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Fraser Easton

Dr. Fraser Easton

What are you currently reading?

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

What are your five favourite texts?

Too many to list, but Lucky Jim is always a tonic.

What are the top five texts that you find to be the most useful for teaching?

The Rover, Aphra Behn
Pamela, Samuel Richardson
"On Being Brought from Africa to America," Phillis Wheatley
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
Narrative, by Olaudah Equiano
The Dunciad Variorum by Alexander Pope
...any many more

What texts have you had the most fun researching?

Jubilate Agno, Christopher Smart
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
eighteenth-century ephemera (ballads, newspapers, pamphlets)

What would you be if you weren't an English professor?

Activist, lawyer