Matters. Victorian Studies 62.3 (spring 2020): 542-545.
2019 Cusack, Carole M. Review of Spirit Matters. Journal of Religious History 43.2 (10 July 2019).
2019 Herringer, Carol Engelhardt. Review of Spirit Matters. Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 88.1 (20 May 2019): 263-
265.
2019 Heyes, Michael E. Review of Spirit Matters. Nova Religio 23.1 (2019): 125-126.
2019 Hill, Susan E. Review of Spirit Matters. The Journal of Religion 99.3 (July 2019): 384-386.
2019 Moriarty, Jennifer. Review of Spirit Matters. Correspondences 7.2 (2019): 465-468.
2019 Scott, Shannon. Review of Spirit Matters. Victorian Review 45.1 (spring 2019): 156-160.
2019 Turner, Emily Jessica. Review of Spirit Matters. British Association for Victorian Studies Newsletter 19.1 (July 2019): 19-20.
2019 Young, Lin. Review of Spirit Matters. The Wilkie Collins Society. Accessed April 7, 2021.
2018 Fry, Katie. Review of Spirit Matters. Nineteenth-Century Literature 73.2 (2018): 260–263.
2018 Hawkins, M. M. Review of Spirit Matters. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 56.4 (December 2018): 480.
2018 White, Ethan Doyle. Review of Spirit Matters. Reading Religion (May 12, 2018).
2017 Burstein, Miriam Elizabeth. Review of Spirit Matters. Victorian Institute Journal 45 (2017).
2011 Stockdale, Jonathan. Review of The Lotus and the Lion. Victorian Periodicals Review 44:1 (Spring 2011): 103-4.
2010 Brantlinger, Patrick. Review of The Lotus and the Lion. Cahiers victoriens et édouardianes 71 (2010): 536-538.
2010 Falby, Alison. Review of The Lotus and the Lion. The Journal of Modern History 82.4 (December 2010): 937-938.
2010 Federman, Asaf. Review of The Lotus and the Lion. Victorian Studies 52.4 (Summer 2010): 670-671.
2010 Whyte, William. Review of The Lotus and the Lion. The English Historical Review. 125.512 (2010): 223-25.
2009 Barrett, T. H. Review of The Lotus and the Lion. Journal of British Studies 48.4 (October 2009): 1034-1036.
2009 Burnstein, M. E. Review of The Lotus and the Lion. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 46.11 (July 2009): 2110.
2009 Chang, Elizabeth. Review of The Lotus and the Lion. Journal of Religion and Literature 41.3 (Autumn 2009): 159-161.
2009 Dilkes, Morton. Review of The Lotus and the Lion. Theosophy Forward (10 September 2009). 1 January 2013.
2009 Gibson, Mary Ellis. Review of The Lotus and the Lion. Victorians Institute Journal 37 (2009): 269-299.
2009 Harris, Elizabeth. Review of The Lotus and the Lion. Buddhadharma 8.1 (fall 2009): 79-80.
2009 Harris, Ian. Review of The Lotus and the Lion. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 37.3 (2009): 492-494.
2009 Harshawardhan, Bosham Nimkhedkar. Review of The Lotus and the Lion. India-British-Raj-L Archives. 11 September 2009.
2009 Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Amy. Review of The Lotus and the Lion. Itinerario 33 (2009): 128-130.
2009 Normand, Lawrence. Review of The Lotus and the Lion. Buddhist Studies Review 26.1 (2009): 116-19.
2007 Bizzaro, Patrick. “Poetry and Intelligence: A Reading of Chitwood, Franklin and Root.” Asheville Poetry Review 14.1 (2007): 191-
200.
2007 Smith, James. “‘What Poetry Can Do and How It Can Do It’: An interview with NCLR’s Poetry Editor, Jeffrey Franklin.” North
Carolina Literary Review 16 (2007): 55-64.
2007 Byrne, Edward. “One Poet’s Notes--Recommended Readings of Recent Contemporary Poetry: Jeffrey Franklin’s For the Lost
Boys.” March 11, 2007. HYPERLINK
2007 Pittard, Shawn. “Jeffrey Franklin’s For the Lost Boys.” The Great American Pinup. Tuesday, January 30, 2007.
2001 Gruner, Elizabeth Rose. Review of Serious Play. Studies in the Novel 33.2 (summer 2001): 256.
2001 Morris, Debra. “J. Jeffrey Franklin. Serious Play: The Cultural Form of the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, 242 pp.” A review. Aethlon XIX: 1 (fall 2001): 196.
2001 Rosdeitcher, Elizabeth. Review of Serious Play. Victorian Studies 43 (winter 2001): 317-319.
2001 Poetry Society of America. The Winning Poems: Poetry Society of America’s 91st Annual Award Ceremony, April 20, 2001. “Stephanie Strickland on Jeffrey Franklin.” Judge’s citation of the winning manuscript for the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award.
2000 Morgan, Susan. “Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century.” An omnibus review, including one paragraph on Serious Play.
Studies in English Literature 40 (Autumn 2000): 745-794: 772.
Courses Taught
ENGL 6018, The Literature of Victorian Religion
ENGL 6015, From Decadence to Modernism: British Literature 1880-1920
ENGL 6001, Critical Theory in Literature and Film
ENGL 5100, Literary Research and Writing (methods course for MA students)
ENGL 4999, Victorian Masculinities
ENGL 4803, Special Topics in Creative Writing: The Forms of Poetry
ENGL 4700/5004, Literature of the British Empire
ENGL 4600/5600, Modern British and Irish Literature
ENGL 4580/5580, The Victorian Age (Brit Lit 1837-1901)
ENGL 4540/5540, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature (Brit Lit 1660-1798)
ENGL 4320/5320, History of Poetry in English
ENGL 4210/5210, History of the English Novel II (19th-20th centuries)
ENGL 4200/5200, History of the English Novel I (17th-18th centuries)
ENGL 4025, Advanced Writing Workshop: Poetry
ENGL 4180, Argumentation and Logic
ENGL 4000/5000, Major Authors: Thomas Hardy & D. H. Lawrence
UHL 3502, The Literature and History of Science in the Nineteenth Century
ENGL 3330, Gothic Literature
ENGL 3020, Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry
ENGL 3001, Critical Writing (introduction to literary theory, scholarship, writing)
ENGL 2154, Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 1400, Introduction to Literary Studies
ENGL 1111, Freshman Seminar: Monsters, Vampires, and Ghosts (Gothic literature)
Services
Service to the Department of English
2019 Member, Review Committee, Wayne Miller promotion to full professor
2015 Member, Review Committee, Cynthia Wong promotion to full professor
2009-2010 Major Advisor, undergraduate English majors
2008-2010 Director, Honors Program
2008-2010 Member, Annual Salary Increment Service Subcommittee
2007-2009 Member, MA Comprehensive Examination Committee
2004-2006 Major Advisor, undergraduate English majors
2005 Member, Comprehensive Review Committee for Philip Joseph
2003-2004 Member, MA Comprehensive Examination Committee
2001-2004 Director, Graduate Studies
2001-2004 Member, Executive Committee
2001-2004 Member, Salary Increment Committee for Research/Creative Activity
2001-2002 Chair, MA Comprehensive Examination Committee
Author, new course design, ENGL 5100, Literary Research & Writing
2001 Contributor, Departmental salary increment criteria review
2000-2003 Member, Film Studies Committee
2000-2002 Member, MA Comprehensive Examination Committee
2000-2001 Lead Member, ad hoc committee to revise the Literary Studies Masters curriculum
2000 Co-author, Creative Writing Track design
2000 Co-author, new courses, ENGL 4025, Advanced Writing Workshop, and reactivation of ENGL 4160, Poetics
2000 Member, Modern Language Association job candidate interview team
Service to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS)
2020 Instructor, Mindfulness Practice Workshop, CLAS Continuing Education Program, 8-week course via Zoom, June 9-July 28
2011- 2014 Associate Dean in the college--remunerated administrative leave
2009-2010 Chair, CLAS Council
2009-2010 Member, Planned General Classroom Building Advisory Committee
2009 Member, Dean’s Differentiated Workload Taskforce
2009 Reviewer, CRISP grant proposals
2008 Chair-elect and Member, CLAS Council
2005-2006 Member, Dean’s Budget Advisory Committee
2003-2004 Lead Member, English/Education collaborative degree design team--MA in English with Secondary Teaching Licensure
2002-2004 Member, CLAS Educational Planning and Policy Committee
Member, CLAS Academic Standards Committee
2002 Member, CLAS Dean advisory committee of Graduate Directors
2000 Member, CLAS Chancellor’s Scholars and Leaders, International Student/Faculty Network
Service to the University, CU Denver
2020 Instructor, Mindfulness Practice Workshop, CU Denver Wellness Center, 6-week course via Zoom, September 24-October
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2020 Instructor, Introduction to Mindfulness, CU Denver Wellness Center, 3-17-2020, cancelled due to COVID
2014-2016 Member, Center for Faculty Development director search committee
2014 Member, review committee for Kat Vlahos promotion to full professor
2013-2015 Member, University Advising Taskforce
2013-2014 Member, Dean search committee, College of Arts and Media
2013-2014 Member, Dean’s Advisory Committee, College of Architecture and Planning, promotion to full professor cases
2013 Member, review committee for Keith Loftin promotion to full professor
2012-2013 Member, University Academic Integrity Committee
2012-2013 Member, Dean search committee, College of Arts and Media
2012 Member, University Technology Review Committee
2011 Member, Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs search committee
2011 Member, Registrar (CU-Denver/CU-Anschutz) search committee
2008-2009 Co-Chair and Member, Educational Policy and Planning Committee
2007-2008 Member, CLAS Dean Search Committee
2005-2009 Member, Educational Policy and Planning Committee
2005-2006 Member, CLAS Dean Search Committee
2004-2006 Member, President’s Fund for the Humanities Advisory Council
2004-2005 Participant, University Academic Master Plan Search Conference
2002-2005 Faculty Advisor, Campus Greens
2002 Presenter, New Faculty Orientation
2001-2008 Member, University Graduate Council
2001-2005 Member, Denver Poetry Festival Planning Committee
Service to the University of Colorado System
2009-2012 Member, Educational Policy and University Standards Committee
2010-2011 Member, Internal Review Committee, Program Review of the College of Architecture and Planning (Boulder-Denver
combined program)
2007-2008 Co-director, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, David Broom, “George Eliot and the Aestheticism of the Realist Novel,” CU.
2006-2007 Member, Ph. D. Comprehensive Examination Committee, David Broom, CU
Service to the Profession
2021 Peer reviewer, Journal of Victorian Culture (UK) essay submission, March 2021
2015 Peer reviewer, Modernism/Modernity (UK) essay submission, November 2015
2014 Peer reviewer, Religion (UK) essay submission, January 2014
2014 Peer reviewer, Religion (UK) essay submission, August 2014
2014 Peer reviewer, Religion and Literature, essay submission, May 2014
2014 Peer reviewer, PMLA, May 2014
2014 Peer reviewer, North Carolina Literary Review, essay submission, May 2014
2014 Peer reviewer, Religion (UK), May 2014
2014 Peer reviewer, Victorians Institute Journal essay submission, January 2014.
2013 Book-jacket blurb writer, Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature, Bloomsbury
Academic, 2013.
2013 Peer reviewer, Victorian Literature & Culture essay submission, June 2013
2012 Peer reviewer, chapter submission for the collection Men, Masculinity and Religious Change in Twentieth Century Britain,
Palgrave Press, November 2012
2012 Peer reviewer, Feminist Review essay submission, October 2012
2011-2014 Vice President, Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States
2010 Co-editor, “Special Section: Buddhism and Literature.” Religion and the Arts 14.1-2 (2010): 1-77.
2010 Peer reviewer, Religion and Literature, essay submission, July 2010
2009 Peer reviewer, Victorian Periodicals Review essay submission, October 2009
2009 Peer reviewer, Victorian Studies essay submission, September 2009
2009 Judge, Roanoke-Chowan Award for the best book by a North Carolina poet, North Carolina Literary and Historical
Association
2008 Judge, Roanoke-Chowan Award for the best book by a North Carolina poet, North Carolina Literary and Historical
Association
2007 Peer reviewer, Victorian Review essay submission, April 2007
2006 Program organizer, Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States annual conference
2005 Peer reviewer, Broadview Press book manuscript submission
2004-2005 Secretary, Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States
2004 Peer reviewer, Victorians Institute Journal article submission
2003 Peer reviewer, Broadview Press book manuscript submission
2003-pres. Member, Board of Directors, Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States
2003-pres. Peer reviewer, North Carolina Literary Review essay submissions
1999-pres. Poetry Editor, North Carolina Literary Review
Service to the Community
2020 Instructor, Mindfulness Practice Workshop for incarcerated adults, Colorado Department of Corrections, 8-week course,
cancelled due to COVID
2020 Instructor, CU Denver Department of Communication Democratic Communication Program for the Colorado
Department of Corrections, 8-week course, cancelled after one meeting due to COVID
Professional Memberships
Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States